Upcoming Open Source Webinars: Global Knowledge, Tungsten, Zend
Open Source Network Security – This complimentary Webinar will provide an overview of the most popular Open Source Network Security tools.
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Roberto Galoppini
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Roberto Galoppini
SOS Open Source: Which Linux Server Distribution?
SOS Open Source yesterday announced the availability a guide to choose a Linux (server) distribution. The guide – at the moment available only in Italian – provides information about a number of Linux distributions, included CentOS, Debian, Mandriva, Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise and Ubuntu.Find out more about the guide at SOS Open Source website.
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Roberto Galoppini
OSI: The Open Source Road Ahead
Having been interviewed recently, among other topics, about my take on how FSF and OSI might rethinking their roles in the next future, I want to share some thoughts around how OSI could move in the years to come.
Changing OSI is now possible, and I am personally taking the chance by joining the OSI Governance working group, chaired by Simon Phipps. While the  future governance of the OSI is still under discussion, here I’d like to throw some ideas around on what OSI could do about things like raising funds, software patents and “Open Core”.
Roberto Galoppini
Upcoming Open Source Webinars: MongoDB, Nuxeo, Scilab
Building your first MongoDB application – In this webinar you’ll walk you through building a simple application using MongoDB.
April 05, 2011, 1:00 pm EST (More …)
Roberto Galoppini
Robin Good’s Feature Articles: Open Source Software Tools And Directories
Unless you are looking for popular popular open source software – such as the ones available in the SourceForge top downloads or the few ones backed by vendors like Apache, Linux, MySQL, PHP, eMule, GIMP, OpenOffice or VLC, Google search might not be your best solution to find specific open source software to suit your needs.
For example, if you search for an open source web editor on Google, you won’t find BlueGriffon, a web editor based on the Firefox rendering engine Gecko (a tool I recommend to try either if you are an experienced or a beginner web author).
Looking at Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn lists of favorite open-source tools, it is clear that these OSS tools are definitely not something the average person has ever heard of.
The key point here is that to find the right open source tool may not be a trivial task, but anyone can learn how to do it on his own.
In this MasterNewMedia guide, open source software expert Roberto Galoppini, author of SOS Open Source, a pragmatic methodology to find and evaluate open source software, provides you with the basic pointers, resources and evaluation criteria to start looking on your own.
Roberto Galoppini
Talk about Cloud Procurement
The agenda of the Virtualization & Cloud panel has been updated. On the 30th of March I’ll be giving a speech about Cloud Procurement risks, terms and conditions, below the full list of panelists:
Roberto Galoppini
Upcoming Open Source Webinars: Coverity, GroundWork, Tungsten
Stamp Out Costly Security Defects in Software Development – Webinar to learn about real-world best practices for addressing security in development, with Robert Seacord of the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) and Michael White, Professional Services Engineer at Coverity
Wednesday, March 30th 2011, 2011 at 2:00 pm GMT (More …)
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Tarus
Just curious: Why are you including Groundwork on a blog about commercial open source software? The term “open source” only appears in their name – others are reporting that they’ve removed the term “open source” from their website (at least the front page) as well as stopped work on their “community” edition which was last updated in December of 2009.
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Roberto Galoppini
Hi Tarus,
GroundWork Community edition appears to be still of interest, though. Commercial open source blog covers both news about open core and ‘pure’ open source vendors.
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David Dennis
Hi Roberto,
We actually made a blog entry in January, 2011 commenting on the status of GroundWork Monitor Community Edition.
You can find it here:
http://www.groundworkopensource.com/2011/groundwork-monitor-community-edition-update/
Regards,
David
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Roberto Galoppini
Hi David,
thanks for the clarification.
Roberto Galoppini
Time for an Italian Government Open Standards Survey?
Francis Maude, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, has just thrown a survey to ask to to ask people which standards are most important to them.
If you’re a business or community organisation, helping us choose the right standards will make it easier for you to do business with Government. It will also help us open up data, better informing your decisions, and hopefully prompting innovation.
We’ve placed free text fields in the survey, so you can tell us what we have missed or which alternative standards you believe may be better.
Apparently the results will be reviewed by the Chief Technology Officers Council and then conclusions will be published on the Cabinet Office website next Autumn.
Couldn’t Italy do the same?
Roberto Galoppini
Upcoming Open Source Webinars: MongoDB, OpenLogic, Xwiki
Cloud Computing and Open Source: What You Need to Know – The premise of the webinar is that as enterprises begin to evaluate, experiment with and adopt cloud computing, open source technologies will play a significant role.
March 29 2011, 12:00 pm MT
Roberto Galoppini
Virtualization & Cloud Panel, Rome 30 March 2001
The final agenda of the Virtualization & Cloud panel is out. See you at EXPO COMM Italia 2011 on the 30 March 2011.
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