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Ladies and Gentlemen,

We are back.

This fortnight, not only are we returning with the LUG Roundup, but we
have a very special interview with Ian Murdock, formerly the ian in
debian, now working for Sun with Open Solaris. I talk with Ian about
Project Indiana, an ambitious attempt at creating what can only be
called "the" Open Solaris distro.

So sit back and enjoy.

IOE (Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk Campus) FOSS Community under
the guidance of ACEN (Association of Computer Engineers Nepal) and NITC
(National Information and Technology Center) conducted a survey cum
campaign to promote FOSS among the school students this February and
March . It was an attempt to make students aware about FOSS and its
importance in today's computing world.
This here is an abstract of the abstract of the report prepared by us.
The complete report is available here http://foss-nepal.googlegroups
.com/web/Foss_campaign_Report_ACEN_IOEFOSS.pdf
Please go through it and give us your feedback

Over 125 IT professionals and students from different organizations and universities gathered at Yala Maya Kendra, Lalitpur, Nepal for FOSS Ka Kura Special on May 24, 2007. This FOSS Ka Kura Special, termed FOSS Social, was organized by FOSS Nepal Community and was supported by The Center for Open and Sustainable Learning (COSL). A special presentation on OpenContent was delivered by Dr. David Wiley, the Founder of OpenContent and Director of COSL.

Thats right, after a hiatus caused by work, bandwidth and flu, we're back.

We are on the lookout for stories and interviews for both the site and the show so shoot us an email to stories@localfoss.org if you've got something you think we should know about.

I'm also exploring a couple of different ideas to bring the show a more international and inter-community feel, so stay tuned. 

Over 27 IT professionals and students from different organizations and universities gathered at Yala Maya Kendra, Lalitpur, Nepal for a two-day Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) training called “FOSS Essentials Training 2007” on March 17-18, 2007. It was the first Free/Open Source Software training of its kind in Nepal. The key objective was to create an awareness about FOSS among general computer users, promote the use of FOSS and to build a network of FOSS practitioners and trainers in Nepal.

FOSS Essentials Training 2007 was jointly organized by FOSS Nepal Community and the Center for International Cooperation for Computerization (CICC), Singapore. The event was supported by National Information Technology Center (NITC, Nepal), and Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya (MPP, Nepal).

By Fouad Riaz Bajwa

When it comes down to developing and sharing ICT based open knowledge,Pakistan is never behind in the arena, the third largest low-cost IT enabled and offshore BPO services provider nation in Asia after India and China. Such is an example set forth by the Open Source Resource Center (OSRC), a project of the Ministry of Information Technology, Government of Pakistan. OSRC has developed and released a FOSS resource kit titled "OSS Training Toolkit" [1] originally put together in order to facilitate OSRC's training comprising of free-of-cost workshops that it carries out throughout Pakistan.

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Well here we are with Episode 17 of Open Source On The Air, late again and without the live <sigh>.

This fortnight we delve into whats happening in the Open Solaris world. With the upcoming Opensolaris Governing Board elections, I thought now would be a good time to have a chat with three people "In The Know". Joining me were James McPherson, Joshua Clulow and Glynn Foster (who is unfortunately very muffled, apologies, he blames the sheep eating the cables).

The worldwide LinuxChix community welcomes its latest chapter, AussieChix, on International Women's Day. Following on the heels of Frances E. Allen being the first woman ever to receive the prestigious 'Turing Award,' AussieChix aims to highlight and encourage women in computing.

While the organisation has a key interest in free and open source software (eg Linux, Firefox and OpenOffice.org) the focus of the group is to show women in computing that they are not alone.

AussieChix has emerged from the amalgamation of the Sydney and Melbourne chapters of LinuxChix, and throws open its doors to women across Australia. AussieChix is not an exclusive club - far from it. It is free to join, and the only requirements are "Be polite, be helpful." (Which makes us sound like the new millennium version of the Country Women's Association - next, a virtual lamington drive!)

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This fortnight we continue with our Round Table format, this time looking at Open Source Graphics. I am joined by Andy Fitzsimons, Janet Hawtin and Pascal Klein in a wide ranging discussion about the growing FOSS Graphics community and the tools that they use.

Karin once again brings us up to date with whats happening in the LUGs around the region as well as touching on the upcoming BarCamp events.

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Yet another late episode. Apologies to all our faithful and patient listeners.

This fortnight I managed to snag three FOSS games developers, Tim Ansell from the Thousand Parsec project, Rusty Russell - Kernel Hacker and contributer to the popular Wesnoth project, and Michael Kedzierski from kruel.org a small gaming project trying something a little different.

We sat down and had a good long chat about whats happening in the FOSS gaming world, from why RTS and turn based games seem to be so popular to what seems to be the biggest problem in FOSS game development, attracting the people who make the games look pretty.