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                      <title>FOSS Training / workshop under ASEAN Cooperation at C-DAC, Chennai, India</title>
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                      <author>berasmusa</author>
                      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:38:40 +0530</pubDate>
                      

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                      <title>Nepal's first FOSS Training and Research Center Opened</title>
                      <link>http://www.iosn.net/south-asia/countries/nepal/news/nepal-foss-training-n-research-center</link>
                      <description>Nepal's first FOSS Training and Research Center is opened at Brihaspati Vidyasadan School (BVS) at Naxal, Kathmandu, Nepal. This Center has been made possible by the financial help from Help Nepal Network and BVS Alumni and technical help from FOSS Nepal, the community involved in spreading free and open source technologies in Nepal. </description>
                      <author>subir</author>
                      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:30:52 +0530</pubDate>
                      

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                      <title>SFD2008 Competition: FOSS Nepal makes it two in a row</title>
                      <link>http://www.iosn.net/south-asia/countries/nepal/news/sfd08-winners</link>
                      <description>FOSS Nepal Community has been declared one of the winners of Software Freedom Day 2008 Best Event Competition. The other winners are from Nicaragua and the Philippines. This is the second time in a row that the Nepal team has been able to win the award.</description>
                      <author>subir</author>
                      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:14:13 +0530</pubDate>
                      

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                      <title>ODF OLYMPIAD 2008</title>
                      <link>http://www.iosn.net/south-asia/countries/india/news/odf-olympiad-2008</link>
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                      <author>berasmusa</author>
                      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:10:00 +0530</pubDate>
                      

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                      <title>IOSN and Practical Action conduct discussion on Poverty Reduction</title>
                      <link>http://www.iosn.net/south-asia/countries/india/news/iosn-and-practical-action-conduct-discussion-on-poverty-reduction</link>
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                      <author>tushar</author>
                      
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                      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:43:09 +0530</pubDate>
                      

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                      <title>NRCFOSS gives away FOSS India Awards at Open Source India Week</title>
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                      <author>tushar</author>
                      
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                      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:35:42 +0530</pubDate>
                      

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                      <title>FOSS Nepal jointly wins Software Freedom Day 2007 Best Event Competition!</title>
                      <link>http://www.iosn.net/south-asia/countries/nepal/news/sfd07-winners</link>
                      <description>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).</description>
                      <author>subir</author>
                      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:04:44 +0530</pubDate>
                      

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                      <title>NepaLinux and Free Geek jointly awarded APC Chris Nicol FOSS Prize 2007</title>
                      <link>http://www.iosn.net/south-asia/countries/nepal/news/APC-ChrisNicol-FOSSPrize07</link>
                      <description>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)</description>
                      <author>subir</author>
                      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:55:15 +0530</pubDate>
                      

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                      <title>C-DAC RELEASES BOSS V 2.0 AT CONNECT 2007</title>
                      <link>http://www.iosn.net/south-asia/countries/india/news/c-dac-releases-boss-v-2-0-at-connect-2007</link>
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                      <author>tushar</author>
                      
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                      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:58:01 +0530</pubDate>
                      

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                      <title>Software Freedom Day 2007 in Nepal</title>
                      <link>http://www.iosn.net/south-asia/countries/nepal/events/sfd07-nepal</link>
                      <description>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.</description>
                      <author>prabinraz</author>
                      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 12:11:51 +0530</pubDate>
                      

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                      <title>5th Open Source Camp concluded at IIUC, Chittagong </title>
                      <link>http://www.iosn.net/south-asia/countries/bangladesh/news/5th-open-source-camp-concluded-at-iiuc-chittagong</link>
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                      <author>tushar</author>
                      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:59:07 +0530</pubDate>
                      

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                      <title>Iran votes no to OOXML in ISO/JTC1</title>
                      <link>http://www.iosn.net/south-asia/countries/iran/news/ooxml</link>
                      <description>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. </description>
                      <author>ahmadi</author>
                      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:26:11 +0530</pubDate>
                      

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                      <title>India says no to Microsoft's OOXML</title>
                      <link>http://www.iosn.net/south-asia/countries/india/news/india-says-no-to-microsoft-s-ooxml</link>
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                      <author>tushar</author>
                      
                          <category>Open Standards</category>
                      
                      
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                      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:04:29 +0530</pubDate>
                      

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                      <title>IBM Helps NIIT to Establish Linux Competency Center in Pakistan</title>
                      <link>http://www.iosn.net/south-asia/countries/pakistan/news/ibm-helps-niit-to-establish-linux-competency-center</link>
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                      <author>tushar</author>
                      
                          <category>Pakistan</category>
                      
                      
                          <category>Training</category>
                      
                      
                          <category>Linux</category>
                      
                      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:26:43 +0530</pubDate>
                      

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                      <title>BDOSDN - IT Bangla OSS Seminar</title>
                      <link>http://www.iosn.net/south-asia/countries/bangladesh/news/oss-seminar</link>
                      <description>Bangladesh Open Source Development Network and IT Bangla Ltd. jointly organized a seminar on Open Source Software
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                      <author>ashraful</author>
                      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:03:52 +0530</pubDate>
                      

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