Monthly Archive for April, 2011

Open World Forum 2011, 22-24 September 2011, Paris

The fourth Open World Forum - Internet in the future: Open everything - will take place in Paris on the 22-24 of September 2011, at the Eurosites George V. The OWF 2011 - that for the first time will last for 3 days - will revolve around three axes: “THINK”, “CODE” and “EXPERIMENT”, learn more at the website.

Upcoming Open Source Webinars: Eucalyptus, Digital Boundary, Olliance

Increasing the Speed and Agility of Cloud and Data Center Infrastructure Management with Puppet and Eucalyptus - Join experts from Puppet Labs and Eucalyptus Systems to learn how IT Cloud and Data Center Administrators are automating systems configuration management and on-premise cloud provisioning to gain complete control of large server environments while capitalizing on increased hardware utilization and service elasticity.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 11:00 am PDT

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Upcoming Open Source Conferences: May-July 2011

Linux TAG - May 11-14, 2011

OSBC 2011 - May 16-17, 2011

EuroPython 2011 - June 20-26, 2011

Third Open Source GIS Conference - OSGIS 2011 - 21-22 June 2011

Updates: Subversion Day - May 19, 2011, Southeast LinuxFest 2011 - June 10-12, 2011, ConfSL - June 23-24, 2011.

Better Software 2011, Florence 27-28 June 2011

Better Software 2011, the Italian IT conference on software development for IT managers and entrepreneurs now at its third edition, will be held in Florence on the 27-28 of June 2011.

The conference will bring together experts in the fields of agile project management, open source, web2.0, and all the elements which contribute to the production of a stable and marketable product.

Registration are now open, to know more follow Better Sotware blog or twitter.

Open Source Community Awards, A Personal Perspective

I asked Giuseppe Maxia, formerly MySQL Community Team Lead and now Director of QA at Tungsten, to tell us more about his personal experience with community awards.

Giuseppe, you have been awarded twice as community contributor, in 2006 and in 2011. What’s the difference and what did you learn from 2006? Continue reading ‘Open Source Community Awards, A Personal Perspective’

The Open Source Road Ahead - About Put an End to Vendor Lock-in

OSI logoFew days after my blog post about OSI’s possible future,  OSI wrote a second statement on the CPTN transaction, somehow reaffirming my concerns about a maybe too narrowed view on software patents. Now that even Groaklaw gave up with software patents  - rightly in my opinion - leaving it to IT giants and patent-trolls, will OSI fight software patents as a whole?

While waiting to understand how OSI will behave in this respect, we might move on other topics, like how OSI could fulfill its mission.

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Upcoming Open Source Webinars: Continuent, EhealthOpenSource.org, SugarCRM,

Building Better Open Source Replication - Introducing New Tungsten Replicator 2.0 - In this webinar you will learn how to solve replication problems using tungsten-replicator.
Thursday, April 21, 2011 10:00 am PDT

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Don’t tell Public Officers How Good is Open Source

Apr ’11
21
11:00 am

fbk logoThe Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK) - a research organization of the Autonomous Province of Trento that promotes research in the areas of science, technology, and humanities - on the 21th of April 2011 will host a speech of mine about use, promotion and improvement of open source software by and for Italian public administrations.

See you there!

OpenOffice.org 3.0: Italian OpenOffice.org FAQ Updated

super faq openofficeorgThe latest version of ”OpenOffice 3 Soluzioni a raccolta - an Italian OpenOffice.org FAQ built with the help of the community - is available for download at SourceForge, both in its slim and ‘fat’ version.

Open Source April Fouls: How to Choose the License Right for You

which open source license?Dan Bentley shared on Twitter the flow chart “Which open source license?“, graffle by Brian Fitzpatrick. Next time someone will ask you for an advice on open source licenses just point them to this! :)


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Roberto has over 20 years experience in the computer industry, and has spent the last 10 years working in the intersection of open source software and business development. Roberto has taken an active interest in different open source projects and organizations, he also served on some advisory boards, and helped large IT vendors, open source vendors and customers to design and deploy their open source strategies. He works at SourceForge, and opinions expressed here don't necessarily represent employer's positions, strategies, or opinion.