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As the Call For Participation closes for linux.conf.au 2009, the search for the host city for 2010 has begun.

Stewart Smith, Linux Australia president has called for submissions via a post on the Linux Australia web site.

"With linux.conf.au 2009 in Hobart rapidly approaching, believe it or not but it's time to look at where 2010 will be."

Smith and the Linux Australia Council have continued the policy adopted in recent years of annointing the next hosting city before the current conference has been held.

"t's a lot of work to put on a linux.conf.au (just ask anybody who's done it) and it's in common agreement that it takes "more than a year", which is why we're talking about 2010 now."

In a message to the Linux Australia members list, Ben Powell, team leader for LCA 09 has announced that the Call For Participation for linux.conf.au 2009 will be ending today.

"Hi All,

Missed out on Olympic qualification this year? Join a more elite group than mere Olympic athletes - LCA speakers and miniconf organisers!

CFP closes *tomorrow* (08-08-08) so get your submissions in or you'll miss out on potential qualification to join the premier league of geeks and gain your LCA speakership :)

http://linux.conf.au

Cheers,

Ben."

Blastwave.org, the site dedicated to providing packaged Open Source software for both Solaris and OpenSolaris appears to have pulled the plug.

We're seeking further comment from the operators of Blastwave however the notice on the site indicates that while the site itself may be down, a mirror has been setup at http://blastwave.network.com/csw.

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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).