SOS Open Source last week evaluated LimeSurvey, the PHP open source survey web application to create on line surveys, translated in many languages and downloaded over 485.000 times. (read more at SOS Open Source.)
“DuraCloud Open Sourceâ€: An Open Canvas for Cloud-based Services – DuraSpace CBO Michele Kimpton on will provide an overview of DuraCloud open source code features, discuss integrating repositories with Cloud infrastructure, review the benefits and challenges identified in the DuraCloud pilot program and talk about how to get involved with future DuraCloud development.
28 July, 11:00 AM PST (More …)
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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. (More …)
ADUC, an Italian association of consumers, a couple of months ago wrote an article to inform about easy-download bait-and-switch practices charging a fee for open source programs download, and later wrote a petition to the Italian anti-trust authority. 
In the past ADUC obtained succesful resolutions in similar cases, and I look forward to see if they will eventually manage to get Google stop sell google keywords ads to Euro Content ltd (easy download owner), as recently asked to the anti-trust.
Kudos to ADUC to help with this issue, OpenOffice.org users don’t deserve this kind of treatment.
Running Your Business with Open Source (Webinar or Los Angeles, CA) – The webinar will take the approach of starting a small business infrastructure with as little out of pocket as possible from Hardware to the Operating System to Software.
July 17 2010, 3pm EDT (More …)
Confindustria Vicenza, the local chapter of the Italian manufacturers’ association, on the 13 of July hosted an event about open source entitled, “Open Source, a 360-degree view: pros and cons, legal implications and hence who can profit from it“.
The event (videos) was aimed to provide the audience with information about legal, organizational and technical impacts of open source adoption, among speakers a lawyer specialized in intellectual property laws (Luca Giacopuzzi), a researcher of the TEDIS center (Antonio Picerni), Confindustria Vicenza’s ICT manager Franco Battistello and myself. (More …)
Good work! How do you think they took it? Interested? Already working on using open source? Not interested at all? Convinced that Open source is communism?:-)
Hi David,
nice to hear back from you! Actually the audience was interested in the topic, while posing very few questions (but it happened also at other events, it seems a constant rule). I was positively impressed by the ICT manager’s presentation about migrating to OOo, they did a good job indeed.
Hi, Roberto,
Thanks for an interesting summary. I’d like to read the slides, too.
Is there a way to get Slidshare to publish the presentation in OpenDocument Format or could you put the originals in ODF or PDF up as alternate links?
Hi,
slides actually have been already published in PDF on their website.
Ready to Kick the Colo Habit? Using the Cloud Instead of Scaling Your Colo – The webinar will present Customer stories showcasing how real enterprises are using CloudSwitch to deploy and run applications in the cloud for rapid development and peak-period scaling.
Jul 13, 2010 1:00 PM EDT (More …)
SOS Open Source has been used to find and select open source web-based project management with issue-tracking and time-tracking tools to manage multiple IT projects, possibly localized in Italian (or at least open for internazionalization and localization).
The pre-selection of project management programs started by focusing on some of the most famous web-based ones, excluding the following (for the following reasons):
Launchpad, and Trac were eventually added to the final list of candidates (Read more at SOS Open Source.).
What about Project Open? (http://project-open.org/)
I can confirm 🙂
RedMine is a good choice. We use it since last year with satisfaction.
Hi Tarus,
]project-open[ has not been designed for managing IT projects, but it is definitely an option if you are loooking for an ERP-Project management solution.
]po[ is a community-led project with available commercial support and SaaS, with multi-language support (note: an Italian localized version is available). It is financing and project control features are interesting, case-studies are available at EOS, and it also integrated with Nagios for incident reports. It is written in TCL and it is scarcely commented (comments ratio: 12,9%, while on average is 20.4%) but a detailed roadmap is available and its architecture of participation seems sound.
Enterprise Open Source Software Procurement and Support Best Practices – The CIO Panel from the 2010 Open Source Think Tank – Colin Bodell (VP Web Platforms, Amazon), Tim Golden (SVP Product Management, Bank of America) and Yuvi Kochar (CIO, The Washington Post Company)- will gather together to talk about the open source software acquisition and support challenges they have faced and share solutions they have developed to overcome these challenges.
Jul 15, 2010 11:00 AM PDT. (More …)
The Open Innovation Demo Cup – a contest open to all open source projects and solutions getting ready for commercial launch or already on the market – will be held at the next Open World Forum on the 1st of October. (More …)
Roberto Galoppini, 
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