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Corporate participation in open source communities
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| Someone recently asked me a few question about corporate participation in
| open source communities and I thought I'd share my thoughts on this topic
| here.
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| Are there differences between an open source project done for a corporation
| and one done for personal reasons?
|
| There are many different ways to run an open source project, led by a
| corporation or by someone else. Some projects that are run by corporations
| have few outside contributors. This is often the case with projects that
| require copyright assignment (i.e. contributors have to assign their
| copyright to the corporation). These projects may not gain all the benefits
| of a true open source community, such as outside contributions or high levels
| of peer review. However, they may still be very successful projects and may
| have high levels of quality.
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https://fossbazaar.org/content/corporate-participation-open-source-communities
Open Source Adoption in Italian Public Administrations: Some Real Cases
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| I opened the conference talking about the Italian scenario for the open
| source sector, and I started by showing the audience some SourceForge
| download numbers. Italy is the fourth country in the world for open source
| software downloads. Italy was used to be the third, but the impact of open
| source in Brazil is higher now.
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http://robertogaloppini.net/2009/06/06/open-source-adoption-in-italian-public-administrations-some-real-cases/
Recent:
European Elections: Italians do it, but just in Italy
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| Only 27 MEP candidates subscribed until now, I hope more will pop up before
| the elections, Europe needs MEPs informed on free software issues.
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http://robertogaloppini.net/2009/05/27/european-elections-italians-do-it-but-just-in-italy/
IT: Democrats want public administrations to favour open source
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| Two parliament members of the Italian Democratic Party want Italy's public
| bodies to favour free software. By 2012 all IT systems should be based on
| such software, MPs Vincenzo Vita and Luigi Vimercati proposed in a bill last
| month.
|
| Public administrations should use free software in order to rationalise
| public spending and encourage reuse and interoperability, the two write in
| their bill titled 'Network neutrality, free software and society'. "All IT
| solutions should be based on open protocols and formats."
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http://www.osor.eu/news/it-democrats-want-public-administrations-to-favour-open-source
Italian MEP warns of net neutrality rift
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| An Italian MEP, Catiuscia Marini, has warned that net neutrality is proving
| to be a problem in the Telecoms Package trialogue discussions. She mentions
| the issue in a letter sent in response to concerned emails from thousands
| of Italian citizens about the threat to net neutrality in the Telecoms
| Package.
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http://www.iptegrity.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=277&Itemid=9
Desktop Parade
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| La Repubblica, one of the two major Italian newspapers, has opened a
| competition for the most beautiful, original personal desktop.
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http://norsetto.890m.com/Desktop_Parade.php
Italian TV talks about Ubuntu
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| In this video an Italian TV program, NeaPòlis, talks about ubuntu as a very
| stable, high performance and easy to install operative system.
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http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/Italian_TV_talks_about_Ubuntu
Open Source Events: Linux Day is today!
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| Linux Day 2008 - ILS, the Italian Linux Association today runs its eighth
| annual Linux Day all over Italy, in 119 cities. Enjoy!
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http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/10/25/open-source-events-linux-day-is-today/
OpenOffice.org: The Italian Linux Day foster the creation of “MS Office
Angels”!
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| In occasion of the Linux Day 2008, that will take place on Saturday in 119
| Italian cities, the Italian Linux Society and the Italian OpenOffice.org
| Association are launching a campaign for a special endangered specie.
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http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/10/24/openofficeorg-the-italian-linux-day-foster-the-creation-of-ms-office-angels/
IT: University starts Open Source master course
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| The University of Perugia is offering a master course on Open
| Source. "Software developers and IT policy makers need to understand the
| importance and potential of this type of software and how to combine it with
| proprietary IT systems."
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| The 'Master di I° Livello in Sistemi e Tecnologie Free Libre Open Source per
| la Società dell'Informazione e della Comunicazione' (First level master in
| Open Source systems and technology for the Information Society) was presented
| during a seminar on Open Source in the city of Orvieto, on 13 September.
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http://www.osor.eu/news/it-university-starts-open-source-master-course
Open source tour of Europe: Italy
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| In July 2007 the IT department of the Italian Parliament presented plans for
| the migration of 200 servers and more than 3,500 desktop PCs to Linux and
| OpenOffice. The migration was due to begin in September and take two years.
|
| Regional government projects include Cremona, Foggia, Rome, Tuscany, Emilia
| Romagna, Genoa, Bologna, Balzano, Savona, Umbria, and Tuscany again.
|
| More details are available of Rome’s open source policy, Genova’s OpenOffice
| trials, Bologna’s open source projects, and Bolzano’s FUSS project.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/06/25/open-source-tour-of-europe-italy/
Related:
Just a coincidence?
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| According to Davide Dozza, Chairman of Associazione PLIO: "The numbers are
| exactly the same. If it's just a coincidence, it's a very strange one.
| Downloads of the Italian version of OpenOffice.org were 800.000 in 2006 and
| 1.800.000 in 2007: the difference is exactly in the million of Italians
| that - according to Microsoft - have downloaded the trial version of Office
| 2007. We think that these users have decided to switch to OpenOffice.org as
| soon as they have realized that the effort to get used to the new ribbon
| interface is higher than the effort to migrate to the open source suite. In
| 2007, the majority of information requests has been about the compatibility
| with Windows Vista, and the trend stays unchanged in 2008".
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http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/01/just-coincidence.html
Italian Ministry of Justice Adopts Red Hat Solutions
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| Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions,
| today announced that the Italian Ministry of Justice has selected Red Hat
| Enterprise Linux as the platform for its web-based Civil Justice
| applications, including those used for general cognizance, for civil
| execution and for the offices of the Small Claims courts.
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http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle+articleid_2270857~zoneid_Home~title_Italian-Ministry-of.html
Commission to MEP: We are able to accept and generate ODF
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| An assistent of Italian MEP Marco Cappato (ALDE) contacted us with the news
| that an answer to a parliament question has arrived.
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http://www.digistan.org/forum/t-63113/commission-to-mep:we-are-able-to-accept-and-generate-odf
Italian TV talks about Ubuntu
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| In this video an Italian TV program, NeaPòlis, talks about ubuntu as a very
| stable, high performance and easy to install operative system.
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http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/Italian_TV_talks_about_Ubuntu
Telecom Italia Rejects Microsoft IPTV
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| For Microsoft, Telecom Italia's decision is clearly a blow.
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http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=148327
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
Linux reaches the Italian Parliament
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| As reported by the Italian newspaper Repubblica on July 10th, 2007, a plan
| suggested by the left deputies Pietro Folena and Franco Grillini to migrate
| all the computers of the Parliament from Windows to Linux was approved by the
| Chamber.
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| The migration will affect about 3500 boxes of the Chamber, both desktops and
| servers, and each Deputy/Party may also ask to migrate his/its (private)
| computers to the Free System.
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http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/blog/linux-docs/italian-parliament-moves-to-linux/
Linux certification comes to Italy
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| A non-profit organization devoted to Linux training and certification has
| established an affiliate organization in Italy.
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS7246199440.html
Free software in free elections
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| A new initiative promoted by the italian association for free software for
| the next italian political elections (provided that they will actually take
| place…). The initiative consists in asking the candidates to sign a letter
| where they engage themselves, in case they will be elected, to promote the
| use of free software through their political activity.
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http://www.palmerini.org/2008/04/06/free-software-in-free-elections/
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