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Open Source Telephony: Hybrid gets Mainstream

Among the things the new FCC Chairman can do, Julius Genachowski might help open source telephony to become a more significant competitor in the business telephony market, not necessarily taking sides.

Chairing the “Open Source Software for the development of IP telephony” session - held in December at the Broadband Business Forum 2008 - panelists invited to share their visions about open source telephony trends reported about many hybrid case histories.

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Commercial Open Source 2009: Challenges and Opportunities

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.

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Open Source Unconference: RomeCamp and Hybrid Open Source

Web geeks, students and curious people gather for a two days at the RomeCamp, an recent incarnation of the ‘classical’ BarCamp offering attendees also an interesting conference session.

On Friday morning Luca De Biase chaired a thoughtful opening session welcoming the lot of us with keynotes from Alberto Castelvecchi introducing “publishing 2.0“, Salvo Mizzi speaking of the  Ten-Year Forecast Program of the Institute for the Future and Carlo Alberto Pratesi stressing the importance of entrepreneurial ecosystems.

Listening to Carlo Alberto Pratesi talking about how ecosystems I wish I had time to share with the audience the ideat that also industry advisors, corporate networks, and buyer networks are fundamental (e.g. Marketcetera).

RomeCamp’s organizers might consider to leave more space for opening conversations within conferences’ sessions next year, still keeping this “hybrid” format of unconferences + conferences.

My first talk held at a barcamp - Free as in Business: lucrative coopetition - was focused on the relationships between companies and communities. This time I entitled my pitch Open Source Business in a Hybrid World, mainly speaking of 4 different sources of the open source value proposition.

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Roberto Galoppini on Open Source Software
I am a specialist in Commercial Open Source Software, consulting on marketing and business strategy. I help organizations to build new business strategies for the open source economy. I speak widely on open source and open standards throughout the world.