OSOR news reported about the second ODF Plugfest, the event held in Orvieto at the beginning of this month bringing together standards experts from major multi-national corporations, representatives of European public administrations, andmany individuals active in the European open source community.
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The second ODF Interoperability Workshop held in Orvieto gathered together more than 30 ODF experts, developers and stakeholders from public administrations to improve ODF interoperability. People from all over the world for two days collaborated to ensure not “merely” standards’ compliance but true interoperability, below an essay of facts and figures of the event.
Continue reading ‘Second ODF Plugfest: Notes from the First Day’
Orvieto last week hosted the second ODF Interoperability Workshop, an international event bringing together ODF implementers from all over the world. My talk “open standards and interoperability” opened the first session on day 1, just after Fabio Pistella - President of the Italian National Center for ICT in Public Administrations (CNIPA) - welcomed the international audience.
Continue reading ‘ODF Plugfest: Open Standards and Interoperability’
The ODF Plugfest final agenda is on line, and few Italian speakers will talk on the first day, Monday 2nd of November.
Fabio Pistella - President of the Italian National Center for ICT in Public Administrations (CNIPA) - will welcome attendees. Later I will give my opening talk on “open standards and interoperability”, and at 11 am Stefano Paggetti - Director of Umbria’s consortium for IT in local public administrations (SIR) - will talk about the regional law that favors adherence to open standards and how local public administrations look at interoperability issues.
See you there!
The second ODF Plugfest will eventually take place in Orvieto (Italy) on the 2nd and 3rd of November, and I want to personally thank all people who helped to make my dream a reality. The event will be held at the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio Di Orvieto and everyone is invited (below the original invitation).
Continue reading ‘Second ODF Plugfest: Everyone is invited!’
The Italian association Concreta-mente for the second year will held the Open Source in Public Administrations conference, on the 1st of April 2009 in Rome, at the LUISS Guido Carli university.
Four different case studies of Italian public administrations using open source software and open standards will be presented. Carlo Mochi Sismondi, Forum PA General Manager, will moderate a round-table discussion with representatives from public and private sectors.
Free Software Foundation Europe one year ago introduced the Document Freedom Day, and also this year a global day for document liberation is scheduled for 25 of March.
The initiative promotes only ODF, other open standards, like the Portable Document Format (PDF), are ignored.
Continue reading ‘Open Standards: Document ‘Freedom’ Day is back, some thoughts’
Two InitMarketing Customers Win Open Source Business Award - Two Initmarketing customers won prizes. I was partially involved with Stephen Walli to write todoyu business plan, and I really enjoyed it!
The New Year historically is a time for self improvement, and the commercial open source side of the world should be no exception to that.
Open Source thought leaders have expressed opinions and discussed the state of open source, here are my takes on some challenges and opportunities for the new year.
Continue reading ‘Commercial Open Source 2009: Challenges and Opportunities’
Today the OMAT conference hosted the “Standards and Interoperability“ session, and for the second time this year Adobe, Microsoft and the Italian OpenOffice.org community were discussing about interoperability and conformance.
The first OMAT conference was held just when Microsoft was enjoying OpenXML approval, while today they publicly announced the decision to join the OIC TC, the OASIS ODF Interoperability and Conformance technical committee.
The Italian OpenOffice.org community already welcomed Microsoft’s decision to support ODF. Now that they decided to join the OIC TC accepting Rob Weir invitation, we are looking forward to see IBM and Microsoft cooperate for a real interoperability.
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