Zea Partners News
ICT 2008: meet open source security and quality experts at the networking session
The biennial ICT Event is the most important forum for discussing research and public policy in information and communication technologies at European level. ICT2008 will be an opportunity to meet open source experts and discuss Security and Quality issues for next generation OSS in a Business Context. The event will take place on Nov 25-27 in Lyon, France.
PloneGov: a successful project internationalization
PloneGov is an innovative collaborative e-government initiative. The project is open to any collaboration from any country. After 1-year existence, it already reaches 20 countries in 4 continents. This article investigates why over 100 public organizations including towns, cities, regions and parliaments from as many countries are working together to share software and best practices.
OSOR launch, Open Source World Conference in Malaga, Spain
The OSOR website will be launched in Malaga, at the Open Source World Conference. Xavier Heymans has been invited to present the PloneGov innitiative. PloneGov is a collaborative software ecosystem, where government organizations, non-profits and the private sector work together to share the cost of enhanced capabilities.
World Plone Day reaches five continents
More than 30 members of the Plone Community in 22 countries on five continents are promoting Plone around the world on November 7th 2008. Learn how you can help and participate.
COMPA 2008: an opportunity to meet PloneGov experts
ComPa is maybe the most important Italian event for IT and technology in the Public Administration. Italian ZEA Partners have co-financed a PloneGov stand in this prestigious fair, and will manage the stand on behalf of PloneGov.
eGovernment: Official launch of PloneGov in Italy
On September 16, the first edition of a nationwide event will mark the official launch of the PloneGov initiative in Italy. The Chamber of Commerce of Ferrara, the first Italian participant in PloneGov, will host the event and share its experience with other Italian and European Public Administrations.
Six strategies for low-cost content management
Some content is priceless, but the systems that manage them can wind up a little too pricey. How do you set aside enough money to solve the initial ECM pain points and create a strategy for the future?
The city of Modena switches to Open Source software
On its move to Open Source software, the city council of Modena, Italy, is replacing Microsoft Office with OpenOffice on all its 1600 PCs. It is also busy replacing its proprietary web site content management system (CMS) with the Open Source alternative Plone, running on top of Zope, an Open Source application server.
EU Competition Commissioner backs open standards in eGovernment
The EU Competition Commissioner, Neelie Kroes, publicly supported the use of open source software. She encouraged the public institutions to use open standards and suggested a much more active role of the European Commission in promoting open standards in eGovernment applications, by adopting an internal policy not to buy proprietary software.
OBOOE and OFE jointly call for action in European Commission support for European Software Strategy
The Open Source Business Organisations of Europe (OBOOE) and OpenForum Europe (OFE) have jointly written to Commissioner Viviane Reding, congratulating her on Commission progress in supporting the development of thinking and research into the use of Open Standards and Open Source Software, but encourage her to now move from ideas into specific action.
United Nations University urges legislators to support open source software
United Nations University (UNU-MERIT) experts urge parliamentarians to support open source software and information technologies as a way to let citizens participate meaningfully in the information society. They also emphasize that policy markers should consider information and communications technologies from a social rather than technical viewpoint.
EISCO 2008: PloneGov an international project tackling the digital divide
EISCO conferences have become a major event for politicians and experts working at local and regional level to discuss e-Government and Information Society strategies. Representatives of the open source initiative PloneGov have been invited to share their experience in developing international collaboration and sharing open source software between public organizations worldwide.
Plone: major Argentinean University launches its new institutional portal.
The National University of Cordoba (UNC), Argentina, recently launched its new institutional website built on Plone 3, the open source content management system. This project results from a close collaboration between the University development team with the support and assistance from menttes, a local Zea network member business.
Join the World Plone Day
Zea Partners invites you to promote the use of Plone, the open source content management system, organizing an introductory talk in your town and being part of the World Plone Day.
Non-profit organizations favor open source CMS
NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Network, has just published the 2008 Content Management Systems Satisfaction Survey. It appears that non-profit organizations prefer open source solutions than proprietary one. These solutions maximize their resources allocation and give them the best of contemporary technologies. In complement to the survey findings, Zea Partners, a non-profit network of Open Source businesses, provides a number of cases studies analyzing large CMS deployments by non-profits worldwide.
