Commercial Open Source Software

The Innovatori PA 2010 barcamp, now at its second edition, will take place again at the ForumPA , on the 18th of May. The aim of this unconference is to exploit in real situations sustainable innovation in public services.

The Italian innovators group, a network of over 1600 individuals willing to innovate in the public sector, is the right place to share your ideas and projects before the event.

See you there!

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.

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Open Source Way, an open source event organized by ITWay - an Italian value added distributor operating also in France, Greece, Portugal, Spain,  and Turkey - will be held on the 2nd and the 4th of February 2010 in Milan and Rome.

Open Source industry experts will shed light on the revenue growth potential of a fast-growing market, gaining attention also from large companies. The event will focus on new strategies and solutions offered by leading suppliers, with in-depth analysis of questions inherent to the professional and business use of open source technologies.

The event is open to everyone, register online (Milan, Rome).

FIDA Inform, the Italian Federation of the Associations of IT Management Professionals,  invites everyone to attend to its annual conference, which will be held in Rome on the 3rd of December (free entrance, pre-registration required).

The event, through the actions and initiatives of IT Italian associations summing up to over 1000 professionals, aims to treat the potential of ICT and innovative solutions to make a significant contribution to commercial, financial and industrial institutions. In the afternoon I will join the roundtable to talk about how to select, qualify and compare open source platforms.

Robin Good tomorrow will held his first POP Workshop in Rome, an event dedicated to online publishers willing to design and implement an effective communication strategy. Robin Good invited me to share with his attendees my thoughts on personal branding, and I look forward to join the New Media Strategy session along with Italo Cillo, Andrea Genovese and  Giulio Marsala.

See you there!

Two days ago in Orvieto we announced that in two weeks the open source and open standards world will converge in Orvieto (Italy). The second ODF Plugfest (2-3 Nov) will open the week, bringing together implementors and stakeholders from all over the world to work together on ODF interoperability.

The OpenOffice.org 2009 conference (4-6 Nov) - organized by PLIO association and Orvieto LUG - has a very rich program, including specific sessions aimed at schools and at OOo development.

The Open World Forum next week will bring together speakers from all over the world at the Eurosites George V in Paris.

Paris on the 1-2 October will be for the second time the European open source hub. Look at the program to figure out which of the 34 open source conferences is your favorite to learn, share and discuss about the technological, economical and social impact of open source technologies.

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The Olliance Group is back in Europe with the Open Source Think Tank, a simplified version of the classical format encapsulated within the Open World Forum that will be held in Paris on the 1st of October.

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