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  Roberto Galoppini 4:52 pm on May 26, 2011 Permalink | Reply  

  SourceForge Global Traffic Distribution: France Up, Germany Down 

  SourceForge traffic distribution numbers are a good measure about how much attention and time people from different countries pay to find, download and possibly use open source software. US is still at the first place (15,84%),  followed by Brazil (9.16%), France (6.12%), Germany (5.8%) and eventually Italy (4.27%). The only real change in the top 5 is that France overtaken Germany, a sign that the French approach is paying off. BRIC countries collectively keeps holding over 18%.

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    Phil Marshall 6:19 pm on May 27, 2011 Permalink

    Roberto – thank you for sharing these insights on global source forge trends. Black Duck has been conducting related research and analysis and we’re holding a webinar next week to share some of the findings. Steve O’Grady from Redmonk will comment on Black Duck’s ‘language use by forge’ data and will likely draw some trending conclusions. Hope you can join us, Roberto! More details here:
    http://bit.ly/m6Ms5y

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    Roberto Galoppini 9:37 am on May 28, 2011 Permalink

    Hi Phil,

    I just read excerpts of the Evans Data Global Development survey and I happened to know that Java is living a second youth these days in APAC and North America (but not here on the other side of the pond).

    I always pay attention to BlackDuck webinars, and I will mention this one in the next blog entry about upcoming open source webinars.

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  Roberto Galoppini 1:33 pm on May 24, 2011 Permalink | Reply  

  The Open Source Road Ahead: Individuals matter 

  Jim Jagielski, Simon Phipps and Mark Radcliffe at OSBC unveiled OSI plan during the “A New OSI for a New Decade: Rebooting the Open Source Initiative OSI” session (presentation). Some reports stressed the importance of organizations, but volunteers are welcome too!

  In Simon words:

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    Andrew C. Oliver 7:55 pm on May 24, 2011 Permalink

    I’m very interested in your idea of creating an enhanced certification. I’m not sure whether this should be part of the communications working group or some kind of marketing and branding or trademark working group. I also believe that we need a consumer focused marketing and branding effort.

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    Ludovic Dubost 5:10 pm on May 31, 2011 Permalink

    Hi,

    We at XWiki (http://www.xwiki.com and http://www.xwiki.org) would welcome and support any initiative to create additional certifications or labels for open source software.

    We have seen too much variance between open source vendors in their involvement in Open Source and particularly over time. It’s easy to be commited to Open Source when you start and when you look for backing and support. But this commitment should be sustained over time.

    Some business models of vendors lead to gradually less commitment to open source, while others show a strong commitment over time.

    Many licences allow this (Double licences or very open licences), while others LGPL have great balance between freedom and long term commitment by all participants.

    We believe at XWiki that we are very commited both in terms of business mode and in terms of licence (LGPL).

    But indeed there is a lack of certification that actually makes it something visible to our community, users and clients. Many users don’t see the difference between a light commitment and a strong commitment, so how could they actually analyze if the vendors will “have to” commit over time or if it’s only be their own decision to continue their commitment to Open Source.

    Labels that certify these commitments would be great !

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  Roberto Galoppini 1:41 pm on May 23, 2011 Permalink | Reply  

  Upcoming Open Source Webinars: OCEG, OpenXchange, Red Hat 

  Open-Xchange Webinar – System integrators and resellers make the most of their open-source and groupware know-how with Open-Xchange.
  May 24, 4:00 pm CET

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  Roberto Galoppini 3:40 pm on May 19, 2011 Permalink | Reply  

  My Information & Communication Technology Course 

  I’m keeping the course “Information & Communication Technology” at the Link Campus University of Malta, and beyond computer basics and how to use office suites I’ll do my best to provide students with all technology skills they might need for a career in business administration.

  Time by time I’ll use my blog to share tips and hints about open source tools and applications we’ll be using at the course.

   
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  Roberto Galoppini 2:59 pm on May 18, 2011 Permalink | Reply  

  Upcoming Open Source Webinars: BlackDuck, Continuent, OpenLogic 

  Fault Tolerant MySQL and PostgreSQL Databases with Continuent Tungsten – The webinar will introduce Tungsten, showing how it addresses common faults ranging from failover of DBMS servers to entire sites.
  Thursday, May 19, 2011 10:00 am PDT

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  Roberto Galoppini 3:47 pm on May 10, 2011 Permalink | Reply  

  Upcoming Open Source Webinars: Market Connections, Nuxeo, PushToTest 

  What Is New in TestMaker 6 – In this live workshop,on May 10, Frank Cohen, CEO and Founder at PushToTest, will discuss ways to bring TestMaker Open Source Test (OST) tools and solutions into your organization.
  Tuesday, May 10, 2011 9:00 am, PDT

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  Roberto Galoppini 12:37 pm on May 5, 2011 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: linux, open source ( 3 ), open source CRM ( 4 ), open source ERP ( 5 ), open source monitoring ( 4 ), open source project management, Open Source Selection ( 4 )   

  How SOS Open Source Evolved in its First Year 

  SOS Open Source few days ago completed its first year of life, a good time to look back and and see where we have been and to recognize methods and technologies that have helped us on our journey.

  SOS Open Source started back in 2009 as a solution to a customer problem: how to find, evaluate and compare open source projects. Having been looking for years at open source assessment methodologies, our first step was to grab the best from all the existing ones, possibly avoiding common mistakes and pitfalls.

  Read more at SOS Open Source.

   
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  Roberto Galoppini 3:58 pm on May 4, 2011 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Organtini, Previtera, Sorbello, zLinux   

  20 Years of Linux at the ForumPA, 9 May 2011, Rome 

  The Linux operating system is 20 years old, and the Open Source Focus Group for public administrations will run a dedicated event on May 9 at FORUM PA 2011, a workshop hosted by IBM to talk with experts and enthusiasts about Linux’s history and the state of the art.

  Register online to join the event “Linux 20 anni dopo: Università, Impresa e Pubblica Amministrazione“, and see you on Monday May 9 at 15:30 at the IBM booth.

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  Roberto Galoppini 2:40 pm on May 2, 2011 Permalink | Reply  

  Upcoming Open Source Webinars: Jahia, KNIME, Market Connections 

  A 30-minute how-to webinar to discover the creation of modules – You will discover how to create modules with Jahia 6.5.
  May 3, 2011, 05:00 pm CET

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  Roberto Galoppini 7:08 pm on April 28, 2011 Permalink | Reply  

  Open World Forum 2011, 22-24 September 2011, Paris 

  The fourth Open World Forum – Internet in the future: Open everything – will take place in Paris on the 22-24 of September 2011, at the Eurosites George V. The OWF 2011 – that for the first time will last for 3 days – will revolve around three axes: “THINK”, “CODE” and “EXPERIMENT”, learn more at the website.

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