Innovation Forum

On April 19, 2010 will take place in Cagliari – Sardinia - the Innovation Forum.
The Innovation Forum provides a meeting where there will be politicians, businesses, universities, industrial parks and other. The topics will be Government innovation and modernization.

In the afternoon there will be workshops on the following topics:
e-government
innovation
digitization

The partners of the event will be present in the expo.

For more information: http://www.foruminnovazione.net/

How to manage a project - PHASES OF THE PROJECT

After making the first critical choices for the success of your Open Source project you have to define a plan of activities, goal and results that you want to achieve.
The main steps to manage an open source project are the definition of:
- Project Roadmap
- Source code packages to release
- Project documentation with related license
- Community management and support tools

...... usability guidelines

I read the book by Steve Krug on usability, "Don't make me think." Really interesting. The book not only provide the rules of common sense, through images and examples also provides the "laws" of usability. There are actually images of sites online and every single one of them explains the errors and/or changes to make these pages more usable.

In the final chapter dealt with the issue of "usability testing". According to the author the only way to understand the flaws of the websites is precisely to test the "readability" on multiple users. Krug explains how they are run and how much time and money needed.

I recommend this book for anyone involved in the design of websites, but not only!

jAPS 2.0 version 2.0.10 Released

jAPS 2.0 version 2.0.10 has been released on Sourceforge, where are available the following packages:


* jAPS2.0-2.0.10-src

* jAPS2-0-2.0.10-PortalExample-Project

* jAPS2-0-2.0.10-PortalExample-Standalone

* jAPS Official Plugin: as usual, all those plugins that were modified to work with the new release of jAPS are released as well; the remaning are intended to be fully compatible


Among the important innovations of jAPS 2.0.10 version there is the new "entity interface" which allows the configuration of the entity types, the CMS content types and the modification of the entity attributes.

How to manage an Open Source project - First choices

When decide to create an Open Source project at the benning it is necessary to make critical choices for the success of the project:

- Analysis of competitors: analyze the existing open source projects in the same domain to assess whether it is opportune to develop another similar system. If you decide that there are no systems that satisfy your need and you want to develop one you can procede with the following steps.
- Definition of Mission and Vision: it's important to define a clear vision and a set of goals to want to reach with the project. You have to communicate and share them with the community to establish a project identity and to give a direction to follow.
- Identification of the target users in order to prepare the appropriate tools for sharing information with the community
- Analysis and choice of the project name: this activity is one of the most important to the success of the project. You need to find an impact project name and easy to remember and
- Analysis and choice of Open Source license based on the characteristics of the project

After these first steps you can continue with other activities...

Make Open Source and do not just download: how to manage a project (Introduction)

Managing an Open Source project is not just release the source code, as many people think, but involves several activities that are necessary to make the project more active and get the continued community involvement.

I'll try to describe through some post, the main steps to manage an open source project and its community according a business plan, goals and results that you want to reach.

Tomorrow I'll describe the fist step!

Returning from the CeBIT

Also this year the CeBIT expo has came to the end.
We had many interesting meetings and got lots of contacts of many companies interested in jAPS and become Partners.
Many of the companies that have contacted us said that jAPS may be a good alternative to Liferay.
Now begins the task of managing contacts.

Good luck!

Software Libero - 11-12 Giugno a Cagliari

L'11 e 12 giugno 2010 si terrà a Cagliari la quarta Conferenza Italiana sul Software Libero. L'appuntamento è l'occasione giusta per chi crede nello sviluppo del Software Libero, come per chi ci si avvicina per la prima volta, per dare uno sguardo all'interno di questo mondo in continua evoluzione.

La conferenza, data la varietà dei soggetti partecipanti (ricercatori, sviluppatori, enti pubblici, aziende, etc) e degli argomenti che verranno trattati si preannuncia come evento da non perdere!

Inoltre, per chi vuole scatenare la propria fantasia, la Conferenza Italiana sul Software Libero ha bisogno di un nuovo logo. Scadenza presentazione elaborati 7 Marzo.

Per maggiori info: http://www.confsl.org/confsl10/

Anche noi continueremo a tenervi informati!

News from CeBIT 2010

The first important news: we have arrived yesterday nigth in Hannover :-)

This morning we have arrived at the fair, and I must say that our stand is in a favorable position.

We have already had several interesting contacts with great interest on jAPS.

We have already done 2 interviews: one with Videolina (a Sardinian TV) and the other with a German radio. I'll inform you when to broadcast services.

Soon we will start also with the B2B meetings.

Here are some pictures of the stand.

See you soon for more news

CeBIT 2010

The phenomenon of open source

http://www.cebit.de/opensource_e

jAPS 2.0 at CeBIT 2010 to introduce the latest innovations

Visit HALL 9, Stand B09.