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Italian free software association asks again Italian candidates for Municipal and Regional elections to sign a pact where they agree to promote the use of free software.
The past campaigns hired first 101 candidates, and then 232 for the last elections.
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Better Software 2010, the only Italian IT conference on software development for IT managers and entrepreneurs, will be held in Florence on the 5-6 of May 2010.
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.
Over the last weeks Alfresco, Sonatype and WaveMaker made their own decisions about licensing.
Alfresco went LGPL, Sonatype - a company with a strong Apache background - for the very first time decided to release some code under GPL, while WaveMaker dumping the AGPL in favor of Apache.
Let’s have a closer look at how - and if - these changes reflect new business directions.
Future of FOSS: A Report from a Strategic Planning Session - On February 10, 2010 the Linux Foundation and the Open Source Initiative held a Strategic Planning Session for lawyers active in support of adoption of free and open source software.
Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: BlackDuck, Koha, OpenLogic’
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The third Open World Forum will be held in Paris, France, on 30 September and 1 October 2010.
Proposals for talks and associated events should be made directly to the Program Committee (of which I am pleased to be part) through the OWF Program Committee wiki. The deadline for submissions is 30 March 2010.
Continue reading ‘Open World Forum 2010: Call for Proposals’
OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 released today - GullFOSS blog reports the news enlisting the most important new features.
OpenOffice.org 3.2: 10 Years in the Making - Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier posts his impressions about the new release.
300,000,000 Downloads Later, OpenOffice Ships Version 3.2 - TechCrunch reports the impressive download numbers.
Olliance Group, the open source strategy firm, is organizing the 5th Annual Think Tank that will be held at the Meritage Resort in Napa (California) on April 15-17.
If you never got a chance to join the Open Source Think Tank, the leading invitation-only commercial open source brainstorm and networking conference, get a gist of what you can hear, below an excerpt of my notes from the 4th Open Source Think Tank.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Think Tank 2010: Registrations are Open!’
Adding ClipArt to OpenOffice - If you miss clipart see how to add the collection available at Open Clip Art Library.
Community Projects Webinar: What’s New With Version 3.7 - Jaspersoft has just released the new Jaspersoft 3.7 Community, if you want to know more don’t miss this Webinar on February 16 at 10am Pacific Time.
Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: Jaspersoft, Talend, TDWI’
Nearly 1,000 New Developers Flock to Appcelerator After Company Announces Support for Apple’s iPad - Appcelerator, the platform for rapidly developing native mobile and desktop applications using web technologies, announced that Appcelerator Titanium would support Apple’s iPad starting in February. Continue reading ‘Open Source Products New Releases: Appcelerator, Opentaps, Selenium’
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