Open Source Links: 22-07-2007
IEEE group changes voting rules – Bob Sutor mentioned IEEE changing rules to prevent steamrolling, I am afraid is a very hot topic, whatever are your guts about the File Format War, the OOXML and the ISO/IEC JTC1 Fast Track process is a sad story..
Alfresco: Competing in the Enterprise – John Powell, Alfresco’s CTO, said that he would guess that about 10 percent of Alfresco’s code was contributed by other people. Is that for real?
Free Software acquisition by governments – Stefano Maffulli is looking forward to see Pietro Folena‘s laptop equipped with Free Software, while I am waiting to interview him about the lower chamber of the Parliament moving to Linux. Is that for real?
Patents don’t pay – I am glad too to be based in Europe where software patents are not allowed, so far.
Our commitment to open broadband platforms – Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt wrote a letter to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, saying that, should the FCC adopting openness principles for the benefit of consumers, Google intends to commit at least $4.6 billion to bidding for spectrum in the upcoming 700 Mhz auction.
Poor Man’s BI: Getting Started with Open Source Tools for Analytic Intelligence – The “poor man’s BI” with a combination of Python, PostgreSQL, OpenOffice.org and R can deliver value along significant points of the BI lifecycle, said Steve Miller.
The CIO Conundrum – CIOs of a large company see decreasing by about 4% their budget, says Anthony Gold, and Open Source can greatly help in his opinion. I would like to see his presentation.
Thoughts on Software Advisory Boards – James McGovern on Advisory Boards, I totally agree, and I am eager to participate to my first meeting.
My UbuntuLive Talk – Stephen O’Grady slides on Ubuntu, have a look.
Roberto Galoppini and 
Savio Rodrigues 1:51 pm on July 23, 2007 Permalink
Hey Roberto, re. the “10%” quote from Alfresco…I’d encourage you to take a look at the Alfresco jira site to see how many users are registered from outside the company. You can also see what each person has contributed. Unless something has changed, I think that John’s figure is off by an order of magnitude…i.e. it should be 1%.
But maybe something has changed in the past 3-5 months.
Roberto Galoppini 4:38 pm on July 23, 2007 Permalink
Hi Savio,
I had a look, and I had just the same impression. Since John Powell guessed a different percentage, I am eager to know more, may be Matt might provide us with more information..