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Filipino student group wins open source software tilt
A GROUP of Filipino students from the University of the Philippines has developed an open source-based student elections system that recently won in an international competition, INQUIRER.net learned.
The University of the Philippines Linux Users' Group (UnPLUG), which developed the "Halalan Open Source Voting System," was named one of the winners in the Software Freedom Day 2006 competition.
Halalan won in the "Best plans for FOSS (free and open source
software) deployment project on new server for community benefit"
category. UnPLUG shared the spotlight with Ceres, a Disaster Prevention
and Rapid Response Network system from Peru's Team Cultura Libre.
Source: INQUIRER.net
