Mar
09
2010
After revisiting the Funambol Code Sniper, I thought it was time to adjust also the Phone Sniper program. Funambol Phone Sniper is the easiest way to contribute to the community: participants help by testing the compatibility of their device with Funambol sync and push services. It’s very easy to participate: you need a phone included [...]
Tags: community, funambol, phone, program, sniper
Feb
11
2010
Some of the things that Mike Tienman said in this interview with InternetNews.com I could have said myself.
I have come to believe that a license alone is neither a secret to success nor an absolution of sin.
Exactly: choosing a free license is a moral choice but that alone won’t secure neither commercial success nor any [...]
Tags: business, community, free software, licensing, open source
Dec
17
2009
The winter holidays are a provide a good opportunity to do something useful in that downtime between celebrations. Funambol’s community programs provide three ways to have fun and earn some cash, too.
1. Participate in the Code Sniper program: it rewards the efforts of the open source community to help build the open source mobile cloud. [...]
Tags: agile, code sniper, community, funambol, incentive, l1on sniper, participation, phone sniper
Nov
23
2009
Back from Italian Agile Day where Stefano Fornari of Funambol with Marco Abis of Sourcesense animated a debate about mixing Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) and Agile development methods. I used to think that there was no issue because, after all, free software is a way to release software and it’s not a development method [...]
Tags: agile, codesniper, community, development, floss, free software, funambol, iad, incentives, open source, scrum
Nov
11
2009
Ho tenuto oggi una lezione di tre ore al Social Media Lab dello IULM dal titolo Etica della società digitale, ovvero perché ristabilire il senso di comunità porta al successo. Oggi ho avuto la conferma che il software libero ormai non è un concetto astratto. Praticamente tutti gli studenti (delle facoltà di Lingue, Turismo, Marketing [...]
Tags: business, community, comunità, free software, fsf, iulm, lezione, socialmedia, stallman, università
Oct
02
2009
A collection of fallacious arguments commonly encountered in debates about Free Software.
via Free Software Debate Antipatterns – robmyers.
Tags: advocacy, community, free software
Sep
28
2009
I’ve been listening to the conversations about Mono since this summer. I was waiting for the dust to settle before I started re-reading the various comments but the dust is not settling and the protagonists of the summer name-calling-fest are still busy pointing fingers at Richard Stallman for stating his opinion.
Stallman’s position is pretty clear [...]
Tags: community, fsf, interoperability, mono, novell, rms, software patents
Jul
29
2009
OSCON 2009 was as good as I thought it would be. This year there was no mobile specific track but lots of talks about cloud computing. I met very interesting people, attaching faces and voices to email addresses and identi.ca accounts. The BoF about mobile cloud gave me the chance to discuss ideas with [...]
Tags: community, fun, funambol, oscon
Jul
17
2009
Mobile cloud is going to be big, according to a study published by ABI research. And they’re not the only ones to say so.
In this second part of my thoughts about mobile cloud — which I hope we can all talk about at OSCON — I’ll try to find answers to this question: as [...]
Tags: community, free software, funambol, lock-in, locked devices, mobile cloud, open standard, oscon
Jul
07
2009
Mobile cloud computing represents an opportunity for the free/libre open source software movement that is just as big and radical as cloud computing, maybe even moreso. This is part 1 of a post about it, part 2 will follow shortly.
By the end of 2009, 4 billion people will use mobile phones. By 2013, that number [...]
Tags: cloud computing, community, free software, free software business, funambol, mobile, mobile cloud, saas