After moving to Southern China, we have been attempting to meet with local FOSS communities. Finally we got to visit the Shantou University (STU) and talk to the core members of Linux Association, one of the winners of Software Freedom Day Innovative event award 2009 from sfdchina.org. Since its establishment in 2005, STU Linux Association [...]
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Open Source Education and Loongson reduce the digital divide for migrant workers kids
After months of work from corporations, institutions, universities, Open Source communities and NGOs the first fully Open Source based lab is launched in Beijing. The purpose of organizing this Opening ceremony on November 12th is to raise concerns of Migrant Schools education from different organizations! Everyday hundreds of thousands of children from migrant workers families [...]
Phnom Penh LUG and Open Institute in Cambodia
The trip to Cambodia was amazingly excellent! Not only I went to the Open Institute Organization to know more about how they spread Open Source in Universities, joined the newly re-established Phnom Penh LUG first initial meeting, but also had a lot of great Cambodian food in Phnom Penh, as I never had any Cambodian [...]
GNOME.Asia Summit 2009 ROCKS!
Followed by Beijing, the second GNOME.Asia Summit was successfully hosted in Ho-Chi-Minh, Vietnam from 20 – 22 November 2009. I am always happy to join International Open Source events, especially outside of China, I got to talk to the local communities from all over Asia like core members from Saigon LUG, Hanoi LUG, Phnom Penh [...]
Software Freedom Day – Beijing TsingHua University
Same as every year, Beijing Linux User Group supported a lot of Software Freedom Day events in Beijing in 2009. Except this year, we helped 7 Universities! Our BLUG member and long time contributor Daniel made a video of the event hosted in Tsing Hua University! In order to cope with the theme “Getting Things [...]
