We have realized the inormation architecture and contributed to the graphic design of Lista Bonino Pannella website for 2010 regional elections in Italy. Read more »

MediaWiki developers are working on integrating OpenStreetMap (Osm) (la versione libera di Google Maps) with Wikipedia and all other their projects. A fundamental step for development of both communities, that can free users from dependency from proprietary geodata, now almost an exclusive property of TeleAtlas. We hope that public administrations will become sensible and that will give their data to the free platform. Otherwise lets ask for a law that will oblige them to release geodata in the public domain. Read more »

Angelo Raffaele Meo writes that an approximate esteem of proprietary software licenses  (Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office etc.) in Italy, based on data from Assinform annual report is about 3 billions euros for each year.

Public administration represents almost 10% of the market, equivalent to a cost of almost 300 millions euros. A cost that would become a saving of public money if the government would choose free software.

Of course , there would be other costs, but nothing if compared to so high amounts and if we look at them as investments on our future. We challange everyone to find negative aspects in this free revolution.

At the beginning free software should be developed as new or adapted to Italian public administration needs, but this would be paid only one time and then there would be only update and upgrade costs; everyone would have access to a public common of great value; a new economy sector would be fully activated, Italian freelance professionals would be incentivated, as research and innovation in our country…

What are we waiting for? Lets ask free software to our politicans!

Jame is a free software Java real-time multi-thread fractal graphics platform which creates Mandelbrot and Julia fractals. The core of Jame is the graphics engine which supports images and animations, zoom, rotation, colours shift, layers, filters, effects, alpha composition. Plug-ins can provide new features as filters, effects, fractals, formulas and more. Jame is released under the terms of Gpl3 license. Read more »

We have designed the information architecture and the interface of an online community on collaborative cartography, that permits to young people from all Europe to edit contents and organize them geographically on interactive maps.

The project has been ideated by Lunaria and funded with support from the European Commission (Youth in action program). Read more »

On W3C’s XForms mailing list, Jan-Felix Schwarz has announced the Oryx XForms Editor, a web-based tool for creating XForms. You can visually edit forms, export and import them in XForms format. The editor runs in your web browser (Firefox), zero software installation required. The editor is still in an early stage and is currently available for testing and feedback. Read more »

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Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.

Microsoft has submitted Embedded OpenType (Eot) to W3C and a slimy campaign for Eot has been launched. Eot is a digital restriction management (drm) layer on top of normal TrueType/Opentype files; Eot ties a font file to a certain web page or site and prevents reuse by other pages/sites.

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