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  Roberto Galoppini 11:07 am on September 22, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: bergamo, eclipse ( 4 ), jazz, ralphmueller   

  Eclipse-IT 2009: Bergamo, 28-29 September 

  Eclipse-IT 09, the Italian Eclipse workshop now at its fourth edition, will take place at the University of Bergamo next on the 28th and 29th of September.

  The Italian workshop will bring together universities and industries interested in using and supporting the Eclipse platform.

  This year conference accepted contributions regarding also the Jazz platform and will feature also an industrial track.

  I will be giving a speech on the 28th after Ralph Mueller‘s keynote, see you there!

   

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  Roberto Galoppini 3:24 pm on September 18, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Italy ( 2 ), jobs, open source software, Turin   

  Open Jobs: NEUBOT Open Source Project 

  The NEXA Center for Internet & Society seeks a researcher for the continuation of the NEUBOT project, a collaborative approach to measuring internet neutrality.

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  Roberto Galoppini 3:46 pm on August 8, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Italy jobs, Nexa ( 3 ), Torino   

  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 2:50 pm on August 4, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: tbiz, technology biz   

  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.

   
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  Roberto Galoppini 3:09 pm on July 14, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Internet Freedom ( 2 ), net strike   

  Net Freedom: Italian Blog Strike 

  Today Italian bloggers protest against an Italian government bill introducing rules which will put at risk the internet freedom of speech in Italy.

  

  See the English version of the press release to know more.

   
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  Roberto Galoppini 4:04 pm on July 1, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: DougMahugh ( 2 ), JosPoortvliet, openoffice ( 44 ), RobWeir ( 2 ), RomanKorchagi, standard compliance ( 2 ), standard conformance ( 2 ), Sven   

  An ODF Plugfest a Day Take the Doctor Away 

  The Dutch government is showing the way to go: the Minister for Foreigng Trade Frank Heemskerk opened the now famous ODF Plugfest saying that a joint course of action for developing effective ODF support in each other’s products is needed.

  Last week the Italian government announced a joint effort with Sun Microsystems to foster the use of StarOffice by local public administrations, but the press release doesn’t mention either ODF or open standards. Improvements are needed, the lack of a European coherent strategic vision towards standards’ compliance.

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  Roberto Galoppini 11:20 am on June 30, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

  OpenOffice.org breaks the 4 millions mark in less than 6 Months! 

  OpenOffice.org keeps doing well in Italy, the OpenOffice.org Italian Association announced that OpenOffice.org in Italy broke the four millions mark in less than 6 months, a growth of more than 196% compared with the previous year.

  Italo Vignoli, PLIO’s president, said:

  In Italy OpenOffice.org downloads exceeded the number of PC sold, steadily growing at an amazing rate.

   
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  Roberto Galoppini 11:49 am on June 26, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: fabriziocapobianco ( 4 ), Funambol ( 8 ), jajah, open source mobile ( 9 ), open source saas   

  Funambol + JAJAH: Open Source SaaS in Action 

  Funambol and JAJAH, the global IP communications company, today announced the world premiere of the new Go JAJAH service, to be launched exclusively in Italy.

  The new service automatically updates a mobile phone address book, creating a local number for each international number, allowing callers to make international calls at local rates.

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  Roberto Galoppini 1:29 pm on June 24, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: assinform ( 2 ), information technology market   

  Italian Information Technology Market Research 2009 

  Assinform – the Italian association of Information & Communication Technology companies – will present on the 26 of June the first Italian Information Technology report 2009.

  The report covers Italian IT market’s structure and evolution, summarizing results after surveying 1000 companies. The report compares also the Italian IT market with the most active European IT markets, and analyzes differences among Italian regions (Lombardia, Emilia Romagna, Lazio and others).

  Registrations are now open.

   
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  Roberto Galoppini 1:14 pm on June 21, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Internet Freedom ( 2 ), Italian Blogosphere   

  Italy at a Turning Point for Internet Freedom 

  The Italian Institute for Policy Innovation launched a petition to ask the Italian senators to prevent the approval of the  new obligation provision equating bloggers to journalists.

  The bill 1415A, already discussed and approved by the Chamber of Deputies, if approved also by the Italian Senate would require Italian bloggers to rectify eventual mistakes within 48 hours (fines goes up to 12,500 euros).

  Sign the petition and spread the word.

  Related blog posts (Italian):

  Ernesto Belisario (author of the petition)

  Guido Scorza (Italian Institute for Policy Innovation)

  Punto Informatico (on line Italian magazine)

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