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March 26, 2008

New prominent additions: Google, IBM, Red Hat, OpenOffice.org and Gartner will send their representatives

Filed under: English, News & Bolts, eLiberatica & ROSI — Lucian Savluc @ 10:39 am

I thought that might me useful to post here the eLiberatica newsletter too. We just published it yesterday.

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Dear Partners and Colleagues,

In addition with the ones presented in the February newsletter, we are glad to announce: Google, IBM, Red Hat, OpenOffice.org and Gartner, some of the heavy weight world-wide IT organizations, are sending speakers to the eLiberatica Conference this spring.
The organizer committee is currently arranging for speakers from other important IT organizations and companies, as well. As soon as we have confirmation, their names and descriptions will be published on the eLiberatica website in “Speakers & Schedule” and “Partners & Sponsors” sections.

1. New confirmed speakers:

From Google Inc - Matthew “Chewy” Trewhella (SUA)
/ Developer Advocate

From Gartner Inc - Felix Enescu (Romania)
/ VP Consulting & EXP for Romania

From OpenOffice - Louis Suarez-Potts (Canada)
/ Community Manager, OpenOffice.org / Sun Microsystems Inc.

From Open Source Innovation Ltd - Humberto Moran (England)
/ CEO

To find more about them, read their bios published under the “Speakers” section.

2. You still have one week to take advantage of our discounted ticket promotion when you register by 31 March:

  • 20% off for: Basic Conference Ticket (BCT) - BOOK IT NOW
  • 20% off for students, teachers and non profit representatives: Discounted Conference Ticket (DCT) - BOOK IT NOW
  • 20%+10% of for FLOSS Associations: Basic Conference Ticket - FLOSS Associations (BCT-FA) - BOOK IT NOW
  • FREE - special offer for accredited mass media representatives: Media Conference Ticket (MCT) - BOOK IT NOW

3. We released our updated Partners and Sponsors list under “Partners & Sponsors” section.

We expect in the next newsletter to have at least 5 more prominent organizations confirmed as participants at eLiberatica. Keep an eye on that section for updates.

4. Special for you.

This conference was designed for you: business people, decisions makers, developers, students and the non-specialist computer users. The event represents a unique opportunity in Romania, not only to keep up with the latest news and trends in the field, but also to enlarge your horizon about new technologies and practices, to establish contacts, to socialize and network and have a great time in a fun and entertaining atmosphere.

As one of the IT pioneers Edsger Dijkstra said so well: “Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.“ Participate at eLiberatica and you’ll will find why!

Remember to note on your calendar - the discount promotion for eLiberatica tickets ends on 31st of March.
For registration please use this link: http://www.eliberatica.ro/2008/eliberatica-registration

5. We found a great link to an article on the Open Source and Free Software phenomenon.

The article was published by Mircea Sarbu, one of the Romanian IT veterans. We are convinced it will heat up your curiosity to learn more:
“Open Source like a business” (the article is in Romanian).

We wish you all our best and hope to meet in the spring!

The eLiberatica team.

Conference Organizers:

Gold Partner:

Silver Partners:

Bronze Partners:

Freedom Party Community Sponsor:

Community Sponsors:

Media Partners:

For information regarding registraton or your organization’s promotion during the conference you can contact us at:

International organizations, companies or individuals:

Lucian Savluc, eLiberatica Conference Coordinator | ROSI Group Coordinator:
lucian.savluc@eliberatica.ro | lucian.savluc@rosi.ro

Romanian organizations, companies or individuals:

Andreea Maier, PR Manager, Agora Media
andreea.maier@agora.ro
Mobile: (+ 4)-0730-119.721
Telephone: (+ 4)-021-330.92.82
Fax: (+ 4)-021-330.92.85

Mihai Bucuroiu, Sales Manager, Agora Media
mihai.bucuroiu@agora.ro
Mobile: (+ 4)-0723-408.990

Daniel Dan, Sales Representative, Agora Media
daniel.dan@agora.ro
Mobile: (+ 4)-0722-589.735

General information:

March 19, 2008

No visas to enter Canada for UE citizens

Filed under: About Life & Everything, English, Living in Vancouver, BC, News & Bolts — Lucian Savluc @ 11:17 am

There will come the time Romanians will travel without visas to Canada - the question is when?

“Citizenship and Immigration Canada has been working with new EU countries in an effort to establish visa-exempt status for all EU member states. Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and Lithuania, are the most recent countries for which citizens traveling to Canada are no longer required to obtain Temporary Resident (Visitor) Visas.”
– CIC News –

Read the whole article: “Visa-Free Travel to Canada for New European Union Member States“

February 21, 2008

Document Freedom Day - Now is official!

Filed under: About Life & Everything, English, News & Bolts, eLiberatica & ROSI — Lucian Savluc @ 6:05 pm

(Via our friends from FSF Europe)

”

About the Document Freedom Day:

The Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for Document Liberation. It is a day of grassroots effort around the world to promote and build awareness for the relevance of Free Document Formats in particular and Open Standards in general. The DFD is supported by a large group of organisations and individuals, including, but not limited to Ars Aperta, COSS, Esoma, Free Software Foundations Europe and Latin America, IBM, NLnet, ODF Alliance, OpenForum Europe, OSL, iMatix, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, Inc., The Open Learning Centre, Opentia, Estandares Abiertos.

The list of DFD supporting groups can be found at: http://documentfreedom.org/Who

The list of DFD teams is available at: http://documentfreedom.org/Category:Teams

Further information: http://documentfreedom.org

”

Spread the word!

February 6, 2008

Underground news: eLiberatica 2008 speakers list

Filed under: English, News & Bolts, eLiberatica & ROSI — Lucian Savluc @ 8:54 pm

I have lots of news and not too much time, but I can not resist without at least presenting one: Finally we released the eLiberatica guest list. And we have a great team again! Take a look here:

  • Monty, is accepted our invitation and is coming again! I bet that Romanians will have tons of question for him, especially since MySQL proved without any doubts that Open Source business model can worth billions ;)
  • Since they gain so much audience last year, old friends from the last edition are coming with new presentations: Bogdan Manolea will talk this time about Romanian laws related to the IT field, what legal implication are if you wish to start an IT business, open-source issues and more.
  • Also, Aleksander Farstad, CEO at eZ Systems, will come with a general presentation about the future of Enterprise Content Management.
  • New personalities are join us:
  • David Ascher - CEO at MailCo (the latest Mozilla Foundation subsidiary) the one who would make Thunderbird flying like thunder;
  • Barbara Held, from European Commission, in charge with Interoperable Delivery of pan-European eGovernment Services program
  • Ivan Krstic, Director of Security Architecture at One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Project who was named by MIT Technology Review in 2007, one of the world’s top innovators under the age of 35 for his work on the OLPC security platform, Bitfrost.
  • Bill Dobie,  Founder and Head of Business Development at Navarik Corp. - which will talk about doing business with the giants (Shell, BP and others) using open source technologies
  • Shane Caraveo,  chief dragon-wrangler for Komodo at ActiveState and the one who wrote the first Win32 port of PHP back in the late 90’s
  • Shane Martin Coughlan, from Free Software Foundation Europe will present strategic implementation of Free Software in businesses
  • Brian King, Board of Directors Mozdev Community Organization and Founder and manager at Briks, will talk about “Standing on the Shoulders of Giants” and running a business using OSS tools and software
  • David Sugar, a telecommunications and FLOSS veteran,  will will introduce you the background, history, and business opportunities for using free software in telecommunications.

Last but not least: finally somebody from Romanian Government at eLiberatica! Mr. Constantin Teodorescu, Secretary of State at Romanian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology will attend and speak at eLiberatica!

And of course, my best friend Zak (who is beyond hype, Romanians already know him), the person without this conference would not be the same.

As you see, a great-great team of speakers, hard to put together even at a North American IT conference. A unique chance to meet them in Romania, all together.

And… ah, the registration started :) And there are special promotion and 20% off for the ones who are booking the tickets this month.

 Let’s see, I think a covered the most important things. I forgot; there are others on the guests lists and we are waiting their confirmation. Perhaps I should note at least one of them:  Louis Suarez-Potts from OpenOffice. What do you think? Of course we are going to invite this time Microsoft representatives to paricipate in the discussion panel ;)

So, if you wish to keep in touch with the latest updates, keep an eye on eLiberatica website and subscribe to the news there.

January 18, 2008

One of the best places to live in North America

Filed under: About Life & Everything, English, News & Bolts — Lucian Savluc @ 11:20 am

This year started in force, busy like crazy; the winter Christmas vacation is gone, still, I get some very nice memories and fortunately some good shots. I couldn’t arrange and upload everything on my flickr account, (I have some good ones with Chicago) but I uploaded some images from one of the nicest North American communities: Naperville.
After we visited it, now I understand why is considered to be one of the best places to live in North America.

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