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Wednesday, 19 October 2005 |
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In World Usability Day, over 75 local events will take place in 25 different countries to promote the field of usability. This day is for everyone who has ever used technology and wondered: "Why doesn't this work right? What am I supposed to do now?"
Pick up your country and join usability professionalists on November, 3rd. Note that there's no event in Turkey reported yet. Maybe you can take an initiative and join the (silent) forces around.
Stories make it real, also. The ones you'll read on the web page (www.worldusabilityday.org) are about real people, real problems, and sometimes, really elegant solutions. These stories can be used by anyone who needs to tell the story of usability -- whether citizen, journalist, or usability professional. |
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Leaving for OS World Conf |
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Sunday, 09 October 2005 |
Between 23-30 October, I'll be in Merida, Spain for 2nd Open Source
World Conference. Within this time frame, we'll also be discussing
about tOSSad project, handling a steering committe meeting together
with workpackage 1,2 and 3
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Wednesday, 05 October 2005 |
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The industry's two major office suites, Microsoft Office and
OpenOffice.org, will soon be releasing new versions. Recent research
into these versions by large government departments indicates that for
many sites, it is now 10 times cheaper to migrate to the new
OpenOffice.org 2.0 than upgrading to Microsoft Office 12. More
information on Computerworld |
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Good F/OSS practices in Balkans |
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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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Tuesday, 27 September 2005 |
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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. ;-)
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Peru hassed its law in favor of F/OSS |
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Tuesday, 27 September 2005 |
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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
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The largest tender for F/OSS |
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Monday, 26 September 2005 |
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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 |
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F/OSS companies should read Kotler |
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Sunday, 25 September 2005 |
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Open source companies should read Kotler's statements, written in Turkish and published in IT Business Weekly. |
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Sunday, 25 September 2005 |
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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. |
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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 |
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Monday, 09 August 2004 |
Every two weeks, we are talking about a breaking
issue about Linux, operating systems, Linux in business and free/open
source software in IT Business Weekly
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