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  Roberto Galoppini 12:04 pm on February 19, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: club theory, collaborative development, IT outsourcing, IT procurement, open source governance ( 13 ), open source licenses ( 6 ), openoffice ( 44 ), SAKAI ( 2 ), TriSano ( 2 ), VistA   

  Open Source Governance: State of the Art and Lesson Learnt in Italy (part III) 

  The lack of open source vision by the Italian government, along with attention paid by Obama to open source, brought my attention back to the importance Open Source Governance.

  I want to strive for open source adoption by national and local governments. I want to take the opportunity here to share some thoughts about why a FOSS governance is needed, and how we could accomplish the goal to use open source software to develop innovative initiatives.

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  Roberto Galoppini 11:25 am on February 16, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: accenture, alessandradeseneen, carlopiana ( 2 ), collaborative development, consorzio terin, dimdim ( 2 ), liferay, open source governance ( 13 ), pentaho, Software Selection ( 9 ), springsource ( 2 )   

  Open Source Governance: State of the Art and Lesson Learnt in Italy (part II) 

  First Monday - the famous peer-reviewed journal – recently published an interesting paper on open source collaboration in the US Public Sector, resulting probably one of the first research covering open source governance in the public sector.

  Before commenting its findings and see how and if they could be applied to the Italian situation, I wish to end to recap issues raised during the “Open Source Governance” held in Rome last October.

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  Roberto Galoppini 3:26 pm on December 31, 2008 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: collaborative development, GNOME, open source foundations ( 3 ), peer-to-peer production, StormyPeters ( 4 ), sugar labs, technological club   

  GNOME Foundation: Open Source Collaboration at Work! 

  Sugar Labs – the no-profit foundation behind the sugar educational software platform running on the OLPC – joined the GNOME Foundation as part of the GNOME Advisory Board.

  The GNOME Foundation after welcoming on board the Mozilla Foundation, and more recently Motorola and Google, keeps bringing on board third parties.

  Reading the press release it looks like if the GNOME Foundation wants to explore the economics of technological clubs.

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