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 next Focus Group Open Source meeting will focus on how to select open source software and the case for Joomla!
After a walk through topics like Social Media and Open Data, it’s time to get back to our roots. This time to talk about Joomla! we invited Ryan Ozimek, one of the leading world Joomla! experts, former President of Open Source Matters and CEO and founder of PICnet Inc, a company that develops innovative solutions for public and nonprofit organizations around the world.
The event will feature also Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona’s keynote about how to evaluate and select open source software. Barahona is Professor at the University Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid and founder of Bitergia, a startup that specializes in the development of open source projects.
For more information and to sign up for the event, see the Focus Group Open Source blog.
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.
Over the last few days I have been reading Eric Sink‘s “Version Control by Example“, a book providing all relevant, amusing and pragmatic information about both centralized (Subversion) and decentralized version control systems (Git, Mercurial and last but not least Veracity).
I really enjoyed reading it, it explains the nuts and bolts of all these (Distributed) Version Control Systems, in a simple and effective way. It’s worth reading if you’re deep into any of them, and you want to know more about other ones too.
Did this give you any insight into how ODF files could be managed in a distributed VCS?
People around the country have to give feedback on documents that my team creates, and my team is constantly updating documents. The logistics of version control has become a nightmare. Having some experience in the Ruby on Rails community, I keep coming back to the GIT concept, but ODF files are binary and don’t benefit from the strengths that GIT brings to the table (e.g., diffs, branches, merges).
The eight ODF Plugfest will take place on April 19th and 20th 2012 in Brussels (Belgium). (More …)
Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, and 
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Thanks a lot, Roberto. You know we at Bitergia appreciate you a whole lot 😉