2004.07_Asian Open Source, Debian in Chinese, Pakistan Begin Training.pdf

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Pakistan to Train 4,000 in Open Source Software

prior experience of working on comput-

ers are planned to take about eight

weeks.

The training programs are to be

arranged in Islamabad, all provincial

headquarters and at Muzaffarabad.

Whereas trainees from private sectors

(who are planned to represent half of all

participants) would be invited through

newspapers, the rest would come from

government departments. Many of the

government employees qualify for free

training, but the government will cover

90 percent of the fees for private individ-

uals, too.

The minister promised that depending

upon interest a major follow-up project

would be launched at a future date. Pak-

istan Computer Bureau (PCB), a

subsidiary of the ministry, will organize,

arrange and monitor the training activi-

ties to ensure proper quality.

If all went well, the first of 4000 govern-

ment servants in Pakistan have started

their government-sponsored Open

Source training by the time this maga-

zine is published. This is due to a pilot

project worth 37 million Pakistan Rupees

(approximately 544,000 Euro) which has

been launched by Pakistan’s Federal

Ministry for Information Technology.

The Ministry “would sponsor the pro-

ject under which training would be

imparted to 4000 employees in the Linux

operating system, Open Office and other

application software, while 200 systems

administrators will also be trained on

Linux,” Federal Minister for Information

Technology Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari

said at the beginning of April when part-

ner training institutes had already been

selected. End user courses will last

approximately five weeks, those for sys-

tem administrators with one to two years

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http://moto.debian.org.tw/

http://moto.debian.org.tw/viewtopic.php

?t=2968

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Asian Countries to Share Open Source Knowledge

Since the inaugural Asia Open Source

Software Symposium (AOSS) in Phuket,

Thailand, in March 2003, Asian countries

have been sharing policies and technical

insights of OSS for their economies, tack-

ling the common problems, and

preparing a concrete collaboration

scheme. The 3rd AOSS in Vietnam,

bringing together nearly 300 participants

from 17 Asian countries, including

Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, Lao

PDR, Myanmar, Pakistan, and

Mongolia, during 8–10 March

opened various discussions

among experts from governmen-

tal, commercial, educational and

non-profit organisations.

At the conference, the Viet-

namese Prime Minister Phan Van

Khai announced an official Open

Source plan for his country

between 2004 and 2008. While

this plan is believed to accelerate

the application and development

of OSS in Vietnam, enforcing soft-

ware copyright protection is ironically

listed as one of the main tasks.

The Malaysian representative, Imran

William Smith from the Malaysian Insti-

tute of Microelectronic Systems MIMOS

( http://opensource.mimos.my/ ) proposed

to create an Asian OSS repository.

Though many western companies have

offered to mirror this project, there is a

concern about heavy dependency on

western countries. The Malaysian pro-

posal has been backed by the Philip-

pines, Sri Lanka and Taiwan.

While the Taiwan-based Unicode-sup-

porting Open Source Software Foundry

(OSSF) is considered as a source code

repository, the Asian Open Source Centre

(AOSC) in Malaysia was suggested to act

as a content repository. The participants

also proposed to loosen the control over

the AOSS wiki site and mailing list in

order to facilitate communication bet-

ween Asian OSS developers. This

proposal was rejected by the Japanese

webmaster based on security concerns.

However, it was pointed out that the

AOSS wiki site did not function as well as

it ought to be and this might be due to the

shy and modest attitude of Asian people.

50 participants of the 3rd AOSS round-

table representing the 17 Asian countries

signed the Hanoi Statement for the

roadmap of developing Asia OSS. The

next AOSS will be held in Taipei, Taiwan

in October 2004.

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http://www.asia-oss.org/march2004/

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Brazilian Government Goes Guinness

April 2004 will be remembered as a mile-

stone regarding Brazilian Open Source

government initiatives. After months of

talking, as inherent to any political

process, the “First Open Source Qualifi-

cation and Development Week” (“I.

Semana de Capacitação e Desenvolvi-

mento em Software Livre”) finally took

place and probably set a Guinness

record, too!

The original plan involved training

of about 1,000 government employees,

but in the end about 2,200 people from

all Brazilian states attended the largest

government-driven Open Source event

ever.

Almost 100 Open Source experts, from

KDE and Gnome representatives to ker-

nel hackers and security analysts, did

their best to support the organization

crew led by Carlos Cecconi, head of cabi-

net of the National IT institute, instead of

“only” giving lectures.

Several Brazilian universities and

Open Source companies, notably Uni-

vates, Unisinos, UFMG, Unicam, Solis

and Utah, worked out altogether 150

talks, user and developer level tutorials,

which took place at two major uni-

versities in the capital Brasília, UnB

(Brasília Federal University) and Correios

(Brazilian Postal University). A huge

infrastructure was set up there, consist-

ing of 800 network nodes spread over 50

virtual LANs in 50 labs.

A Knoppix-based mini-distro named

“Kurumin” tailored for the event was

handed out to everyone interested, help-

ing the government staff to acquaint

themselves with what is about to

become their future desktop system.

During the event, the Brazilian Min-

istry of Culture officially launched the

Creative Commons License adapted to

Brazilian laws, showing that the princi-

ple of “openness” applies to many things

beyond source. Another highlight was

the round table discussion with all the

well-known local representatives of big

Open Source projects like the Linux ker-

nel, KDE or Gnome, and of Open Source

based companies. Chaired by kernel

hacker Arnaldo Carvalho de Mello the

audience got an impression of how the

community is capable of helping the

nation grow on Open Source use. Major

changes throughout the Brazilian IT sec-

tor are expected in the near future since

this event officially started the Brazilian

.gov move towards Open Source, and a

second training week is planned for the

near future.

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http://interagir.softwarelivre.gov.br/

http://creativecommons.org/

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