FOSS in eGoverance and FOSS Fiesta: Day 2
March 9th, 2007Note: This should have been last night’s post, but I was too tired to type it.
It’s the second day of my first FOSS-related event. While the first day was probably more focused on introducing the concept of FOSS and eGovernance (not everyone there is familiar with either or both concepts), the second day seems to focus on practical applications. Most notable is the session on the proposed FOSS Bill in Congress that’s been one of the most heated topic in FOSS and computing circles in the country. I’m not really that familiar with the details of the bill, as I have tried to stay away from reading too much flames. I do have some “newbie comments” on it later, though.
I didn’t listen much to the sessions this day (except for the one about the FOSS bill) because I wanted to help in the Ubuntu booth. Ironically, our booth was partly blocked by the booth of Bayanihan Linux, a local Debian-based distribution sponsored by our Department of Science and Technology. Too bad they didn’t have CD’s available, and don’t have a Live CD version, so I guess I’ll have to download and install it (on VirtualBox perhaps?) to test it. It uses KDE by default, so that’s definitely a plus.
The event was really nice, although not everything that I expected. I should have expected that it would be more advocacy-oriented than technical. I did, however, get some sort of realizations regarding FOSS in the Philippines. I’ll blog about those realizations tomorrow.
Right now, I have a lot of “catching up” to do… I really have a terrible workflow.
Just some small updates, while I'm trying to get off my ass and migrate the site completely to Textpattern.