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FOSS-Rising - Feature Report on the occasion of FOSSAC'2005 1st National Free and Open Source Software Awareness Campaign, Lahore, Pakistan by fouadbajwa — last modified 2005-09-02 08:13 PM

FOSS-Rising Feature Report has been prepared on the occasion of FOSSAC'2005 1st National Free and Open Source Software Awareness Campaign, Lahore, Pakistan.

FOSSFP has become a partner of World Community Grid, joining the IBM Corporation and a group of leading foundations, public organizations and academic institutions. by fouadbajwa — last modified 2005-09-02 08:15 PM

Change the World . . . with Your Computer FOSSFP: Free and Open Source Software Foundation of Pakistan Joins World Community Grid

Pakistan National Free and Open Source Software Awards by Khairil Yusof — last modified 2005-07-25 03:43 PM

Have you made a considerable or a successful contribution to the success of the Free and Open Source Software movement in Pakistan?

The Open Option by Khairil Yusof — last modified 2005-05-27 01:08 PM

Seema Javed Amin from the Open Source Resource Center (OSRC) project of the Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) writes about how Pakistan is combating piracy by using FOSS alternatives.

The future is open source by fouadbajwa — last modified 2005-11-01 12:46 AM

A news feature published in the Daily DAWN Pakistan

FOSSFP Technical Essays Series on Free and Open Source Software by fouadbajwa — last modified 2005-11-01 12:47 AM

FOSSFP Technical Essays Series on Free and Open Source Software

Pakistan's First Public Urdu Word Bank and Dictionary Released (voluntary) by fouadbajwa — last modified 2006-11-05 04:34 AM

Voluntary Members of Ubuntu l10n-Urdu Translation Team (Ubuntu Pakistan Team) develop and release Pakistan's First Public Urdu Word Bank and Dictionary at http://l10n.urduweb.org/dictionary

Urdu Language Support now available in Ubuntu-Linux Distribution by fouadbajwa — last modified 2006-11-05 05:26 AM

Ubuntu Linux (www.ubuntu.com) has now incorporated support for Urdu within it's future releases thus becomming the first Linux distribution to support localized Urdu translations internationally. We congradulate Ubuntu l10n-Urdu Translation Team (Ubuntu Official Pakistan Team) for their continued community and volunteer based contributions.

Pakistan "Opens Up" Open Source Training Toolkit to Everyone by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2007-03-20 11:47 AM

The toolkit contains step-by-step manuals comprising of six modules covering various Free and Open Source Software applications.

IBM Helps NIIT to Establish Linux Competency Center in Pakistan by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2007-08-16 02:27 PM