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
18
2010
I watched Eben’s speech but now I can quote it too thanks to the transcript done by the friends at Software Freedom Law Center. Talking about the problems of the cloud services, Eben hits Facebook hard with his rhetoric:
The human race has susceptibility to harm but Mr. Zuckerberg has attained an unenviable record. He has [...]
Tags: cloud, cloud computing, free software, freedom, funambol, mobile cloud, moglen, privacy, push, sflc, sync
Feb
16
2010
Since Mozilla Messaging launched Thunderbird 3 I started using it to see if this new version is better than GNOME Evolution, the email/calendar application I used in the past 4 years. Evolution is a decent email and calendar client and I love the integration in GNOME, but it stopped evolving and its GUI has [...]
Tags: codesniper, evolution, funambol, gnome, gui, messaging, mozilla, thunderbird, usability
Jan
12
2010
I noticed that my posts about using Funambol on Mac part I and part II are two of the most viewed posts on my blog, so I decided to update them with a new tutorial using the official Funambol Mac OS Sync app. Since I was at it I decided to test also Prezi, a [...]
Tags: apple, funambol, mac, myfunambol, os x, sync, syncevolution
Dec
23
2009
There is an interesting movement around two Funambol community projects: the syncml clients for Thunderbird and for Palm WebOS.
Mozilla Messaging is rapidly pushing Thunderbird 3 out of beta and Funambol’s community is ramping up interest in its addon. Carlo Codega, the main developer, started working on a port to Thunderbird 3 of the plugin. There [...]
Tags: code sniper, funambol, messaging, mozilla, os x, palm, webos
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
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