“equally critical of proprietary and open source myths, advocating software choice beyond marketing and romanticism”
| Aug | Aug |
| 29 | 30 |
The Software Freedom Conference Kosova will be held on 29-30 of August 2009 in Prishtina (Kosovo), and it will bring together local developers and the international community.
Authors are invited to submit Papers, as a newborn and developing nation the focus will be on the following topics:
Continue reading ‘Kosova SFCK09: The First Free Software Freedom Conference of Kosovo’
| Sep |
| 14 |
I am pleased to announce details of my second “Building an Effective Commercial Open Source Strategy” workshop, done in partnership with Stephen Walli.
The workshop will be held at the OSIM conference, on the 14th of September in Amsterdam.
| May |
| 14 |
ForumPA, the greatest Italian event of and about Public Administration taking place in Rome from the 11th to the 14th of May 2009, will host a round-table to talk about “strategies to increase the use of open source for public administrations“.
I am honored to have been asked again by Gianni Dominici,Vice General Director of ForumPA, to chair the session. I helped organizers to invited speakers from Italian and international public administrations to share their real experiences and best practices.
No talk, just open source action!
Appcelerator - the company founded in 2006 by Jeff Haynie and Nolan Wright, that took a first round in 2008 from Storm Ventures - recently released Titanium preview, an open source platform for building desktop applications using Web technologies.
At the open source think tank I met Jeff Kunz, formerly Olliance Group partner and now VP of Business Development at Appcelerator, and I asked him some background about Appcelerator and its business model.
Continue reading ‘Open Source AIR Alternative: Appcelerator, an interview with Jeff Kunz’
On the 16th of April the Korea Software Copyright Committee (SOCOP) - a non-profit organization under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism having the mandate to promote the protection of software-related intellectual property rights - will host the Free Open Source License Insight Conference, at the COEX Intercontinental Hotel (Seoul).
The conference will start with invited talks by experts from abroad and South Korea, a panel discussion will follow. Being and invited speaker I want to thank Ms. Cho Jung-Hyun from SOCOP for her kind invitation, I am really sorry I can’t go.
Continue reading ‘Free Open Source License Insight Conference, 16 April 2009, Seoul’
| Jun | Jun |
| 12 | 13 |
The Italian Conference on Free Software, now at its third edition, will be held in Bologna on the 12-13 of June.
ConfSL 2009 - now a regular get-together for free software researchers, developers, and open source advocates - will cover economics, legal and technical issues, along with ethical, social and philosophical implications. Four different tracks will cover it all.
I am a member of the scientific committee, and I am really looking forward to the event.
See you there!
“Open Source Offering in Italy: an Analysis of an evolving Sector” conference follow-up are addressed by Stefano Micelli on first draft blog. Stefano brings me in because of something I said at the conference, commenting a research finding saying that small firms tend not to partner with other firms.
Affirmative action is needed to enable “lucrative coopetition“, in order to reduce R&D costs and foster innovation?
Continue reading ‘Open Source Offering: Facts, Fear and Affirmative Action’
| May | May |
| 6 | 7 |
Better Software 2009, an Italian conference on software development for IT managers and entrepreneurs, will be held at the Viva Hotel Laurus in Florence, on the 6-7 of May 2009.
The conference will bring together national and international experts in the fields of agile programming, open source and web marketing. Aim of the event is to discuss around the process of software production, emphasizing many different aspects ranging from user requirements analysis, user interface design and product usability evaluation.
Registration are now open, to know more you follow Better Sotware blog or twitter.
In addition to hold workshops, and presenting or keynoting at conferences, I give private speeches at companies, talking about open source business models, Italian open source offering and how to build an effective commercial open source strategy.
Earlier this week I was invited speaker at one of the biggest Italian system integrators, and I want here to take a chance to recap some highlights and few answering questions from the audience.
Black Duck Software, the intellectual property management firm headquartered near Boston with offices in San Francisco, Frankfurt, Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong - announced the release of the Black Duck Suite, a unified framework bringing together three Black Duck products (Black Duck Code Center, Export and Protex).
Black Duck ’s survey conducted among software developers gathered at the SD West Conference held this week in Santa Clara (California), revealed little awareness about compliance, security and management problems. Actually those issues are addressed by Black Duck products and services, and I asked Tim Yeaton, one of the new CEO met at the open source think tank last week, to tell how he sees the market changing and how Black Duck strategy fits in the big picture.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Governance: Black Duck keeps Quacking, an interview with Tim Yeaton’
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