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One thing that strikes me since I came in Canada three years ago is the openness, sympathy, respect and tolerance of the people to other cultures. Most of Canadians are applying the phrase “live and let live”. More than that, they will listen to you and even try to help you when you are in a need.

Last Saturday I found the same attitude. This is another thing that make me feel proud about my second home, Canada.

I met Bruce Byfield at Barcamp Vancouver; it was a pleasure. Bruce is a journalist and editor for the Open Source Technology Group, best-known for Slashdot and SourceForge websites. He, together with Kate Milberry paid a high interest about my presentation. More than that, Bruce mentioned yesterday in his NewsForge article about our initiative. Thank you Bruce!

Kate Milberry also had a very interesting talk about tech activism and Free Software named ” Geeks and Global Justice“. Kate is a social justice activist and doctoral student at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. About her work you can find more on her blog.

Other images from Barcamp (there are links beside the sprayed words):

Hmmmm, I have no idea why the image map is not working….

here are the links

Darren Barefoot presenting Barcamp sessions
eLiberatica at BarCamp
Me
Kate Milberry presenting Geeks and Global Justice
Zak, my mentor
Roland Tanglao from Bryght
Sarah Pullman presenting an interesting yoga session for geeks
Bruce Byfield from NewsForge
Boris Mann from Bryght
Lori Pike, my former manager at Sxip

Acum cateva zile postam despre initiativa guvernului Croat legata de promovarea tehnologiilor OS/FS.

De data aceasta, vreau sa scot in evidenta o alta initiativa Open Source si Free Software care vine din partea vecinilor nostri bulgari: Bogomil Sopov anunta evenimentul OpenFest care va avea loc la Ruse, in toamna acestui an.

Deoarece Ruse este foarte aproape de Romania, profesionistii IT si entuziastii OS/FS romani au posibilitatea de a participa.

Se va discuta despre noile tehnologii bazate pe standarde deschise cat si despre domeniile unde se pot folosi aplicatii OS/FS.

Bogomil alaturi de Yovko au sustinut eLiberatica si ROSI inca de de la inceput si mi se pare un fapt de bun simt ca si noi sa incercam a le intoarce serviciile.
Nu trebuie decat sa raspanditi stirea pe forumuri si bloguri. In final, toti luptam pentru aceeasi cauza; libertate in lumea softului si a tehnologiei informatiei.

Bogomil ne face o invitatie deschisa pe blogul sau: “Spread ideas of open source and Free Software on both sides of The Danube river.” Ar fi nemaipomenit sa avem participanti romani la aceasta conferitna.

Pentru contact, puteti folosi datele de mai jos:

e-mail: bogomil[at]spisanie.com
Skype:\\contact_bogomil
Jabber:\\bogomil@jabber.minus273.org (I preffer this)