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The sixth ODF Plugfest will take place on July 14th and 15th 2011, Invalidenstr. 48, 10557 in Berlin (Germany). Continue reading ‘ODF Interoperability: Berlin ODF Plugfest, 14-15 July 2011′

OpenOffice.org it is now an Apache Incubator proposal, and IBM has officially committed to contribute to the project, thanks to Oracle’s donation of the Openoffice.org code base to Apache.

In the closing remarks of the last blog entry around this topic I threw the idea of using an existing foundation, and I am glad to see that this eventually became a reality. I have been already writing about Incubation at Apache before, you can learn more about it directly at the Apache Software Foundation blog.

Let’s try now to better understand what OOo at Apache means for everyone.

Continue reading ‘OpenOffice.org Finds Home at the Apache Foundation’

The 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.

“Office Automation Suites, Interoperability and Migrations” event was eventually held last Friday in Rome at IBM’s office (sponsor of the event), presentations have been uploaded at the website.

Alessandro Chinnici (IBM) gave an introductory speech to explain IBM’s approach to open source and open standards, followed by David Pearson’s (IBM UK) keynote about migrations. David pointed the audience to some freely available resources, like the Free Office Suite ROI Calculator and the Visual Basic Macro Scan Tool.

Andrea Pescetti, mantainer of the Italian Native Lang project OpenOffice.org, gave an interesting talk around OpenOffice.org procedures and practices for QA, explaining what volunteers do and which tools they use (some created by Andrea himself and now maintained by the community). Andrea spoke also about interoperability theory and practices.

Fabrizio Marchesano (Frame) shared some practical advices and tips to run migrations.

The OpenOffice.org Project yesterday just announced the availability of OpenOffice.org 3.3, see the full list of the last release. Continue reading ‘OpenOffice.org 3.3: Download it Now!’

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.

The fifth ODF Plugfest will take place in Maidenhead (UK) in the Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, on February 24/25th 2011.

The first day will focus on technical interoperability sessions for vendors, while the second day will be a public session.

Continue reading ‘ODF Interoperability: Maidenhead ODF Plugfest’

Generate New Value from Existing Assets with JBoss SOA Platform and Enterprise Data Services - The final session in the four-part JBoss Integration Webinar Series: Increase Returns on Existing Investments.
9am EST (GMT-5 New York) / 14:00 GMT / 3pm CET (GMT+1 Paris)

Continue reading ‘Open Source Webinars: Cloudera, Infopeople, Red Hat’

I have been rarely playing the prediction game in the past, but now that Red Hat finally seems to fulfill my old predictions - also in the cloud - it is time to join Bob Sutor and others to play again.

Open Source and the Cloud.

Open source is now the maturity phase, and it is interesting to look at how compares open source and cloud computing (courtesy of Google Insight for search).

But the open source world is not so small, looking at the same graph for different European countries makes a difference. While France looks at the cloud as much as North-Americans do, other countries (like Italy) are lagging behind (see also EC2 statistics).

Continue reading ‘The Open Source Year Ahead’

The legacy of OpenOffice.org and office migrations will be at the center of the next Open Source Focus Group meeting, to be held in Rome in January 2011.

In the meantime you might want to have a look at previous events - ranging from open source licensing to tenders and marketplaces - and presentations, all available on the new Focus Group Open Source blog hosted on WordPress.com.