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Calling all those eager to break into the world of open source! If you’d like an opportunity to raise capital or catch the eye of a potential partner or two, we recommend taking a trip to Gay Paree.

On October 2nd, during the Open World Forum in Paris, twenty open source hopefuls will each have an opportunity to take the stage and promote their company and projects to venture capitalists and major systems integrators. Participants will also compete for the “Open Innovation Awards” which will be awarded by an international jury of experts to the most promising businesses, and presented during the closing keynote address.

The event will provide valuable visibility and feedback from the financial and systems integrators’ community, not to mention a fantastic networking opportunity. For more information, including a link to the application form, check out the Open World Forum site.

If you won’t be anywhere near Paris, browse our list of upcoming events for something a little closer to home.

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Open Source Entrepreneurs, Get Noticed!

1 million British pounds equals 1.6 million U.S. dollars, 1.2 million euros and 21.25 million pesos. Lesson in exchange rates aside it’s obviously a hefty amount of money, making Vamosa’s (news, site) recent negotiation through Glasgow-based Maven Capital Partners no small accomplishment.

The money pot is called the Capital for Enterprise fund, and Vamosa is one of the first two companies to be assisted by it.

The release of Kentico (news, site) CMS v4.1 sees a number of upgrades to the Czech ASP.NET-based Web CMS that go beyond the usual bug fixes associated with a one point step-up.

Principal amongst those are an upgraded search engine, enhanced multilingual features and a new interface that enables the easy upload and manipulation of images.

If we don’t sound excited — or even surprised — well, that’s what you get for outlining exactly what you are going to include in your next update five months before you do it. Keeping promises is good though. All that really remains is to see whether Kentico CMS

There are many solutions available for eDiscovery. Yesterday, we talked about Clearwell Systems’ initiative for updating data without having to move it.

Today, Recommind (news, site) says there’s no need to go back and add or change keywords when you can have a concept search engine that knows all the keywords for you.

Recommind with its Mindserver Categorization focuses on enterprise and legacy data and provides some tools that aim to make records management a little easier.

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Addressing Legacy Data Frustrations With Better Categorization

When Reid Hoffman, Founder of LinkedIn talked to the Fox Business Network at the recent Fortune Tech Conference in Pasadena, he stated, “we live in networks, and what online networks do is make you use the networks you already have more effectively.” He compared business social networks to Google. “There was all this information in the world before Google. Google just made it a lot easier to find it all,” Hoffman stated.

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