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[News] Linux Expo Announced, Conference in the Philippines Focuses on FOSS

  • Subject: [News] Linux Expo Announced, Conference in the Philippines Focuses on FOSS
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:23:08 +0100
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  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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SCALE 7x Call For Papers

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| The Linux Exposition of Southern California is proud to announce the 7th 
| Annual Southern California Linux Expo scheduled for February 20-22, 2009 at 
| the Westin Hotel near the Los Angeles International Airport. Wide spread 
| acceptance and encouragement from the user community has established SCALE as 
| a premiere Linux/Open Source conference in the    
| Southern California region.
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http://scale7x.socallinuxexpo.org/s7x_cfp

Philippines hosts open source conference

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| The Philippines is scheduled to host a regional open source conference next 
| month, which will gather representatives from 21 countries to sign an 
| agreement.  
| 
| The said agreement will push for co-operation among these countries in the 
| area of open source and is expected to benefit emerging markets like the 
| Philippines.  
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http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/software/2008/0809151402.asp?S=Business&A=BUS&O=FPWW


Recent:

Open source should be supported, promoted--CICT chairman

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| Open source software should be promoted as an alternative to more expensive
| proprietary software, the chairman of the Commission on Information and
| Communications Technology (CICT) said during an open source summit.
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http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view/20080624-144530/Open-source-should-be-supported-promoted--CICT-chairman
http://tinyurl.com/6l33ah


Cebu to host open source conference in 2008

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| Cebu is scheduled to hold an international open source conference next year,
| following a visit from an open source advocate, the Cebu-based executive
| director of an information and communications technology group has said.  
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http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=105797


Related:

UP Manila pushing open source initiatives for SE Asia

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| Marcelo said that next month, the IOSN will release five free and open source
| software (FOSS) primers focused on five topics: health, small and medium
| enterprises, FOSS interoperability, security and interoperability of disaster
| management of information system.  
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http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=100849


Venture capitalist puts up tech bar for open source

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| TO show the province’s potential as an open source software market, a
| Filipino venture capitalist has set foot in Cebu to advocate open source
| software development.  
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http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/ceb/2007/10/11/bus/venture.capitalist.puts.up.tech.bar.for.open.source.html


Pinoy ‘serial technopreneur’ bares new SaaS venture

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| Widely known and respected in the open source community abroad but not much
| here in the Philippines, Damarillo has created a number of open source
| software development companies including Gluecode which he sold to tech giant
| IBM in 2005 at a still undisclosed amount, and LogicBlaze which was acquired
| by Iona Technologies in 2007.    
|
| Apart from Morph Labs, he currently sits as chair of DevZuz (formerly known
| as Simula Labs), an open source "marketplace company," and Exist Global, a
| software engineering services company being headed by American Steve Nathan.  
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http://www.mb.com.ph/INFO20070910102543.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


Open source software eyed for use in more health centers

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| More local government units want to install homegrown, open source software
| for health centers developed by the University of the Philippines Manila, its
| project manager told INQUIRER.net Tuesday  
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http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=86621


Review: Bayanihan Linux 4

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| Bayanihan Linux 4 is a pretty good, simple, distribution. It is
| easy to install and manage and it gets you going quickly right out of
| the box. That being said it doesn?t have all the latest gizmos and eye
| candy of the current wave of Linux distributions. It also doesn't have
| a huge package repository, but you can probably add some more.
|
| It?s not bad for a government sponsored distribution and if it gets
| more people to switch to Linux, that?s a good thing. Power users will
| want more than Bayanihan provides, but the average computer user will
| find all they need in Bayanihan.
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http://www.triedit.org/review/review-bayanihan-linux-4/


DMMSU Migrates to Linux

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| The training was participated in by about 25 faculty and personnel from
| the institution. It was an orientation and preparation for their aim
| of acquiring sufficient knowledge and skills in Open Source
| Technology to completely migrate from Windows to Linux.
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http://www.bayanihan.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=139&Itemid=43
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