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IOSN and Practical Action conduct discussion on Poverty Reduction by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2008-04-02 05:43 PM

 

NRCFOSS gives away FOSS India Awards at Open Source India Week by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2008-02-21 10:35 AM

 

FOSS Nepal jointly wins Software Freedom Day 2007 Best Event Competition! by Subir Pradhanang — last modified 2007-11-30 02:04 PM

FOSS Nepal Community has been declared one of 3 winners of Software Freedom Day 2007 Best Event Competition. The other winners are SFD Nicaragua 2007 Team and Beijing Software Freedom Day (China).

NepaLinux and Free Geek jointly awarded APC Chris Nicol FOSS Prize 2007 by Subir Pradhanang — last modified 2007-10-29 12:55 PM

The first APC FOSS Prize established in 2006 to honour Chris Nicol, a long time FOSS advocate and activist who for many years, worked with APC, has been jointly awarded to: Free Geek (USA) and NepaLinux (Nepal)

C-DAC RELEASES BOSS V 2.0 AT CONNECT 2007 by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2007-10-26 12:58 PM

 

Software Freedom Day 2007 in Nepal by Prabin gautam — last modified 2007-10-08 01:37 PM

Software Freedom Day (SFD) is an international event when people vow for the freedom of the softwares. This year it was celebrated on 15th September by 60 nations along with Nepal. This year's SFD was very important event in the Software's freedom movement in Nepal. For the first time, HLCIT (High Level Commission for Information Technology), government's highest authority for ICT, was SFD's organizing partner along with FOSS-Nepal Community.

5th Open Source Camp concluded at IIUC, Chittagong by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2007-09-05 04:59 PM

 

Iran votes no to OOXML in ISO/JTC1 by Zahra Ahmadi — last modified 2007-08-28 01:26 PM

Advanced Information and Communication Technology Research Center of Sharif University of Technology of Iran (www.aictc.ir) as the director of Iran national Free/Open Source Project and member of ODF Alliance after some meetings with Iran's standard institute (ISIRI) convinced ISIRI to vote no to OOXML in the upcoming ISO/JTC1 voting in September 2.

India says no to Microsoft's OOXML by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2007-08-24 06:04 PM

 

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

 

BDOSDN - IT Bangla OSS Seminar by S M Ashraful Kadir — last modified 2007-07-27 11:09 AM

Bangladesh Open Source Development Network and IT Bangla Ltd. jointly organized a seminar on Open Source Software

Homa: a linux distro in Iran by Zahra Ahmadi — last modified 2007-07-14 06:14 PM

Homa is an Ubuntu Addon CD that has a standard Debian/Ubuntu repository plus a user friendly GUI for installing many useful packages on Ubuntu. The New Homa Multimedia 7.04.1 will install more than 60 popular packages on your installed Feisty Fawn.

Seminars and Workshop by FOSS.ir last year by Zahra Ahmadi — last modified 2007-07-14 05:17 PM

National FOSS foundation has conducted various seminars and workshops to improve the state of Linux and Free/Open Source Software in Iran.

Iran FOSS Strategic plan is underway by Zahra Ahmadi — last modified 2007-06-19 02:09 PM

Abdolmajiad Riazi, head of the high council of IT of Iran and deputy to the minister of ICT insisted on the significance of FOSS and the government's support for it.

Iran FOSS project took part in LinuxTag 2007 by Zahra Ahmadi — last modified 2007-06-19 02:09 PM

Representatives from FOSS Iran took part in the LinuxTag conference in Germany to improve the organization's international fame as well as introducing the outcomes of FOSS in Iran.

FOSS Awareness Campaign in Schools of Kathmandu, Nepal by Shishir Jha — last modified 2007-06-18 09:49 AM

 

BdOSN's 4th OSS Camp Concluded in AIUB by Mahay Alam Khan — last modified 2007-06-18 09:52 AM

 

Desktop trainees attain Moksha by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2007-06-05 10:36 AM

 

Founder of OpenContent at FKK Special by Subir Pradhanang — last modified 2007-06-05 02:11 PM

 

Iran Free/Open Source Software Policy Making Project by Zahra Ahmadi — last modified 2007-05-12 03:29 PM

During last three years many technical projects has been performed in the context of Iran Free/Open Source Project to provide Persian language support in most widely used application and GNU/Linux localization stack. One the current important obstacles for promotion of FOSS in Iran is the lack of a written and approved nation wide policy and strategy for FOSS.