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  Roberto Galoppini 5:25 pm on May 7, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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  Open Source Conference: ForumPA 2009 

  ForumPA, the greatest Italian event of and about Public Administration taking place in Rome from the 11th to the 14th of May 2009, will host a round-table to talk about “strategies to increase the use of open source for public administrations“.

  I am honored to have been asked again by Gianni Dominici,Vice General Director of ForumPA, to chair the session. I helped organizers to invited speakers from Italian and international public administrations to share their real experiences and best practices.

  No talk, just open source action!

   

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  Roberto Galoppini 8:15 pm on May 4, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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  OpenOffice.org Italian Association Welcomes Microsoft ODF Natively Support 

  The Italian OpenOffice.org Association (PLIO), welcomes the fact that  Microsoft Office 2007  now natively support the Open Document Format, the file format for electronic office documents originally developed by Sun within OpenOffice.org and now ISO standard.

  The association one year ago welcomed Microsoft’s decision to support ODF.

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    Jonathan Allen 12:29 am on May 5, 2009 Permalink

    Something that should get more attention is that OpenFormula, which defines spreadsheet formulas in ODF, is still incomplete after 3 1/2 years. There hasn’t even been any status updates since late 2006.

    http://wiki.oasis-open.org/office/About_OpenFormula

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  Roberto Galoppini 7:03 pm on April 28, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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  Playing around with WordPress 

  Trying to organize my blog information in a clearer way, over the next two weeks I will make some cosmetics changes to commercial open source blog. Yesterday I started by updating WordPress to the latest version available, and adding a plug-in to keep my readers up to date about my events (Event Calendar by Alex Tingle).

  The WordPress publish platform is getting more and more flexible everyday, its plugin architecture helps developers to release a great number of add-ons, making WordPress a viable option for many purposes, from a stock icons e-commerce store to an apartment booking website.

  Stay tuned for more.

   
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  Roberto Galoppini 2:04 pm on April 24, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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  Open Source Business Strategy: About the Open Source Whole Product Concept 

  James Dixon keeps updating his “Beekeeper model“, analyzing and discussing open source business strategies, now giving a closer view at the importance of the productization process.

  Commercial open source, as James states, exists just to deliver software as whole product: an out-of-the-box, easy-to-consume, packaged-and-delivered, risk-free solution.

  
  Italian whole organic product, by fensterbme

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    Tarus Balog 2:28 pm on April 24, 2009 Permalink

    I’m a bit lost here. Don’t commercial software companies exist by keeping their code “secret”? What’s open source about a company whose business strategy is based on secret code?

    In the examples you give, they are just commercial software companies using a small open source piece as a free API. They use the term “open source” to market themselves, nothing more.

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    Glyn Moody 4:32 pm on April 24, 2009 Permalink

    I do worry this is all getting out of hand, what with “core” and “beekeeper” and who knows what. Do we really need this level of theorising?

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    p-brane 4:32 pm on April 24, 2009 Permalink

    I would like to encourage you to find another term since the set of ordered letters p-r-o-d-u-c-t-i-z-a-t-i-o-n does not spell an actual word. Something is or is not a product. The act of taking raw materials and through some process that results in a product can be called: manufacturing, fabrication, assembly, building, etc. As a product manager, I’ve grown to really loathe the overuse of this non-word.

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    Roberto Galoppini 6:39 pm on April 24, 2009 Permalink

    Hi Taurus, nice to hear back from you. Funambol is a good example of an open core giving away a full-functioning piece of (open source) code, yet offering to a different target proprietary add-ons. I have been talking about how they segment their customer/user base few times, addressing only the top of the ‘pyramid’, have a look at it.

    Ciao Glyn, I agree with you that theories and definitions are useful only if we resolve name confusion in favor of customers. Today’s blog post was aimed at starting a conversation around the whole product concept, though.

    Hi p-brane, an open source project itself doesn’t make a ‘product’, hence the need to describe the process to create around it all complements needed to make a ‘product’. I will think about use a different term from the one picked by James.

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    David Dennis 3:37 am on April 25, 2009 Permalink

    Hi Roberto,

    I tend to agree with Glyn that would could be rapidly approaching taxonomy overload, if we haven’t reached it already. I recall saying something similar last time we met in San Francisco.

    Nonetheless, after reading James’ Bees & Trees, I couldn’t help adding another type of bee-orientied classification.

    I called it The Open Source Honey Blender:

    http://www.gwos.com/blog/?p=132

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    Roberto Galoppini 10:23 am on April 25, 2009 Permalink

    Hi David,

    actually I think your open source honey blender adds some salt to the discussion. So said, I agree that taxonomies are of little help for users and customers, but can help to drive interesting discussion among open source vendors, though.

    James putting VCs into the equation, as I originally suggested, brought on the table aspects that do matter for ens users as well: sustainability is key for everybody.

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