Time has gone since Open World Forum 2010, Paris, but this topic is on stage again. A recent paper appeared in Cepis Upgrade October 2010 issue, entitled “Information Technologies: A Profession for Men?” says: “women are currently under-represented in the technical areas of the IT”. Nothwithstanding they also say: “there is no reason why a profession should have to be balanced in gender terms”, their effort is in “provide the solutions, if any exists, to prevent female talent from being lost to a discipline and a profession which is destined to play a vital role in the progress of our society”.… Read the rest
Gender diversity: why women matter in FLOSS
The agenda of the upcoming Open World Forum, Paris includes a Diversity Summit: Why women matter? The assumption is that “FLOSS still faces gender inequality, to an even greater extent than the wider IT industry which itself is seen as an area where discrimination is widespread.”
About the same topic, Free Software Foundation hosts a caucus about Women in Free Software; they recently published their initial findings and recommendations.
In 2007, Gartner released a research on the wider general topic “Women and men in IT: breaking through sexual stereotypes”, and hosted a debate in a Gartner summit.… Read the rest
Foundation of community relationships in FLOSS
The following is part of a speech I’ve submitted to next Open Source World Conference in Malaga. If you like it and want to listen to the whole story, vote for the candidate paper “Which open source software for the current decade? Five questions for the future” here.
Communities still play an important role in FLOSS, as they have always fostered the development of open source solutions, even if nowadays they are not always supported by real communities but by single enterprises (especially if you are looking to a commercial OSS solution).… Read the rest
Open Source SOA for Internet of Services: Spagic success story
Spagic has contributed to the development of the MyFestival project, which enables the participants to organize their own participation in the Festival of Economics in Trento, thanks to an electronic agenda that is accessible by a web connection and a mobile phone.
Festival of Economics in Trento is a key meeting in Italy, aiming to debate about Economics, Information, social impacts and correlated topics. Its fifth edition, taking place from 3rd to 6th June 2010, offers a great agenda including four days of debates, meetings and lessons, offering the opportunity to discuss and understand which are the circumstances that usually foster the economic growth and that, at the same time, allow to face and avoid recessions.… Read the rest
Eclipse SOA/Interoperability Day 2010 in Italy
What about coming to Rome, Italy, to know what’s happening in the Eclipse Open Source SOA domain? Cool topics about OS SOA and Interoperability are coming!
The agenda is under construction, but we are going to have speeches about Eclipse Foundation (Ralph Mueller), Eclipse SOA Initiative (Ricco Deustcher) and experiences/use cases concerning the adoption of open source and Eclipse-based technologies.
Now I’m looking for more sponsors to make the event successful, and, obviously, for attendees (registration will open in June).… Read the rest