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I’m back to Canada! Yes, after spending 3 months in Europe, mostly in Romania but also visiting some other countries, this is my first day at work. There are lots of things which happened in the meantime and I strongly hope I will have more time to share it here this time: how we feel Romania after living there again for 3 months, how we feel Canada now when we turned back, how was eLiberatica 2008, what plans we have for the future of the conference and the Romanian Open Source Initiative, some stories from our Black Sea Coast vacation in Bulgaria and so on. But for now we just try to use again to the Vancouver time (still having some jet-lag and vacation-lag ;).

And, because I can not stay without mention it (although you already know it I bet); coincidentally, today Google launched Chrome! Also coincidentally, I just have some conversation in the last weeks about browsers.. I was mentioning to my chat partner, that probably the main improvement that I would do it if I would be involved in a browser design, would be to simplify the interface, to remove buttons and so, eventually to implement different interface profiles: a profile for geeks, one for developers, one for my parents , I mean for ordinary people and so on. And looking at Chrome, I would say that I was right. They did it! Again. This is why we wish to have Google again at eLiberatica for the next year. Ah, and Chrome project is Open Source!
A well written story here: Inside Chrome: “The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web“.

A message I forward from European Union, related to Open Source:

“

Dear FLOSS Experts and Users,

As some may have heard, the IDABC Programme for European eGovernment services launched on 18 June 2008 the Open Source Observatory and Repository (www.OSOR.EU). This action continues the IDA and IDABC activities for the promotion of FLOSS in public administrations: http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/chapter/452 . The objective is to provide a platform where information, experiences and code can be exchanged across borders and institutions. The enclosed flyer provides further explanations.  

We invite you to visit the OSOR, its information platform, its forge and repository. The OSOR collaborates with European OSS repositories and forges, is welcoming new projects, and is currently fine-tuning requirements with specific user communities built around topics that are likely to become important on a pan-European platform such as OSOR - the GIS community being the first one.

For those who have followed the project from the start, thank you for your patience.

You are now welcome to join the OSOR User Group, supported by the functionalities of the “USER GROUP” project on the OSOR (mailing list, forum, documentation…):

• Join the User Group project (http://forge.osor.eu/projects/usergroup/ and click on “request to join“)
• Subscribe to the OSOR user group mailing list (direct link: https://lists.forge.osor.eu/mailman/listinfo/usergroup-osor).

Please feel free to forward this invitation to whom you think it may concern.

Looking forward to discussing about the OSOR,

Kind regards,

Clementine

Clémentine Valayer

STRATEQO Senior Consultant | IDABC OSOR animation team

“

I found some time and I uploaded some  unique images from eLiberatica 2008; party, after party, tourist trip and so on. You can check it here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/luciansavluc/

I have tons of other images I’m taking in this trip (from Europe and Romania especially) just need time to upload it to flickr. And I wish to put comments there, probably when we will turn back in Vancouver..

The OpenDisc was launched; and is free, and is open, and is good. 

Check here more:
http://theopendisc.com/2008/06/27/opendisc-0807-released/

(News I forward from tic-lobby, the Romanian IT discussion list)

eLiberatica 2008 is gone… We are thinking already for 2009.

I planned to write a detailed review, unfortunately, the time is not allowing me right now.
Anyway, from the last interview I had with eWEEK Romania, you can find what we are planning and how was at eLiberatica this year.
The whole article can be found here (with the first occasion, I’ll do the English translation too):
http://www.agora.ro/index.php?qs_sect_id=3364&qs_f_id=101&qs_art_id=10742

Ah, and talking about events, check this

Bucharest Firefox 3 Party! - Universitate LA MOTOARE, on Saturday, June 28th, 2008.
http://mozillaparty.com/en-US/events/view/80

The things are moving in Romania, perhaps slowly compared with other western countries, but are moving.