Last month, I officially signed the agreements for the UP professorial grants.
The first 3 grants are funded by Exist Global, Morph Labs and Global Gateway Ventures and are targeted to the UP Computer Science program at UP Diliman. I look forward to working with the CompSci faculty at UP led by Cedric Festin. The program will enable deserving UP professors to get grants for 5 years for academic endeavors that will advance the computer science program.
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September 2nd, 2007
We are inviting all to attend the first General Assembly of Go4SW volunteers. The GA shall start right after the Innovation Forum at the same venue.
RSVP: Edsel Sobrevinas
Mobile: +63915.567.4113
Tel: +632.687.4091 loc. 110
Email: esobrevinas@exist.com
July 23rd, 2007
Hong Kong to host Asia’s largest Open Source community conference in November this year. The event is expected to be hugely popular due to rapidly growing support for Open Source software in Asia over recent years.
Two of the leading organizations in the Open Source community, The Apache Software Foundation and the Eclipse Foundation, have announced plans for Asia’s largest Open Source community conference - the first of its kind in Hong Kong and China.
The inaugural OS Summit Asia 2007 will be held at the Le Meridian hotel in Hong Kong’s leading edge Cyberport IT development zone on November 26th - 30th 2007. With Open Source software rapidly growing in popularity in the region, this community summit, the first joint conference between Apache and Eclipse and the first in Hong Kong and China, is expected to be a vibrant event, encouraging a lively exchange of ideas between all those involved in OSS, including developers, vendors and users.
Winston Damarillo, Co-Executive Producer of the OS Summit said, “As Asia moves to become the largest consumer of Open Source technologies, it is increasingly important that the region is able to experience the Open Source community process in action. We are excited to be able to demonstrate this in the context of the collaboration between Eclipse and Apache. Local communities and associations have been a tremendous help in supporting us and providing the best possible venue to launch this initiative.”
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July 10th, 2007
I had an opportunity to share these materials to the PSIA, Exist staff and Faculty members for CS in Cebu and Manila. Still in its early draft mode but have gotten good responses. Please help in improving it. I will continue the lecture series to get more feedback.
GO4SW Beta1 - PDF
These materials are licensed under Creative Commons.
June 4th, 2007
Inviting software, web and digital entertainment professionals in Manila for an evening of booze, industry chatter and tech talk get together. Venue will be in Makati at the M Cafe starting at 9PM this thursday (5-31) .. Please send an email to jsara@exist.com or comment here .. or for the adventurous ones .. Twitt us @go4sw
May 15th, 2007