Red Hat Italia is organizing an executive meeting in Milan, on the 28th of September 2010. The event will focus on how open source can help to fulfill today’s business requirements with less cost and complexity.Gianni Aguilletti, Red Hat Italia country manager, will welcome attendees at 3 PM, and then I’ll give a speech about the state of the art of open source adoption and governance in Italy.

Werner Knoblich - Red Hat VP and General Manager EMEA - will talk about Red Hat news and strategies, and a customer success story will close the working session.

All attendees will be given the opportunity to visit the Museo Diocesiano at 5.15 PM, just before the aperitif/dinner with a selection of wine-food combinations.

The event is “invitation only” and is limited in terms of availability.

Open Source Software Adoption in Enterprise IT - Black Duck Software and Jeffrey Hammond of Forrester Research (who will join the upcoming open source analyst session at OWF) will discuss data showing increased developer adoption of open source platforms, frameworks and development processes, and how the IT management benefits of a mixed source development model.
Wed, Sep 15, 2010 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM EDT

Magento U - Summer Webinar Series - A registered “Getting Started” webinar series designed for beginning Magento.

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 at SOS Open Source.)

Webinar - Write Once, Deploy on Any Cloud! Overview of Simple Cloud API - This webinar will cover the basics of the API and show you how to get started.
August 24, 2010, 9:00 AM PDT

Learn Why Harvard Business Publishing Uses Open Source for Content Management - Learn why HBP opted for an open source approach using Alfresco ECM, and how Rivet Logic helped implement a robust, scalable solution that resulted in dramatic productivity improvements and lower operational costs.
Sep 16, 2010 2:00 PM EST.

Open Source Network Security - This Webinar will provide an overview of the most popular Open Source Network Security tools (registered webinar).

About the Open Source Think Tank.
The Open Source Think Tank is the only by-invitation event where leading global industry experts gather and work collaboratively to chart the future of the commercial open source software industry and shape the evolution of cloud computing. In order to facilitate interaction and relationship building, attendance is limited to CEO’s, industry luminaries, CIO/CTO’s, senior technology executives, legal experts and investors.

MySQL Multi-master Replication with Tungsten - This highly technical talk will introduce multi-master replication and show how to achieve it with Tungsten.
Thursday, August 5,10:00 AM PDT

Webinar: Making Financial Results Look Pixel-Perfect with QED Financial - In this live webinar, find out why QED team selected open source Jaspersoft Business Intelligence technology to integrate with its Q2® Investment Workflow Solution.
Wednsday, August 11, 10AM PT

Italy before was used to be at the third place, but the impact of open source in Brazil was and actually is, definitely stronger. Let’s have a look at the big picture, and how Europe and BRIC countries are today, as of the 29th of July 2010.

While you are looking at SourceForge traffic distribution by countries, read also the numbers.

US (blue) is at the first place, followed by Brazil (9.93%), Germany (6.46%), France (5.59%) and eventually Italy (4.28%). Globally Europe exceeds 40% of the global traffic (Western Europe ~ 16%, Southern and Eastern Europe both  ~ 9%, and Northern Europe ~ 7%), while Americas are around 35% and Asia slightly under 19%.

BRIC collectively holds over 18% of the world traffic, more than USA.

Disclosure. I am a member of SourceForge advisory board.

Subversion Conferences Live - a series of one day conferences for developers, administrators and IT managers to be held at four locations in the US and the UK in September featuring live sessions covering Subversion’s future.

• 9/14 - Silicon Valley - San Jose Hilton
• 9/16 - Boston - Crowne Plaza, Newton, MA
• 9/23 - Sheffield, UK - Electric Works
• 9/28 - London, UK - Heathrow Airport Hilton

Webinar: GWT Cloud Applications-Fast, Fun and Easier than Ever - Europe - Following on from the exciting announcements at Google I/O 2010, join engineers from Google and SpringSource to discover how the latest innovations in Spring Roo, STS and Google Web Toolkit allow you to quickly and easily deliver high-performance rich internet applications written in Java.
September 16,  4 pm CET

From August 9, you are invited to submit a nomination for an Open Source Project to be put forward to the final voting stage in each category. The following categories make up the 2010 Open Source Awards.

• Open Source CMS

• Hall of Fame CMS

• Most Promising Open Source Project

• Open Source E-Commerce Applications

• Open Source JavaScript Libraries

Also, this year I have been invited again to join the judge panel, and I look forward to share my thoughts and comparative analysis of open source programs with other judges and learn about their views about Open Source e-commerce applications.

Follow Packt blog for further information about the 2010 Open Source Awards.