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 [...]
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Apr 09 2009
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, this means that the customer is there – it just happens to coincide with the community [...]
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Mar 20 2009
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 self-organize. SCRUM also mandates fixed time (2 to 6 weeks) to complete a development cycle [...]
Apr 22 2008
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 whole, has changed dramatically as a result of open source,” as Ozzie said.
Roberto wrote a [...]
Feb 12 2008
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 isn’t contributing its gtalk code to free software projects like Kopete, Gaim or Adium: they use an [...]
Jan 28 2008
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: its own flavour of Symbian for its cell phones, GTK/Gnome on the [...]
Jan 22 2008
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). The server allows mobile backup and PIM synchronization to contacts, calendars, tasks, notes and other [...]
Dec 01 2007
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 saranno ben accette. La scadenza per presentare i progetti è il 20 Dicembre: è ora di [...]
Nov 28 2007
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. I think that Microsoft is being disrupted and will have to split and go [...]
Nov 20 2007
Ieri ho partecipato alla tavola rotonda dopo il convegno Open Source come modello di business da cui sono rientrato poco impressionato: mi sembrava tutto troppo 1.0, già visto. Non mi hanno impressionato le ricerche presentate da un dottorando di ingegneria, I modelli manageriali dei progetti Open Source e Qualità e costi del software Open [...]
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