Archive for the tag 'community'

Mar 09 2010

The New Funambol Phone Sniper Program

Published by Stef under business, community, eng

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 [...]

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Feb 11 2010

Choose a good license and manage well the community

Published by Stef under business, community, eng

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 [...]

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Dec 17 2009

3 ways to get cash over the holidays with Funambol

Published by Stef under community, eng, funambol

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. [...]

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Nov 23 2009

How To Mix Agile And Software Developed By A Community

Published by Stef under community, eng, funambol

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 [...]

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Nov 11 2009

Perché ristabilire il senso di comunità porta al successo

Published by Stef under community, it

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 [...]

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Oct 02 2009

Free Software Debate Antipatterns – robmyers

Published by Stef under community

A collection of fallacious arguments commonly encountered in debates about Free Software.
via Free Software Debate Antipatterns – robmyers.

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Sep 28 2009

Why I agree with RMS concerning Mono

Published by Stef under community, eng, fsf

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 [...]

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Jul 29 2009

Libreplanet, Android, Funambol, Symbian, Ubuntu, Gnome, Mozilla and more at OSCON

Published by Stef under community, eng

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 [...]

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Jul 17 2009

Mobile Cloud Computing, Part II: Where do We go From Here?

Published by Stef under business, community, funambol

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 [...]

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Jul 07 2009

Thoughts on mobile cloud computing

Published by Stef under business, community, eng

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 [...]

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