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Open Source Developers Conference – April 24-25, Taipei.
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Roberto Galoppini
Open Source Communities: Canonical, Ubuntu and Jono Bacon
Recently MuleSource partnered with Canonical to improve Tomcat packaging for Ubuntu and Debian. The Tomcat’s expert Jason Britain, newly hired at MuleSource, made clear what are MuleSource’s contributions to Tomcat and I asked to Matt Asay more about what Canonical brings to this partnership, and to Jono Bacon more about Ubuntu’s community.
Roberto Galoppini
Open Source Webinars: Nuxeo, OpenLogic, System76
Making It Your Own: Enforcing Your Enterprise Policies with Nuxeo Studio – Nuxeo is doing well, and is about to deliver a webinar about Nuxeo Studio, a web-based customization service for Nuxeo Enterprise Platform available only to Nuxeo Connect – Developer subscribers.
Live Demo with Q&A – April 27, 2010, 11 am ET.
Roberto Galoppini
Open Source EU Funded Projects: SQO-OSS
Among open source related projects funded under the sixth Framework Program, at least four of them – namely FLOSSMetrics, QualiPSo, QUALOSS and SQO-OSS – have been found overlapping around open source software development and quality.
SQO-OSS – Source Quality Observatory for Open Source Software – similarly to FLOSSMetrics was aimed at massive collection of data from thousands of projects, though with different goals.
Roberto Galoppini
Open Source EU Funded Projects: FLOSSMetrics
Looking into EU funded open source initiatives I stepped into few projects, included EDOS, QualOSS and few others around FLOSS metrics and quality. Over the last 7 years a number of open source software assessment methodologies have been proposed, and FLOSSMetrics definitely achieved some interesting results in this respect, and not only.
Jesus M. González Barahona is discussing. -
Jesus M. González Barahona
Thanks a lot for the review, Roberto. The project is now over, but we plan to improve the platform (Melquiades) and the tools. Well, in fact, we’re already at it.
Any comments and suggestions are welcome!
Roberto Galoppini
Open Source Due-Diligence: BinaryAnalysis
The Binary Analysis Tool – created by Loohuis Consulting and Opendawn, sponsored by the NLnet foundation and supported by the Linux Foundation - automates some compliance engineering tasks using a method designed to find license violations in embedded devices.
Roberto Galoppini
Open Source Webinars: BlackDuck + CollabNet on Application Development
CollabNet – that will soon host a free live virtual conference about agile application development – and Black Duck Software – that just announced a brilliant 1st quarter – will deliver on the 21 of April a joint webinar around leveraging new techniques in software development.
Tim Yeaton, CEO of Black Duck Software (interview), and Bill Portelli, CEO of Collabnet (interview), will answer the question of how to improve development by leveraging: (More …)
Roberto Galoppini
Software Patents: OIN Licensing Program Grows Recognition
Open Invention Network, the intellectual property company aimed at protecting an ecosystem around Linux, announced an increase in licensing program in 2010 first quarter. Among new licensees, also the French open source vendor Ulteo, one of the five winners of the OWF Open Innovation Awards.
Gaël Duval, Ulteo co-founder, commenting the decision to become a licensee said: (More …)
Roberto Galoppini
Open Source Communities: “The Art of Community”
“The Art of Community” is a book written by Jono Bacon , founder of the Community Leadership summit and brave Ubuntu community manager, to let people know the difference between creating a technological platform and managing a living community-driven ethos.
The book, a must read for everyone interested in understanding communities, has been released also under a Creative Commons license, and is backed also by an online community. The list of praises for the book is impressive, and includes (among others): Matt Asay, Ian Murdock, Mark Hinkle and Danese Cooper.
Roberto Galoppini
Open Source Government Policies
The Italian Constitutional Court recently ruled that the preference for open source software is legal, while taking out two articles from the original regional Piedmont law, actually found to interfere with the Italian copyright law and the Italian constitution.
Italian free software activists welcomed the court’s decision, others put a different interpretation. I am not a lawyer nor a constitutionalist, and I didn’t make my mind yet on this, but I took the chance to have a look at what happens around the world.
Roberto Galoppini, 
M. Fioretti
Hi Roberto,
here is some other information I collected about the decision of the Italian Constitutional court. More exactly, I collected some explanation of why a part of the decision may be a symptom that there may be general problems in OTHER Italian regional laws regarding Open Source software and Open Standards in Public Administrations:
Roberto Galoppini
Ciao Marco.
I hope at some point someone will invest time towards analyzing free software laws’ effectiveness, eventually helping us to draw some conclusions.
All in all supporting public administrations to better understand licensing and for writing tenders to me seems a pragmatic way to promote open source software for real.
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