The GNOME.Asia Summit is one of the top Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) events for developers, enterprises, officials and general users in Vietnam. The event brings together FOSS projects from Asia and around the world.

The event will feature keynotes, sessions, lightning talks, exhibitions, and a hands-on lab. Topic areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• GNOME 3.0
• Localization & Internationalization
• Mobile platforms and thin clients
• GNOME Communities
• GNOME library and application development
• Desktop deployments
• School software

The event takes place from Nov. 20-22, 2009, in Ho Chi Minh City.

Chairing this event is none other than Mario Behling, President of the LXDE Foundation, and a close friend of Singapore’s FOSS community.

If you are interested in attending this event yourself or know of attendees from Singapore, please kindly indicate in the comments below. It will be great to have a strong Singaporean representation at the event

Planned program :

* Python Games Development in 60 minutes (as a Mini Sprint) – Mr. Morgan Heijdemann 

Pre-requisites : Because this is a mini-sprint, you need to bring your laptop computer for the hands-on. Pre-installations : Please have python 2.5/2.6 and pyglet 1.1.3 installed beforehand. (http://www.pyglet.org/download.html)

* Python Programming on Your Browser – Dr. Liew Beng Keat 



* PyCon - Call for Papers (Stand up Singapore!) – Dr. Maurice Ling 

· PUG website – Connecting our Community – Mr. Abhaya Shenoy

* Lightning talks - Open Invitation. 

More details at the website.

Hi Everyone,

The eagerly anticipated SRB September meetup is happening on this month. As usual, it’s an exciting opportunity to meet, listen to and network with the top techies in Singapore! So you’re encouraged to drop in even if you don’t know too much about Ruby. And it’s totally free, as always.

• Presentations -

1. hQuery + slideshare experiences – Choon Keat
2. Rebol – Tamas Herman
3. Using Ruby to write stored procedures in PostgreSQL – Dinesh Raju
4. Wegonomics insights – Winston

• When -

2 September 2009, Wednesday, 7pm

• Where-

Yahoo! South East Asia,

Level 8 Suntec City Tower 4, Singapore How to get there: From Cityhall MRT walk through City Link till the end and emerge at Suntec City. Walk to Tower 4 which is the last tower nearest to Temesek Avenue. Carrefour is between tower 3 & 4. Take the office elevator to 8th level.

** Venue for this month’s SRB meetup has been changed ** Wego 53B Boat Quay Singapore 049842

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• Dress code - Whatever. Laptops as clothing accessories are welcomed.

Please forward this to any geek friends who may benefit! Thanks!

Source

Singapore Management University

SIS Building, Room NSR 2.2 (Level 2) 80 Stamford Road (Corner of Bras Basah and Bencoolen) Singapore

Date/time: 2 Sep, Wed, 7pm 19 Sep 12pm

The monthly OpenSUSE meetup with all the gossip news and challenges of the OpenSUSE and Linux world.

We will talk about what is going to happen. The Hackfest, new releases and rpm packages.

Also this time we will talk about SuseStudio we have a presenter.

The monthly OpenSUSE meetup with all the gossip news and challenges of the OpenSUSE and Linux world.

Because of Software Freedom Day it has been moved to the 19th at the SMU.

So meet us there and we will do some fun stuff with OpenSUSE.

Mike

Source: Meetup.com

The Free and Open Source Alliance (FOSA.sg) would like to invite you  to take part in Software Freedom Day Singapore 2009. We have a number of events lined up for you next month on September 18 and 19 at the Singapore Management University, Bras Basah and the National Library Building, Bugis, and we hope you’ll be able to join in. We’ll have events all day on both days. On Friday (September 18),  we’ll be organizing a series of talks at the NLB, providing an overview of setting up and using free and open source software in  business, government and education, aimed primarily at a non-technical audience. Saturday (September 19) will see two simultaneous events: at SMU, we’ll have tutorial sessions on the use of open source tools and techniques, aimed specifically at a technical audience. At the same time, we’ll have booths set up at the National Library Building’s plaza to introduce members of the public to the benefits of open source, the wide range of powerful, reliable tools available for free, and to the participants, both companies and groups, involved in the open source community in Singapore. Event overviews are available at http://softwarefreedomday.sg/ ; detailed schedules will online as soon as they’re ready.

So this year it is going to be more grand than the previous year because it is going to be held at NLB

linuxNUS definitely wants to be part of the action for SFD 2009. So a few of us did a quick brainstorm in IRC, and we came out with the following ideas:

• Showcase Compiz-Fusion
• Play our podcasts
• Setup some multiplayer FOSS games: Note need lots of manpower and resource… to be done only if there is sufficient manpower.
• Check with ComCen and Mozilla@NUS team on their involvement with Open Source
• Showcase what linuxNUS has been doing over the past few years to promote the cause in NUS

Currently, we already have a small ad-hoc team to get things moving. But more heads are definitely better than the few we have. So if you have any ideas, or would like to contribute to the linuxNUS’ SFD booth in terms of resources or manpower, please post in the comments

In the hot seats were Daniel Ng, Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific/Japan for Red Hat Asia Pacfic, and President and CEO of Red Hat Inc., Jim Whitehurst.

Representing linuxNUS, we had Daniel Dao, Yeo Kheng Hui, Justin Lee and Ruiwen Chua at the table.

Get it fresh, below:

• Audio [mp3][ogg]
• Shownotes [txt]
• Transcript [txt]

Or play it live, if you have a decent browser (eg. Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2): Sorry. Your browser does not support the audio element.

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Have feedback? Leave a comment, or drop us a line at podcast [at] linuxnus [dot] org! Or join us on IRC, at #linuxnus on irc.freenode.net

Credit for the drum loop used in this podcast goes to Bill Ray on ccMixter . The track used was No Better Time . The linuxNUS Podcast is licensed under Creative Commons-Attribution-Share Alike

Credit for the photo used in this post goes to afsilva / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 on Flickr

SINGAPORE RUBY BRIGADE AUGUST 2009 MEETUP

Hi Everyone,

The eagerly anticipated SRB July meetup is happening on this wednesday, 5 August, 7PM. As usual, it’s an exciting opportunity to meet, listen to and network with the top techies in Singapore! So you’re encouraged to drop in even if you don’t know too much about Ruby. And it’s totally free, as always.

• Presentations -

1. Rails database seeding strategies – Jason Ong
2. Vim and ruby integration – Patrick Haller
3. Q&A forum on editor + ruby hacking

• Where-

Yahoo! South East Asia, Level 8 Suntec City Tower 4, Singapore

Please forward this to any geek friends who may benefit! Thanks!

When Wednesday, August 5, 2009 7:00 PM

Where

New Horizons Tiong Bahru plaza Level 18 central place Singapore meetup1

Agenda

The monthly OpenSUSE meetup with all the gossip news and challenges of the OpenSUSE and Linux world.

We will talk about what is going to happen. The Hackfest, new releases and rpm packages.

Also this time we will talk about SuseStudio we have a presenter.

RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Singapore-Suse-Linux-User-Group/calendar/10777513/t/nr1o_grp/

The decisions have been made, the timetables have been drawn up; the first Singapore Perl Mongers meetup (codenamed “Adagio”) will be this Saturday (August 1, 2009) at the Earshot Cafe [1] at The Arts House [2] (the Old Parliament Building; it’s right behind Victoria Concert Hall near the Singapore river) from 4pm to 7pm in the afternoon/evening. The meetup will then break for drinks or boardgames or whatever.

We don’t have a fixed agenda for this meetup; Patrick Haller offered a talk on creating a common runtime environment for a repository of Perl scripts, and I don’t mind talking about joining in on core module, perl6 or even perl5 development with GitHub, so we’ve got a bunch of things to talk about (if the Earshot Cafe isn’t too crowded).

Personally, I’m just interested in meeting up with all of you and finding out what Perl is used for in Singapore, and how Singapore.pm can help promote Perl in Singaporean companies and to Singaporean students.

Please let me know if you need directions, want to ask questions or would like to suggest or volunteer talks; my e-mail address is gaurav@ggvaidya.com. If you want to promote this event on Facebook, I’ve created an “Event” to make that easier [3].

See you all there!

cheers, Gaurav

[1] http://www.earshot.com.sg/website/contact.asp [2] http://gothere.sg/directions#arts%20house: [3] http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=148139276152

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