“equally critical of proprietary and open source myths, advocating software choice beyond marketing and romanticism”
| Feb ’11 |
| 9 |
| 4:30 pm |
At the center of today’s event - organized by LUSPIO and Inforav in collaboration with the CDTI- will be the new Italian Law on Digital Administration (codename CAD).
The new text law brings improvements in many areas, and some interesting ones in reuse’s articles (art.68, 69 and 70). In fact the new text talks about policies to maximize software reuse, something the Italian public administration worked on also in the past, but with very limited results.
Bitnami Cloud hosting - a new service aimed at simplifying the deployment of open source stacks in the hosting open source applications in the cloud (faq) - after few months of private beta-testing just went live today.
Erica Brescia, BitRock CEO, answered few questions about open source in the cloud. Continue reading ‘Open Source Cloud: Bitrock launches Bitnami Cloud Hosting’
SOS Open Source formerly has been asked to choose a web project management platform first and then to identify an open source software configuration management tool. The ultimate goal was to assemble an open source Application Lifecycle Management suite.
“Open Source Application Lifecycle Management” is a short essay on a journey about how to select the right components and then integrating them to create an effective development platform.
Collaborate Your Way to More Effective Customer Support - Brady Murray of Eucalyptus and Frank Cohen of PushToTest will discuss the emerging types of private Clouds, how hybrid Clouds adapt to Business Service Management (BSM,) load testing, and production monitoring.
Tue, February 8, 2011, 9 am US Pacific Time
Using Rich Media to Drive Learning Results - Meet a group of technologist and innovators who are shaping the technology and pedagogy around video learning. From video assignments and multimedia essays to creative use of lecture capture and mobile media technologies – we will cover a range of methods available to enrich both teaching and learning experiences.
Thu, Feb 10, 2011, 2:00 pm EST
Launching a New Year’s Project? Learn from the Open Source Rookies of 2010 - webinar discussion lead by FOSS developers from the Diaspora, Activiti, VoltDB and RapidFTR projects.
Thu, Feb 10, 2011 11:30 am EST
Outercurve - the open source foundation previously known as CodePlex foundation (coverage) - just announced that the new project Chemistry Add-In for Word has been added to Foundation’s Research Accelerators Gallery.
Paula Hunter, Executive Director at the Outercurve Foundation, told me more about galleries and to who are they aimed.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Foundations: OuterCurve’s Model’
Using a Private Cloud and NoSQL to Scale Your Web Applications - The promise of the cloud with its flexibility and easy scaling seems to provide an answer, but how do you differentiate between the hype and reality? Eucalyptus, the world’s leading private cloud provider and Membase, makers of the foremost simple, fast, and elastic NoSQL database present a simple solution to that very question.
Wed, Feb 2, 2011 10:00 am PST
| Feb ’11 |
| 11 |
| 1:00 pm |
As promised we are finally organizing an Open Source Focus Group meeting to talk about office automation suites, interoperability and migrations.
The event, aimed at companies and organizations from the Public Sector, will be held at IBM’s offices in Rome on the 11th of February 2011. Among speakers David Pearson - Solution Architect at IBM Lotus Software Services Centre of Excellence - and Andrea Pescetti, mantainer of the Italian Native Lang project OpenOffice.org.
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