I'm for Italy, but if Giulio is correct that the Open Source development in Italy is a small group, one can look towards France as am alternative. There is a lot of activity there, at least in the Koha world.
Edward On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Giulio Bonanome <giu...@comperio.it> wrote: > Hi guys, > > +1 for the idea :) > > But for my experience there are not enough people in Italy :( I mean, > there are few companies actively involved in (open) development of software > for libraries and even a smaller group of developers inside libraries. > Like Raffaele said there's a list dedicated to libraries and wikipedia. > Last october it was organized an event ( Bibliohackathon < > http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:GLAM/Biblioteche/ > Bibliohackathon/Firenze,_26_ottobre_2013>) were I expected a lot of dev > and didn't see too much :( > Also, in Italy there was an event called SoftXBIB during the annual > conference Stelline <www.convegnostelline.it/home.php>, but in recent > years no longer been organized for lack of interest. > > As far as I know there would be roughly 10-15 interested people for the > entire nation. > > Cheers > Giulio > > > -- > Giulio Bonanome > @ Comperio Srl | http://www.comperio.it > Phone: +39 0425 471482 > FAX: +39 0425 1662008 > Mail: supp...@comperiosrl.zendesk.com <mailto:support@comperiosrl. > zendesk.com> > Support: http://comperiosrl.zendesk.com/ >