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The Philippine Team will be joining the worldwide community of Ubuntu users in celebrating the Ubuntu Global Jam. An online IRC session on translations (and hopefully, packaging) is scheduled on the 27th at #ubuntu-ph while an offline meetup is scheduled on the 28th. The offline meetup is organized by the lovely Myra Jill Siason while [...]
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The University of Baguio recently hosted a one of kind event north of Manila and it’s aptly named the 1st North Luzon Free / Open Source Software (FOSS) Conference. It was held on January 18-19, 2010 and sponsored by the ASEAN Foundation and the International Open Source Network among others. There are three tracks to [...]
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This has been a long time coming. The organizers have been planning and preparing laboriously for months – and boy, did it pay off. The reunion was fun, fun, fun. We got to reconnect with old friends, share a few laughs, and even got drunk at the end of the evening (them, not me). Israel [...]
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Finally, after 2 years, our site is back. Thanks to Matthias for pointing the domain to our current host. Also thanks to the great devs behind the LoCo Drupal theme group. I’ll also backtrack our past (2007-2009) activities and post them on the site. Next project is getting our LoCo Planet back – I need [...]
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It’s been quite a while since the last Open Source event here in Baguio City. So this year, I’m organizing Software Freedom Day 2009 Baguio together with Linux users and volunteers sympathetic to the cause. However, during registration, I found out there’s 3 more groups who attempted to run previous SFD – something which I [...]