Tag Archives: floss

Join a community, land a great job

Posted on 14 June, 2010 by Stef

Joining a community not only makes you feel better but can land you a great job. Janet Swisher has been contributing to the online community FLOSS Manuals writing documentation for free/libre software. In a message to the community she wrote: … Continue reading →

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How To Mix Agile And Software Developed By A Community

Posted on 23 November, 2009 by Stef

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 … Continue reading →

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Don’t call it Scrum

Posted on 9 April, 2009 by Stef

Gianugo Rabellino has given me more food for thoughts about my research on Free/Libre Open Source software development and Agile/Scrum methods. His latest post contains a sentence that summarizes my key finding so far: At the end of the day, … Continue reading →

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SCRUM and volunteer developers

Posted on 20 March, 2009 by Stef

Funambol engineering team uses the SCRUM methodology to develop software. It’s a very interesting method that seems highly compatible with free/libre open source software development habits. It mandates fast release cycles (like the release early/release often mantra), teams that can … Continue reading →

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Ozzie talks about FLOSS and FLOSS advocates talk back

Posted on 22 April, 2008 by Stef

Lots of talking about Microsoft lately.’  As I expected, Ray Ozzie’s public appearances are increasing with declarations of love for the magic word interoperability and with a new, more open, attitude.’  I believe it’s true that “Microsoft fundamentally, as a … Continue reading →

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Wengo stopped developing wengophone

Posted on 12 February, 2008 by Stef

Some disappointing news today: Wengo stopped developing Wengophone, the VoIP SIP and XMPP/Jabber multiplatform client.’ ’  They announced it in the developer’s mailing list. Update: the’ development of OpenWengo software has been taken over’ by an experienced Wengo programmer. I wonder why Google … Continue reading →

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Nokia goes for Trolltech

Posted on 28 January, 2008 by Stef

Now, this is surprising: Nokia acquired Trolltech, makers of toolkit QT, GTK’s competitor. What surprises me is that Nokia is using GTK on its tablet products (the 770, N800 and N810). So now Nokia has a stake in many platforms: … Continue reading →

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A fresh start with my new job at Funambol

Posted on 22 January, 2008 by Stef

I haven’t been updating the blog too much in the past week and the reason is that I have a new job as community manager at Funambol. The company develops the free/libre software Funambol application server (formerly known as Sync4j). … Continue reading →

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Un ponte per la Silicon Valley

Posted on 1 December, 2007 by Stef

Riporto un’iniziativa segnalata da Roberto Galoppini per imprenditori italiani che vogliano presentare idee ad un gruppo di dirigenti esperti e potenziali investitori. Fabrizio Capobianco, CEO di Funambol, è presente nel comitato selezionatore quindi mi aspetto che anche le iniziative FLOSS … Continue reading →

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Open Source? Microsoft’s split personality

Posted on 28 November, 2007 by Stef

I’m not sure that Bill Hilf’s declarations about Microsoft’s Open Source strategy give a complete picture of the corporate strategy in the near future to compete in a sector that radically changed since Windows came to light in the ’90s. … Continue reading →

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