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Gabriele RuffattiFounder of SpagoWorld and IT director at Engineering Group (IT). |
Gabriele Ruffatti is Architectures & Consulting Director within the Research & Innovation Division of Engineering Group www.eng.it. He has held senior management positions in project and product management, software process improvement & quality assurance and in architectural solutions definition. He contributed to the development of the corporate quality system and to the achievement corporate quality certifications. He is active in project management activities and software engineering coordinating projects and communities within its company. He is a focus point for open source initiatives within Engineering. In 2004 he founded SpagoWorld initiative (www.spagoworld.org). He is currently member of the SpagoWorld Executive Board and of OW2 Consortium Board of Directors (www.ow2.org), where he promotes activities and initiatives; he is also active in the Community of Eclipse Foundation (www.eclipse.org) and in the Italian Open Source Competence Center (http://en.flossitaly.it). He has signed the FLOSS CC Network Manifesto (www.flosscc.org). Interested in OS education activities, from 2006 to 2008 he was an Adjunct Professor for open source at the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science degree, University of Padua, Italy.