21 May 2008
Philippine Open Source Summit 2008 Cebu City
More than just a geek’s or tinkerer’s hobby, open-source is running the internet and other machines. From eLearning to productivity software, it has been steadily (or has) gone up to mainstream usage.
From an email sent by Francisco Francisco “Francis” E. Sarmiento III, MD, Program Manager, International Open Source Network
he ASEAN+3 node of the International Open Source Network (IOSN)
invites you to the Philippine Open Source Summit to be held on 23-24
June 2008 in Cebu City, Philippines with the theme, “Understanding the
Business Value of Open Source.”We welcome you to visit the official summit website at http://oss.ph
for more information.Registration details at http://www.oss.ph/registration.php
We look forward to see you all in the summit.
MABUHAY (Long live) from the Philippines!
There are open source solutions to many of the our technology needs, for governments especially. Just a thought, is open source taught in the schools or just mentioned in passing? If we can make our mark in open source support, programming and management, I am sure a lot of opportunities will come our way.
Comments
18 June 2008
dimaks said:
this is a positive step. with the continuous skyrocketing commercial software prices, the ultimate rational step is OSS. back in the Philippines, my office has advocated the use of OSS and it was pretty successfull. now it extended to the regional government offices as well.
21 June 2008
Jun Asis said:
Slowly but surely, OSS is crouching on the space of commercial software. I think the tipping point should be the schools. Imagine if high school students today are immersed in these applications, they would have the knowledge that there is more to computers than the big players.
26 June 2008
pinoyexplorer said:
Yap, i agree with you Jun. Schools should be the test ground so that the school administrators would understand the cost effectiveness of open source softwares. By implementing it on their own infrastructure, it helps in spreading the awareness of these products to the students thus gives an assurance to curve software piracy.
Open source should be taken for consideration as an alternative to the proprietary softwares.