Nepal's first FOSS Training and Research Center is opened at Brihaspati Vidyasadan School (BVS) at Naxal, Kathmandu, Nepal. This Center has been made possible by the financial help from Help Nepal Network and BVS Alumni and technical help from FOSS Nepal, the community involved in spreading free and open source technologies in Nepal.
The Team Mango Cloud- Mindanao in Association with DabaweGNU and in cooperation with International Open Source Network (IOSN), will have an Orientation on Free/Libre Opensource Software for Small and Medium Enterprises
FOSS Nepal Community has been declared one of the winners of Software Freedom Day 2008 Best Event Competition. The other winners are from Nicaragua and the Philippines. This is the second time in a row that the Nepal team has been able to win the award.
Telecommunication industry is grooming simultaneously while financial crunch is increasing in whole world. only telecommunication business is seems to be stable and growing but only the companies, who are providing varitey of communication Infrastructure solutions. Most of the countries are still suffering in low bandwidth, poor internet connectivity and unstable intranets are the cause of non-stable ICT echo systems in countries. Countries, like Pakistan are shifting over the strong, stable and high bandwidth network infrastructures. This change will be the result of strong ICT echo system and FOSS prmotion campaign needs same type of scenarios.
