Red turtle osepa 2011

FOSS in the Public Sector:
agile.open.connected
Business and Sustainability Models
Stefano Marchetti
OSEPA Workshop - Bologna, 29 September 2011 Cesare Brizio
Thursday, September 29, 2011

RedTurtle: short bio

✓ RedTurtle was founded in 1999
by 3 people

✓ 17 people + ~10 external

✓ 80% sales comes from Public
Sector

✓ 30% yearly increase during the
last 4 years

✓ Sharing code and knowledge with
our customer since the beginning

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S. Marchetti e C. Brizio Bologna, 29 Sept 2011


RedTurtle: short bio
✓ Tech:
• Web portals
• Integrated Intranets
✓ Consulting

• interface design, User
eXperience Design (UXD),
accessibility, agile
development, SEO and web

strategy (e.g. for tourism)
✓ Mobile apps

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RedTurtle
network and community

✓ a scalable workforce:

• we
• our business network
• Plone core developers
• Plone community

✓ a continuing involvement in
the evolution of our
reference technology and in
the community

✓ 50+ Products released with
GPL license

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A free Content Management System software,
known worldwide as one of the most secure and
modular enterprise-level CMS

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PloneGov
A worldwide community
of the Public Sector,
aimed at sharing and
reusing Plone software
and Plone knowledge
among the member Public
Bodies

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Gov Italia
✓ The national chapter of PloneGov

✓ About 50 members

✓ Different public bodies and solutions: Universities, Health
Agencies, Regions, Provinces, Cities, Chamber of
Commerce, ...

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ZEA Partners
✓ A european network of
companies building open source
solutions

✓ 20 partners, 2 italians
(RedTurtle is part of the board)

✓ ZEA contributed to the birth of
PloneGov by providing technical
assistance to the founding
members

✓ ZEA continues to engage actively
in the support of the PloneGov
initiative

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Public bodies

Gov
Plone SMBs
(Zea Partners
Community network & others)

✓ We make technology and public sector collaborate

✓ Business model: use cases

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Organizations
using Plone
assisted by a
business
unassisted
Gov Italia

Businesses providing
Plone services
ZEA Partners SMBs

other SMBs
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Model 1 - “Institutional” reuse
a real case from an Association of Communes

Unione Reno Galliera Gov Italia

Online ofﬁcial board integrated with different
Resolutions management softwares

Communes of the Unione

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Model 2 - Horizontal infection (solutions)
a real case between identical Public Bodies

Chamber of Commerce of Ferrara Gov Italia

Portal and Intranet

8 other Chambers of Commerce Gov Italia

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Model 2 - Horizontal (modules)
An example (among many) - between two identical bodies

City di Modena Gov Italia

Monet.Modulistica

City of San Giovanni in Persiceto Gov Italia

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Model 3 - Cross / bidirectional reuse
a real case between two similar bodies

Province of Ferrara Gov Italia

Intranet / DMS / Resolutions /
Quality Management System
Ofﬁcial Register

City of Padova Gov Italia

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Model 4 - Bottom-up escalation
vertical reuse: hierarchical escalation
City of Modena Gov Italia

Youth Information portal

Emilia Romagna Region Gov Italia

GECO Federated Portal

National Level
(Agreement RER / ANCI / Ministry of Youth)

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Model 5 - On-demand development
borderline case: “on demand development” (offer in reuse)

Chamber of Commerce of Ferrara Gov Italia

Digital Archival and Search of criminal lawsuits ﬁles

State Prosecutor Ofﬁce, Court of Ferrara

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Model 6 - Pooling brains and experiences
self-managed technical events

City of Modena, Emilia Romagna region Gov Italia

Workshop for the exchange of PloneGov solutions (November 2010)

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‣ triggered by an
other individual Public Body
bodies PloneGov (e.g. Chamber of
reusable reusable
Commerce, Town,
solution solution local Agency...)

‣ propagating by “peer
Plone PMI, ZEA network to peer” infection
among other individual
REQUIREMENT organizations

PROTOTYPE VALIDATION ‣ particularly suited for
products

SUPPORT TO REUSE ‣ may escalate to “top
down” model when
becoming epidemic
Reusing
and attracting the
bodies
“Pilot” body attention of an
Association of Public
Bodies

Sustainable reuse model in “bottom-up” version

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other ‣ triggered by involving
Public Body bodies PloneGov an Aggregate of Public
reusable reusable reusable Bodies
REQUIREMENT REQUIREMENT solution solution solution
‣ propagation “by
P. B. directive” and by “peer
to peer” infection
Assn. HARMONIZATION VALIDATION
‣ suited for products but
“Pilot” body Plone SMBs, particularly well-suited
ZEA Network for ad hoc projects
PROTOTYPE
‣ market target
potentially bigger
Public Bodies
Association SUPPORT TO REUSE
‣ human and
economical resource
Reusing pooling may be much
bodies easier

Sustainable reuse model in “top-down” version

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Questions ?
Stefano Marchetti
RedTurtle’s co-founder
and project manager
stefano@redturtle.it

Cesare Brizio
RedTurtle’s communication
and marketing
cesare.brizio@redturtle.it

Grazie. Thank you.

Red turtle osepa 2011

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