ODF Interoperability: Brussels ODF Plugfest, 19-20 April 2012
The eight ODF Plugfest will take place on April 19th and 20th 2012 in Brussels (Belgium). (More …)
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About BerliOS-SourceForge Partnership
SourceForge just a forge? Not quite, not anymore. SourceForge making public its partnership with BerliOS has just inaugurated its first collaboration agreement with other open source players.
Having just completed a couple of important partnership agreements, it’s probably a good time to look back and see where we have been and where are we going. Let me start by telling you more about our first agreement. BerliOS – probably the second oldest open source public forge after SourceForge – has recently signed a collaboration with SourceForge, to serve all its downloads via our global mirror network.
Want to know more about where are we at? Read the full blog post at SourceForge blog.
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Roberto Galoppini
Focus Group Open Source: Video Interview
ForumPA has video-interviewed me about the past and upcoming Focus Group Open Source meet-ups. I wish to publicly thank Gianni Dominici, ForumPA General Manager, to both promote and join our events, bringing his knowledge and understanding of Italian Public Administrations. Since we enjoyed his talk about the Italian Open Data state of the art, we look forward to have him opening the next event that will be held on the 14th of March.
If you plan to come, don’t forget to sign up by sending an email to our host.
Roberto Galoppini
Focus Group Open Source: Social Media & Citizenship 2.0, Rome, 14 March 2012
The next Focus Group Open Source meeting will focus on Social Media and Citizenship 2.0, and it will take place on the 14th of March 2012 in Rome, at IBM’s office (sponsor of the event). Among invited speakers Gianni Dominici (ForumPA), Paolo Coppola (Comune di Udine), Stefano Epifani (Università di Roma), and Alessandro Chinnici (IBM).
For more information and to sign up for the event, see the Focus Group Open Source blog.
Roberto Galoppini
Focus Group Open Source: Open Data, Rome 25 January 2012
The next Focus Group Open Source meeting will focus on Open Data, and it will take place on the 25th of January 2012 in Rome, at IBM’s office (sponsor of the event). Among invited speakers Gianni Dominici (ForumPA), Federico Morando (Apps4Italy), Salvatore Marras (dati.gov), Ernesto Belisario (Italian Association for Open Government), and Guido Vetere (IBM).
For more information and to sign up for the event, see the Focus Group Open Source blog.
Roberto Galoppini
Commercial Open Source Blog: Fifth Year in Review
Commercial Open Source blog has passed its fifth year, and as every year it is time to zoom a little back once more, and maybe tell how things will work from now on.
SOS Open Source has still been my primary focus for a large part of this year, you may want to have a look at articles about metrics, Open Source Application Lifecycle Management tools, white-papers and surveys. More will come, but definitely at a slower pace. So said, today you’ll find online the latest, about Zentyal.
Conferencing. Over the last year I have been charing Red Hat, SUSE and Google events, organizing a second series of events around open source for IBM (here the last of the year), giving speeches at few Cloud events and Open Data meet-ups.
The Open Source Road ahead has been a frequent theme for a while, maybe I’ll look into OSI’s future again, especially if the new appointed board will come up with interesting news.
EU-funded open source projects. After years spent talking about EU-funded projects it’s time to give them a try: I’m finally working on some proposals, plus I’ll be evaluating and reviewing projects.
About the future of Commercial Open Source blog. I’ll be writing blog entries time by time, but I’ll hardly doing it on a regular basis, though. My actual job is filling up my days nicely, and all my spare time goes to my family and especially to my lovely baby girl that makes my days and nights!
PR Agencies, open source vendors and projects with a commercial aim are highly invited to provide me with news, I’ll make this blog more open to external inputs as far as related to open source and business.
I wish to thank again my webmaster Matteo, best whishes for your WordPress-based SuperThemes venture!
Roberto Galoppini
SourceForge runs the Women in Open Source Survey
At SourceForge we just launched an online Women in Open Source Survey, based on the ubiquitous mentioned FLOSSPOLS survey. If you are wondering about what’s the state of art now you can help yourself and spend 5 minutes to fill the survey, we’ll share our findings as soon as possible.
Roberto Galoppini
Improving your Project’s Visibility at SourceForge
Over the last months we’ve been analyzing SourceForge historical data, looking for trends and correlations. We’ve found factors that can help project administrators to get both more downloads and more visibility.
- Project Icons
- Screenshots
- Project Title, blurb, and full description fields
- Feature bullets
- Accurate project categorization
- More frequent releases, and flag latest release
- Rapid turnaround on tickets
All things being equal, projects with these elements are more prone to capture people’s interest than projects without them.
A user visits a Project Summary Page either because they know exactly what they are looking for – in which case you don’t need to provide them with nuts and bolts – or because they are looking for something, and they don’t know if your project solves their problems. In this latter case, you have just a few moments to make a good first impression. Here’s a few tips to help you do just that.
- “Put an alligator over the pocket†(W. Allen, With our Feathers – “The Scrolls†– 1975).When you put a logo on your project, people associate it with certain core values like trust, quality, reliability, experience, etc. If you don’t believe it, read Woody Allen’s “put an alligator†and learn how Lacoste eventually became famous!
Read the full article at SourceForge blog.
Roberto Galoppini
Zentyal Summit 2011: 11-12 November 2011, Zaragoza (Spain)
The Zentyal Summit 2011 will be held on the 11th and 12th of November in Zaragoza, Spain. The event offers a meeting place for the Zentyal Linux Small Business Server community. The Summit is the best place to join hands-on sessions, discuss the Zentyal roadmap, get certified or just meet up with the Zentyal team and the whole ecosystem of partners, customers and community members.
Many thanks to the Zentyal team and the sponsors to have invited me to keynote at this event. In my talk “From Projects to Products†will take a look on how open source projects can turn in to commercially viable products and how SourceForge can help in the process.
Registrations are open, see you there!
About Zentyal: (formerly eBox Platform) is an open source unified network server software package (or a Unified Network Platform) for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Zentyal can act as a Gateway, Network Infrastructure Manager, Unified Threat Manager, Office Server, Unified communications Server or a combination of them. Besides, Zentyal includes a development framework to ease the development of new Unix based services.
Roberto Galoppini
SUSE Italia Celebrates the Linux 20th Anniversary
SUSE Italia celebrates Linux 20th birthday on the 15th of November 2011 in Rome, and on the 17th of November in Milan. The event is aimed at unveiling SUSE Italia’s new structure and the distinguishing features of SUSE Linux.
The event is tailored to the interest of actual and potential partners.
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