ForumPA: Public Administration Innovators Barcamp
Sustainable innovation in public services, to pass from words to action. This is the goal of the barcamp that will take place at the ForumPA (barcamp Innovatori PA), on the 13th of May.
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Upcoming European Elections: Marco Cappato
Net neutrality is at risk in Europe, the Telecoms package keeps popping up, the European software patents war is not over and we need to choose carefully our MEP candidates.
CarloMarco Cappato has been fighting software patents since 2003, and I’m not surprised he just signed the free software pact, the initiative mentioned earlier this week. Now he asks for help, if you like what he did on digital freedoms for years it is time to help him to get elected.
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Claudio Menzani
Nel testo hai scritto Carlo invece di Marco. 🙂
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Simo
Carlo Cappato -> Marco Cappato
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Roberto Galoppini
Ciao Simo, Ciao Claudio, thank you both for the reminder!
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Roberto Galoppini
Network Neutrality Italian Conference: Rome, 14th of May 2009
Kenneth R. Carter will give a speech at the Ugo Bordoni Foundation during the “socio-economical aspects of network neutrality” seminar, that will be held in Rome on the 14th of May 2009.
Roberto Galoppini
Open Source Conference: ForumPA 2009
ForumPA, the greatest Italian event of and about Public Administration taking place in Rome from the 11th to the 14th of May 2009, will host a round-table to talk about “strategies to increase the use of open source for public administrations“.
I am honored to have been asked again by Gianni Dominici,Vice General Director of ForumPA, to chair the session. I helped organizers to invited speakers from Italian and international public administrations to share their real experiences and best practices.
No talk, just open source action!
Roberto Galoppini
SourceForge Open Source Community Awards 2009
SourceForge just launched the 2009 Community Choice Awards, the fourth edition is open to all FOSS projects, and it includes new categories like “Best Project for Government” and “Most Likely to Change the Way You Do Everything”.
Nominations will be accepted until May 29th, and the ten projects with the most nominations in each category will become finalists. Last yearĂ‚Â OpenOffice.org won three different awards, let’s see if it will win again.
Roberto Galoppini
European Elections: Free Software Associations launch the “Free Software Pack”
April, a pioneer of free software in France and Belgium, along with Assoli, the long-live Italian association devoted to the promotion of free software, are launching a joint campaign aimed at the European Parliament elections.
The first Italian campaign in ten days hired 101 Italian candidates, 14 have been actually elected. Agrigento is one of them, and I didn’t hear back from them since then.
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Andrea
Free Software… “pack”?
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Roberto Galoppini
Ciao Andrea, that’s the name of the initiative actually. Have a look at their website to learn more.
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Andrea
Well, it’s “Pact” not “Pack”… even in the URL itself.
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Roberto Galoppini
Thank you Andrea, I corrected it, thanks for your help!
Roberto Galoppini
OpenOffice.org Italian Association Welcomes Microsoft ODF Natively Support
The Italian OpenOffice.org Association (PLIO), welcomes the fact that Microsoft Office 2007 now natively support the Open Document Format, the file format for electronic office documents originally developed by Sun within OpenOffice.org and now ISO standard.
The association one year ago welcomed Microsoft’s decision to support ODF.
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Jonathan Allen
Something that should get more attention is that OpenFormula, which defines spreadsheet formulas in ODF, is still incomplete after 3 1/2 years. There hasn’t even been any status updates since late 2006.
Roberto Galoppini
European Network Neutrality: Time to Act!
Malcolm Harbour (IMCO report) and Catherine Trautmann (ITRE report) , rapporteurs of the main directives of the  Telecoms Package formerly rejected thanks to Trautmann, stopped to enforce net citizens fundamental rights.
It is time to call your Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) to ask them to vote again for the “CITIZEN RIGHTS AMENDMENTS”, in the second reading of the Telecoms Package.
Roberto Galoppini
Lesser Known Open Source Applications: Netifera Security Platform, Opentaps quartertly update
The Netifera project – managed by a startup of five engineers working full-time on the development – began about two years to create an application which unifies and integrates many different types of security tools.The projects aims to become a standardized way forĂ‚Â open source network securityĂ‚Â tools to interact as well as providing a complete collection of useful security functionality.Ă‚Â Have a look at screenshots, read the documentationĂ‚Â and download it if you like, let me know your feedback.
opentaps now supports hibernate as well as the original ofbiz entity engine, have a look at the opentaps google map (world of opentaps) to locate nearest organization which use or provide services for opentaps.
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David Rich
Both very interesting projects, I like how they prioritize openness,
extensibility, they take the challenge of making a platform but it seems they are doing it in the right way, the right technologies, SOA
for example. A lot of work behind them. The Opentaps demo site was a little slow when I tried. I found the Netifera video awesome http://netifera.com/video/
Roberto Galoppini
Open Source Monitoring: GroundWork on Sale? Not Really
GroundWork, the provider of the open source based network management software, today announced the availability of GroundWork Monitor Starter Edition, designed for small deployments up to 250 monitored devices.
David Dennis, senior director of product marketing at Groundwork, in March told me that GroundWorkĂ‚Â “productized” a cheaper ‘stealth’ product that was sold by their partners only, prior to this launch. The Starter Edition has now gained an official state, apparently answering to community edition users’ needs.
Is open source on sale? is Groundwork trying to upsell its community?
David Dennis
Hi Roberto,
Thanks for the write-up. As usual, you raise interesting ‘big picture’ questions.
One small point of clarification: Starter Edition and Professional are completely identical from a feature set point of view (including basic auto discovery), the only differences being in the areas of number of devices, support mechanism, and automatic upgrade assurance to future versions. So while they completely overlap from a feature point of view, they do not overlap from a target market perspective.
One other additional note: Starter Edition users can receive credit for their purchase should they choose to upgrade to 6.0 Enterprise when it is released.
From a bigger point of view:
The question we had when we made Starter Edition was ‘What changes can we make to an enterprise product to make it practical to sell at a lower price point?’
Interestingly, in this case the answer had nothing to do with the code; the code is the same as GroundWork Monitor 5.3. Actually, keeping the code the same as Professional also helps keep the costs low.
The areas where we removed costs were:
1. How it is sold, selling it online only.
2. How it is supported, also online only.
3. How big the deployment can be, as this also affects the support costs.
Cheers!
Roberto Galoppini
Hi David,
you right stressing the importance of on line (sales, support), I might add also that your survey make clear that you are not reducing business opportunities for your partners. Partners definitely strive for bigger deployments, indeed.
Looking forward to see how will look like the Community edition once 6.0 is out. Selling info-products might really be rewarding, I believe.
Frank
Let us not forget when most thing are given out for free or there is a “starters edition” 99% of the time there is always an upsell.
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