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Wednesday, 03 May 2006 |
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I'll be attending Linux Festival, organized by Linux Users Association of Turkey between 11-14 May 2006. There, I'll talk about tOSSad project: what we did in the first year. After this, I'll be moderating a panel with the title of "financial, administrative and legal issues of F/OSS in turkish public institutitons". Speakers are not fixed yet - to be announced here later. See you there. |
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We're at HP Linux Roadshow |
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Wednesday, 03 May 2006 |
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HP Linux and Open Source Roadshow EMEA - İstanbul will take place in Ceylan Intercontinental Hotel (as before) on May 17, 2006. Among the speakers are Eva Beck (HP Linux Business Development Executive), Jean Michel Argenville (HP EMEA Consultant) and various ISVs and Linux distributors. I'll be moderating a panel, with speakers from HP, Novell, SAP, Oracle and Intel. More information here. |
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US advised to promote open standards |
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Saturday, 22 April 2006 |
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A business- and university-led public policy group has issued a
downloadable 72-page report examining open standards, open source
software, and "open innovation." The report concludes that openness
should be promoted as a matter of public policy, in order to foster
innovation and economic growth in the U.S. and world economies.
The report was released by the
Committee for Economic Development (CED),
a non-profit, non-partisan public policy research organization comprised
of about 200 senior corporate executives and university leaders. It can be
downloaded from here. |
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3 F/OSS competency centers in Asia! |
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Wednesday, 05 April 2006 |
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In order to address the growing information and technological needs of the
Asia and Pacific region, the International Open Source Network (IOSN) has
established three new Centres of Excellence IOSN ASEAN+3, IOSN PIC
(Pacific Island Countries), and IOSN South Asia. Together, these Centres
will continue the research and development, networking, institutional
strengthening, and training undertaken by IOSN over the last three years to
advance the adoption of free/open source software, open standards, and open
content across the region.
PS1: This is an excerpt from the e-mail sent by Sunil Abraham to apdip.net mailing lists. More information here.
PS2: I'll be in my wonderful hometown, Antalya, to give a speak about the upcoming 10 years' technologies and their impacts in our lives.
PS3:Back from Bulgarian F/OSS conference - had quite nice time there. Good (Ottoman-featured) food, nice weather, and thanks to Julia & Dessi for their flawless organization. |
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Claros is in touch with the rest |
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Tuesday, 21 March 2006 |
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Umut has finally released 1.0 version of Claros In Touch (previously known as Claros Webmail). It has full MIME support and built in spam protection (no server setup needed), provides folder support for the POP3 protocol, is bundled with an addressbook, calendar and a notebook application. Download Claros In Touch and other goodies from here, or get the FAQ.
Ps: Claros is an ancient Ionian city in Turkey, the city of prophecy and wisdom. There are Homeric hymnoses about the city from 6th 7th centuries BC, but most probably the city has its roots from long ago, maybe since the Hattian civilization (2000BC). |
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tOSSad workshop in Como, Italy |
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Friday, 17 March 2006 |
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tOSSad workshop will be held in Como, Italy on 10 June, 2006. It will be organized around parallel and/or serial sub-tracks. The technical nature of the workshop will consist of presentations of technical reports and/or scientific papers; case analysis; demonstrations followed by interactive discussions.
Although relatively focused studies from tOSSad project are planned to compose a part of the workshop, primarily, contributions from other related EU/non-EU projects, researchers, and practitioners are expected.
Submitted papers, reports, case analysis or proposal for demonstrations will be collected by related conveners and will be reviewed by the programme committee. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and will be published as tOSSad2006 proceedings.
I'll be the convenor of 3rd theme (F/OSS usability) with Sandra Frings from University of Stuttgard. This subtheme is intended for practitioners, software developers, HCI specialists and project managers who want to deploy user centered design process of a distributed and/or F/OSS project.
For more information, please refer to tOSSad 2006 workshop page. |
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Monday, 13 March 2006 |
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I've been contacted to be a speaker in BIMY'13, which will take part in Side, Antalya - also my hometown. The panel with other speakers being from Oracle, IBM and Microsoft will last about two hours. I'll probably will extend my Antalya adventure to see my parents after a long time. |
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Sunday, 26 February 2006 |
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THE KOREAN government is planning to create a Linux utopia, a place where open sauce flows freely and only Linux is used. The Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) has revealed the scheme of building up the city and university to use as testing groups for open-source programs. Candidate cities and universities are to be selected by a government panel next week and the government will have made up its mind by late March. If selected, the city government and university will be have to install open-source software as a main operating infrastructure. More information Here. Go, Korea! |
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Thursday, 16 February 2006 |
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FLOSSWorld , Internet Society Bulgaria and Linux BG are organizing a F/OSS conference in Sofia, Bulgaria between 24-25 March, 2006. Main organization topic will be "F/OSS in South-Eastern Europe". I will be giving a presentation about F/OSS presence in Turkey in the conference. You can find more information from the organization web site and check the agenda here |
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Monday, 13 February 2006 |
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e-Dönüsüm Türkiye Projesi 2005 Eylem Plani çerçevesinde Teknik Alt Yapi ve Bilgi Güvenligi basligi altinda 7 No'lu eylem olarak belirlenen Kamu Kurum ve Kuruluslarinda Açik Kaynak Kodlu Yazilimlarinin Uygulanabilirligi çalismasi ile ilgili ilk taslak rapor (Açik kaynak kodlu yazilimlarin idari, hukuki ve mali açidan incelenmesi) yayinlandi. Taslak raporla ilgili görüs ve önerilerinizi
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adresine gönderebilirsiniz. |
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