Commercial Open Source Software

CDTI - the Association of IT Professionals based in Rome - and the Italian biweekly newspaper “Corriere delle Comunicazioni” are organizing a one day event around cloud computing on Wednsday 13 October, at the National Central Library. Continue reading ‘Cloud Computing Conference: Rome, 13 October 2010′

Open source licensing compliance will be at the center of the next conference of the “Focus Group Open Source” series, an initiative  sponsored by IBM Italy to promote open source among Italian public administrations. (disclosure: IBM Italy is a client).

Marco Ciurcina, lawyer and Vice-President of the Italian association devoted to the promotion of free software (Assoli), will introduce the legal aspects of free software and open source licensing. Sebastiano Lomuscio, Consip, will give a speech around open source licenses and public administrations, while Carlo Vaccari will close the round-table talking about how ISTAT found its way to the EUPL.

A question and answer session and a public discussion will follow the round table.

The Jury of the Open Innovation Awards 2010 - the international competition for Open Source projects being organized as part of the Open World Forum in Paris on 1 October 2010 – has published the list of finalists.

The award is organized by the Open World Forum with operational support being provided by the GT Logiciel Libre (free software) of the Systematic competitiveness cluster. The full list of the nominated companies and jury’s members are reported below.

Continue reading ‘Open Innovation Awards 2010: List of Finalists’

Red Hat Italia is organizing an executive meeting in Milan, on the 28th of September 2010. The event will focus on how open source can help to fulfill today’s business requirements with less cost and complexity. Continue reading ‘Red Hat Executive Meeting: Milan, 28 September 2010′

The Open World Forum - now at its third edition - will take place in Paris on 30 September and 1 October 2010, bringing together open technology decision-makers from around the world. Continue reading ‘Open World Forum 2010: The Program is On-Line!’

Open source software procurement processes in the field of Italian public administrations will be at the center of the upcoming open source conference “Public tenders and open source“, next Thursday 17 June in Rome at the IBM eGov solution center (disclosureaimer: IBM Italy is a client and is the sponsor of the event). Continue reading ‘About Tenders Requesting Open Source’

The FLOSS roadmap 2020, now at its third edition, has now opened the call for contributions. I asked Jean-Pierre Laisne - Chief and Open Source Strategist at Bull, OW2 President and coordinator of the roadmap - to tell us more about the new edition. Continue reading ‘FLOSS Roadmap 2020: Call for Contributions’

Business International, the Italian leading conference company, is organizing the 1st Cloud Computing and Virtualization Strategies that will take place in Milan on the 26th of March at the Enterprise Hotel.

The conference will look at how, when, and where computing opportunities can be taken advantage of, providing IT decision makers and CIOs  with useful information and guidance. Round-tables will cover how the cloud can benefit security, virtualization and cloud computing, cloud computing and mobile platforms.

See you there!

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!