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Surviving the global economic crisis: Plone Open Source community collaborates
to fight back
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| From big business to government agencies to non-profit organizations, no one
| is escaping the financial crisis engulfing the world economy. Jobs are being
| lost and projects put on hold as spending is reduced. IT managers are being
| forced to look for innovative, cost-effective solutions which deliver quality
| results within budget.
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http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/world-plone-day002
Jerry Maguire on the future of the free software industry
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| That doesn’t mean that the originator of the software can’t make money -
| knowing the software better than anyone else, and being able to customise the
| software, is a pretty powerful selling point and a clear path to building a
| profitable small business.
|
| [...]
|
| But so what? Free software doesn’t get developed like proprietary software,
| why should the free software industry look like the proprietary software
| industry?
|
| Here’s my vision of the future: Smaller businesses. Each with fewer, happier
| clients. Less money. Lots of them, all over the world.
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http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/2008/10/24/jerry-maguire-on-the-future-of-the-free-software-industry/
Recent:
Plone Conference - Consensus Comes Early to Washington
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| The annual conference for the Open Source content management system Plone
| took place in Washington DC last week. To the backdrop of the intensifying
| presidential election campaigns, the conference played host to the election
| of the Plone Foundation board, and saw one of the largest gatherings of Plone
| developers, users and business leaders.
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/10/prweb1483154.htm
Open Source Government?
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| In September, he closed his fund and returned money to his investors, stating
| that the risk of a bank collapse, which would be hell for hedge funds, was
| too high: "While we concede there are additional opportunities in this
| episode of crisis and uncertainty, we have concluded that those opportunities
| are far outweighed by the risks attendant in the use of the over-the-counter
| derivatives market."
|
| [...]
|
| Not content with just providing meritocratic solutions to our economic
| system, he said meritocracies all around and set his sights on fixing our
| government, saying that since "Thomas Jefferson and Adam Smith" we've had
| a "dearth of worthy philosophers in this country, at least ones focused on
| improving government," (clearly forgetting that Adam Smith was Scottish) and
| said Linux's open-source model was the way to governmental enlightenment:
|
| George Soros, a man of staggering wealth, has stated that he would like
| to be remembered as a philosopher. My suggestion is that this great man
| start and sponsor a forum for great minds to come together to create a
| new system of government that truly represents the common man's interest,
| while at the same time creating rewards great enough to attract the best
| and brightest minds to serve in government roles without having to rely
| on corruption to further their interests or lifestyles. This forum could
| be similar to the one used to create the operating system, Linux, which
| competes with Microsoft's near monopoly. I believe there is an answer,
| but for now the system is clearly broken.
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http://www.nolanchart.com/article5248.html
Open source Plone 3.0 prove well worth the price
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| Plone does one thing -- Web content management -- and does it with aplomb.
| That's why you'll find well-known U.S. and international organizations in
| most industries running their Web sites, internets, and extranets with Plone.
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http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/plone300
Plone: Official launch of PloneGov in Italy
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| The Chamber of Commerce of Ferrara, the first PloneGov Italian member,
| invites 100 representatives from the public sector and open source experts to
| participate to the official launch of PloneGov in Italy on September 16,
| 2008.
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http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/ferrara002
Related:
3 open source e-Government projects merge and launch PloneGov.org
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| Open source experts from the public sector, community and SME's
| participated in the first Plone e-government international workshop.
|
| [...]
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| Attendants, equally representing the public sector, Plone community
| and SME's, came from several countries : Belgium, France,
| Switzerland, Spain, Argentina, The Netherlands and Luxemburg.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2007/6/8/21231
PloneGov Snags Lutèce d'Or for Open Source CMS Efforts
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| Toward those ends the PloneGov project yielded a module for ordering
| administrative docs online, a town council management tool that is already in
| use by some cities, a business directory, and local government websites.
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http://www.cmswire.com/cms/open-source-cms/plonegov-snags-lutece-dor-for-open-source-cms-efforts-001418.php
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