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About Kaltura’s Plans for Open Source World Domination

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Roberto Galoppini
on January 21, 2010
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Kaltura, the open source video platform for online video management, today officially released an open source video extension for Moodle, while only few days ago announced the release of an open source video extension for Joomla!. The growing number of plug-ins and extensions available caught my attention, and triggered in my mind the idea to ask Zohar Babin, Community Manager at Kaltura, how they prioritize among Drupal, Mediawiki, WordPress and others.

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Open Source Governance: State of the Art and Lesson Learnt in Italy (part III)

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Roberto Galoppini
on February 19, 2009
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The lack of open source vision by the Italian government, along with attention paid by Obama to open source, brought my attention back to the importance Open Source Governance.

I want to strive for open source adoption by national and local governments. I want to take the opportunity here to share some thoughts about why a FOSS governance is needed, and how we could accomplish the goal to use open source software to develop innovative initiatives.

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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.