Roberto Galoppini

A computer industry insider of 17 years standing, Roberto Galoppini has worked in such hands-on roles as programmer and systems analyst as well as being founder of an Open Source firm in 2001, and founder of one of the first open source consortium in 2004. From 2005 he helps companies from all over the world to design and implement their open source strategies, both at a business level and at a technical level, including creating or joining communities. He takes an active interest in several free/open source software organisations, including serving on two Advisory Boards (SourceForge and EOS Directory) and acting as the Institutional Relationship Manager for the OpenOffice.org Italian Association. He researches on the economics of Open Source software from 2003, he is secretary of the Italian federation of IT professionals. He writes almost daily about open source business at his commercial open source blog: http://robertogaloppini.net.