Prishtina Hosts Second International Conference on Software Freedom
For the second year running the Kosovar Association for Free/Libre and
Open Source Software
(FLOSSK) and the University of Prishtina are organizing a conference
dedicated to free software - Software Freedom Kosova Conference
2010.
This conference follows upon the success of SFK09 held in August last
year attended by more than 500 participants and over 40 national and
international speakers and professionals.
SFK10 will take place on 25 and 26 September starting at 9:00 in the
venues of the
Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of
Prishtina. This year the conference will host several notable hacker
keynotes.
Leon Shiman will speak on the use of FLOSS in public administration;
Rob Savoy of Gnash project will talk about network protocols; Mikel
Maron will speak on the geopolitical use of open maps and Peter Salus,
historian of operating systems, will lecture on the history of
development of GNU/Linux.
Overall, over 20 topics will be discussed, ranging from issues
associated with the Free Encyclopedia Wikipedia, GNU/Linux,
intellectual property licenses, building of communities,
OpenStreetMap, Sugar, and many other topics in the field of free
software.
Topics to be discussed and the quality of lecturers, along with the
success of last year's conference make SFK10 the largest conference of
its kind in Southeast Europe.
The conference is held under the auspices of the Office of the Prime
Minister of the Republic of Kosovo and is supported by a number of
donors from whom it is worth mentioning: the Ministry of Energy and
Mining, Mozilla, Rrota, PC World Albanian and the University of
Prishtina Student Center.
The conference is free to participants during the two days. The
presentations and detailed information on the conference can be found
at
www.kosovasoftwarefreedom.org
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For Immediate Release
FLOSS Kosova
info(a)flossk.org
On Sep 22, 3:04 pm, "jamesmikedup...(a)googlemail.com"
<jamesmikedup...(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
here is a rough translation of the press release :
Pristina is the conference host software
***On 25 and 26 September Pristina will be hosted for the second time
Freedom Conference Software Kosovo.*** *FLOSS SFK10 Kosovo, organized by
the
Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering (FIEK)
of the University of
Pristina.*
SFK09 held last year was attended by about 500 people who attended about
40
lectures of 25 lecturers. This time the conference
will be focused: the 24
lectures will be from Kosovo, region and world.
The main and guest lecturers at the same time honor of this conference
are
renowned as hackers Leon Shiman, Rob Savoye, Mikel
Maro and Peter
Salus.Shiman's Foundation board member who oversees the development of
graphical
system for Linux and BSD - x.org, and the owner of Shiman Associates
consulting firm. Savoye is the primary developer of Gnash as previously
developed for Debian, Red Hat and Yahoo. Savoye has been programming since
1977. Maron specializes in programming applications based on geography and
location. Maron is OpenStreeMap Foundation board member, a service
similar
to Google Maps. Salus is a linguist, computer
scientist and historian of
technology. He worked a professor and dean at several universities. But
this
is only the result of the work of the organizing
committee which is
preparing the conference program for almost a year .
Other topics will provide for all the little: Milot Shala will directly
demonstrate the Qt Framework development of Nokia's, Martin will tell
Bekkelund Norwegian practices with open source code (open source) in state
administration, Baki Goxhaj will talk about WordPress, Marco Fioretti will
show how programming languages can be used in schools. Other topics are
Wikipedia, CAD, use of EU's funds in Open Source, Sugar platform for
children, CMS systems for universities, Android platform, etc..
The conference will be held on the premises of FIEK-regulation. Free
Registration begins on Saturday at 9:00 pm and during the two days program
starts at 10:00. The conference is supported financially by the Office of
the Prime Minister, Wheel, PC World and New OpenWorld.al.
For more visit the official website of Kosovo Organization free software
and
open - FLOSS Kosovo
<http://kosovasoftwarefreedom.org/> . */ telegraph /*
*
*
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Luca Paolo Pescatore <
multiva...(a)gmail.com
wrote:
Ehm.... great... should I send to TechCrunch and other EN/US websites in
Albanian ? :)
Is it possible to have a PR in English ?
Luca
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:54 PM,
jamesmikedup...(a)googlemail.com <
jamesmikedup...(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> Bernard Writes :
>> The attached notice has been published today in Gazeta Express and I
have
>> sent it to: Telegrafi, Koha Ditore and
RTKlive.com. You can use this to
send
>> to other media and maybe invite them to come.
Also Arianit has written
a
> similar
text that we can also use...(
>http://arianit2.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/kete-vikend-prishtina-behet-...
> )
> As I said yesterday, it would be good if
somebody knows people in the
> media and talks to them to come.
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