My name is Carlo Daffara, and I work on Open Source Software since 1994; during these years, I had the opportunity to work as Italy representative at the European Working Group on Libre Software, the first EU initiative in support of Open Source and Free Software; chair the SME working group of the EU Task Force on Competitiveness, and the IEEE open source middleware WG of the Technical Committee on Scalable Computing. Since 2008 I am part of the editorial review board of the International Journal of Open Source Software & Processes (IJOSSP).
As part of our FLOSSMETRICS and OpenTTT European project I wrote a guide for small and medium companies that are interested in using open source or adopting open source software as part of their business model.
My research work for the Open Source consultancy Conecta is focused on open source-based business models, collaborative development of digital artifacts, and understanding how companies and administrations can leverage open source software, both in the technical and business sense.
