DabaweGNU, Inc. joins the world in celebrating Software Freedom Day 2008 in Davao City. Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). The aim in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about of the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in business. In Davao City, the event will be celebrated through a seminar on FOSS at the University of Mindanao. Details of the event are as follows:

SFD 2008 Davao Event Pictures

On the Blogosphere

Feathervane: Software Freedom Day 2008 in Davao, A Success!

Blender Philippines: SFD Davao Success!

Neural Brew: Software.Freedom.Day.2008.Davao.City

Pinoyteens.net: Software Freedom Day 2008- Davao

Open Arms of an Advocate: SFD 2008

RagingFx: Software Freedom Day - Davao City

Our Program

Francisco Sarmiento III

Welcome Remarks

Mark Maglana

Rails and Morph AppSpace: A faster way to deliver applications to customers
An introduction to Ruby on Rails and a demo deployment using Morph AppSpace

Nathaniel Jayme

Cruxade, freefeathers.org, and FFEHR
A talk on Mozilla-based frameworks used in developing freefeathers.org Electronic Health Record, a Philippine open source medical application.

Maej Villanueva

FOSS initiates at IBM
IBM is one of the main supporters of FOSS. In this presentation, Maej will present FOSS initiatives that are happening at IBM.

Kevin Paquet

Engross Your Thoughts Through WordPress
A talk about the best and the only Open Source Blogging Solution, WordPress which aims to convince you to make use of WordPress and non-else.

Andrew Abogado

GIMP - A Free Software Graphic Application
An introduction and demonstration of GIMP, a powerful FOSS image manipulation program.

Marlo Simon Noval (Ragingmon)

Camera Tracking with Blender and Voodoo
A presentation on match moving videos with 3d animation.

Local Sponsors

University of Mindanao (UM)

Philippine Society of I.T. Educators (PSITE)