Slovakia wants to host OpenOffice.org developer conference 2008

OpenOffice.org developer conference brings OO.o people from around the world to discuss the future of the open source office suite. This year Slovakia (SKOSI) is also running for hosting this event. We already started the preparation in December 2007, which did receive a huge popularity among our small European country. Sun, Novell, New Media Group, and few other companies pledged for help in organization, also the Slovak open source community is getting involved from different projects.

We are also playing with the Idea of making a co-event during the OpenOffice.org conference, which will be something like a Open Source Week, organizing smaller one day events durring the week, one day can be for the government, another for education and we can finish it with Software Freedom Day 2008 which will happen 4th time in Slovakia.

Right now the core team is around 10 people and we also have around 20 volunteers.

Wish is luck to see such great event happen in eastern Europe, nothing similar was here ever, this can be the first time...

SFD'07 preparation in Slovakia

It's only 8 days to the international Software Freedom Day, which will be held by 300 teams around the world. For Slovakia and it's third year of SFD we prepared this action in three cities. Bratislava, Kosice and Nove Mesto nad Vahom are going to offer a one day of software freedom near you.

For Bratislava we prepared something new, durring the last two years all the people were coming to the event on a specified location. This year SFD in Bratislava will be hosted in one of the biggest shopping malls called Polus City Center. We believe that bringing free software to the totaly new an unknown people can have better impact of the cause.

We gladly thank our sponsors which made this event more exciting for us and those coming to it. (Sun Microsystems Slovakia, Technical University of Kosice, Slovak Open Source Initiative, Linuxos.sk, Linuxfest people, and all the media partners as well)

OpenDVD for education in Slovakia

opendvd version 1.1 contains open source software for Windows in Slovak and English language. Some of the applications are available with a Slovak book attached in PDF.

Office: OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Thunderbird, PDFcreator, Ghostscript
Draw: TuxPaint, Inkscape, Scribus, Blender3D, Gimp
Code: Nvu, Lazarus/Free Pascal, Netbeans
Edu: Stelarium, Celestia, TuxTyping
Edu-K12: Gcompris
Math: Maxima, Octave, Gnuplot, Scilab
Geography: GrassGIS

dvd is available under sk.openacedemy.eu project

for version 1.2 we are preparing a offline version of slovak wikipedia portal

SKOSI joins egovernment committee in Slovakia

SKOSI, non for profit organization joined committee for standardization of information systems for public administration. The Committee for standardization of information systems is responsible for creating electronic standards for public administration in several sectors, egovernment, ehealth, European network and abroad communication. Committee is the supreme body for egovernment in the Slovak Republic under Ministry of Finance, egovernment section which was formerly hosted under Ministry of Telecomunications.

We are looking forward to bring more open standards into information systems in Slovak public sector.