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Software Freedom Day 2015 Phnom Penh

Posted on September 18, 2015September 18, 2015 by Pockey Lam

The Digital Freedom Foundation is organizing our Software Freedom Day event in Phnom Penh together with the National Institute of Posts Telecommunications and ICT and the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications on September 19, 2015 at the NIPTICT Building. There will be 10 presentations and several lightening talks with topics covering free and open source software ranging from operating system, virtualization, drones, mapping, servers, to security. Here is the detailed schedule.

We aim to target both the university audience and the young workforce and expect to have a hundred audiences to join. All in all it’s been a joy preparing for this event together with Makara, Rapid, Arky and Fred. It also allows us to talk and plan resources with people from different local communities such as the Open Institute and FPV Cambodia.

The event will start at 1:30pm tomorrow, if you happen to be in Phnom Penh please do drop by!

2015 SFD registration is on!

Posted on August 14, 2015 by Pockey Lam

I am very glad to share with you that registration of the twelfth edition of Software Freedom Day has been opened since early August and you can see from our SFD event map, we already have 62 events from more than 33countries shown in our map. As usual registration happens after you have created your event page on the wiki. We have a detail guide here for newcomers and for the others who need help, the SFD-Discuss mailing would be the best place to get prompt support.

Don’t forget to tell people about SFD! Simply use one of the banners we’ve made if you are organizing, participating, attending or speaking at a SFD event by placing it on your webpages and link it back to your SFD event page or http://www.softwarefreedomday.org. You can also help us to promote SFD by placing our SFD counter with your own language as well!

So get ready to celebrate SFD on September 19 Saturday and happy preparations to all!

Software Freedom Day 2014 Phnom Penh

Posted on October 31, 2014October 31, 2014 by Pockey Lam

The Digital Freedom Foundation is organizing our Software Freedom Day event in Phnom Penh together with the National Institute of Posts Telecommunications and ICT and the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications on November 1st at the NIPTICT Building. There will be 14 talks (9 in Khmer and 5 in English) with topics covering free and open source software ranging from operating system, learning platforms, website development, resource map, servers, to security. Here is the detailed schedule and speakers profiles.

We expect to have more than a hundred people to attend and aim to target both the university audience and the young workforce, on top of presentations and workshops, we (assisted by various communities) will be holding booths (e.g. Moodle, Mozilla, RouterOS, Ubuntu and Blender) to allow for more individuals discussions. All in all it’s been a joy preparing for this event, allowing us to talk and plan resources with people from different local communities such as OpenSourceCambodia and Smallworld Cambodia.

The event will start at 1:30pm tomorrow, if you happen to be in Phnom Penh please do drop by!

Celebrate Software Freedom Day on September 20

Posted on September 3, 2014September 3, 2014 by Pockey Lam

I am very glad to share with you that registration of the eleventh edition of Software Freedom Day has been opened since early August and you can see from our SFD event map, we already have 129 events from more than 50 countries shown in our map. As usual registration happens after you have created your event page on the wiki. We have a detail guide here for newcomers and for the others who need help, the SFD-Discuss mailing would be the best place to get prompt support.

So get ready to celebrate and happy preparations to all!

Meet the Guangzhou LUG

Posted on November 7, 2013November 8, 2013 by Pockey Lam

guangzhoulug We happened to be in Guangzhou earlier this week and spent a wonderful evening with the core members of the local GNU/Linux user group in Guangzhou. They gave us an overview of their group history and progress: basically it is a two years old group with over 700 people subscribed to their mailing list and around 5 core members to manage the group activities. They host regular meetings on a monthly basis in different locations such as restaurants or classrooms. They also organized Software Freedom Day events the past two years and recorded over 100 participants in 2012. While we shared our experiences of how we ran and grew the Beijing GNU/Linux User group with them.

They also mentioned that half of their members are interested in “free” hardware highlighting the growing connection between two movements that we feel very linked. In fact we cannot ignore the fact that hardware needs software to operate and a bit of free culture to make those logos, the documentation and the potential courses that go together to bring it to more people. Each of the movements (software, hardware, culture, OER) should care equally about each others in order to exist as they need one another to thrive. I truly believe that bringing those concepts as one within our communities and to the world will create a bigger impact for everyone.

To conclude, Guangzhou LUG wants to grow in terms of attending members and meeting frequency so we offered to put them in touch with the Shantou Linux Association as they are planning for their upcoming activities right now, and sharing ideas can’t hurt. Besides, there are five universities in Guangzhou with computer science classes which are located in the same area and could become a very prosperous ground for cooperation and activities. That’s another lead right there!

In light of all those discussions and plans we will be hosting a round table discussion mid December on our next visit to Guangzhou. We hope that getting members from each university and setting up a plan together will create a more diverse group in the area with a more balanced workload for everyone.

I am always very happy to meet passionate people from different communities and can’t wait to meet them again soon!