Posted in FOSS Advocacy, Filipina, IT Articles, Women, tagged apache, archiva, asf, ewin oliva, exist, Filipina, odea ching, open source, pinay, winston damarillo, women in open source on May 7, 2008 | No Comments »
During the awarding of PSIA Honor Award
Speaking infront of PSIA members about Case Study on IP
Making the news in the IT field these past few days is a Filipina named Ma. Odea “Deng” Ching. She made a big feat by being elected as the Vice President of Archiva, a community based Open Source project of [...]
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CALL FOR EXAMINEES: Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Certification
Levels 1 and 2 Examinations
07 June 2008 (Saturday)
8:00AM to 12:00 noon
Lecture Hall, Department of Computer Science, University of the
Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
The ASEAN+3 Node of the International Open Source Network (IOSN) together with the University of the Philippines Manila-National Telehealth Center in cooperation with the [...]
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Posted in FOSS Advocacy, IT Articles, tagged alvin marcelo, diana bandojo, duke awards, erwin oliva, filipino, inquirer, james gosling, java, java award, ma. jaymee gatapia, programming award, prospero naval, raggie santos, sun microsystems, university of the philippines on April 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hooray! so proud of our very own Filipino Geeks, Mabuhay!
RP-made app for poisoning diagnosis wins programming award
By Erwin Oliva
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 16:18:00 04/08/2008
MANILA, Philippines–James Gosling, one of the creators of the Java programming language and environment, has chosen a Philippine made Java-based application aimed at helping doctors in rural areas manage poisoning cases as among the [...]
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Sun and Ubuntu makes a pact
Ubuntu Linux to Be Certified by Sun
Sun is about to become the first major hardware vendor to certify Ubuntu Linux as compatible with its products—a move that could spark increased competition for Red Hat and Novell.
Read more here
Technorati Tags: ubuntu, sun, certification
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Posted in FOSS Advocacy, IT Articles, Stuff on the Web, tagged ISO, microsoft, odf, openxml, standard format, sun, winston damarillo on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
We Filipinos have a custom that when big decisions in life were to be made, we seek older, wiser and more successful people to explain the consequences that might happen after. We value assurances and opinions from people that matter.
So when Winston Damarillo openly shared his views on the status of OpenXML to be considered [...]
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About - Document Freedom Day
Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for document liberation. It will be a day of grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of Free Document Formats and Open Standards in general.Complementary to Software Freedom Day, we aim to have local teams all over the world organise events [...]
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Mr. Handoko, my friend from Indonesia and co-participant in Asiasource2 shared his thoughts about Alternative Hardware and its effect to our environment and on some other aspects in life which I find very interesting. I posted it here in my blog so that you can also gain some insights too.
From: Handoko
The following summary is [...]
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If your school has an Open source curriculum, then you are attending one of the “IN” schools, if not.. then you know the answer =)
Open source brings to life a lot of ingenuity, if you just use proprietary.. then it means, you are in a box. What does being “in a box” means, it means [...]
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When I attended Asia Source 2 in Indonesia last year, I was blessed enough to be included in Track 2 which is the group that dealt more of hardwares and networking. Fran Boon, our trainor from UK was really a big guy with a generous soul. He had shared with us stuff that [...]
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I answered to this post and thought of sharing it here also.
http://technogra.ph/20080218/sections/editorial/the-invisible-pinoy-open-source-majority/#comment-1049“Where are the Pinoy Open Source developers?”,
They are everywhere sir, in what place do you need one? Luzon, Visayas or Mindanao? I do networking of Open Source Developers for IOSN ASEAN+3 and have started building a database. If you know of some who [...]
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