Who Really Pays for Open Source Software?

An interesting article from CMSWire that talk about how software can that isn’t for sale actually make money.

"There has been significant growth in the open source software market over the last decade and as popularity continues to grow, the market doesn't appear to be slowing down any time soon. The Open Source community frequently attracts very intelligent, motivated and experienced developers driven by pride, personal curiosity and peer recognition to develop valuable solutions. No matter how much personal satisfaction developers receive from seeing the result of their efforts however, software developers still have to pay the bills and have some money left over to eat."

jAPS 2.0 all'Università di Tunisi

Mouna Sghaier, del Dipartimento di Scienze Informatiche dell’Università El Manar di Tunisi, con la collaborazione della società francese Jasmin Conseil diretta da Mr. Karim Djaafar, partner del progetto jAPS, ha realizzato la sua tesi di fine corso sul progetto Open Source jAPS. La tesi, dal titolo “Ideazione e realizzazione di un plugin jpTagCloud per la piattaforma collaborativa jAPS”, ha avuto come relatore il Prof. Samir Elloumi (FST).

Per i dettagli visita jAPSPortal

Communities of practice

"Communities of practice are formed by people who engage in a process of collective learning in a shared domain of human endeavor: a tribe learning to survive, a band of artists seeking new forms of expression, a group of engineers working on similar problems, a clique of pupils defining their identity in the school, a network of surgeons exploring novel techniques, a gathering of first-time managers helping each other cope. In a nutshell: Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly." by Etienne Wenger

Workshop organized by Tzente during the IV Italian Conference on Free Software

During the IV Italian Conference on Free Software, that will be held on the 11th and 12th of June, in Cagliari, the Tzente S.r.l., organizes a workshop in which will present jAPS partnerhip ecosystem and its business model. Speakers include jAPS technology partners such as Pentaho, MySQL, Ingres.

At the event are invited to participate public administrations, regional and local governments, and large companies working on / with / for the technologies listed above.

The event will be an excellent opportunity to exchange knowledge and to present the different experiences, we invite all to participate.

The co-located program event will be published on the website of the Conference.

More than 1200 downloads of jAPS packages in March

The jAPS project reaches more than 1200 downloads of the several packages released on Sourgeforge during March.

The project jAPS is growing and this milestone is a great success for the jAPS community.

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!

The jAPS Community

As of my role of jAPS Community Director my goal is to work, interact and build a community around jAPS 2.0 Project.

I suggest to read the book "The Art of the Community", it is a very interesting.

This book could give me some suggestions to increase collaboration and authenticity and create buzz around of jAPS community to get more people involved.