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After the trip to Siem Reap, I thought of sharing some photos (and a little text) to the page devoted to Siem Reap on the ever-helpful Wikipedia. Please help to update and improve the content (is this a suitable word?) there.
Who was there?
Links to organisations of participants who reached Siem Reap. Check out the Asian diversity that met and spoke... not always in the global lingua franca -- English.
Marrying wikis and blogs
What happens when a wiki marries a blog, and runs into a mailing-list and a website? This is a wonderful world of new communication opportunities, and it's probably a good idea to check out what works. Look out for FOSSAP on Wikipedia. Take a look at this Wikipedia entry for FOSSAPII and this one for the International Open Source Network.
FOSS focus near the Angkor Wat
In a historic region home to 12th century temple structures at a town called Siem Reap, FOSS campaigners, supporters, funders and officials from across Asia are prioritising their issues. The focus is on capacity building, localisation, development paradigms of FOSS, open content, e-governance and more.
Geneva to Tunis, will history repeat itself on FOSS?
Is Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) under threat of getting run over at the World Summit on the Information Society meet coming up in mid-November 2005 in Tunis? Voices from civil society fear this is likely to happen.
A link to China: Gong Min
Beijing-based Gong Min, D.Sc., is a council member of the Co-Create Software League of China. CoSoft describes itself thus, "Initiated, legally registered and established in Feb. of 2000 by institutions and individuals that are determined to revive Chinese software industry, it is a nonprofit software technology league. It is made up of members, the Council and executing bodies." Here's a link to some of the work that CoSoft has been doing.
A Frenchman, and maps
Franck Martin is a Frenchman based in the South Pacific. (You might have noticed his sense of humour on the trip to Angkor Wat.) As a Wikipedia contributor, he's described as someone "checking mainly the pages of the Pacific Islands and updating when neccessary. Promotion of wikipedia in Pacific Islands." But what's more interesting is his Tikimaps work.
Copyrights, going insane?
Lawrence Liang believes that copyright as a system, is going insane. Why so? It's showing all the clinical signs of doing so, argues this articulate young lawyer from Bangalore, India.
From books to fonts and local computing
Fifty percent of Nepal's population is still grappling with illiteracy. "Even if we translate everything (on the computer desktop) into Nepali, the people wouldn't understand. They can't read," says Amar Gurung. But that doesn't stop initiatives on the Free and Open Source Software front to localise computing in Nepal.
The doc who talks geek
Dr Molly Cheah Bee Li is a medico by profession. So what's she doing at FOSSAP II? Talking about [GNU]Linux, Apache, Postgres, Php and content management solutions. Take a look at how medicos are deploying IT in Malaysia.
