Into the Digital Light

Doing a Free and Open Source presentation on Software Freedom Day could be a nightmare to some resource speakers.  It is similar to eating “Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans” in the Harry Potter series since you would never really know the composition of the audience till you get there. Last year I had to improvised since I believed that the presentation that I prepared was too complicated for the audience to take notice off. I ended up with a 40 minute presentation with one slide that only tells about the title of my topic and my name (well, actually two if you count the next slide that contains my email account so that they could add me to their Facebook account).

  "I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place." - Richard Stallman The other day I received an invitation from a friend who is also an advocate in the use of the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) to be part of a team that would propose and implement a FOSS program for a private school in the province. He is in touch with the school's MIS head and they are trying to find alternatives on the use of their P4's and dual core computer systems that is running on a Window's XP operating system in their computer lab. This is every FOSS advocate's dream to be able to come up with a working FOSS program for implementation by a school and the challenge is how to make that dream into a reality.

About Digital Batang Pinoy - was an initiative that I started in iCafe Pilipinas to teach internet safety and security to children way back in 2010.  The different blog post were written in Filipino in order to have a wider reach with the intention of having it translated into the various dialects in the Philippines.  When I left iCafe Pilipinas in September, 2010 these blog post were posted under a different name.  I believe that it is time for it to come home to where it is really supposed to be. Ako ay naging isang opisyal ng samahan ng mga may-ari ng internet cafe, marami-rami na rin akong mga magulang na napapakinggan na nagrereklamo sa pagkasira ng buhay ng kanilang mga anak dulot ng pagkagahaman sa paglalaro ng mga computer games sa internet cafes. Kahit saan akong magpuntang pagtitipon saan mang panig ng bansa ay pare-pareho na lang ang kanilang mga istorya sa aking tungkol sa mga nangyayari sa loob ng mga internet cafe sa kanilang mga lugar.

 About Digital Batang Pinoy - was an initiative that I started in iCafe Pilipinas to teach internet safety and security to children way back in 2010.  The different blog post were written in Filipino in order to have a wider reach with the intention of having it translated into the various dialects in the Philippines.  When I left iCafe Pilipinas in September, 2010 these blog post were posted under a different name.  I believe that it is time for it to come home to where it is really supposed to be. “ U y, Tess” nasambit ni Linda sa kanyang kaibigan “Kay tagal na ata nating di nagkikita ano ang iyong ginagawa ngayon?” “ P asensya na Linda” tugon ni Tess “ Medyo busy lang ako ngayon at hindi na ako nakakalabas ng bahay.” S i Linda at si Tess ay magka eskwela sa ika-apat na taon sa mataas na paaralan ngunit hindi na masyadong nagkakasama dahil si Tess ay lagi na lang nagmamadaling umuwi pagkatapos ng kanilang mga aralin. “ M ukhang may bagong boy...