“equally critical of proprietary and open source myths, advocating software choice beyond marketing and romanticism”
Packt has just announced the list of finalists for the 2011 edition of the open source awards. Over the last two years I have been invited to join judge panels (CMS and e-Commerce applications, now called “Open Source Business Applications”), while this year I will join the Open Source Mobile Toolkits and Libraries panel, that looks interesting and promising.
The Open Source Mobile Toolkits and Libraries category among finalists include:
Your Guide To The Future with Open Source Testing - Frank Cohen, CEO and Founder at PushToTest, will discuss the current and future product roadmaps for Open Source Testing, including Selenium, Sahi, soapUI, TestMaker, HtmlUnit, Jasper Reports, and dozens of test tools. Frank will show how these tools hang together in the product roadmap plans for TestMaker 6 and 7.
September 20, 2011 from 9:00 am PDT Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: Palamida, PushToTest, XBLR US’
Apache Camel – How to go from EIPs to production - Hear why popular open source projects such as Akka, Activiti, Drools, Grails, Play, ServiceMix, Smooks and multiple ESB servers include Apache Camel in their distributions.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 8:00 am PDT
Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: BlackDuck, Continuent, FuseSource’
Packt just launched the 2011 Open Source award , inviting people to visit PacktPub website and submit nominations for their favorite Open Source project. The award, now at its sixth edition, is organized to encourage, support, recognize, and reward Open Source projects selected by a panel of judges and Packt website visitors.
Acquia upcoming Webinars - The very next acquia webinar is entitled “Tweet This! Leveraging Twitter into your Commons Community“, and it surveys useful Twitter features that incorporate well into Commons communities.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011, 1:00 pm EDT
Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: Acquia, Cloud.com, OpenLogic’
During the first meeting of the Open Source Focus Group 2011, held in May at the ForumPA, I have been interviewed by the organizers to take stock of how Linux and Open Source are doing in the Italian public administrations. During the interview, I mentioned how SOS Open Source can eventually help organizations, both public and private, to start their open source journey.
Free Webinar Open Source Technologies for Clinical Trials - July 19th - Eric Morrie, Manager for Clinical Programming at Abbott Vascular, shares his expertise in open source systems for clinical trials.
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011 9.00 am PST
Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: BlackDuck, Clinovo, SloanConsortium’
SOS Open Source analyzed Zarafa, the open-source alternative to Microsoft Exchange, maintained by the homonymous company headquartered in the Netherlands (Delft) with offices in Germany and Brasil. The Zarafa Summer Camp 2011was the perfect venue to share our findings around Zarafa (presentation), if you missed our keynote read below to know more this open source messaging and collaboration platform.
Zarafa was released as open source about three years ago, but before that it was already considered a viable alternative to Microsoft Exchange, and its code base results mature and stable (information inferred from the public bug-tracking system). A book specialized on Zarafa is on the way, case-studies are available (also from large solution providers) along with a number of forums (even in French and Portoguese).Zarafa popularity compares well with other European competitors, especially in some countries (e.g. , Austria, Germany, the Netherlands).
Read more at SOS Open Source.
Zend Studio Webinar - The participants can greatly benefit from this webinar by learning the key Zend Studio concepts & features of how the debugging environment can assist in fixing code and making it more efficient.
Thursday, July 14, 2011, 12:30 pm EDT
Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: BlackDuck-Credativ, Eucalyptus, OSSCube’
The Architecture of Open Source - ree two-part informational event, and get the inside scoop directly from the authors of the hot-off-the-press book, The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Elegance, Evolution, and a Few Fearless Hacks.
July 13th, 2011, 1:00 pm (ET)
Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: Jaspersoft, OpenLogic, SmartBear’
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