Openness as the engine for Digital Innovation

This is the transcript of my talk given on May 28th, 2016 at the MBA PART-TIME of Bologna Business School.

Slide 1: Subtitle of this talk is “a journey with three words”.

Slide 2: Every word has a specific meaning. Do terms “individual” and “person” have the same meaning? Are they equivalent? If we have two different words, we have two different meanings, for sure. Individual term comes from Latin “individuus”, meaning undivided, unique, an entity different from the others.… Read the rest

Key values of Open Source Software: are they still relevant?

I’m leaving for the U.S.A. and going there as a supporter of open source software and SpagoBI, with a focus on Industry and Federal Government. Would you like to meet me? You just have a few days left to register: do it now!

Now, I’m going to advocate neither for the Open Source suite for Business Intelligence and Big Data analytics – a full SpagoBI Labs team will give you all information there – nor for OW2 community, which enforces the full open source maturity and availability of the suite.… Read the rest

What shall I do with Open Data

Here below you can find the text of the speech that I gave during an expert panel on Open Data taking place on October 17th at “A. Capitini – Vittorio Emanuele II – A. di Cambio” upper secondary school located in Perugia (Italy), which education on technological, economic and touristic subjects.

[The Italian original text is available here.]

Today I’m here to talk about “what we shall do with Open Data”.… Read the rest

Che farò con gli Open Data

Quanto segue è il testo del mio intervento del 17 Ottobre 2014 agli studenti dell’Istituto Tecnico Economico Tecnologico “A.Capitini – V.Emanuele II – A.Di Cambio” di Perugia.

[To my English friends: the English translation is available here.]

Oggi siamo qui per argomentare sul tema “che farò con gli open data”.

Vorrei cominciare con analizzare queste due parole: Open e Data.

OPEN vuol dire Aperto, dal latino Apertum, participio passato di aperire (aprire).… Read the rest

Ten years of SpagoWorld

The following is the entire text of an interview – whose synthesis is in video here – given in February 2014 by Gabriele Ruffatti, director of Engineering’s Open Source Competence Centre, about the Open Source experience of Engineering, 10 years since the launch of SpagoWorld. You can find the Italian version here.

Open Source Software: is it still relevant?

Open source has just turned 16 years if we make its date of founding coincide with that of the Open Source Initiative which, in 1998, established the definition of Open Source and created the list of “approved” licences.… Read the rest