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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The Singapore Linux March Meetup (Open Source Alliance – Software Freedom Day)

Location

Singapore Management University

Bras Basah Road SIS Networked Seminar Rm 2.4 Singapore

This month SLMG would like to introduce FOSA and talk about goals of the society, discuss the proposed constitution and to identify members who would like to hold office during the initial formation. During this time we would like to get your feedback on the progress so far.

Software Freedom Day (SFD) Last years Software Freedom day was a great success, considering that it was done totally with volunteers and a tiny budget. We hope to do the same this year and make it a bigger and more successful SFD. We will discuss what we would like to achieve this year and take your suggestions for improvement.

Hope to see you all there,

Tom

PS. Mario Behling from LXDE is still in Singapore and he will be at this event.

For anyone interested he is willing to discuss about forming a team to work on the LXDE version of Ubuntu. This will be officially recognised by Canonical.

So do be there if you wish to discuss with him how you can be part of the team. Both technical and non technical contributors are required, but willingness to contribute and to learn actively is key. Mario hopes to form a Singapore team for this project.