During the first meeting of the Open Source Focus Group 2011, held in May at the ForumPA, I have been interviewed by the organizers to take stock of how Linux and Open Source are doing in the Italian public administrations. During the interview, I mentioned how SOS Open Source can eventually help organizations, both public and private, to start their open source journey.
Tag Archive for 'SOS Open Source'
| Jun ’11 | Jul |
| 30 | 1 |
Zarafa, the European open source vendor based in the Netherlands developing an open source email and calendar groupware software - invites you to participate in their SummerCamp 2011. The event will be an opportunity to get involved, share experiences and discover all new innovations of the Zarafa product.
The SOS Open Source team will keynote on the 30th of June, unveiling how the Zarafa ecosystem scores on open source maturity, level of industrialization and more.
This week we read a vendor’s feedback to an earlier report about an open source BI platform, and we tried to join the conversation to bring some light over some issues raised in that blog entry.
Below you can read our original comment (awaiting moderation)
SpagoBI summary report points to 22 internet (public) resources, including OW2 forge, Ohloh meta-forge, project’s and vendor’s web pages.
Continue reading ‘Commercial Open Source Transparency Matters’
SOS Open Source get started by talking about why open source selection matters and then giving tips to find open source software and suggestions about how to evaluate open source.
Later we shared excerpts from evaluation reports ranging from software quality tools and wiki platforms, to how to select project management alternatives and open source forks.
The goal of this article is to share ways of finding open source candidates and how to compute metrics.
SOS Open Source, the automated methodology to find and evaluate open source software, has been recently covered by Content Here blog and in an interview for Data Manager, an Italian IT magazine. Below some excerpts from the two sources related to SOS Open Source’s goal and customer segments. Continue reading ‘SOS Open Source Goals and Customer Segments’
| Sep ’10 | Oct |
| 30 | 1 |
The Open World Forum - now at its third edition - will take place in Paris on 30 September and 1 October 2010, bringing together open technology decision-makers from around the world. Continue reading ‘Open World Forum 2010: The Program is On-Line!’
SOS Open Source – an automated methodology to find and evaluate open source software – gathers and analyzes data about open source projects, providing a synthetic representation of all selected candidates and also a graphical tool to compare them.
Read more at SOS Open Source.
The second Innovators barcamp - a meet-up organized by the Italian innovators group to pass from talking about innovation to do it in and for public administrations - was the perfect venue to share some ideas about “Open Source & Multi-sided Markets“.
My ignite talk was around on one of the most important value of open source, if not the only one that makes open source a “different thing”: the community. Having had the opportunity to share my thoughts with over 100 attendees in a bare 5 minutes talk, I want here to talk deeper about why the community matters, focusing on its different constituents and their relative interests.
Open Source software selection starts with the creation of a short-list of open source packages, and the very next step is the evaluation of all candidates.
Read the dogfood label first.
Open source projects are planned, developed and maintained often using accessible Revision Control systems (e.g. Bazaar, CVS, Git, Mercurial or SVN), Collaboration (blogs, forums, IRC channels, mailing-lists and wikis) and Tracking Systems (e.g. bugzilla, GNATS, OTRS, trac). Despite going through them all can be time-consuming, those are the primary source of information to know more about an open source project.
Read more about evaluate open source software at SOS Open Source.
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