I’m lucky enough to be able to do the job I love.
As part of my job I dedicate almost 20% of my time to projects related to the SourceForge core business, and this includes advising few open-source-related companies. Among them a special place goes to Bitergia, a company focused in the area of software development analytics.
Let me tell you first more about how I came across this company.
We’re glad to have you on board! 😀
Among SourceForge partnerships I have been working on, Apache OpenOffice has a special place in my heart, since before I have been a member of the original OpenOfffice.org community for almost 9 years.
Today I was supposed to be at the ApacheCon Europe, and give the OpenOffice Extensions and Templates talk, focusing on:
I have received a few questions asking why I’ve been blogging less frequently, and it is easy to admit I had little time because of my two new jobs, namely my role as SourceForge as its Senior Director of Business Development at SourceForge (US time-zone) and my full-time job as Fatherhood!
Now that Vanessa enjoys so much the Day Care, I’ll do my best to restart my habit of blogging, though.
For my first “post-daycare” blog post I’ll shortly recap what’s happened over the last year at SourceForge.
This is a bit off topic, I admit, but – lately I have been receiving emails from “sourceforge.com”. Is there any relationship between sourceforge.net and sourceforge.com?
Today the Apache Software Foundation announced that Apache OpenOffice ™ is a top level project, and I really wish to congratulate with the Apache OpenOffice Community to have achieved this important milestone.
It has been wonderful to have the rare opportunity to participate to a project both as volunteer and as Geeknet’s employee (now Dice, in case you missed the news).
I’m sure we are just at the start of a new journey!
Read more at SourceForge blog.
Since the rise of Facebook there has been much discussion about people building walled gardens with open source software, but it seems like we’ve almost forgotten that many of us have built open source software behind someone else’s walled garden.
During the 2010 summit we spent a day discussing the so-called data-jail issue. Last year at the OWF we explored a possible solution for the problem based on interoperability between forges.
This year we want to look at how the landscape has changed; which opportunities allow projects to keep full control over their data, and which initiatives the EU is driving to address the issue. Academics, industry players and open forge advocates will illuminate this immersive half-day event. If you care about your project’s freedom, this summit is one you won’t want to miss!
The Apache OpenOffice.org project announced the availability of OpenOffice.org 3.4, see the new features and improvement in the Release Notes. You might get the gist of some of the new features looking at the Apache OpenOffice SourceForge video, featured also on FeatherCast.
SourceForge just a forge? Not quite, not anymore. SourceForge is investing time and resources to help open source projects to grow, and we do that through numerous ways. Take our recent collaboration with one of the most famous open source projects: the OpenOffice project, now incubated at the Apache Software Foundation.
SourceForge helps the Apache OpenOffice by serving downloads for the Extensions and the Templates sites, as well as the shortly upcoming Apache OpenOffice 3.4 Release.
Read the full article at SourceForge blog.
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.
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.
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.
Read the full article at SourceForge blog.
I joined Geeknet as the Senior Director of Business Development at SourceForge, and I am responsible to grow and extend our ecosystem. I am excited to bring in all my experience in the open source business and my understanding of open source communities to Sourceforge.
SourceForge played a fundamental role in the development of the open source world as we know it today, and we are working to make it more and more relevant to all its stakeholder groups, ranging from casual users to developers, enterprises and customer advertisers.
We are now testing new features to help our projects to grow, and as soon as they’ll be available to the general public we’ll let you know through our blog. We are actually scheduling one-to-one meetings aimed at better serving projects’ needs, so if you run a project and you want to know more about what we have to offer to you, drop me a line at rgaloppini@geek.net.
Congratulations, Roberto! Your experience will surely be beneficial to SourceForge.
Congratulations for new job !
Congratulations!
Congratulations for you new Job Roberto
Congratulations to SourceForge for having done the right choice! 🙂
CONGRATULATIONS ROBERTO!!
Many many congratulations!
Hi, Roberto,
Congratulations for new job!
Congratulations. I’m glad that there are Italians who contribute to FLOSS in a decisive and important. It is not usual or common.
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Thanks a lot, Roberto. You know we at Bitergia appreciate you a whole lot 😉