LaszloItalia, the first Italian community dedicated to OpenLaszlo , reaches its official launch:

on Thursday April 12^th 2007, at 9:30a.m., a conference focused on communities as the main engine for the open-source development will take place. The event will be located at University of Sannio , piazza Guerazzi, Benevento. Thanks to the collaboration with the Research Center On Software Technology (RCOST ), the conference will host speakers like the rector of University of Sannio prof. Filippo Bencardino, the dean of the Faculty of Engineering prof. Filippo De Rossi, and the professors Aniello Cimitile, Gerardo Canfora and Eugenio Zimeo from University of Sannio. Some of the main Italian software industries exponents will be there:

Eng. Angelo Rondine (Atos Origin Italia research and development manager)

Eng. Giuseppe Scarano (Domino)

Stefano De Panfilis (Engineering Ingegneria Informatica)

Eng. Alfono Losanno (Technomind )

Dr. Angelo Solari (Technical Information Service manager, Telecom Italia Software Factory)

The event will be a way to focus on potential and advantages of a development method like open-source which gained the attention of organizations who put quality assurance at the center of any software project. Figure shows the poster of the event and you can download it as a pdf file(high resolution); you can also download the detailed program clicking here . LaszloItalia will illustrate the main features of the OpenLaszlo framework and what's new in the last release. Then we will present the objectives of the community and the projects we will work on in next months. LaszloItalia adventure starts here, don't miss it!