Past Events

FOSS@CLASS (COMTECH Isabela City, Basilan, Philippines, from 2008-09-27 08:00 AM to 2008-09-27 05:00 PM) — by Rj Ian S. Sevilla

FOSS@CLASS - an introduction to GNU/Linux and FOSS applications hosted by Mindanao Open Source Society at Isabela City, Zamboanga Peninsula on September 27, 2008.

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Regional Training of Trainers for Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Level 1 (Code: LAO-LTOT-LEVEL1) (National University of Laos, P.O.Box:7322, Dongdok, Vientiane, Lao PDR, from 2008-09-08 06:00 AM to 2008-09-19 06:00 PM) — by Francisco E. Sarmiento III, MD

DEADLINE OF APPLICATION: 01 AUGUST 2008, 1800H (GMT+8)

Linux Systems Administration I (LiSA 1.3) Training (Davao City, Philippines, from 2008-06-30 08:30 AM to 2008-07-04 05:30 PM) — by Holden Hao

This is the 3rd Linux Systems Administration I training being offered by Davao City-based FOSS group, DabaweGNU, Inc. The training is targeted at junior systems administrators who want to become familiar with the GNU/ Linux operating system.

OSSCamp Delhi Summer Edition (Indian Social Institute, Lodhi Road, Delhi, India, from 2008-06-21 09:00 AM to 2008-06-21 06:00 PM) — by Tushar Abraham Mathew

OSSCamp Delhi Summer Edition is the fourth unconference in the OSSCamp series. It is a platform for promoting Open Source Projects from India. In this single day event, campers from across the world will come together to disucss FOSS and FOSS development in India.

CALL FOR EXAMINEES: Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Levels 1 and 2 Community Examinations-Manila, Philippines (Lecture Hall, Department of Computer Science, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines, from 2008-06-07 07:30 AM to 2008-06-07 12:00 PM) — by Francisco E. Sarmiento III, MD

The ASEAN+3 Node of the International Open Source Network (IOSN) together with the University of the Philippines Manila-National Telehealth Center in cooperation with the Diliman Interactive Learning Center are holding examinations for LPIC-1 (101 and 102) and LPIC-2 (201 and 202). The examinations are open to all interested individuals living in the Philippines and those coming from other countries. However, the organizers are not obliged to shoulder accommodations and transportation expenses that the examinees will incur during the scheduled examinations.

A hands on workshop on how to use Ruby on Rails for Web Development (IICT, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh, from 2008-05-29 03:00 PM to 2008-06-01 07:00 PM) — by A A Munir Hasan

The 4 days workshop is desinged to help the web developer to use Ruby on Rails (RoR) for web development. The workshop will be conducted by the instructors from www.code71.com. BdOSN organizing the workshop with the support from IICT, BUET, Dhaka.

Ubuntu Hardy Release Party - Bangladesh (Dhaka, Bangladesh, from 2008-05-17 03:30 PM to 2008-05-17 07:00 PM) — by Russell John

On April 21st 2008 Canonical Ltd. released the most popular Linux distribution Ubuntu's 8.04 LTS, code named "Hardy Heron". To celebrate the release of Ubuntu 8.04, Ubuntu Bangladesh arranged a launching party.

Training Workshop on elementary PHP and MySQL (Dhaka, from 2008-04-03 03:00 PM to 2008-04-06 07:00 PM) — by A A Munir Hasan

BdOSN, in association with IICT,BUET is organizing a training workshop on PHP programming language and MySQL. The programme is open for all with limited opportunity. The training will be held at IICT, BUET, Dhaka.

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Training of Trainers: FOSS-GIS with Sahana - Indonesia (Jakarta, Indonesia, from 2008-03-24 08:00 AM to 2008-03-28 05:30 PM) — by Francisco E. Sarmiento III, MD

The International Open Source Network (IOSN) ASEAN+3 and InWEnt Capacity Building International, Germany in collaboration with the The State Ministry for Research and Technology (RISTEK), Republic of Indonesia are inviting both government and non-government organizations (NGOs), IT small-to-medium enterprises/businesses (SMEs/SMBs), developers, experts, trainers and users of Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) disaster management information systems to a Training of Trainers (ToT) for FOSS Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with Sahana. The training will be held at the PDII-LIPI in Jakarta, Indonesia from March 24 to 28, 2008. This activity is in response to the great demand and interest for a follow-up training as a result of the successful conduct of an earlier ToT on FOSS GIS for Disaster Management held last October 2007 in PDII-LIPI in Jakarta, Indonesia.

BDOSDN Workshop: OSS Essential Training Program (Chittagong, Bangladesh, from 2008-02-22 09:00 AM to 2008-02-23 05:30 PM) — by Tazrian Khan

Two days BDOSDN Workshop: OSS Essential Training Program is going to be held on February 22 - 23, 2008 at Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology (CUET).

Meeting on Linux Afghanistan (Khosha Restaurant, Haji Yaqub Square, Shar-e Naw, Kabul, Afghanistan, from 2008-02-19 02:00 PM to 2008-02-19 05:00 PM) — by Tushar Abraham Mathew

The National ICT Association of Afghanistan (NICTAA) is facilitating the formation of Linux Afghanistan—a community and association of the Linux/FOSS professionals and users in the country. The main objective of this meeting is to discuss various issues around the Linux Afghanistan formation and launch with the society professionals and institutions, recruit membership and form an interim Board of Directors for the association.

Open Source India Week (Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi (India), from 2008-02-11 09:00 AM to 2008-02-15 05:00 PM) — by Tushar Abraham Mathew

Linux Asia in its new avatar.

FossConf (MIT Campus, Anna University, Chennai , India, from 2008-02-01 12:00 PM to 2008-02-03 01:00 PM) — by Tushar Abraham Mathew

The National Resource Centre for Free and Open Source Software, India is set to conduct FossConf 08.

IOSN Accessibility Workshop for the Visually Disabled (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 2008-01-26 09:00 AM to 2008-01-26 05:00 PM) — by Khairil Yusof

This event will bring together FOSS practitioners and users with visual disabilities

Quantum & I.T. Convention (Country Village Hotel, Carmen, Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines, from 2008-01-25 08:00 PM to 2008-01-27 12:00 PM) — by Rj Ian S. Sevilla

 

OSS Week - Training programme in Open Source Software conducted in C-DAC Chennai (CDAC, from 2008-01-22 09:30 AM to 2008-01-23 05:30 PM) — by Gowri Ganesh N S

The Open Source Software (OSS) Week was organized with two/three days Training Programmes in Open Source Essentials in parallel at different places in Tamilnadu from 22-24, January 2008 by the Div 2 on Software, SIGOSS & Div V on Education and Research of the Computer Society of India (CSI) & IEEE Computer Society, Madras Chapter in association with the Center for International Cooperation for Computerization (CICC) and the National Resource Centre for Free and Open Source Software (NRCFOSS) of CDAC with the support of the host institutions namely CDAC, VIT Univ. & Bharadhidasan University

MyOSS Meetup January 2008 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 2008-01-10 07:30 PM to 2008-01-10 09:30 PM) — by Khairil Yusof

A database double header. Colin Charles is a Community Engineer at MySQL AB who will present a performance and benchmarking talk, while Ditesh will talk about CouchDB.

Adopt a Computer Shop Linux Project - 4th Meeting (Insular Alabang, from 2007-12-16 09:00 AM to 2007-12-16 03:00 PM) — by Joebert Jacaba

Training computer shop owners to use linux and open source software

LTSP trainer's Training in Kathmandu Nepal (Kathmandu Engineering College, Kathmandu, from 2007-12-15 08:00 AM to 2007-12-16 05:30 PM) — by Prabin gautam

FOSS Nepal Community and Help Nepal Network are jointly conducting a training for prospective trainers for Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) based e-Library. This is part of a series of trainings to be conducted in the future.

International Conference on Information Systems and Technology ICIST at Thrissur (Hotel Elite International, Thrissur, from 2007-12-14 09:30 AM to 2007-12-15 05:30 PM) — by CK Raju, Thrissur

An international conference with Free Software as the principal theme is being organised by MES College of Engineering, Kuttippuram in cooperation with IEEE Kerala Section. Details are at http://mesengg.ac.in/icist2007.htm