Archive for September, 2006

Feb 05
2006

Festivalul lanternelor, Burnaby, Vancouver

Voi continua din seria “Imagini din Vancouver” cu alt slideshow. Este vorba despre “Night of Lights Lantern Festival”, un eveniment care are loc anual chiar in zona unde locuim.

Ideea este simpla; pentru cativa dolari, celor care doresc li se pun la dispozitie toate conditiile pentru a construi cele mai fantastice felinare. Seara, se aduna puhoi de lume si are loc o procesiune a felinarelor pe ritmuri de tobe intr-o atmosfera de-a dreptul fascinanta; in final are loc un spectacol de balet si dans – un fel de dansul focului :) Presupun ca ideea are radacini in traditia locala a indienilor combinata cu influentele asiatice. Oricum, spectacolul este superb.

Noi nu am stiut prea bine despre ce e vorba, ne-am plimbat in timpul zilei prin parc si am vazut pregatirile; seara ne-am hotarat sa ne reintoarcem. Si nu ne-a parut rau.

Mai jos am pus intr-un slideshow imaginile pe care le-am surprins. Nu am avut trepied, iar camera mea este point & shoot, dar cred ca sunt destul de interesante si asa.

 

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Feb 05
2006

Romania, Linux and FLOSS

Carmen Holotescu and Sabin Buraga presented ROSI and eLiberatica initiative to the Romanian “Linux and virtual e-learning environments” seminar at Arad.
The event was organized by some of high profile Romanian IT academics like Antoanela Naaji,  Mihai Jalobeanu, Dragos Acostachioaie si Sabin Buraga.

There is a powerful Linux community In Romania (my feeling is that till now, in Romania, FLOSS = Linux, mainly) but I hope that ROSI are going to take the flag and give a broader sense to Open Source and Free Software. And the ones that love Linux will join us. 

Indeed, Linux was one of the most important software that demonstrated the power of FLOSS, but FLOSS is much more than that. It is a concept, a philosophy and a method that covers the entire IT domain and all the people involved in this field and all the users that have contact with a computer should benefit and know about it.

And this is what eLiberatica should present in Romania

 

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