Throwing a net over the digital transformation era
Some time has passed since the Open World Forum, Paris took place, where I participated in the Diversity Summit: Why women matter? think tank.
You can download my presentation on the “Importance of women values in IT” here. I’ll also post an article about it on this blog soon.
Now, I just would like to highlight my feeling about this topic, as a result of my participation in the forum.… Read the rest
Time ago, I wrote something about the need for education in Computer Science and Free Open Source Software in this blog.
Now, I’m going to chair a panel about this topic at fOSSa 2010, at the end of an interesting education track open by a lightning talk by Roberto Di Cosmo.
In particular, the education track will deal with the role of academia in education, focusing on three main aspects: education of the teachers, education of all the university students, specific education of IT students teaching how to work in an environment that is more and more dominated by Free Open Source Software.… Read the rest
Recently I’ve noticed a debate about Open Source Communities and Contributor Agreements.
Simon Phipps, in his post, says that “Contributor agreements that aggregate the copyrights of open source code in favour of a single corporate sponsor are a sure sign of a community where one member has more rights than the rest. And equality is the key to success.”
This is a nice opportunity for me to clarify my position about this topic and SpagoWorld contribution policy.… Read the rest
The agenda of the upcoming Open World Forum, Paris includes a Diversity Summit: Why women matter? The assumption is that “FLOSS still faces gender inequality, to an even greater extent than the wider IT industry which itself is seen as an area where discrimination is widespread.”
About the same topic, Free Software Foundation hosts a caucus about Women in Free Software; they recently published their initial findings and recommendations.
In 2007, Gartner released a research on the wider general topic “Women and men in IT: breaking through sexual stereotypes”, and hosted a debate in a Gartner summit.… Read the rest
The following is part of a speech I’ve submitted to next Open Source World Conference in Malaga. If you like it and want to listen to the whole story, vote for the candidate paper “Which open source software for the current decade? Five questions for the future” here.
Communities still play an important role in FLOSS, as they have always fostered the development of open source solutions, even if nowadays they are not always supported by real communities but by single enterprises (especially if you are looking to a commercial OSS solution).… Read the rest