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Event: Global Conference on Open Source (GCOS) 2009 Update

Friday, October 9th, 2009

“Open Source practitioners from around the world will attend the Global Conference on Open Source, 26 – 27 October 2009 in Jakarta“

Jakarta, 07 October 2009, The Global Conference on Open Source 2009 committee held a meeting on October 1 2009 at the Department of Communication & Information Technology’s office to finalize the latest data regarding preparations for the Global Conference on Open Source and the availability of domestic and foreign speakers.

Open source experts that have positively stated their availability to attend and speak at the conference representing governments’ perspective are; MAMPU (Malaysia): Modernizing Public Service Using Open Source, USA: The Importance of Document Format on Government Task, Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam: Serving The Society Efficiently and Effectively, Ministry of Information and Communications, Republic of Indonesia: Legal and Smart Solution in Building National ICT Capability, and many more (for more information go to http://gcos.info).

Speakers representing the private sector that have also stated their availability are Sun Microsystems: Embrace and Extend: Making Open Source Technologies Complement Incumbent Technologies in the Enterprise, TELKOM: To Open source or Not To Open source: A CIO Strategy and Migration Methodology, IBM: Open Source Adoption in Enterprise, NTT: Big Surge in the Use of Open Source in Mission Critical Systems, and others (for more information go to http://gcos.info).

The academic track has also attracted distinguished speakers. Those attending are CNRS France: The Use of Open Source in the Grid Computing and Data Acquisition System in High Energy and Particle Physics Research Projects, SEAMOLEC: Prospect and Experience in using Open Source for Distance Learning, The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University: Open Source Software and Open Data in Biodiversity Research and Education.

GCOS 2009 will also be discussing other topics that include open source in communities and open source in the creative world.

The meeting has also mapped the committee’s preparations related to the workshops and exhibitions that are also part of GCOS 2009, which will be held on October 26-27 2009. The committee is currently preparing three workshops, which are: Character Animation using Blender, Open Source For Health/Medicine, and Network Analysis & troubleshooting @ enterprise.

There are three other events that will be held parallel to the Global Conference on Open Source, which are Asia Open Source workshop, POSS Network Workshop and IGOS Summit 3.

The day after GCOS ends, Oct 28, there will be a Free (Bebas) Software event: Richard M. Stallman, founder of the Free Software Movement and leader of development of the GNU operating system (with which the kernel Linux is typically used) will give a speech to explain the ethical and political ideas of free software, which are differ from the ideas of open source, and how GNU was developed to realize these ethical goals. The talk, entitled: The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System

This event will be held at the 3rd floor Auditorium, BPPT II Building, Jl. M.H. Thamrin 8, Jakarta on October 28 2009 at 09.00 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. InfoLinux Magazine will host this even, which is open for FREE to the general public.

Let us work together to make the Global Conference on Open Source 2009 a great success.

For more information regarding preparations, schedule and GCOS events please visit GCOS official website http://gcos.info.

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Software Freedom Day Philippines 2009: Open your Minds to Free Software. Participate in SFD 2009!

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

Software Freedom Day aims to educate Filipino people about their rights to software freedom. September 19, 2009 is the day when we are going to celebrate it with the rest of the world. The main event this year would be held at University of Santo Tomas in Manila, 8:00AM – 5:00PM.

ORGANIZER:
Computer Professionals’ Union (CPU)

HOST:
UST Computer Science Society

PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS:
AdU Computer Science Open Source University Meet-up
AdU Computer Science Society
Asian Academy of Business and Computers
Blender Users Group
Drupal Users Group
ICAII
Joomla Users Group
LAMP-Pilipinas
PHP Users Group
PUP Taguig Computer Society
Ruby Users Group
TXTPower!
Office of Rep. Teddy Casiño – Bayan Muna Partylist
University of the Philippines Linux Users Group

Venue:

Plenary Sessions (8:00-12:00) will be held at the Medicine Auditorium, located at the Medicine Building.

Break-out Jam Sessions (1:00-5:00) will be held at the AMV multi-purpose hall, located at the Accountancy Building.

For more details: Tel: 6324134196 Email: secretariat@cp-union.com
Website: Software Freedom Day

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Y4IT 2008: The Biggest Youth I.T. Event of 2008

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

Philippine Youth Congress in Information Technology Y4IT 2008Y4IT 2008 Sept 2 - 5, 2008, UP Theater, UP Film Center and UP Ang Bahay ng AlumniThe Philippine Youth Congress in Information Technology or “Y4iT” is an annual IT event hosted by UP IT Training Center (UPITTC) and UP System Information Technology Foundation (UPSITF) in cooperation with Philippine Society of IT Educators (PSITE), Computing Society of the Philippines (CSP), and the UP ITTC Student Volunteer Corps.

Now on its 6th year, the Y4IT is expected be attended by more than 17,000 youth from all over the country.

Some of the Congress Topics are:

Nanobiophotonics & Wireless Technology · eLearning 2.0 · Blogging · CGI in Film Animation · Social Networking · Blu-Ray Technology · IT Certifications · Careers in Embedded Systems · Podcasting · PhilNITS as a National IT Standard · What Employers Look for in IT Graduates · Outsourcing & Offshoring · News Portals: The New Information Channel · Next Generation Game Development · IT in Medicine · Video on Demand · Mobile Animation · Ruby on Rails · IT Forensics · IT Entrepreneurship · Wikipedia & Collective Intelligence · Information Security Analytics · Digital Media & Distribution Channels · Photoblogging

The Y4iT 2008 Program is constantly being updated pls visit:
http://y4it.up.edu.ph/index.htm

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Events: Software Freedom Day 2007, Pilipinas

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Software Freedom Day 2007 - Philippines

The Software Freedom Day (SFD) 2007 – Philippines held last September 15, 2007 at the Advance Science and Technology Institute (ASTI), Technology Park Complex, University of the Philippines Diliman Campus was the biggest SFD event in the Philippines so far.

It’s nice to know that a lot of new participants meaning not the usual attendees in past years were at the event practically the whole day. In the past most of the attendees were the usual FOSS advocates (though its a good venue to renew ties and network among FOSS groups). The SFD event last Saturday shows that FOSS is really gaining ground among Non-Government, Government organizations and SMEs. Most are interested in implementing FOSS in their respective organizations.

Among the prominent personalities that gave a talk were Philippine Congress Representative Teddy Casino on the FOSS bill, and the Ambassador of Venezuela Manuel Perez Iturbe on Software Libre in Venezuela (Amb. ) and their implemented FOSS bill.

The event also included a video conference with Davao, Southern Philippines and Hanoi, Vietnam.

Details of the Software Freedom Day 2007 – Philippines: http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/asia/Philippines

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Events: Busy IT week and the 5th Philippine Youth Congress in Information Technology

Monday, September 17th, 2007

It was a busy (last) week with several ICT events.

At the National College of Business Administration’s (NCBA) IT Week, I had the opportunity to give a talk last Friday, Sept 14 promoting FOSS by showing several cases and statistics why public and private organizations are using FOSS.

Philippine Youth Congress in Information TechnologyAt the 5th Philippine Youth Congress in Information Technology (Y4IT), I also gave an “opening remarks,” a talk on the growing demand for ICT Human Resource and also had a chance to promote FOSS.

In both events (NCBA and Y4IT) we also played the “Codebreakers: What is the potential of free/open source software to bridge the digital divide?” and introduced the International Open Source Network (IOSN). At the Y4IT we showed in several cinemas both the “Codebreakers” and Free Geek” repeatedly.

Organized by the UP ITTC and the UP System IT Foundation, the Y4IT was held last Sept 12, 13 & 14 in four SM North Cinemas. Y4IT is in its 5th year and for this year, we targetted a total of 15,000 but 17,000 showed up, including 4,000 walk-in participants. According to Dr. Jaime Caro, UP IT Training Center (ITTC) Director, the participants came from all over the Philippines with almost all provinces represented. They are mostly students of IT and IT-related courses, accompanied by their faculty advisers and school administrators. This is the first time Y4IT was held in a mall. In the past years, this event was held in the UP Theatre and last year, also in the UP Film Institute and the UP Bahay ng Alumni. The Congress attracted crowds of 5,000 in 2003, 5,500 in 2004 7,500 in 2005 12,700 in 2006 and this year 17,000.

In both events I attended last week, I noticed that a lot of students doesn’t know Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and there is a need to continue promoting FOSS not only during Software Freedom Day (SFD). Of course SFD is just one annual event.

We can do some kind of a FOSS Campus Tour all year round with talks on FOSS together with Demos, Install and Burn Fest. This can be done by utilizing the network among students and faculty in a lot of Colleges and Universities that has been built by the Y4IT. The Y4IT has large cooperating organizations like the Philippine Society of IT Educators (PSITE), the Computing Society of the Philippines (CSP) and volunteer groups with memberships coming from almost all schools, colleges and universities in the Philippines.

Individual institutions can organize the event in their respective campuses, reserve venues, provide the needed equipment and facilties and invite attendees while IOSN ASEAN+3 and other FOSS advocate organizations can provide the resource persons, information materials, FOSS/Linux CDs and volunteers to assist in both install and burn fest.

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