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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.
Continue reading ‘Open World Forum 2010: Call for Proposals’
Wubi is the easiest tool to step into the Linux world, allowing Windows users to install Ubuntu with a single click. Oddly yesterday an installation failed with the following message:
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: u’C:\\ubuntu\\install\\ubuntu-9.10-desktop-amd64.iso
To fix the error you just need to directly download the Ubuntu iso and put the file in the directory where your Wubi is located. Now relaunch Wubi and everything will work fine.
Last week Packt has announced that Drupal has won both the best open source PHP CMS Category and the Hall of Fame new category. Having been one of the judges for the first category, I wish to share some thoughts about my number 1, 2 and 3.
Continue reading ‘Open Source CMS Awards 2009: My favorite Winner is…’
Forrester Research on Optimizing Globally Distributed Software Development Using Subversion - Jeffery Hammond, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research - will cover the Software Configuration Managemeingnt space, explain the reasons behind Subversion’s rapid ascent to the leadership position in the SCM space. Thursday, December 3, 2009 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PST.
My Acer Aspire One - powered by a commercial Linux distro called Linpus - after entering sleep mode couldn’t connect to the wireless network anymore. The wireless connection logo vanished, turning the wifi switch on/off didn’t work either, as was useless try to launch the Network Center. If you got a similar problem, read below.
Continue reading ‘Acer Aspire One: Troubleshooting Wireless Network Problems’
The Open Source CMS award finalists list is public, and it is time to submit your vote for the Overall Award and help your favorite CMS win, below the list:
Being one of the judges of the best php open source cms category, I am looking forward to start the discussion and learn from others.
Transform your Intranet with Drupal Collaboration - Learn how combining Drupal and Alfresco with Optaros content management experts Chris Fuller and Jeff Potts. 15th of September.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Webinars From Alfresco to Zend’
Packt announced the launch of the fourth open source CMS award, an award organized by the publish company since 2006 in order to encourage, support, recognize, and reward open source Content Management Systems.
Nominations are open until the 11th of September, to submit a nomination have a look at the 5 different categories and if you are looking for inspiration visit open source directories like opensourceCMS or CMSMatrix.
I am honoured to have been invited to join the judge panel this year, and I am looking forward to share my thoughts with other judges and learn about their views.
Coverity, a company specialized in software integrity products and testing services, announced the expansion of its academic program, now granting academic access to their static code analysis software Coverity Prevent, for both teaching and research use.
I contacted Coverity to know if their contribution goes towards software research within EC funded projects too.
SourceForge few days ago served its 4 billionth download and today launched the new website. The new UI is the answer to inputs from project administrators asking for an easier path for users to download their software.
I asked Jon Sobel, SourceForge Inc. Group President, his opinion about this change:
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