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Software Freedom Day 2009 Celebrating Free/ Open Source Software in Davao! Once again, DabaweGNU is joining the rest of the World in celebrating Software Freedom Day. This year the event will be celebrated on Saturday, September 19, 2009 from 1:00-5:00 PM. It will be held at the Auditorium of the University of Immaculate Conception in Bangkerohan. Various presentations on FOSS technology and issues will be presented by luminaries of the FOSS community in Davao. The Keynote Speaker will be Hon. Councilor Pete Lavina. Presentations: Keynote Speaker: Hon. Councilor Pete Lavina Network Booting and Virtualization – Holden Hao This will be a demo presentation. Holden will present the FOSS technologies that are currently deployed at the DabaweGNU laboratory. This includes network booting (no hard drives required!) and virtualization. The platform has proven to be an affordable and easy to manage setup for a computer laboratory. And Yes, the platform supports Windows too! Free Software and Issue Advocacy – Victor Sapar Vic Sapar, a well known advocate for the use of FOSS among NGO’s will be presenting his experiences in promoting FOSS to NGOs. He will tackle issues that hinder the mass adoption of FOSS and suggest ways to mitigate such problems. Blogging in an Open Source World – Kevin Paquet His talk in last years SFD 2008 was one of the memorable ones. He was still a high school student then. More mature and with more bullets this time, he will be presenting the latest updates and features of his favorite Blogging platform, WordPress. Business Intelligence – Evamay dela Rosa Computer applications and systems are often used to manage operations.  Only a few are being used for business intelligence and decision making.  Evamay will present the importance of business intelligence and available FOSS tools for its implementation. IdeaCamp: Open Sourcing Ideas – Mark Maglana IdeaCamp is an unconference of ideas initiated by Mark Magalana.  In this presentation, Mark will talk about the rational of the project and share his experience in organizing an Ideacamp.  He will also share best practices on how to setup your own ideacamps. Laptops for Education:  The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Project Last Year, DabaweGNU won in the best event competition together with 2 other organizations.  The prize was a pair of OLPC laptops.  The educational theory and features of the OLPC will be presented  during SFD 2009. Lightning Talks Lightning talks are mini presentations that are open to anyone who would like to share anything about FOSS philosophy, technology, community and issues.  The participants to SFD 2009 is highly encouraged to share their knowledge and skills. *** Giveways will be provided by SFD International, DabaweGNU and IBM Philippines *** What Convention When 09-19-2009 01:00 PM to 09-19-2009 05:00 PM Where Auditorium,  University of Immaculate Concenption, Bangkerohan, Davao City Contact Name Diosanne Senor Contact Email sane.dio@dabawegnu.org Contact Phone +6382 227-5629 Add event to calendar vCal iCal For updated information please visit our project page.

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