Commercial Open Source Software

The next Focus Group Open Source meeting will focus on Open Data, and it will take place on the 25th of January 2012 in Rome, at IBM’s office (sponsor of the event). Among invited speakers Gianni Dominici (ForumPA), Federico Morando (Apps4Italy), Salvatore Marras (dati.gov), Ernesto Belisario (Italian Association for Open Government),  and Guido Vetere (IBM).

For more information and to sign up for the event, see the Focus Group Open Source blog.

The Zentyal Summit 2011 will be held on the 11th and 12th of November in Zaragoza, Spain. The event offers a meeting place for the Zentyal Linux Small Business Server community. The Summit is the best place to join hands-on sessions, discuss the Zentyal roadmap, get certified or just meet up with the Zentyal team and the whole ecosystem of partners, customers and community members.

Many thanks to the Zentyal team and the sponsors to have invited me to keynote at this event.  In my talk “From Projects to Products” will take a look on how open source projects can turn in to commercially viable products and how SourceForge can help in the process.

Registrations are open, see you there!

About Zentyal: (formerly eBox Platform) is an open source unified network server software package (or a Unified Network Platform) for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Zentyal can act as a Gateway, Network Infrastructure Manager, Unified Threat Manager, Office Server, Unified communications Server or a combination of them. Besides, Zentyal includes a development framework to ease the development of new Unix based services.

SUSE Italia celebrates Linux 20th birthday on the 15th of November 2011 in Rome, and on the 17th of November in Milan. The event is aimed at unveiling SUSE Italia’s new structure and the distinguishing features of SUSE Linux.

The event is tailored to the interest of actual and potential partners.

The Italian biweekly newspaper “Corriere delle Comunicazioni” in collaboration with HP and Intel invite everyone interested in knowing more about mission critical data centers to join us on the 5th of July, at the Hotel Nazionale in Rome.

Gildo Campesato - Founder and Director of Corriere delle Comunicazioni - will welcome attendees at 14:15 PM, later I will give an introductory speech before introducing our round table speakers, including Alessandro Musumeci (Ferrovie dello Stato), Giovanni Rando Mazzarino (Lottomatica), Emilio Frezza (Comune di Roma), Giuseppe Maria Armenia (ICE), Gaetano Scebba (Api), Alessandro Gabrieli (HP) and Carmine Stragapede (Intel).

Register online, and see you there!

Zarafa, the European open source vendor based in the Netherlands developing  an open source email and calendar groupware software - invites you to participate in their SummerCamp 2011. The event will be an opportunity to get involved, share experiences and discover all new innovations of the Zarafa product.

The SOS Open Source team will keynote on the 30th of June, unveiling how the Zarafa ecosystem scores on open source maturity, level of industrialization and more.

Registrations are now open.

The Linux operating system is 20 years old, and the Open Source Focus Group for public administrations will run a dedicated event on May 9 at FORUM PA 2011, a workshop hosted by IBM to talk with experts and enthusiasts about Linux’s history and the state of the art.

Register online to join the event “Linux 20 anni dopo: Università, Impresa e Pubblica Amministrazione“, and see you on Monday May 9 at 15:30 at the IBM booth.

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.

The 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!

Red Hat Italia is organizing its annual Open Source Day, on the 14th of June 2011. The event will focus on how open source can help to fulfill today’s business requirements spending less, yet offering an overview on the technological news.

The agenda is still draft, stay tuned.

EXPO COMM Italia 2011 - the Italian edition of the International exhibition event dedicated to the latest in Information & Communication Technology - will take place in Rome from March 30-31, 2011.

I have been invited to join the Virtualization & Cloud panel along with many IT professionals, included Giuseppe Maria Armenia (ICE), Alessandro Musumeci (ferrovie dello stato), Pierfrancesco Gaggi (ABI Lab).

See you there!