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Open Source Conference: ForumPA 2009

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ForumPA, the greatest Italian event of and about Public Administration taking place in Rome from the 11th to the 14th of May 2009, will host a round-table to talk about “strategies to increase the use of open source for public administrations“.

I am honored to have been asked again by Gianni Dominici,Vice General Director of ForumPA, to chair the session. I helped organizers to invited speakers from Italian and international public administrations to share their real experiences and best practices.

No talk, just open source action!

OpenOffice.org Italian Association Welcomes Microsoft ODF Natively Support

The Italian OpenOffice.org Association (PLIO), welcomes the fact that  Microsoft Office 2007  now natively support the Open Document Format, the file format for electronic office documents originally developed by Sun within OpenOffice.org and now ISO standard.

The association one year ago welcomed Microsoft’s decision to support ODF.

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Playing around with WordPress

Trying to organize my blog information in a clearer way, over the next two weeks I will make some cosmetics changes to commercial open source blog. Yesterday I started by updating WordPress to the latest version available, and adding a plug-in to keep my readers up to date about my events (Event Calendar by Alex Tingle).

The WordPress publish platform is getting more and more flexible everyday, its plugin architecture helps developers to release a great number of add-ons, making WordPress a viable option for many purposes, from a stock icons e-commerce store to an apartment booking website.

Stay tuned for more.

Open Source Business Strategy: About the Open Source Whole Product Concept

James Dixon keeps updating his “Beekeeper model“, analyzing and discussing open source business strategies, now giving a closer view at the importance of the productization process.

Commercial open source, as James states, exists just to deliver software as whole product: an out-of-the-box, easy-to-consume, packaged-and-delivered, risk-free solution.

Learning to walk on the tight-rope
Italian whole organic product, by fensterbme

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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.