http://www.zeapartners.org Site News daily 1 2006-01-20T16:08:49Z 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/plone-it001 The new Plone.it portal is addressed to the italian community of Plone users and developers: it aims to provide documentation about Plone in italian, visibility and aggregation for the italian community, and a channel to find and contribute localized material for the promotion of Plone. No publisher nbossut 2008-05-06T13:17:47Z 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/grok001 Grok is a web application framework for Python developers. It is aimed at both beginners and very experienced web developers. Grok is an easy and powerful project that has an emphasis on agile development. No publisher nbossut 2008-04-25T11:16:24Z News Item http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/healthatlas008 Health Atlas Ireland is an open source application developed to bring health related datasets, statistical tools and GIS together in a web environment to add value to existing health data. The application is part of the PloneGov project, an international Plone based egovernment collaborative initiative. No publisher nbossut awards spotlight 2008-04-24T16:41:30Z News Item http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/osor002 Cities, regions and public agencies participating in the PloneGov initiative are developping cross collaboration. They help each other and form a large open source Community. Private sector is also involved, bringing technical expertize to the public sector developers. Every one is welcome to join the project and support the Community. No publisher nbossut 2008-04-24T15:33:27Z 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/Members/redturtle/sorrento-sprint-2008 The Italian ZEA Partners members are planning a number of initiatives to launch the PloneGov branch in Italy: an italian PloneGov site, a stand at COMPA 2008, and the organization of special event dedicated to Public Administrations. No publisher redturtle 2008-04-18T10:28:54Z News Item http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/kent007 The Kent Connects 'Portal of Portals' project has been shortlisted in the final four in the category of Best Government to Government Project in this year's GC Awards for Innovation. A central part of the Kent Connects is built on the Plone content management system. No publisher nbossut awards 2008-04-18T10:01:27Z News Item http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/gis008 Health Atlas Ireland is an open source Geographical Information System (GIS). The system enables to plan health services and health data analysis. The project, led by Irish Health Sector, is based on Zope3. OpenApp, a Zea member SME, was in charge of the technical development ensuring a smooth integration with the core technology. No publisher nbossut 2008-03-27T11:03:01Z News Item http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/osor007 PloneGov shows something that hackers of FLOSS in the public sector have long talked about: Public bodies only stand to gain from cooperating in software development and procurement. Though developing applications is obviously not the remit of most public bodies, free licenses provide a highly efficient tool to share development cost and mutualise risks. No publisher nbossut 2008-03-13T17:23:00Z News Item http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/python008 According to the Tiobe Community Index - based on hits on major search engines - Python is now the seventh most popular programming language. Python had the largest increase in ratings of any language in 2007 and has become the de facto glue language at system level. No publisher nbossut awards 2008-03-11T12:22:19Z News Item http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/uwe064 The Walloon Business Federation (UWE) is the official voice of industrial, commercial and service sector businesses in Wallonia, Belgium. In a move to improve communication and services to its 6000 member businesses, the Federation recently launched its new Plone portal. No publisher nbossut 2008-03-07T13:09:31Z News Item http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/osor001 PloneGov is an award winning eGovernment open source initiative. The European Commission recently released a detailed case study about this innovative collaborative project. In the weeks to come, we propose to publish excerpts as a serialized novel, this article being the first episode. No publisher nbossut 2008-03-05T11:18:44Z News Item