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Good F/OSS practices in Balkans
Monday, 03 October 2005
UNDP FOSS project (www.foss.bg) has been started in Bulgaria, under auspcies of Internet Society Bulgaria (www.isoc.bg) with an objective to strengthen people’s participation in local governance and generate savings in local budgets.  Another aim within the project is establish a Regional FOSS Resource Centre.
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Heading for Ljubljana
Tuesday, 27 September 2005

I'm going to have a trip to Slovenia from Wednesday to Friday, in order to fulfill the workshop "F/OSS in national programs" organized by tOSSad. Luckily, OOoCon2005 is held in Koper, just 130km away from the hotel at the same time. You may check out the delicious programme of OOoCon2005 here. Feeling lucky to attend both meetings, by the way. ;-)
 

 
Peru hassed its law in favor of F/OSS
Tuesday, 27 September 2005

Peru has passed its law encouraging procurement of Free Software by the government. Please note that the law is about Free Software, not Open Source, as opposed to proprietary software, distinguished by license. Here's an English translation published by the Asociación Peruana de Software Libre, and here is the law itself [PDF] . Technically, it's not official until it is published in the official Peruvian daily newspaper, but that is pretty much certain at this point (from Groklaw.net ).

 
The largest tender for F/OSS
Monday, 26 September 2005

THE largest tender yet issued for open-source software has been released by the State Information Technology Agency (Sita), formalising its plans to switch from brand-name packages to the free-to-use alternatives.

Sita is offering three-year deals to supply software and technical support so that many of government's estimated 300000 PCs can migrate to open source.

Tender closes on October 7, link here

 
F/OSS companies should read Kotler
Sunday, 25 September 2005

Open source companies should read Kotler's statements, written in Turkish and published in IT Business Weekly.

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Read this book
Sunday, 25 September 2005
Ferruh Baysu from Bilgi Publishing has sent me a copy of the book "Just for Fun" - Yalnizca Eglenmek icin, written by Linus Torvalds and David Diamond. The book has a very straightforward language, translated by Cihat Tascioglu. The translator's note scattered here and there inside the book gives a pleasant taste, too. Interestingly, I had to look up in the Turkish dictionary reading some of his words. I'm thankful to the publishers of this book, especially the CEO of Bilgi Yayinevi Bilgi Kuflu, who has dictated in his letter that open source software in general and F/OSS ecosystem in particular is crucial for our country.
 
IOSN open standards
Saturday, 12 June 2004
UNDP International Open Source Network (IOSN) has prepared a guideline which fosters public bodies and NGOs utilization of open standards and open document formats in order to share their documents. This easy-to-read document includes various file types, localization, internationalizatio, IPR issues and Linux standards. A draft version of the document is here.
  
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Articles in IT Business Weekly
Monday, 09 August 2004
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