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Upcoming Open Source Conferences (April-July 2010)

Open Source Developers Conference - April 24-25, Taipei.

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Open World Forum 2010: 19 Days Left For Apply

The deadline for the call of proposals of the third Open World Forum - to be held in Paris, 30 September - 1 October 2010, plus an optional Geek Day on 2 October - has been extended from March 30 to April 15.

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Open World Forum 2010: Call for Proposals

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The third Open World Forum will be held in Paris, France, on 30 September and 1 October 2010.

Open World Forum

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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Wubi Ubuntu Installer for Windows: OSError [Errno 13] Permission denied

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.

Open Source CMS Awards 2009: My favorite Winner is…

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.

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Open Source Webinars: Subversion’s Ascent explained

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.

Acer Aspire One: Troubleshooting Wireless Network Problems

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.

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Open Source CMS Award 2009: Time to vote!

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.

Open Source Webinars From Alfresco to Zend

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.

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Open Source CMS Award 2009

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.


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Roberto Galoppini on Open Source Software
Roberto has over 20 years experience in the computer industry, and has spent the last 10 years working in the intersection of open source software and business development. Roberto has taken an active interest in different open source projects and organizations, he also served on some advisory boards, and helped large IT vendors, open source vendors and customers to design and deploy their open source strategies. He works at SourceForge, and opinions expressed here don't necessarily represent employer's positions, strategies, or opinion.