[Telecentres] A blog from Cambodia...

[Sunil Abraham]

Please visit the above for details of the ongoing Free and Open Source Software 
Asia-Pacific Consultation (FOSSAP II) organised by IOSN.net.

FOSSAPII Blog, reporting from Siem Reap, Cambodia

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Keep informed with what's happening at the Free and Open Source Software Asia-
pacific Consultation (FOSSAP II) being held from September 1-4, 2005.

Link from the Philippines
Keep in touch with what's happening in the Philippines, a country which has had 
a user group going for a decade and more. Surely Asia has a lot to learn from 
here.
http://www.iosn.net/events/fossap-2005/blog/phil

An education e-primer, and more
Talking about education, if you've not yet come across the IOSN.net education e-
primer, then it's probably worth a download. At Siem Reap, Cambodia, 
participants at FOSSAP-II got freshly-printed copies of this e-primer, together 
with others on government policy and localisation.
http://www.iosn.net/events/fossap-2005/blog/ednprimer

In class, fighting the proprietorial tide
GNU/Linux in education? If you thought you had heard enough on that front, 
here's some more. And rightly so. This is indeed an important field that needs 
to be worked on. Reports from Mongolia, Nepal and Pakistant throw up some 
interesting links.
http://www.iosn.net/events/fossap-2005/blog/classroom

Questions coming in from Danese Cooper Questions coming in from Danese Cooper
What's the progress being made by countries like India and Vietnam in convicing 
their citizens and officials about the many benefits of FOSS? Queries from an 
Open Source diva.
http://www.iosn.net/events/fossap-2005/blog/intel

Brief link... from Jamil Brief link... from Jamil
When I searched Technorati.com for FOSSAP-II, this is a link from Jamil in 
Bangladesh Browsing some links on Jamil's page took me to the Bangaldesh LUG 
page (is there some problem with this URL... a google search takes me to this 
page), screenshots of BanglaOffice and a screenshot of a hack on Mozilla 
Thunderbird for Bangla localization Baaz Paakhi.
http://www.iosn.net/events/fossap-2005/blog/Jamil

Two years, two persons... and some impact Two years, two persons... and some 
impact
What do you achieve with a fledging organisation, and a rather limited amount 
of manpower? Quite a bit, it seems, if you follow the Free Software/Open Source 
mode of functioning. Or so says the IOSN.
http://www.iosn.net/events/fossap-2005/blog/iosn

Poverty ... and 'piracy' Poverty ... and 'piracy'
Poverty and 'piracy'... that's the vicious circle which the poorer countries of 
the planet are caught up. Can Free and Open Source Software (FOSS, or FLOSS) 
provide a way out? The United Nations is taking a closer look at a global 
movement which was spawned by geeks, decades ago, and for entirely different 
motivations.
http://www.iosn.net/events/fossap-2005/blog/povertypiracy

Blogging live... or almost Blogging live... or almost
Nice to be at FOSSAP2, meet a whole lot of friends (and, more importantly, 
persons who one knew earlire largely as email addresses or interesting 
projects). Most of us reached the venue, in Northern Cambodia, on August 31. By 
the morning of September 1, the programme got going. Typing in some inputs, 
while Min Gong of the Chinese Co-Create Association is explaing the history of 
how FOSS got going, and the challenges it faces in the most populous country of 
the planet.
http://www.iosn.net/events/fossap-2005/blog/Live

In Cambodia, the issue is language In Cambodia, the issue is language
Free software makes sense to Cambodia because it allows a small country of a little over 13 million to work towards language solutions that are http://www.iosn.net/events/fossap-2005/blog/norbertkleinrelevant to it.

It's announced... It's announced...FOSSAP 2 is in early September 2005... in 
Cambodia. 
http://www.iosn.net/events/fossap-2005/blog/announced

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