Open Source Webinars From Alfresco to Zend
Transform your Intranet with Drupal Collaboration – Learn how combining Drupal and Alfresco with Optaros content management experts Chris Fuller and Jeff Potts. 15th of September.
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Roberto Galoppini
Open Source Startups: Open Innovation Summit Call for Proposal
The Open Innovation Summit – taking place on the 2nd of October within the Open World Forum – will give twenty companies the opportunity to make a 7-minute presentation to VCs and major systems integrators to promote their company and projects.
If you are an open source entrepeneur needing funds, take your time to explain how your open source offering is innovative by sending your application before the 1st of September.
If you want to raise money in France and/or want to open an office in the Paris region, this is definitely your chance to make it.
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Roberto Galoppini
Open Jobs: Anonymity, Privacy and Internet Access
The NEXA Center for Internet & Society seeks two researchers for the following project: Identifying Internet users: technical, legal and economic analysis of the consequences on privacy, fundamental freedoms, innovation and business models.
The NEXA Center for Internet & Society intends to study these issues and their social and economic impact, with the goal of reaching a deeper understanding of the interrelationship between anonymity, privacy and Internet access.
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Roberto Galoppini
ODF Plugfest: Working in Progress
The ODF Plugfest is a series of events bringing together implementors and stakeholders of OASIS OpenDocument Format/ISO 26300 to test standards conformance and discuss ODF implementation issues.
Until the first ODF Plugfest, vendors were not asked to prove that their software products meet open standards‘ specifications, and declarations of conformity was a self-certification process. Now everything is changed, and ODF implementors and stakeholders work together aiming at true interoperability.
Roberto Galoppini
Open Source CMS Award 2009
Packt announced the launch of the fourth open source CMS award, an award organized by the publish company since 2006 in order to encourage, support, recognize, and reward open source Content Management Systems.
Nominations are open until the 11th of September, to submit a nomination have a look at the 5 different categories and if you are looking for inspiration visit open source directories like opensourceCMS or CMSMatrix.
I am honoured to have been invited to join the judge panel this year, and I am looking forward to share my thoughts with other judges and learn about their views.
Roberto Galoppini, and 
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LenZ
Have fun with it! I’ve been on the panel of judges at the past awards and it was great fun. You learn a lot about the many great CMSes out there.
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Roberto Galoppini
Glad to hear that, I am really looking forward to it!
Roberto Galoppini
Technology BIZ 2009
Technology BIZ, is the first event taking place in Naples aimed at responding to the demand for complex ICT solutions of the southern Italian market. The event will be held on the 28-29 of October at Città della Scienza, Campania region’s organizational body that supports innovation and international openness of the regional system.
TechnologyBIZ will allow visitors both for the public and private sector to attend seminars, participate to workshops and set up one-to-one meetings covering areas related to ICT such as Healthcare, Homeland Security & Defense, Mobile Computing, Open Source, Web 2.0 and more.
Roberto Galoppini
The Open Source Innovation Backbone for Startups
Open innovation is taking over in many areas, and open source plays an important role especially in software sequential innovation, where each successive invention builds in an essential way on its predecessors. Foremost, for the most of us before anything else software (open source included) is a tool towards a goal.
Si Chen
Hi Roberto,
I think your comment about “standing on the shoulder of giants” is a really good one. A lot of people just think that an open source solution is a cheaper alternative. In fact, though, the greatest value of open source is the accumulated knowledge from all the users and developers on how software SHOULD be built (and also SHOULD NOT 🙂 ). This becomes a very valuable template for companies who want to build and extend a product/service based on open source software.
Roberto Galoppini
Hi Si,
good to hear back from you. I think the experience you gained with Opentaps in this respect might be enlightening for others. Let me know if you are open to tell your story, I’d be glad to write about it.
BAS
Is there a blueprint/roadmap for newbies to follow?
Roberto Galoppini
Creating a book with OpenOffice.org: links 2-8-2009
How to Layout a Book with OpenOffice.org: Part 1 – Starting from scratch.
How to Layout a Book with OpenOffice.org: Part 2 – Page Numbers and Paragraph stiles.
How to Layout a Book with OpenOffice.org: Part 3 – Illustrations, style and formatting, exporting.
Roberto Galoppini
Open Source Software Quality Tools: Coverity Prevent made Available to Academic Institutions
Coverity, a company specialized in software integrity products and testing services, announced the expansion of its academic program, now granting academic access to their static code analysis software Coverity Prevent, for both teaching and research use.
I contacted Coverity to know if their contribution goes towards software research within EC funded projects too.
Roberto Galoppini
Open Source EC Funded Projects: EDOS
Among open source research project funded by the EC the EDOS project aimed to study and solve problems associated with the production, management and distribution of open source software packages.
EDOS (Environment for the Development and Distribution of Open Source software) obtained interesting results, either from an academic point of view or from an industrial perspective.
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