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FOSSFA New Council Member have been elected today, the New Council starts duties from Today and for two years (2012). Details on FOSSFA site (FOSS For Africa)

FOSSFA is taking IDLELO4 aggressively with the support of their partners. Some photos of the Pre-Conference Training is posted online on FOSSFA site link is h3r3 .

http://www.uninett.no/index.en.htmlIPv6 Training at Idlelo4 Conference is given by "6DEPLOY" which  is a two-and-a-half-year European project to provide IPv6 training and support for deployments to network operators, service providers and industry throughout the world. With objectives of Understanding and management of the move from Internet Protocol Version 4 to 6. Course for ISP, IT managers, Network operators and solution providers. Training is given by two Senior Scientist from UNINETT , The Norwegian Research Network Centre , Site is h3r3 Details on 6DEPLOY could be found h3r3 

IDLELO4 just started in Accra/Ghana at AITI (Advanced Information Technology Institute/Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excelence in ICT). I'm over impressed with Accra so far, it is very different and more mature than most of the African Countries I have been through. Most of all AITI/Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence is a very well equipped ICT center, it exhibits the best in terms of Infra-structure, Training Rooms, and Facilities. Some photos of AITI as a soft start of IDLELO4 reports to follow

http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ocsOpen Conference Systems (OCS) is a free Open Source Web publishing tool that allows you to  create a complete Web presence for your  conference. OCS will allow you to: create a conference Web site compose and send a call for papers electronically accept paper and abstract submissions allow paper submitters to edit their work post conference proceedings and papers in a searchable format post, if you wish, the original data sets register participants integrate post-conference online discussions You can also take OCS 2 out for a test drive on their server . The login is "admin" and the password is "testdrive". This installation will be regularly purged of all data, so please do not use it for anything other than making a short-term evaluation of the software. Open Conference System site is h3r3 .

Inside Contactless and NXP Semiconductors this week made their respective APIs for contactless payments available as open source code, hoping to give the sector a much-needed shot in the arm. Both companies are developing chipsets for NFC (Near Field Communication), a wireless communication technology with a range of a few inches. It lets users, for example, pay for goods by simply waving their NFC-enabled handset in front of a contactless reader. NXP and Trusted Logic, which develops software for NFC, have released an open-source API for Google's Android mobile OS. The goal is to drive the development of compelling applications that take advantage of NFC, according to a statement. Inside is making its NFC software and API for Android available as open source on SourceForge.net from May 15. It hopes the availability of the software as open source will lower the bar for phone makers to integrate NFC into their devices, according to a spokeswoman. Both companies are hoping thei

Quite an interesting approach from MicroSoft to fund/sponsor an Open Source Foundation but not new though! Details are h3r3 .

Asus' Eee Keyboard - a full netbook built into a keyboard chassis - has been demo'd time after time by the manufacturer . This weekend, Asus formally announced the machine in its native Taiwan. The CPU, according to Asus, is Intel's now old Atom N270, the chipset the equally past-its-prime 945GSE. It comes with Windows XP Home. Still, there are innovations: the Eee Keyboard now connects to a monitor by an ultrawideband (UWB) wireless link. Presumably, Asus bundles a dongle for the other end of the connection. If not, the 425 x 145 x 10-24mm Keyboard has HDMI to fall back on. A Broadcom video decoder has been built in to augment the weak integrated graphics. The unit also sports a 5in, 480 x 800 multi-touch control panel for launching favourite apps and such. And the main key array is now backlit. The Keyboard incorporates 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, Gigabit Ethernet and three USB 2.0 ports for connectivity, and Asus has built in a four-hour battery for usage awa

"A new open source project dubbed Guacamole allows users to access a desktop remotely through a web browser, potentially streamlining the requirements for client support and administration. Guacamole is an HTML5 and JavaScript (Ajax) VNC viewer that makes use of a VNC-to-XML proxy server written in Java. According to its developers, Guacamole is almost as responsive as native VNC and should work in any browser supporting the HTML5 canvas tag. Supporting 10 Linux desktops in 10 browser tabs? I like the sound of that." Project Page is h3r3 Video is h3r3