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This Month in Plone - March 2010
It's been busy month for the Plone community as events filled up the 2010 calendar, the Plone Foundation announces its newest members, and the final alpha release before Plone 4 moves to Beta testing.
OSOR user survey part of thesis on governmental open source use
A survey aimed at public administrators using the Open Source Observatory and Repository (OSOR.eu) will be made part of a larger research into public organisation's use of open source.
Will open source ever be completely free?
In various markets, open source has relentlessly driven prices down while boosting performance and customer value, as detailed by The 451 Group. Even as traditional vendors have struggled with a tight economy, open-source vendors have thrived.
Top 10 areas where open source leads the way
With job losses rising and belts being tightened across the country, now is the perfect time to look once again at the benefits of using open source software aside from the reported $60 billion a year savings on offer.
Two thousand open source applications for the public sector
The European Union's Open Source Observatory and Repository (OSOR.eu) as of today is offering public administrations access to more than two thousand free and open source applications.
Plone Conference 2010 in Bristol, UK — October 27–29
The Plone Foundation has selected Netsight Internet Solutions to host Plone Conference 2010 in Bristol, United Kingdom. Read more about the visions and goals for this year´s conference and practical details around the venue.
World Plone Day 2010
The Plone open source software community will hold the 3rd annual World Plone Day (WPD) on April 28, 2010. WPD is a day of events held around the globe to spread awareness of Plone, a free and open source Internet publishing system that combines web content management, social software, collaboration and enterprise portal features.
This Month in Plone - January 2010
There’s a whole lot happening with Plone and its community this month, so here’s the summary of what happened in January 2010 and what's coming up soon to help you keep on top of it all.
What's Coming for Open Source CMS in February 2010
Welcome to the February installment of our what's coming from the open source CMS projects in the next month. If you're looking through here and feel that your project was left out, we invite you to send us an email at pr@cmswire.com with a pointer to who we should contact at your project for updates.
Teaching Open Source
Open Source is becoming a dominant development model in the software industry. The next generation of software developers, computer scientists, system administrators, analysts, and build engineers need to understand Open Source and must be able to work efficiently within Open Source communities.
PloneGov: open source collaboration for the public sector
Across the world several million local governments, cities, regions and public administrations are facing the same situations and challenges in terms of e-government. So why not unite their efforts?
Open source in 2010
Is 2010 the "year of open source"? Probably not, but by the end of the year expect to see open source software everywhere.
WCM Field Notes: Give Open Source A Chance
WCM Field Notes is a regular column written in collaboration with Jon Marks (@McBoof), Head of Development at LBi. This second issue looks at what Open Source really means, and suggests ways for you to sensibly include both open source and proprietary systems in your Content Management System selection exercise.
SYSLAB.COM´s article of the month on Open Source BPM - The new enterprise software economy
The next open source revolution has started with the democratization of business project management (BPM). Radical change is coming to the enterprise software world. Open source BPM is poised to "democratize" business process management by delivering intuitive, powerful, user-friendly, affordable solutions to customers not served, nor likely to be served, by expensive, complex proprietary BPM applications.
Learn about Plone 4 at the Atlanta Plone December Meeting!
On December 2th 2009 the Atlanta Plone Conference Meeting will take place. In connection with the scheduled release of Plone 4 on December 1th 2009 there will be a presentation of the new features. Come join us to learn about Plone 4 and the happenings at the Plone Conference, not to mention great company from local Plonistas.
Open source revolution in the public sector
I was asked two very interesting questions by a thoughtful technical architect who worked for a major Local Authority who now, like many many others in this sector, wanted to know more about open source software.
DoD: Open Source As Good As Proprietary Software
The Department of Defense issues a memo outlining guidance for using open source software and for contributing code back to the community.
Plone Wins Packt Publishing’s 2009 “Best Other Open-Source CMS” Award
Plone was named best non-PHP-based open-source CMS by Packt Publishing for a second year in a row, winning a $2000 award for the Plone Foundation.
Protests against proposed redefinition of open standards within the EU!
An unofficial new draft of an amended EU interoperability framework for e-government services has fuelled the dispute over the definition of open standards. Open source associations have criticised the fact that the draftPDF of a planned amendment to the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) published by a Dutch journalist includes patented and proprietary solutions in an "openness continuum". They are concerned that this could significantly restrict the usability of open source software in public administration.
Defense: Open source software is more secure than commercial code
Open source software, freely available program code that the public can download and modify, which many agencies avoid because they view it as a security risk, is often more secure than the alternatives that are commercially developed, a top Defense Department official said on Thursday.
