The FLOSS roadmap 2020, now at its third edition, has now opened the call for contributions. I asked Jean-Pierre Laisne – Chief and Open Source Strategist at Bull, OW2 President and coordinator of the roadmap – to tell us more about the new edition. (More …)
Business International, the Italian leading conference company, is organizing the 1st Cloud Computing and Virtualization Strategies that will take place in Milan on the 26th of March at the Enterprise Hotel.
The conference will look at how, when, and where computing opportunities can be taken advantage of, providing IT decision makers and CIOs with useful information and guidance. Round-tables will cover how the cloud can benefit security, virtualization and cloud computing, cloud computing and mobile platforms.
See you there!
The Innovatori PA 2010 barcamp, now at its second edition, will take place again at the ForumPA , on the 18th of May. The aim of this unconference is to exploit in real situations sustainable innovation in public services.
The Italian innovators group, a network of over 1600 individuals willing to innovate in the public sector, is the right place to share your ideas and projects before the event.
See you there!
Better Software 2010, the only Italian IT conference on software development for IT managers and entrepreneurs, will be held in Florence on the 5-6 of May 2010.
The conference will bring together experts in the fields of agile project management, open source, web2.0, and all the elements which contribute to the production of a stable and marketable product.
Registration are now open, to know more follow Better Sotware blog or twitter.
The third Open World Forum will be held in Paris, France, on 30 September and 1 October 2010.
Proposals for talks and associated events should be made directly to the Program Committee (of which I am pleased to be part) through the OWF Program Committee wiki. The deadline for submissions is 30 March 2010.
Open Source Way, an open source event organized by ITWay – an Italian value added distributor operating also in France, Greece, Portugal, Spain,  and Turkey – will be held on the 2nd and the 4th of February 2010 in Milan and Rome.
Open Source industry experts will shed light on the revenue growth potential of a fast-growing market, gaining attention also from large companies. The event will focus on new strategies and solutions offered by leading suppliers, with in-depth analysis of questions inherent to the professional and business use of open source technologies.
The event is open to everyone, register online (Milan, Rome).
FIDA Inform, the Italian Federation of the Associations of IT Management Professionals, Â invites everyone to attend to its annual conference, which will be held in Rome on the 3rd of December (free entrance, pre-registration required).
The event, through the actions and initiatives of IT Italian associations summing up to over 1000 professionals, aims to treat the potential of ICT and innovative solutions to make a significant contribution to commercial, financial and industrial institutions. In the afternoon I will join the roundtable to talk about how to select, qualify and compare open source platforms.
Robin Good tomorrow will held his first POP Workshop in Rome, an event dedicated to online publishers willing to design and implement an effective communication strategy. Robin Good invited me to share with his attendees my thoughts on personal branding, and I look forward to join the New Media Strategy session along with Italo Cillo, Andrea Genovese and  Giulio Marsala.
See you there!
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.
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
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!
The Open World Forum next week will bring together speakers from all over the world at the Eurosites George V in Paris.
Paris on the 1-2 October will be for the second time the European open source hub. Look at the program to figure out which of the 34 open source conferences is your favorite to learn, share and discuss about the technological, economical and social impact of open source technologies.
Roberto Galoppini, and 
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