Open source

• Open source platform for non-profit: the Cure2Children experience

  At the end of 2006 I began my collaboration with Cure2Children. We had to develop the IT infrastructure, with the following requirements:

  • Geographically dislocated teams: C2C operates in several countries, for example Italy, Pakistan and Kosovo
  • The C2C Italian team is itself "dislocated": some users based in Florence, others in Milan, so a shared collaborative space is required
  • Use of open source software: we want to share the solutions that we could develop for our projects
  • User friendly environment: no power user in the organisation
  • Low cost

   

• CDATA project
  

  Clinical setting is a peculiar and complex environment. Traditional approach is based on a relational database model and it soon becomes a maintenance nightmare when data forms change fortnightly. Cdata tries to address these issues and aims to be a simple and flexible tool to build a clinical content repository and a web collaborative workspace.