http://www.zeapartners.org daily 1 2007-01-30T12:07:26Z http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/openparliament008 Open source communities delegates draw the attention of the Members of the European Parliament to the current situation where the institution’s ICT systems are locked into the products of one vendor, warns about the implications of this for participative democracy and for fair competition, and calls for action to promote Open Standards and Interoperability. No publisher nbossut EU-policy-research 2008-05-07T10:04:31Z News Item http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/guide-for-smes001 Two EU-funded projects in the area of Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS), namely OpenTTT and FLOSSMETRICS, have recently published a F/OSS guide for SMEs. Different types of software applications and businesses are addressed, making this guide useful for most SMEs that wish to simply use F/OSS or even build a F/OSS-based business approach. No publisher nbossut EU-policy-research 2008-05-06T13:02:36Z News Item http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/future-internet000 25 experts from across the world discussed in depth the relationship and importance of Open Standards to the Internet. They wrote a call upon the European Commission, National Governments, Standards Bodies, Industry, the Community and the Market about the future of the Internet. Zea Partners supports the Geneva Declaration on the Future of the Internet. No publisher nbossut EU-policy-research 2008-04-29T14:09:11Z News Item http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/openforum2008 Participative democracy relies increasingly on the ability of citizens and stakeholders to access public information and to communicate with officials and elected politicians electronically. To highlight the impact of open standards on democracy, the Greens/European Free Alliance organized a half day event at the European Parliament in Brussels on April 17, 2008. No publisher nbossut EU-policy-research 2008-04-21T15:37:52Z News Item http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/obooe003 OBOOE is new umbrella Federation bringing together European business associations and organizations related to free, libre and open source software. The Federation goals are to encourage cross-border networking between national initiatives and to become a voice for the sector. No publisher nbossut spotlight EU-policy-research 2008-01-25T09:52:53Z News Item http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/eu-label007 The PloneGov team is proud to announce that their eGovernment open source initiative based on Plone has been awarded the “Good Practice label 2007”. PloneGov receives this prestigious label based on the recommendation from the 2007 European eGovernment Awards consortium. No publisher nbossut awards spotlight EU-policy-research 2007-11-27T14:27:35Z News Item http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/innovationSME007 A research project examining the production of information and communication technologies by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the EU-25 has been concluded. One of the key findings of the study was to confirm the interlinkages between research, innovation and economic performance. No publisher nbossut spotlight EU-policy-research 2007-11-12T12:10:09Z News Item http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/ps-oss007 Public sector and Open Source Software (PS-OSS), a report commissioned by the EU Commission addresses the question : What would be the potential impact on the development of the Information Society if public organisations (administrations, research institutions, universities, agencies, public companies) were to release software fully owned by them under a Open Source licence? Is an amplification effect on the adoption and use of information society technologies to be expected? No publisher nbossut spotlight EU-policy-research 2007-10-26T09:04:40Z News Item http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/euegovawards001 PloneGov is selected among the 52 best European e-Government projects, and is invited to present the project at the fourth Ministerial eGovernment Conference held in Lisbon in September 2007. PloneGov projects relies on 2 renowned open source software : Plone and Zope. Its success results from a close collaboration between public organizations and Zea Partners, an international network of SME building Zope and Plone solutions. No publisher nbossut awards spotlight EU-policy-research 2007-10-27T06:34:19Z News Item http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/flossquality008 Flossquality.eu is an initiative of 3 EU research projects : Qualoss, Flossmetrics and SQO-OSS. It demonstrate the strong collaboration between the actors of the 3 projects. The expected benefit is to ease the access to information by disseminating news by joint RSS feed. No publisher nbossut EU-policy-research 2007-06-13T10:33:10Z News Item http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/collaborative-research006 Researchers need a platform to support transnational scientific collaboration. Paul Henning Krogh explains how collaborative software as Plone brings outstanding benefits to EU research projects. No publisher nbossut EU-policy-research 2007-05-24T22:58:49Z News Item http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/flossmetrics003 FLOSSmetrics, an european research project, will provide you detailed quantitative data about the development process, development actors, and developed artifacts of those projects. The project aims to ease the strategic decision of integrating adequate free and open source software (F/OSS) components into software systems. Zea positions itself as an pro-active partner in this research project. No publisher nbossut EU-policy-research 2007-03-05T10:23:08Z News Item http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/qualoss1402 QUALOSS, an european research project, aims to enhance the competitive position of the software industry by providing methodologies and tools for improving their productivity and the quality of their software products. Zea positions itself as an pro-active actor and is responsible for results dissemination. No publisher nbossut EU-policy-research 2007-02-14T17:41:00Z News Item http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/research-meets-developers Zea academic partner, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, organizes a research room at FOSDEM. The goal is to explore opportunities of exchange and collaboration between open source researchers and open source communities. No publisher nbossut planetplone EU-policy-research 2007-03-20T10:51:43Z News Item http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/flossimpact-zea In the Flossimpact report, Zea Partners is presented as an innovative business model part of a thriving new economic ecosystem. It also includes a number of references about Plone and Zope, outlining the maturity reached by these technologies in term of technical achievement and community organization. The project CommunesPlone, lead by local governments, is presented as an ICT project unusual in terms of opportunity for innovation, standardization and economy of scale. No publisher xheymans planetplone spotlight EU-policy-research 2007-03-20T10:53:03Z News Item