Matt Asay’s Top Priorities and Goals
At the beginning of February Matt Asay moved from Alfresco to Canonical, and Matt’s blog activity already reflects his career change and I asked Matt about his top priorities in the new role. (More …)
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Italian Free Software Conference: ConfSL 2010 Call for Papers
The Italian Conference on Free Software, now at its fourth edition, will be held in Cagliari on the 11-12 of June.
The call for papers is now open! Associations, free software researchers, developers, open source companies, public administrations, open source advocates and creative commoners are invited to submit their proposals before 18th of April.
A logo contest is still open, if you want to participate send your before 7th of March.
Roberto Galoppini
Innovations in Public Administration: Innovators Barcamp 2010
The Innovatori PA 2010 barcamp, now at its second edition, will take place again at the ForumPA , on the 18th of May. The aim of this unconference is to exploit in real situations sustainable innovation in public services.
The Italian innovators group, a network of over 1600 individuals willing to innovate in the public sector, is the right place to share your ideas and projects before the event.
See you there!
Roberto Galoppini
Diffusion of Open Source Innovation
Dana Blankenhorn‘s blog post “Open Source still not the first option” says that established markets are the natural fit for open source, while new markets are usually served by proprietary solutions first.
Low-end market disruption – actually occurring when technology advances faster than customers’ needs (e.g. MySQL vs Oracle, Alfresco vs Filenet) – happens in the first stages of maturity in open source adoption, while sustaining innovation probably happens at a later stage.
Roberto Galoppini
Open Source Licensing, Value Configuration and Key Activities
How open source licensing’s decisions are taken depend on legal issues, business strategies and costs structure.
IP lawyers as well as specialized firms are probably happy to help with the first ones, but let’s talk about the implications in the area of Value Configuration and Key activities looking at some real cases (Day Software, MySQL).
Roberto Galoppini
Free Software and Italian Elections 2010
Italian free software association asks again Italian candidates for Municipal and Regional elections to sign a pact where they agree to promote the use of free software.
The past campaigns hired first 101 candidates, and then 232 for the last elections.
Roberto Galoppini
Open Source Conference: Better Software 2010
Better Software 2010, the only Italian IT conference on software development for IT managers and entrepreneurs, will be held in Florence on the 5-6 of May 2010.
The conference will bring together experts in the fields of agile project management, open source, web2.0, and all the elements which contribute to the production of a stable and marketable product.
Registration are now open, to know more follow Better Sotware blog or twitter.
Roberto Galoppini
Open Source Licensing Nirvana
Over the last weeks Alfresco, Sonatype and WaveMaker made their own decisions about licensing.
Alfresco went LGPL, Sonatype – a company with a strong Apache background – for the very first time decided to release some code under GPL, while WaveMaker dumping the AGPL in favor of Apache.
Let’s have a closer look at how – and if – these changes reflect new business directions.
Roberto Galoppini
Upcoming Open Source Webinars: BlackDuck, Koha, OpenLogic
Future of FOSS: A Report from a Strategic Planning Session – On February 10, 2010 the Linux Foundation and the Open Source Initiative held a Strategic Planning Session for lawyers active in support of adoption of free and open source software.
Roberto Galoppini
Open World Forum 2010: Call for Proposals
The third Open World Forum will be held in Paris, France, on 30 September and 1 October 2010.
Proposals for talks and associated events should be made directly to the Program Committee (of which I am pleased to be part) through the OWF Program Committee wiki. The deadline for submissions is 30 March 2010.
Don 8:47 pm on March 1, 2010 Permalink
Matt, many thanks for your post.
There is no mention here of the messages that were once dear to Canonical’s heart, freedom, free software. Is this vision now to be sacrificed to the alter of enterprise computing?
A really interesting question to answer would be, how does Canonical propose to bring freedom to the cloud?
Some clarity around these topics would be great.
Joel West 10:54 pm on March 2, 2010 Permalink
Don,
Matt answers your question: it’s a business, that has lots of potential for growth and profit for its employees and owners. If Canonical increases its market share and installed base, that will increase the viability of Linux as a platform — including the supply of applications and the willingness of firms to consider it as a desktop alternative. But in the end, Jane and Matt’s job is to make a buck.
Joel