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Business chambers eye shift to free, open source software amid rising operating costs by Francisco E. Sarmiento III, MD — last modified 2009-09-18 06:38 PM

KORONADAL CITY, Sept. 18 (PNA) – The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) is taking another look at the free and open source software (FOSS) as a possible option to help reduce the rising operating costs of mainstream businesses and industries in the country.

*** (CLOSED) APPLICATION PERIOD EXTENDED to SEPT 21st *** Final Call: Asia Source 3, Silang, Cavite, Philippines, November 6-12, 2009 by Alvin Marcelo — last modified 2009-09-24 04:22 PM

 

Second Call: Asia Source 3 by Alvin Marcelo — last modified 2009-08-26 10:50 PM

Released August 21, 2009

Open Source in Laos by Yolynne Medina — last modified 2009-06-21 06:13 PM

Interview on Anousak Souphavanh - Chief Technical Advisor Organisation of Lao Open Source, Lao PDR

OSI Tech Days 2009 Kicks Off In Chennai! - EFY Times by pavithra srinivasan — last modified 2009-03-16 09:34 AM

 

FOSS Bridge EU-Vietnam: High level training material and networks by Balthas Seibold — last modified 2009-02-25 11:03 PM

FOSS Bridge EU-Vietnam has been promoting Southeast Asian software industries and cooperation with Europe through innovative collaboration on FOSS and business development since 2006.

FOSS Training / workshop under ASEAN Cooperation at C-DAC, Chennai, India by berasmusa — last modified 2009-01-30 05:01 PM

 

Nepal's first FOSS Training and Research Center Opened by Subir Pradhanang — last modified 2008-12-12 09:52 AM

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.

SFD2008 Competition: FOSS Nepal makes it two in a row by Subir Pradhanang — last modified 2008-11-27 12:14 PM

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.

ODF OLYMPIAD 2008 by berasmusa — last modified 2008-11-10 04:06 PM

 

Celebration of SFD in Basilan a success by Rj Ian S. Sevilla — last modified 2008-09-29 03:56 PM

Mindanao Open Source Society together with the COMTECH Institute Inc. and D’COMTECHIAN has successfully celebrated FOSS@CLASS.

EXTENDED to OCTOBER 10th -- CALL FOR INSTITUTIONAL PARTICIPATION: IOSN-InWEnt Training of Trainers on the FOSS Toolkit for SMEs by Alvin Marcelo — last modified 2008-10-06 07:26 PM

Manila, November 4 to 7, 2008

"Open Source & More IT for African Business" - release of advanced e-learning courses on Information Technology by InWEnt/it@ab by Alvin Marcelo — last modified 2008-09-17 11:40 PM

01.09.2008 - InWEnt/it@ab releases a series of advanced e-learning courses on Information Technology (IT)- "Open Source & More IT for African Business" focussing on the needs of business related IT consultancy in Africa. The course is now online at the following URL: http://cle2.it-inwent.net/LearningSpace/osam/

One Nation: Unity for Software Freedom. Celebrating Software Freedom Day 2008 in the Philippines by Rj Ian S. Sevilla — last modified 2008-09-02 02:57 PM

Philippines to celebrate Software Freedom Day

Malaysia's schools get OpenOffice.org by Khairil Yusof — last modified 2008-08-29 09:30 AM

The Malaysian government has unveiled plans to roll out OpenOffice.org in schools across the nation--a move that will affect some 300,000 PCs.

FFEHR, an Open Source Electronic Health record, Makes Headway by Alvin Marcelo — last modified 2008-08-31 06:14 AM

FFEHR is an electronic health record implemented using the Mozilla Application Framework. It is released under GPLv3 by DabaweGNU with support from IOSN ASEAN and IDRC.

Malaysian State of Kedah moves to OpenOffice.org by Khairil Yusof — last modified 2008-08-18 03:26 PM

A case study submitted to the Open Source Competency Center by the Center of Information Technology, Office of the Chief Minister and State Secretary of Kedah, has indicated that OpenOffice.org has been installed in 70% of the computers in the Kedah state government agencies. There are currently 2,202 installed seats and by the looks of it, the numbers will just keep rising!

Malaysian state of Pahang moves to OpenOffice.org by Khairil Yusof — last modified 2008-08-14 11:51 AM

Its just been made official that the government of the State of Pahang is migrating all its productivity suites to OpenOffice.org.

Davao City : Bearing the Fruits for FOSS by Nathaniel Jayme — last modified 2008-07-27 01:13 AM

Davao City is giving its share in the strong advocacy and use of FOSS.

SFD at Isabela City by Rj Ian S. Sevilla — last modified 2008-07-28 11:01 AM

The Mindanao Open Source Society will host the 1st biggest I.T. event in Isabela City, Basilan, Philippines dubbed FOSS@CLASS in connection to the celebration of Software Freedom Day 2008.