OpenOffice.org 10th Anniversary: 8 Years in Retrospective
OpenOffice.org went live just ten years ago, on the 13rd of October 2000.Having been a community member for over 8 years, it is a good chance to recap what I have done until now. (More …)
OpenOffice.org went live just ten years ago, on the 13rd of October 2000.Having been a community member for over 8 years, it is a good chance to recap what I have done until now. (More …)
Legautonomie – the Italian league for local autonomies (municipalities, provinces and mountain communities) – is organizing a seminar about the impact of the national digital reform on local governments.
The event will be held in Pisa, on the 25th of October, I’ll give the closing speech talking about cloud computing and open source.
Event Information: Software Defect Containment – Gary Gack – In this DACS webinar we will examine several different defect containment methods and metrics we can use to understand comparative and cumulative effectiveness.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 12:00 pm EDT (More …)
Having had the chance to chair the Open Source Analysts session at the Open World Forum I want to share here some takeaways. Matthew Aslett, senior analyst at the 451 group, opened the session anticipating some results from the upcoming revision of the “Open Source is NOT a business model” report, due between the end of October and the beginning of November. (More …)
Introducing the NEW xTuple Web Portal! – Learn about the new xTuple Web Portal.
Wednsday, Oct 6, 2010 1:15pm EDT (More …)
The Open World Forum has concluded and it was another great success. The “Open Innovation Awards” this year have been awarded to the following companies:Â Disruptive Innovations (for the BlueGriffon project), Jaspersoft, Obeo (for the Acceleo project), Talend and XWiki.
SOS Open Source today had a closer look at XWiki, below a small excerpt of the analysis.
CDTI – the Association of IT Professionals based in Rome – and the Italian biweekly newspaper “Corriere delle Comunicazioni” are organizing a one day event around cloud computing on Wednsday 13 October, at the National Central Library. (More …)
Hi Roberto,
May I share information about this Cloud Computing Conference among my colleagues on ITEvent.net?
Thanks!
–Tim.
Yes Tim, feel free to report about them, stay tuned for more (March and June, dates to be defined).
LibreOffice is born, and if it is true that every end is a new begin is too early to tell if this is a good or a bad thing.
Let’s start by looking at the foundations of this brand new Document Foundation.
The Steering committe, created by cooptation by eminent contributors and project lang mantainers, has already made some choices, and until now the ‘community’ behind OpenOffice.org had no chance to join the debate.
The FAQ page itself doesn’t say much about the governance model, while a number of open source thought leaders have been welcoming the news.
How many vendors beyond Novell will eventually join the foundation and put their money (time) where their mouthes are?
Ultimately an open source community is made of developers and users, and also the latter play an important role, especially for end-users applications.
How will users take to these changes?
A much needed change. I also hope that money comes in. IBM, RedHat, RedFlag and all the others should immediately start pumping money in it.
Mobile Apps and Open Source Compliance: What You Need to Know – This OpenLogic webinar will discuss the key issues associated with mobile apps, app stores, and open source compliance.
Wednesday October 20, 2010, 11:00am Pacific (More …)
Few days ago I shortly mentioned the OpenOffice.org Hackfest, and today I asked my friend Florian Effenberger – OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead – to tell us more about the event, to be held on the 6-7 of November at the Attraktor in Hamburg. (More …)
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