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September 16 is Software Freedom Day. There are a number of activities at the UP College of Engineering starting around 9 in the morning. I’m particularly interested in the “cd/dvd  burnfest” so I can get more stuff for the KURO satellite on FOSS. But there’s no way of telling how the day will turn out for me … Anyway, the program info is below. Thanks to Atty. Soriano for the news!

SFD Philippines Location: The Philippines Team Contact: PLUG, UnPLUG, BluePoint, UP-ACM, UPCOE-DCS, Alpha Phi Omega

1. Announcement

As part of the global Software Freedom Day celebrations, the University of the Philippines Linux Users’ Group (UnPLUG), UP College of Engineering Department of Computer Science (UP COE-DCS), UP Computer Center (UPCC), Association for Computing Machinery - UP Student Chapter (ACM-UP), Alpha Phi Omega Fraternity (APO) - UP Diliman Chapter, Bluepoint Institute of Higher Technology Foundation, and the Philippine Linux Users’ Group (PLUG) will hold the Annual Software Freedom Day celebrations along with the Third Quarter Free Technical Seminar for the year 2006 on 16 September 2006, from 9AM to 6PM at the UP College of Engineering Theater, UP Diliman Campus, Diliman, QC. NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED! ALL ARE INVITED - FEEL FREE TO COME AND JOIN!

2. Itinerary

Saturday, 16 September 2006

9am - 6pm

UP College of Engineering Theater

UP Diliman Campus, Diliman, QC

Electronic Copies of the Talks

Time Talk Title and Speaker

9AM onwards Registration

9AM - 9:30AM Opening Remarks and Introductions

9:30AM - 10:00AM Recorded Video Presentation, from Richard Stallman

10AM - 11:00AM TBA

11AM - 12PM TBA

12PM - 1PM L U N C H

1PM - 2PM Remote Deployment of Windows Clients using Linux-based Remote Installation Services, by Peter Santiago

2PM - 3PM Pervasive Linux Devices, by Rowell Atienza

3PM - 4PM Migrating to Postgresql, by Charlie Lopez

4PM - 5PM The Halalan Open Source Voting System by Diwa del Mundo

5PM - 6PM BOF SESSION

Note: Schedules are not yet finalized and may change without further notice.

3. Activities

• CD/DVD BurnFest
  Available for CD/DVD burning are the ff:
  • FOSS applications for different platforms (Linux, Windows, Mac) e.g. TheOpenCD for Windows, FreeSMUG Suite CD for Mac OSX, etc.
  • Major Linux distributions cited by DistroWatch.com + misc FOSS and Linux stuff: guides, tutorials and manuals
  • OpenMusic CD album and the like using Creative Commons license, etc.
  • Elephant’s Dream — the world’s first open movie, made entirely with open source graphics software such as Blender, and with all production files freely available to use however you please, under a Creative Commons license.
  • Go Open Source TV series episodes from South Africa

o Venue: 3rd floor ENG’G Lobby o Time: 10am-4pm o CDs/DVDs can be provided (by us) at a minimal price

• FOSS and Linux InstallFest
  • for laptops and desktops of different hardware architectures (PC, Mac, AMD64) o FOSS applications for installation on different platforms (e.g. Mozilla Firefox for Linux, Windows, Mac OSX) o installation of the Linux OS can be done for a dual-boot environment (e.g. Windows and Linux or Mac OS X and Linux) or a multiple-boot of different Linux distros o Venue: 3rd floor ENG’G Lobby o Time: 10am-4pm
  • For Linux OS installations, clients must register online (perhaps an email to root@uplug.org conatining details about the machine) or through SMS, 2 days prior to SFD 2006.

• FOSS Gaming Tournament (for our entertainment)
  • featured FOSS game is Frozen Bubble o Elimination Round
  • composed of around 32 partcipants (only 8 shall advance to the Quarterfinals)
  • Venue: 3rd floor ENG’G Lobby
  • Time: 10am-12nn
  • there shall be an online pre-registration, however should the online registrant fail to appear on the exact time of the activity itself, his/her slot shall be given to an interested walk-in participant on a first-come-first-served basis.
  • Quarterfinals, Semifinals, and Finals Matches
  • Venue: ENG’G Theater + Time: 1pm-5pm (2 matches after every program topic interval)
  • in-charge for this activity is UP ACM

4. Profile of Speakers

• Pervasive Linux Devices, by Rowell Atienza. This is a discussion on project ideas and implementation and the current challenges in the area of Embedded Linux. The talk will mainly cover Linux for media and thin clients.
• Rowell is a consultant of Embedded Linux at Eazix Inc. He developed software such as application programs, device drivers, and kernel porting for embedded Linux systems. He is an assistant professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of the Philippines Diliman. He is also a former systems administrator of Solaris and Linux servers at Australian National University.
• Remote Deployment of Windows Clients using Linux-based Remote Installation Services, by Peter Santiago. Typical RIS installation for Windows often require a lot of extras that are not really neccessary. If one just want to deploy Windows workstations remotely, you would often need to install a least two Windows servers. One to serve as domain controller and the other as an RIS. Furthermore, the RIS server should be joined to a domain. The presentation aims to show that it is not necessary to use Windows Server to provide RIS services, that opensource software can do the job with minimal overhead and maximum flexibility
• Peter Santiago is affiliated with the antivirus and PC security firm Trend Micro Inc. for the last four years, as part of the European Technical Support group. He took up BS IT in AMA Computer University in Makati and claims to having learned Linux the hard way. He currently runs his own mail server at home.
• The Halalan Open Source Voting System, by Diwa del Mundo. Halalan is an Open Source web-and-mobile-based voting system designed for student elections. It features an easy-to-use interface, customizable election parameters management, and secure and scalable backend design. The system is written in PHP with HypWorks framework and PostgresSQL as database. It is currently being developed and maintained by the UP Linux Users’ Group (UnPLUG), a student organization in the University of the Philippines in Diliman.
• Diwa del Mundo is a returning BS CS student from the University of the Philippines in Diliman. He left school last 2005 to “experience” the life of an employee by working as a software developer for Pusit.com or also known as Friendster Philippines. He worked for various Friendster services and products such as Friendster Classifieds, Flowers and Fads.
• Migrating to Postgresql, by Charlton Lopez. Learn some of the ins and outs of migrating into PostgreSQL, such as migrating users and roles into PostgreSQL, migrating schemas and objects into PostgreSQL, what to watch out for during application integrity, testing, migrating your backup and recovery schemes and other routine database maintenance tasks into PostgreSQL, and database object size monitoring.
• Charlton Lopez, OCP DBA, RHCE, Novell CLP is a consultant specializing in database administration. He primarily works with Oracle technologies like Real Application Clusters for high availability and load balancing, Recovery Manager for backup and recovery, Data Guard for high availability and data protection, among other disaster recovery solutions. In his spare time, he does research on database administration best practices and how these could adapted for the open source databases PostgreSQL and MySQL. He eventually contributes these knowledge to PLUG.

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