ODF Interoperability: Berlin ODF Plugfest, 14-15 July 2011
The sixth ODF Plugfest will take place on July 14th and 15th 2011, Invalidenstr. 48, 10557 in Berlin (Germany). (More …)
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Roberto Galoppini
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Roberto Galoppini
Mission Critical Data Centers Available to Everyone
The Italian biweekly newspaper “Corriere delle Comunicazioni†in collaboration with HP and Intel invite everyone interested in knowing more about mission critical data centers to join us on the 5th of July, at the Hotel Nazionale in Rome.
Gildo Campesato – Founder and Director of Corriere delle Comunicazioni – will welcome attendees at 14:15 PM, later I will give an introductory speech before introducing our round table speakers, including Alessandro Musumeci (Ferrovie dello Stato), Giovanni Rando Mazzarino (Lottomatica), Emilio Frezza (Comune di Roma), Giuseppe Maria Armenia (ICE), Gaetano Scebba (Api), Alessandro Gabrieli (HP) and Carmine Stragapede (Intel).
Register online, and see you there!
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Roberto Galoppini
WURFL Goes to the USA: ScientiaMobile is Born
I had already interviewed Luca Passani - the inventor and maintainer of WURFL, the Wireless Universal Resource FiLe – a few years back, but now that his new venture ScientiaMobile hit the market it is time to talk to him again.I asked Luca to tell us about the new company, its licensing and business strategy.
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Roberto Galoppini
Upcoming Open Source Webinars: JBoss, RackSpace, RevolutionAnalytics
The ‘Big Analytics’ Revolution Starts with R – Join this executive Webinar to find out how companies of all types and sizes can integrate the “R,†into their modern, enterprise analytics infrastructure strategy.
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011, 10:00 am PDT -
Roberto Galoppini
Zarafa SummerCamp 2011
Zarafa, the European open source vendor based in the Netherlands developing  an open source email and calendar groupware software – invites you to participate in their SummerCamp 2011. The event will be an opportunity to get involved, share experiences and discover all new innovations of the Zarafa product.The SOS Open Source team will keynote on the 30th of June, unveiling how the Zarafa ecosystem scores on open source maturity, level of industrialization and more.
Roberto Galoppini
Upcoming Open Source Webinars: Bitnami, Hippo vs Plone, Sonatype
Improving Your Java development with Maven 3 and Hudson – Attend this webinar to learn about the advantages of upgrading to Apache Maven 3, including improved speed, greater stability and increased compatibility. Jason will also talk about the greatly improved support for Maven 3 within Hudson that is easy to configure and supports complex build scenarios with ease. We will cover the Eclipse IDE integration for both Maven and Hudson that improves developer productivity.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011, 10:30 am EDT
Roberto Galoppini
OpenOffice.org Finds Home at the Apache Foundation
OpenOffice.org it is now an Apache Incubator proposal, and IBM has officially committed to contribute to the project, thanks to Oracle’s donation of the Openoffice.org code base to Apache.
In the closing remarks of the last blog entry around this topic I threw the idea of using an existing foundation, and I am glad to see that this eventually became a reality. I have been already writing about Incubation at Apache before, you can learn more about it directly at the Apache Software Foundation blog.
Let’s try now to better understand what OOo at Apache means for everyone.
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Stefano Maffulli
I agree with you Roberto. OpenOffice.org and its fork LibreOffice are the best productivity suite for GNU/Linux systems, but they’re far away from being the best productivity suite out there and lots needs to be done to create the ecosystem around the ODF format.
There is a need of radical innovation in the field and I don’t think that The Document Foundation can do it alone with the resources it has, as I wrote on my blog.
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Open Source Software for Windows
Interesting, good to hear that open office is getting trashed due to previous developments… definitely saved my butt during college when MS Office was way to expensive.
Paula Hunter
Agreed that the best place for a project of this type is out of the hands of a commercial entity and in a place which represents a neutral zone for innovation, where everyone benefits and control of the project is diffused. Apache was a great choice.
Roberto Galoppini
Upcoming Open Source Webinars: BlackDuck, SugarCRM, Tungsten
Social Media: Hype or Hope? Live Discussion with Social CRM Expert Paul Greenberg – This live webinar examines the current state of social media and CRM in a town hall discussion with industry and thought leaders.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 4:00 pm, CEST
Roberto Galoppini
The Open Source Road Ahead: Open Source and Parmesan Cheese
Andrew Oliver commented on my previous blog entry about OSI future, saying that he is interested in the idea of creating an enhanced certification. While waiting for more feedback – especially from other OSI Board members – I want to take a chance to tell more about this idea.
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Ludovic Dubost
The analogy is great ! In France we have tons and tons of such labels.
One of the most famous is the “label rouge” labels. It’s a very interesting label because many people think it means the product is “better”, while in reality it’s only a label that certify a “specific” process.
Whatever the certification, it can only be benificial for the community to know where each open source vendor is standing.
Clearly the current OSI validated licence is way to weak. We need to push for more complete certifications.
Roberto Galoppini
Upcoming Open Source Webinars: BlackDuck & RedMonk, OSSCube, Tungsten
Survival of the Forges: Do Language Trends Tell the Story? – Join this Black Duck Software webinar to review the results of our recent forge analysis and present the expert commentary and perspective of Redmonk co-founder Steve O’Grady, who will also provide a predictive analysis regarding these trends.
Thursday, June 2, 2011, 11:30 am EDT
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