Sun officials laud Philippines open-source community
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| The Philippines has the eighth largest development community for open source
| in the world. This was revealed by Sun Microsystems executives who were here
| recently to celebrate the third anniversary of the Java Education and
| Development Initiative (JEDI)--an open source skills training program
| initiated in the Philippines by Sun Microsystems together with several local
| universities and college instructors.
|
| [...]
|
| He said there are now 273 JEDI member schools in the country with 2,790
| teachers, of which 730 are well trained. He said Sun expects over 114,939
| students to benefit from the JEDI program in the Philippines this year alone.
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http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/03/07/sun-officials-laud-philippines-open-source-community
There's also this new one:
Embedded Java Community Hosts McObject's ProScout Database Demo
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| McObject announced the availability on the java.net Mobile & Embedded
| Community site...
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http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/514195.htm
Recent:
DOST, Peza join forces to spark RP open source development
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| The Advanced Science and Technology Institute, a research and development arm
| of the Department of Science and Technology (DoST), and the Philippine
| Economic Zone Authority (Peza) are joining forces to spur open source
| development in the Philippines, a top official of the science department
| said.
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http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view/20080218-119681/DOST-Peza-joins-forces-to-spark-RP-open-source-development
http://tinyurl.com/2pxxam
23,000 Linux PCs forge education revolution in Philippines
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| Providing high school students with PCs is seen as a first step to preparing
| them for a technology-literate future, but in the Philippines many schools
| cannot afford to provide computing facilities so after a successful
| deployment of 13,000 Fedora Linux systems from a government grant, plans are
| underway to roll out another 10,000 based on Ubuntu.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1163450117
Venture capitalist firm upbeat about local open source market
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| UNLIKE other provinces in the country, Cebu’s open source software community
| is a rapidly growing market, a Filipino venture capitalist said.
|
| “Cebuanos are like the Japanese, who have an open-minded market. It’s a
| matter of time for the open source community here to grow tremendously
| because of your nature to be forward-thinkers,” said US-based Global Gateway
| Venture Capital chairman Winston Damarillo.
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http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/ceb/2008/02/01/bus/venture.capitalist.firm.upbeat.about.local.open.source.market.html
Related:
NCC to tie up with NGO for open source project
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| The National Computer Center (NCC) is looking at working with
| local non-governmental organization in developing open source
| applications under the former's eLGU government project.
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http://www.asianjournal.com/?c=190&a=19005
FOSS and e-Governance
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| And there you have it: FOSS in e-government projects work; they're
| cost effective; and they've been met by LGU officials with warm
| welcome. So to reiterate the question: why isn't government
| adopting more FOSS applications to improve local processes?
|
| The main reason, it seems, is the lack of awareness.
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http://villageidiotsavant.blogspot.com/2007/03/foss-and-e-governance.html
Too late to discredit open source, advocates say
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| "It's too late," exclaimed Winston Damarillo, founder and
| chairman of software development firm Exist Global, in an
| interview with Computerworld Philippines. "Open source
| is all over the place."
|
| [...]
|
| Anson Uy, president of Touch Solutions (a Red Hat Linux company),
| earlier on broke the news to Computerworld Philippines about the
| alleged "funded missions" by some software firms to discredit open
| source, although he did not identify any company.
|
| Anson revealed among the top three actions against FOSS are being
| done through "sponsored studies, piracy of open source developers,
| and bold press releases."
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/030607-too-late-to-discredit-open.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
http://tinyurl.com/2bj969
RP firm builds open source curriculum for schools
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| Filipino software firm Exist Global is developing a courseware
| based on its own open source platform for distribution to
| universities and schools that teach software development courses.
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http://www.asianjournal.com/?c=190&a=18663
Open source bill hits snag in Congress
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| The bill was criticized by the Philippine Software Industry
| Association (PSIA), an industry group representing major
| software vendors. In a statement, PSIA said the bill limits
| freedom of choice among users and hinders the growth of the industry.
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http://www.asianjournal.com/?c=190&a=18662
EU experts to conduct open source workshops
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| The event, titled "Philippine Conference on Free and Open Source
| Software and E- Governance," will be held March 7-8 at the
| Edsa Shangri-la Hotel in Mandaluyong City.
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http://www.asianjournal.com/?c=190&a=18386
A blow for Open Source
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| TACIS runs on an all Open Source platform consisting of PHP using Symphony
| framework, Asynchronous JavaScript and XML or AJAX, and MySQL. This was done
| to avoid millions in pesos more in costs for site licenses and service
| agreements for proprietary platforms.
|
| TACIS’ value proposition for Philippine business is that it enhances the
| capabilities of Filipino firms to meet global standards for their products.
| In other words, to ensure through proper testing that their products are
| world-class.
|
| That this was done on Open Source is yet another blow for its advocates. More
| of these kinds of systems will develop greater acceptance of it by Filipinos.
|
| This voluntary choosing of this platform is the way to go. For Open Source
| can never be imposed upon Filipinos as some misguided legislators insist, by
| decreeing that it be the only platform for government computerization.
|
| Let Open Source be chosen freely. It does have its merits.
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http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/jan/21/yehey/techtimes/20080121tech1.html
CICT offers open source software packages for Filipinos
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| The "Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) CD Kit Series" hopes to
| discourage the use of unlicensed software and promote the
| distribution of software and documents under the free and open
| source licensing models, the CICT said.
|
| In a report distributed by the CICT Human Capital Development
| Group, the agency said the software packages comprise freely
| available open source software that can run on either the Linux
| or Windows operating system.
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http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=47636
Via, Puppy Linux tout "affordable" computing
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| Puppy Linux was guest-of-honor at an "Affordable Community
| Computing Workshop" this week in the Philippines, where
| participants assembled and took home ultra low-cost, PC-like
| computing devices. The workshop was sponsored by Via and
| several organizations working to close the "digital divide"
| in the Philippines.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5712218546.html
FOSS Bill Listed For First Public Hearing
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| Listed for November 15th, the hearing by The Committee on Information and
| Communications Technology has invited comment from various stakeholders
| potentially affected by the bill, including community representatives as
| well as industry giants Microsoft and Oracle.
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http://www.localfoss.org/Philippino_FOSS_Bill_Public_Hearing
Philippine Linux Company Promotes Free Software by Offering Rental and Lease
to Own Servers
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| Philippine-based Linux company GEN Automation Technologies does their
| share in promoting Free Software by providing small and medium sized
| enterprises (SMEs) the options to avail of rental and lease-to-own
| servers running on Open Source software.
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http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/view_press_release.php?rssID=189857
UP Colleges computerize Student Council elections
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| To be used will be the Halalan Voting System, a Linux-based application
| developed by UP students, which will run on existing computers in the
| participating colleges.
|
| [...]
|
| “Halalan had initially been conceived to run on the UP Diliman campus’ wide
| area network (WAN). But unresolved issues on the reliability of its
| connectivity caused the application to be made to run in its backup mode, via
| LAN in colleges opting to adopt it,” said John Bitanga, Unplug president, who
| also spoke with Tech Times.
|
| “Halalan is basically a relational database system running on SUSE Linux.
| When first used in 2007, its developer platform was PostSQL. However, it has
| been enhanced this year and migrated to the MySQL platform. Both run on Open
| Source,” Bitanga added.
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http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/feb/11/yehey/techtimes/20080211tech1.html
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