SOS Open Source: What else is going on?

A little blog post to tell you more about what we at SOS Open Source are working on this summer.

Here’s what we are working on right now:

• Open Source Project Management tools. STATUS: we are currently developing a prototype for our customer based on our tool of choice (Redmine). We plan to ship the final customized version in September-mid October. We hopefully be able to share our plug-ins and enhancements before the end of October. Read more

SOS Open Source

SOS Open Source – an automated methodology to find and evaluate open source software – gathers and analyzes data about open source projects, providing a synthetic representation of all selected candidates and also a graphical tool to compare them.

The general lack of information about open source alternatives requires the use of ad-hoc methodologies and tools to fastly identify projects matching set quality goals, focusing functional requirements‘ tests only on the most promising candidates. Read more

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• News

  • "Software De Código Aberto: Melhores Diretórios E Listas Para Encontrar E Avaliar Programas Open Source" MasterNewMedia.br, May 2011
  • "Open Source Software Tools And Directories: Where To Find Them, How To Evaluate Them" MasterNewMedia, March 2011
  • "The role of Open Source and Free software in today’s world, excellences, issues and frontiers to cross: an expert talk with Roberto Galoppini" Meedabyte, February 2011
  • "IT: Updated law presses public administrations to share software" OSOR News, February 2011
  • "SOS Open Source" TodoBI, January 2011
  • "The choice engine is an Italian job" ZDNet, October 2010
  • "Open Source Project Filtering" Content Here, July 2010
  • "Managing Open Source Risk and Keeping It Legal" OSTATIC, May 2010
  • "Picking the right open source projects" Infoworld, April 2010
  • "This Roman knows how to spot the best open source" ZDNet, April 2010
  • "Funambol Scores High In Galoppini SOS Open Source Software Evaluation" Funambol Press Release, April 2010

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• About the author

  Roberto has over 25 years experience in the IT field, and has spent the last 12 years working in the intersection of open source software and business development. Roberto has taken an active interest in different open source projects and organizations, he has served on advisory boards, and helped large IT vendors, open source vendors and customers to design and deploy their open source strategies. After serving as Senior Director of Business Development at SourceForge for over 4 years, in 2016 he started a new company called Business Follows., whose mission is to is to help developers, companies and organizations to make Open Source development a key part of their business strategies. He is the editor of commercial open source blog.

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