Stream of Ry

There were 2 major celebrations for Software Freedom Day in the Philippines last September 19. One was in the NCC and the other was in UST. As much as I wanted to be in all of the venues, I had to pick one. Actually, I did not really have a choice. I needed to be at UST because I gave the routine FOSS talk. Oddly enough, I did not feel nervous giving the talk. In fact, I think I did okay. Audience rapport was good and I can tell they were listening.

During the talk, I often ask the audience questions. One of them was: “Have any of you deployed software that was used by a client? How did it feel like?” and having no respondents, I turned to the G2IX representative that was there. What happened got a special mention in their blog, apparently.

In the afternoon, we just showed to the audience Big Buck Bunny and Elephant’s Dream as examples of Open [Source] Movies and then we took off for the Y4IT victory party.

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There will be a post-celebration in UP on September 25, 2009 at the Department of Computer Science building (formally known as AECH) from 9 AM to 5:30 PM. Here’s the programme for the day.

Lobby
Whole day – Burn-Install-fest and FOSS consultation

Afternoon session – Teaching Laboratory 3
1 to 2:30 – Web APIs and Zembly (care of Sun Microsystems)
2:30 – 3:30 – Software Development with Open Source tools (Apache Maven, Archiva and Continuum) (care of MaestroDev)
3:30 – 5:30 – FOSS games tournament

Prizes will be given away for the tournament.