SOS Open Source – an automated methodology to find and evaluate open source software – gathers and analyzes data about open source projects, providing a synthetic representation of all selected candidates and also a graphical tool to compare them.
Read more at SOS Open Source.
Open source software procurement processes in the field of Italian public administrations will be at the center of the upcoming open source conference “Public tenders and open source“, next Thursday 17 June in Rome at the IBM eGov solution center (disclosureaimer: IBM Italy is a client and is the sponsor of the event). (More …)
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 …)
Unifying IT Operations & Facilities Monitoring – Learn more about Modius and GWOS are combining technologies to unlock the potential of unified IT operations and facilities monitoring.
Tue, June 8, 2010 9:00 PT, 12:00 ET, 17:00 GMT (More …)
Hadoop: An Industry Perspective – Amr Awadallah, Cloudera co-founder and CTO, will describe how Hadoop enables to consolidate many different data storage and processing needs in an economically scalable cloud resource. Dr. Awadallah will give an overview of how the core technologies in Hadoop, MapReduce and HDFS work, and he will explore how Hadoop augments the most commonly used tool for data management today — an RDBMS.
Tue, Jun 8, 2010 12:00 PM PDT (More …)
The second Innovators barcamp – a meet-up organized by the Italian innovators group to pass from talking about innovation to do it in and for public administrations – was the perfect venue to share some ideas about “Open Source & Multi-sided Markets“.
My ignite talk was around on one of the most important value of open source, if not the only one that makes open source a “different thing”: the community. Having had the opportunity to share my thoughts with over 100 attendees in a bare 5 minutes talk, I want here to talk deeper about why the community matters, focusing on its different constituents and their relative interests.
The Free Software Foundation announced an alternative OpenOffice.org extensions repository, which will list only extensions released under free software licenses. Before that the FSF asked the OpenOffice.org Community Council to list only free software extensions or to provide a second independent listing, but the OOo council responded negatively.
Are two better than one?
I think putting Free Software-only extensions in their own repository makes perfect sense. While I don’t completely agree with The Free Software Foundation’s position that proprietary software is evil, there is a practical matter to consider. As it stands, it is becoming more and more difficult for end-users to distinguish between Free Software and various forms of “freeware” that isn’t open source and in many cases has serious usage restrictions. In order for the Free Software / Open Source movement to make any serious impact long term, it must solidify the benefits with consumers appropriately. This can only be done if the distinction between truly Free software and simply “free as in beer” software becomes more mainstream. The most straightforward and simple way of doing this is by keeping them apart — that way a person can tell at a glance what rights they have when they install an extension, rather than having to research it first (which they almost certainly won’t bother to do, in most cases).
Best Practices and Trends in Enterprise 2.0 Collaboration – Jacob Morgan, Principal of Chess Media Group, and Rick Mann, IT Manager, Florida Hospital, will talk about the best practices and upcoming trends in Enterprise 2.0 collaboration.
Today at 1pm EDT. (More …)
OpenOffice.org Annual Conference , now at its 10th edition, will be held in Budapest (Hungary) and the call for paper is open until the 2nd of June. People intersting in attending OOoCon 2010 are invited to subscribe to the OOoCon 2010 mailing list. To subscribe to the list send a blank email to ooocon-discuss-subscribe <at> marketing.openoffice.org.
The OpenOffice.org Community is now accepting proposals for hosting the next year conference.
Case Studies: Deploying Open Source Storage Clouds – When you sort
through the hype of cloud storage it is possible to find real world practical examples in use today. In this webinar a panel of experts will discuss:
• Key storage trends and the importance of open source storage
• The value of scalable storage, why it matters and what you should look for
• Discussion on cloud storage, is it real and what are the practical use cases
Wed, May 26, 2010 02:00 PM ET – 03:00 PM ET (More …)
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