<br>Prishtina Hosts Second International Conference on Software Freedom<br><div class="gmail_quote">
For the second year running the Kosovar Association for Free/Libre and<br>
Open Source Software<br>
(FLOSSK) and the University of Prishtina are organizing a conference<br>
dedicated to free software - Software Freedom Kosova Conference<br>
2010.<br>
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This conference follows upon the success of SFK09 held in August last<br>
year attended by more than 500 participants and over 40 national and<br>
international speakers and professionals.<br>
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SFK10 will take place on 25 and 26 September starting at 9:00 in the<br>
venues of the<br>
Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of<br>
Prishtina. This year the conference will host several notable hacker<br>
keynotes.<br>
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Leon Shiman will speak on the use of FLOSS in public administration;<br>
Rob Savoy of Gnash project will talk about network protocols; Mikel<br>
Maron will speak on the geopolitical use of open maps and Peter Salus,<br>
historian of operating systems, will lecture on the history of<br>
development of GNU/Linux.<br>
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Overall, over 20 topics will be discussed, ranging from issues<br>
associated with the Free Encyclopedia Wikipedia, GNU/Linux,<br>
intellectual property licenses, building of communities,<br>
OpenStreetMap, Sugar, and many other topics in the field of free<br>
software.<br>
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Topics to be discussed and the quality of lecturers, along with the<br>
success of last year's conference make SFK10 the largest conference of<br>
its kind in Southeast Europe.<br>
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The conference is held under the auspices of the Office of the Prime<br>
Minister of the Republic of Kosovo and is supported by a number of<br>
donors from whom it is worth mentioning: the Ministry of Energy and<br>
Mining, Mozilla, Rrota, PC World Albanian and the University of<br>
Prishtina Student Center.<br>
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The conference is free to participants during the two days. The<br>
presentations and detailed information on the conference can be found<br>
at <a href="http://www.kosovasoftwarefreedom.org" target="_blank">www.kosovasoftwarefreedom.org</a><br>
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For Immediate Release<br>
FLOSS Kosova<br>
<a href="mailto:info@flossk.org">info@flossk.org</a><br>
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On Sep 22, 3:04 pm, "<a href="mailto:jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com">jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com</a>"<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><<a href="mailto:jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com">jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> here is a rough translation of the press release :<br>
> Pristina is the conference host software<br>
> ***On 25 and 26 September Pristina will be hosted for the second time<br>
> Freedom Conference Software Kosovo.*** *FLOSS SFK10 Kosovo, organized by the<br>
> Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering (FIEK) of the University of<br>
> Pristina.*<br>
><br>
> SFK09 held last year was attended by about 500 people who attended about 40<br>
> lectures of 25 lecturers. This time the conference will be focused: the 24<br>
> lectures will be from Kosovo, region and world.<br>
><br>
> The main and guest lecturers at the same time honor of this conference are<br>
> renowned as hackers Leon Shiman, Rob Savoye, Mikel Maro and Peter<br>
> Salus.Shiman's Foundation board member who oversees the development of<br>
> graphical<br>
> system for Linux and BSD - <a href="http://x.org" target="_blank">x.org</a>, and the owner of Shiman Associates<br>
> consulting firm. Savoye is the primary developer of Gnash as previously<br>
> developed for Debian, Red Hat and Yahoo. Savoye has been programming since<br>
> 1977. Maron specializes in programming applications based on geography and<br>
> location. Maron is OpenStreeMap Foundation board member, a service similar<br>
> to Google Maps. Salus is a linguist, computer scientist and historian of<br>
> technology. He worked a professor and dean at several universities. But this<br>
> is only the result of the work of the organizing committee which is<br>
> preparing the conference program for almost a year .<br>
><br>
> Other topics will provide for all the little: Milot Shala will directly<br>
> demonstrate the Qt Framework development of Nokia's, Martin will tell<br>
> Bekkelund Norwegian practices with open source code (open source) in state<br>
> administration, Baki Goxhaj will talk about WordPress, Marco Fioretti will<br>
> show how programming languages can be used in schools. Other topics are<br>
> Wikipedia, CAD, use of EU's funds in Open Source, Sugar platform for<br>
> children, CMS systems for universities, Android platform, etc..<br>
><br>
> The conference will be held on the premises of FIEK-regulation. Free<br>
> Registration begins on Saturday at 9:00 pm and during the two days program<br>
> starts at 10:00. The conference is supported financially by the Office of<br>
> the Prime Minister, Wheel, PC World and New OpenWorld.al.<br>
><br>
> For more visit the official website of Kosovo Organization free software and<br>
</div></div>> open - FLOSS Kosovo <<a href="http://kosovasoftwarefreedom.org/" target="_blank">http://kosovasoftwarefreedom.org/</a>> . */ telegraph /*<br>
><br>
> *<br>
> *<br>
><br>
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Luca Paolo Pescatore <<a href="mailto:multiva...@gmail.com">multiva...@gmail.com</a><br>
<div class="im">><br>
><br>
><br>
> > wrote:<br>
> > Ehm.... great... should I send to TechCrunch and other EN/US websites in<br>
> > Albanian ? :)<br>
><br>
> > Is it possible to have a PR in English ?<br>
><br>
> > Luca<br>
><br>
</div><div class="im">> > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:54 PM, <a href="mailto:jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com">jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com</a> <<br>
> > <a href="mailto:jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com">jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> >> Bernard Writes :<br>
><br>
> >> The attached notice has been published today in Gazeta Express and I have<br>
> >> sent it to: Telegrafi, Koha Ditore and RTKlive.com. You can use this to send<br>
> >> to other media and maybe invite them to come. Also Arianit has written a<br>
> >> similar text that we can also use...(<br>
</div>> >><a href="http://arianit2.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/kete-vikend-prishtina-behet-." target="_blank">http://arianit2.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/kete-vikend-prishtina-behet-.</a>..<br>
<div class="im">> >> )<br>
><br>
> >> As I said yesterday, it would be good if somebody knows people in the<br>
> >> media and talks to them to come.<br>
><br>
> >> --<br>
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> > --<br>
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> --<br>
> James Michael DuPont<br>
> Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova and Albania <a href="http://flossk.org" target="_blank">flossk.org</a><br>
> <a href="http://flossal.org" target="_blank">flossal.org</a><br>
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</div></div></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>James Michael DuPont<br>Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova and Albania <a href="http://flossk.org">flossk.org</a> <a href="http://flossal.org">flossal.org</a><br>