linuxNUS » FOSA-SG http://linuxNUS.org An advocate of Linux and FOSS in Singapore Fri, 02 Jul 2010 03:41:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 [Podcast] Episode 1: Birth of the Alliance http://linuxNUS.org/2009/05/20/podcast-episode-1-birth-of-the-alliance/ http://linuxNUS.org/2009/05/20/podcast-episode-1-birth-of-the-alliance/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 02:30:38 +0000 Ruiwen http://linuxNUS.org/?p=641 Whew! Has this been a long time coming, or what?

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

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]]> http://linuxNUS.org/2009/05/20/podcast-episode-1-birth-of-the-alliance/feed/ 1 linuxNUS goes to SLMG meetup http://linuxNUS.org/2009/03/19/linuxnus-goes-to-slmg-meetup/ http://linuxNUS.org/2009/03/19/linuxnus-goes-to-slmg-meetup/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:42:42 +0000 Luther Goh Lu Feng http://linuxNUS.org/?p=366 So a small contingent from linuxNUS and NTUOSS headed down to the SLMG meetup. The meeting was soon called to order, and David and Darrel spearheaded the discussion about the draft of the constitution.

Some of the more interesting points raised was the type of voting proxy allowed. As geeks would have it, a seemingly never ending argument about proxy in writing, proxy via web conferencing, etc ensued. Thankfully, common sense prevailed and the meeting agreed that ” (t)he Executive Committee, at its sole discretion, shall determine the validity of a proxy representation.”

For full updates, do check out the latest revised draft of the constitution of the Free and Open Source Alliance (Singapore) aka FOSA-SG.

At the end of the discussion, Darrel updated that he has managed to partner up with National Library Board to secure the National Library for Software Freedom Day 09. Bravo!

We await to hear the inaugural committee upon inception of FOSA-SG as an official society.

A random shot of a breakout
A random shot of a breakout

PS. We had a post meetup dinner too! Photos of the meetup are on the way here.

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