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EU: 3.3 million to continue projects on open source and reusable data
The European Commission is planning to spend 3.344 million Euro until 2016 to continue the services provided by its projects - such as OSOR.eu and SEMIC.eu - on open source and on electronic data exchange.
Open Economics: Inspiring confidence through transparency
Market confidence is a valuable commodity in tough economic times. And governments will try just about anything to inspire some. Recapitalization--bailouts--for struggling sectors is one approach.
A new and better Open Source Initiative
When I said recently that we still need the Open Source Initiative (OSI), it started a flood of comment. There's no doubt that we need OSI - but we need a better OSI. The one we have now is just too small to be effective and too mired in past successes; a renaissance is needed. You can help.
DZUG conference on Python, Zope & Plone 2010 in Dresden
This year's DZUG conference will be held from 15th to 17th of September in Dresden. On the day before the conference there wiil be full-day tutorials. On the weekend after there will be sprints. Suggestions for talks, tutorials and sprints can be submitted.
Plone Symposium South America 2010 — Call for Proposals
The session proposals is open for the Plone Symposium South America 2010 — November 22–28, 2010 in Cordoba, Argentina.
Debate on government's use of open source and open data
Public administration's using open source and open standards and governmental institutions that are making their data publicly available are two of the themes of this year's Open World Forum conference in Paris.
Info PloneEdu Website to Be Officially Launched at Plone Symposium East 2010
PloneEdu, a community promoting Plone for web publishing in education, will be launched at Plone Symposium East 2010 at Penn State on May 28 2010.
Plone's Summer of Code has begun
After having proposals accepted by the Plone Foundation four university students have started working on improving Plone, thanks to funding from Google.
Another Plone Event - Sorrento Sprint 2010
The fourth Sorrento Sprint 2010 takes place on May 28-30 2010, right after the European Plone Symposium. Join in and help to improve Plone 4 features and push Plone trunk development.
World Plone Day 2010 in Germany
As in previous years individual events in occasion of the World Plone Day 2010 were scheduled in several German cities. Among other Berlin, Bonn, Hamburg, Innsbruck, Leipzig, Ulm and Munich.
This Month in Plone — May 2010
As the clock counts down to the release of a brand new Plone 4, events take center stage for the Plone community. World Plone Day just finished demoing Plone to the planet, Plone is represented at next week’s CMS Expo in Chicago, and regional Plone conferences are taking place on both sides of the Atlantic at the end of May — at Penn State University in the U.S, and Sorrento, Italy.
Launch of the new Healthy Workplaces Campaign Website
To mark the World Day for Safety and Health at Work on 28 April, the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work has launched its new Healthy Workplaces Campaign for 2010/11, promoting safe maintenance across Europe.
Interview with Plone 4 Release Manager Eric Steele!
Watch the interview with Plone 4 release manager Eric Steele, who attended the Plone Cathedral Sprint 2010 in Cologne, Germany.
World Plone Day 3 Puts Plone on Global Display on April 28th 2010
World Plone Day will showcase Plone to the world through more than 40 events being held around the globe on April 28th 2010.
Info Summer of Code positions available
Each year Google funds university students to spend 12 weeks working with an open source project. As Plone has been accepted as a participant for the fourth year running applications from students are currently being accepted.
European Plone Symposium 2010
The second European Plone Symposium will be held in Sorrento, Italy on May 26- May 30, 2010. The event will be composed of two days of talks and presentations, followed by 3 days of sprint.
Document Freedom Day on March 31st 2010
Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for document liberation. It will be a day of grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of Open Document Formats and Open Standards in general.
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.
