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  Roberto Galoppini 11:12 am on August 5, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: open source award, Open Source CMS ( 7 ), open source cms matrix, opensourcecms, Packt ( 7 )   

  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.
  

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    LenZ 11:57 am on August 5, 2009 Permalink

    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 6:04 pm on August 5, 2009 Permalink

    Glad to hear that, I am really looking forward to it!

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  Roberto Galoppini 10:21 am on August 2, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Coverity ( 2 ), open source quality, static code analysis   

  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.

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  Roberto Galoppini 6:44 pm on July 1, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: JonSobel ( 2 ), Open Source Directory ( 2 ), Software Selection ( 9 ), sourceforge ( 4 )   

  SourceForge New Site On Line! 

  SourceForge few days ago served its 4 billionth download and today launched the new website. The new UI is the answer to inputs from project administrators asking for an easier path for users to download their software.

  I asked Jon Sobel, SourceForge Inc. Group President, his opinion about this change:

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    Ole Nielsen 6:14 pm on July 6, 2009 Permalink

    Thanks for giving us SourceForge!

    However, with the July 2009 version we miss the ability to link directly to specific releases. Now any link points to all files and one must find the specific release manually. The link in question is https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=172848&package_id=197866&release_id=688445

    Also, it appears that the green download button no longer points to the latest file upload which is annoying.

    Cheers
    Ole Nielsen

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  Roberto Galoppini 1:24 pm on June 23, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Drizzle, FrOsCon, GiuseppeMaxia ( 2 ), Infobright ( 2 ), MySQL ( 10 ), open source conferences ( 2 ), OpenSQLCamp   

  Open SQL Camp Europe 2009, 22-23 August, Sankt Augustin (Germany) 

  The European edition of the OpenSQLCamp 2009, will take place in Sankt Augustin (Germany) on Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd within the Free and Open Source Conference 2009 – the German conference now in its fourth year.

  The goal of this event is to spread the word about the vibrant communities and large ecosystems around Open Source Databases and to educate the attendees about what alternatives exist to commercial databases. (More …)

   
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  Roberto Galoppini 5:04 pm on June 17, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: BrunovonRotz, Open Source Directory ( 2 ), Optaros, RFP, Software Selection ( 9 )   

  Enterprise Open Source Directory Establishes Advisory Board 

  The EOS directory, the list of enterprise open source applications launched two years ago by Optaros, has recently been handed over to Bruno von Rotz, initial sponsor of the initiative and well known open source specialist.

  Today has been announced the EOS Directory Board, established over the last weeks by Bruno von Rotz to strengthen the neutral approach to ratings and selection of free software technologies.

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    Stefano Maffulli 5:37 am on June 18, 2009 Permalink

    Congratulations Roberto, a very interesting initiative. Keep up the good work.

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  Roberto Galoppini 12:01 pm on May 1, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: netifera, open source CRM ( 4 ), open source ERP ( 5 ), open source security tools   

  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 for open source network security tools to interact as well as providing a complete collection of useful security functionality. Have a look at screenshots, read the documentation 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 10:15 pm on May 3, 2009 Permalink

    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/

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  Roberto Galoppini 7:03 pm on April 28, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: AlexTingle, linkedin ( 4 ), wordpress ( 4 ), WordPress Event Calendar   

  Playing around with WordPress 

  Trying to organize my blog information in a clearer way, over the next two weeks I will make some cosmetics changes to commercial open source blog. Yesterday I started by updating WordPress to the latest version available, and adding a plug-in to keep my readers up to date about my events (Event Calendar by Alex Tingle).

  The WordPress publish platform is getting more and more flexible everyday, its plugin architecture helps developers to release a great number of add-ons, making WordPress a viable option for many purposes, from a stock icons e-commerce store to an apartment booking website.

  Stay tuned for more.

   
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  Roberto Galoppini 12:13 pm on April 23, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Apache ( 5 ), DavidEJones, OFBiz, Open Source ETL, OpenSolaris   

  Apache ERP OFBiz, Open Source Data Warehousing, Open High Availability Cluster: Open Source links, 23-04-2009 

  Released Apache OFBiz latest version – The Apache Foundation announced the newest release of Apache Open For Business (OFBiz). “As an ASF Project, no single company owns and markets the software exclusively,” explained David E. Jones, original OFBiz co-creator and Chair of the OFBiz Project Management Committee.

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  Roberto Galoppini 10:42 am on April 10, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: FrankCohen, HTMLUnit, open source test, Selenium, soapUI, SpikeSource, TestGen4Web   

  Open Source Workshops: Build and Test Open Source Tools 

  PushToTest – a professional open-source software publisher of test automation tools, methodology, and training established by Frank Cohen in 2001- will run an half-day workshop on Selenium, soapUI, HTMLUnit, TestGen4Web (powered by SpikeSource) and other open-source test tools.

  The meet-up will take place in Austin on the 22 of April, register on line. Download workshop examples.

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  Roberto Galoppini 10:16 am on April 9, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: bazaar ( 2 ), cvs ( 2 ), git ( 3 ), mercurial ( 2 ), scm ( 2 ), subversion ( 4 ), webinar   

  Open Source Webinars: SCM Comparison, by OpenLogic 

  On the 28th of April OpenLogic will run a webinar to provide a comparison of key attributes – included market share and community participation – for the leading open source Source control management tools, including Bazaar, CVS, Git, Mercurial, and Subversion.

  Other topics covered in this webinar will include:
  Which open source SCM tools are best at branching, merging, and tagging
  Client/server vs. single repository SCM tools
  Peer-to-peer vs. distributed system SCM tools
  How the leading open source SCM tools compare to commercial alternatives

  Register on line.

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