Queplix didn’t go Open, but for a Reason
I have been already writing about Queplix, a vendor pretending to be the only enterprise level commercial open source vendor. Two years later Steven Yaskin reconnect with me to tell me more about his company.
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ODF Plugfest, the Final Agenda is on line!
The ODF Plugfest final agenda is on line, and few Italian speakers will talk on the first day, Monday 2nd of November.
Fabio Pistella - President of the Italian National Center for ICT in Public Administrations (CNIPA) – will welcome attendees. Later I will give my opening talk on “open standards and interoperability”, and at 11 am Stefano Paggetti – Director of Umbria’s consortium for IT in local public administrations (SIR) – will talk about the regional law that favors adherence to open standards and how local public administrations look at interoperability issues.
See you there!
Roberto Galoppini
Free Culture Forum 2009
The Free Culture Forum is an event dedicated to free culture and free knowledge, bringing together stakeholders from all over the world for three days in Barcelona (Spain) from 29th of October until 1st November.
Watch the English video on Youtube and join the event live.
Roberto Galoppini
Happy Birthday MasterNewMedia!
MasterNewMedia daily online magazine is 10 years old! Congratulations to Robin Good also for passing the one million revenue mark coming from google ads displayed on MasterNewMedia.
Robin keep up with your great work , and I look forward to learn more from you with POP.
Roberto Galoppini
OpenOffice.org Video Guides: PinGuide
Christian Biasco, author of Ï€-Videoblog – a video series dedicated to intellectual property and intellectual freedom – has just released the video guide dedicated to OpenOffice.org. The OpenOffice.org video is the third of the PinGuide series, and it has been sponsored by two Italian LUG (LinuxTrent and FoLug).
PinGuide is a collaborative project, volunteers willing to translate videoguides are welcome, if interested contact directly Christian.
Roberto Galoppini
OpenOffice.org and ODF Plugfest Conference 2009
Two days ago in Orvieto we announced that in two weeks the open source and open standards world will converge in Orvieto (Italy). The second ODF Plugfest (2-3 Nov) will open the week, bringing together implementors and stakeholders from all over the world to work together on ODF interoperability.
The OpenOffice.org 2009 conference (4-6 Nov) – organized by PLIO association and Orvieto LUG – has a very rich program, including specific sessions aimed at schools and at OOo development.
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Osvaldo Gervasi
I’m proud to inform that the ODF PlugFest is ynder the sponsorship of the “Consiglio Regionale dell’Umbria” and the “Regione dell’Umbria”.
Osvaldo Gervasi
President of the Umbria’s Open Source Conference Center -
Roberto Galoppini
Osvaldo that’s a very good news, indeed!
Umbria region is really at the forefront when it comes to open source and open standards. Let me know if you think anyone from the Region or the Regional Counsil is willing to give a speech at the ODF Plugfest on day one (2 Nov) to tell the audience about Umbria’s approach to open standards and ODF.
Thank you for your help!
Roberto Galoppini
Linux Day 2009, Multi-source Software Strategies, Patent Trolls: Open Source Events and Webinars, 23-10-2009
Linux Day -  ILS, the Italian Linux Association on Saturday October 24 will runs its ninth annual Linux Day all over Italy, in 122 cities.
Roberto Galoppini
Open Source Webinars: Top 10 Open Source Governance Issues
Mark Radcliffe on Thursday 29 at 9 AM (PST) will lead the “The Top 10 Issues Confronting Users of Open Source” webinar. DLA Piper and FOSSBazaar are co-hosting this one hour event aimed at discussing major mistakes companies make in managing the use of open source as well as best practices.
Roberto Galoppini
Mind the Bridge Workshops: “Presentations Skills”, 20-21 October, Milan
Mind the Bridge Gymnasium - the initiative started by Italians living in Silicon Valley to help Italian entrepreneurs to go to Silicon Valley, raise capital and bring it home - invites you to the “Presentations Skills Workshop“. The workshop will be held in Milan on the 20-21 of October by Elisabetta Ghisini and will teach the audience on how to deliver business presentations.
This event is for payment and  it costs 500 euros.
To keep updated with Mind the Bridge initiatives follow Mind the Bridge blog.
Roberto Galoppini
OpenOffice.org development moves to Mercurial, OpenOffice.org PDF Presentations: OpenOffice.org links, 18-10-2009
OpenOffice.org development switches to Mercurial – Come to the OpenOffice.org conference in Orvieto to learn why OpenOffice.org development switched to Mercurial.
How to export OpenOffice presentations to PDF – Learn how to manage notes page and eventually print them.
Burton Group’s “Short List†of Productivity Suite Leaders Goes Beyond Microsoft – -Burton Group says that the productivity suite market is in the midst of a rebirth.
Although Microsoft remains the market leader, it is being challenged by suppliers on Burton Group’s ‘Short List’ including IBM, OpenOffice.org, and Sun.
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