It’s the time of  year again! It’s time to raise your hands in cheer to celebrate Free and Open Source Software! Go shout it from the mountain tops! Go dancing in the street!

Or… maybe not the dancing, shouting bit.

Software Freedom Day is here again though, for sure, this time round spearheaded by the newly formed Free and Open Source Alliance. We speak to Tom Goh and Darrel Chua, founders of FOSA to find out more about what Software Freedom Day is all about.

SFD 09 will be held at the National Library at Bugis on September 18 (Friday) and 19 (Saturday). If you’re a business person, manager or systems integrator looking to include open source technology in your tool set, make time for the talks on Friday (Possibility Room, 5th Floor, National Library). Otherwise, if you prefer it slightly more technical, check out the technical track, to be held on Saturday (2nd-floor seminar rooms, SMU School of Information Systems, SMU).

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Credit for intro music goes to the kind folk at the NUS Electronic Music Lab. Credit for the drum loop used at the end of this podcast goes to Bill Ray on ccMixter . The track used was No Better Time .

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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.

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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

It’s taken a while, but linuxNUS is proud to bring to you yet another episode of the linuxNUS Podcast!

Episode 1: Birth of the Alliance (shownotes ) awaits your download!

In this espisode, we catch up with a few of the founding members of the Free and Open Source Alliance (FOSA), and find out more about how the Alliance aims to help consolidate the open source community in Singapore. We also talk about FOSA’s flagship event, Software Freedom Day (SFD). The 2009 edition of SFD promises to be a big one, so do listen out for details of what to anticipate, and how to take part if you’re interested.

Enjoy!

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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 it licensed under Creative Commons-Attribution-Share Alike

Presenting to you, fresh (somewhat) from the oven, Episode 0 of the linuxNUS Podcast, Closed on Sundays !

Inside, catch up with the linuxNUS Team as we come together to create our very first-ever podcast. In it, we take a light-hearted look at the open source scene in Singapore, and our journey through it. Naturally, we welcome everyone out there along for the ride, and, of course , we’d love to hear what you have to say about us, and what we’re doing.

This being Episode 0, we have to say it’s still somewhat raw, but hey, it’s a good effort! Oh, and it’s about a week late too, so don’t be too worried about us referencing things in the show that have already passed. We ran into some.. um.. production issues . Yeah. That’s it. Enjoy. Also, don’t forget to check out the shownotes embedded within the MP3 itself.

We hope you enjoy the podcast! Oh, and did we mention feedback is always welcome?

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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 it licensed under Creative Commons-Attribution-Share Alike

Discussed off the record were plans for future podcasts, format, style, and content. The podcasters plan on future interviews, a much better recording setup, and possibly even super-swoosh transitions and editing. Also, much goofing off ensued.

Editing of the episode is well under way, keep an ear out for the final cut

p.s. photos of recording session to come are here!

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