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Eyes and Ears – November 2013
Sometimes I post videos of tracks I like on this blog, but I’ve decided not just to make it something more regular, but a more complete books and tracks listing as well. Without much further ado, welcome to the Eyes and Ears section, November 2013. Tracks Madeon – The City …
Stakeholders and Remixes: the other names of true communities
Last week I was speaking at the SFSCon 2013 in Bolzano-Bozen in South Tyrol, Italy. This event was a great moment as it connects both the local players of Free and Open Source Software and the boader FOSS scene, while the relative seclusion of the Tyrolean mountains and – we …
Users: the Final Frontier?
A few weeks ago we started to have a quite interesting discussion on the LibreOffice project’s marketing mailing list on how to engage users in our community. Readers of Moved by Freedom – Powered by Standards may remember that during the LibreOffice Conference of 2012 in Berlin, the marketing strategy …
Forget about meeting customers’ expectations: Innovation comes first
… and so does pesky market research. The IT bubble has been spreading the word about this Forrester report and as you can imagine it got many of us wondering what it really means. Well it got me wondered about a few things too, but perhaps not for the same …
Expanding the battlefield for Free & Open Source Software
The title of this post may sound rather belligerant, but it is for a reason. Ever since this Summer -longer in fact- I ended having several conversations with people from the FSF, OSI, April and FSFE (as well as other orgs). Something is becoming increasingly obvious: FOSS has come of …
Sol Sessions with Jon Sa Trinxa – New remix of Adios Ayer by Zuell
As days grow short in this northen hemisphere and Fall extends its red and yellow hand over trees washed by ever colder rains, I thought we all needed a few reminders of the Summer. And what’s better to help us than some Balearic music sessions? One of the Sol Sessions …
Quantity, Reason and enduring Freedom
During the last OpenWorld Forum in Paris there were a lot of panel discussions and talks, private and public about the trends in Free and Open Source Software. I was part of a panel about FOSS communities growth and development and there was in the room next to us a …
LibreOffice Marketing Workshop Milano 2013 – an overview
This year saw, among other conferences, the second marketing strategy workshop for the LibreOffice project. While a workshop’s slides tend to be rather short and relatively unimportant, I intended to publlish some feedback that’s on the Marketing Pad as well as my own impressions about the state of marketing activities …