Open source in Kosovo
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The first
On 28 July 2004, GGSL, an Albanian team of
Ati-Kos has made surveys in five municipal assemblies of Kosovo in May 2005. According to this survey, about 98.6% wanted software box in mother tongue, Albanian. In another survey, most of the participants believed a software box like Open Office would help increase productivity because of the interface in Albanian.[4]
Free Libre Open Source Software Kosovo
Open source projects and training
The first course of Linux
In February 2009, James Micheal DuPont became the first person in Kosovo to teach the operating system Linux. In June of that year, some of the students continued to teach about the OS.[8]
OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap contributes mostly to open-source software in Kosovo.[citation needed] Together with the OpenStreetMap community, companies like LogisticPlus have contributed to the movement. . Its beginnings have been seen in the map which was made for
Kumevotu.info
"Kumevotu.info" is a project for youths of Flossk to help people find the places where they can vote in the 2010 election. This project was held until 12 December 2010 and was based on OpenStreetMap, where the user gives his personal data and he can find the place where he should vote. The project was very useful, even for the youngsters who participated in creating it.[14][15]
OLPC
OLPC was one of the most attractive FOSS projects in Kosovo because it was dedicated to children and poor places where children use a laptop to learn about Linux. This laptop was based on a version of
Wikipedia project
The Albanian community of open source in Kosovo has been active in
Fedora project
The
Mozilla project
The
Drupal training
In Kosovo, there have also been projects about the platform Drupal. FLOSSK in association with UNICEF Lab organized a training project on 6 May with Dave Hall, who is a member of free software, counselor, and administrator of the systems in Australia. The participants were trained in Drupal to use and developing this content management system.[23][24]
Conferences
Software Freedom Kosovo 2009
On 29 and 30 August 2009, the first annual conference, "Software Freedom Kosovo 2009", was held in the premises of Faculty of Engineering organized by FLOSSK and
- Giussepe Maxia by Sun Microsystems, who is also the MySQL community manager
- Dan Carchidi from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who spoke of Open Courseware (OCW)
- Flavia Marzano, Italy's representative at the European Commission on issues of Free and Open Source Software and,
- Brian King from Mozilla who spoke for Firefox browser and its extensions.
Presented from Kosovo were also :
- Prof. Dr. Blerim Rexha – Deputy Minister of Energy and Mining
- Prof. Asc. Myzafere Limani – Dean of Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
- Lule Ahmedi – FIEK professor and
James Michael DuPont – Co-Founder of FLOSSK
Above 40 topics were discussed in lectures on various fields including Wikipedia,
Software Freedom Kosovo 2010
"Software Freedom Kosovo 2010” was held on 25–26 September in Prishtina]]. SFK10 again was organized by FLOSS Kosovo and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer (FIEK) of the University of Pristina.
There were 24 lectures from Kosovo and overseas.
The main lecturers and also guests of honor of this conference were:
- Leon Shiman, board member of X.Org Foundation, and owner of Shiman Associates consulting firm
- Yahoo. Savoy codes since 1977
- Mikel Maron, OpenStreetMap Foundation board member
- Peter Salus, linguist, computer scientist and historian of technology.
And also other topics were also offered by:
- Milot Shala
- Martin Bekkelund
- Baki Goxhaj
- Marco Fioretti
The conference was held at the premises of Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering. [31][32][33][34]
Software Freedom Kosovo 2011
The 2011 iteration of the conference was held on 12 November 2011. With over 300 participants, this conference was one of the most successful held till now. The day-long event was themed "Doing Business with Open Source]]”. The introductory remarks were made by:
- Muzafere Limani (FIEK dean),
- Lule Ahmedi (professor at FIEK and Conference Co-leader),
- Vjollca Cavolli (STIKK Director) and
- Arianit Dobroshi (President of FLOSSK's board)
. Speakers for the first half of the day were; Gëzim Pula, CEO of
The final lecture was by Omer Keser, a Google executive, who spoke on the Google mobile applications and the development of mobile-phone use across different states.[35][36][37][38][39]
Software Freedom Kosovo 2012
This conference focused on
[42][43][44][45][46][47]Software Freedom Kosovo 2013
The 2013 conference was held in the Faculty of Education in the
More than 170 participants and many speakers, including Alex Lakatos, a JavaScript developer and Mozilla representative; Redon Skikuli, another Mozilla Representative and co-founder of Design Everview in Tirana, Arianit Dobroshi, a member of FLOSSK; Arbnor Hasani currently involved with Innovations Lab in Kosovo at the Design Center, Ana Risteska, a contributor to the GNOME project; and Burim Shala, WordPress theme developer.
Two days of the conference were held elsewhere and focused on practical things by the participants, like Tuning Postagre SQL with Bert Desmet, Awesome HTML5/CSS3 with Vleran Dushi, WordPress and Template Development with Burim Shala and WMKIT Arduino workshop with Redon Sikuli. [48][49][50][51]
Open Source in Government
In November 2004,
Richard Stallman's visit in Kosovo
On 4 June 2010, Richard Stallman, a free software activist and programmer, visited Kosovo. He lectured on the topic "A Free Digital Society" at the National Library of Kosovo.[citation needed] The lecture was about the freedom of the digital society and the threats that have to do with it. Stallman mentioned many countries where digital freedom is violated, such as Denmark, Australia, where many web pages have been closed for unclear reasons.[citation needed] He said the presence of free software and freedom in educational institutions is necessary for the countries that want to advance their societies and who do not want to be dependent on software that they have to pay for.
He also said:
Today I had a meeting with the Minister of Education in Kosovo who offered to help in implementation of the free software in schools of Kosovo. This will help your country to develop, to be free, independent and not weak. Working on this project you will be more powerful and you will give the others also the opportunity to get knowledge about freedom of software. —Richard Stallman[citation needed]
At the end, Stallman answered questions put forth by the participants in the room.[53][54][55][56]
Wiki Academy Kosovo
During 22–24 February 2013, at the Faculty of Education near
- Archaeology of Kosovo – Atdhe Prelvukaj,
- Classical Music in Kosovo- Liburn Jupolli, Mic Sokoli, Edona Vatoci,
- Information and Communications Technology in Kosovo- Dardan Ahmeti.
This academy was supported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kosovo, the Great Britain Embassy, the Royal Embassy of Norway, British Council, IPKO foundation and FLOSSK.[57] [58][59][60][61][62][63]
References
- ^ Open Office in Kosovo
- ^ Software Freedom Day
- ^ Software Freedom Day
- ^ Ati-Kos Survey
- ^ Free Libre Open Source Software Kosovo (FLOSSK)
- ^ http://fiek.uni-pr.edu/
- ^ http://www.flossk.org/en/about Archived 2013-01-23 at the Wayback Machine FLOSSK about
- ^ Linux Course Project
- ^ Mapping Brod
- ^ "Meeting & Workshop @ FLOSSK, Pristina, Kosovo — OPEN-STEPS.org". open-steps.org. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
- ^ ""OSM - krijoni harten tuaj" Handbook | FLOSSK". flossk.org. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
- ^ Giscorps.org about OSM
- ^ OSM project
- ^ Ku me votu Project
- ^ Ku me votu - telegrafi.com
- ^ OLPC project
- ^ Wikipedia-Wikimedia Project
- ^ http://wiciacademykosovo.org Wiciacademy Kosovo project
- ^ Fedora Project
- ^ https://reps.mozilla.org/u/altin Altin Ukshini
- ^ https://reps.mozilla.org/u/gent Gent Thaqi
- ^ http://www.flossk.org/en/projects/mozilla Mozilla Project
- ^ Drupal Project
- ^ Drupal Training - digjitale.com
- ^ FLOSSK - SFK09
- ^ WikiCFP - SFK09
- ^ STIKK about Flossk
- ^ Robertogaloppini.net about SFK09
- ^ Pcworld.al about SFK09
- ^ about SFK09
- ^ Flossk about SFK 2010
- ^ Fedora Project about SFK 2010
- ^ osgeo.com about SFK 2010
- ^ wikicpf.com about SFK 2010
- ^ Flossk- SFK 2011
- ^ Chyrp.net - SFK 2011
- ^ Lanyrd.com about SFK 2011
- ^ STIKK about SFK 2011
- ^ PCworld.al about SFK 2011
- ^ Shqiptaria.com about SFK 2012
- ^ Flossk - SFK 2010
- ^ about SFK 2012
- ^ Krokodili.com about SFK 2012
- ^ Telegrafi.com about SFK 2012
- ^ Metamorphosis.org.mk about SFK 2012
- ^ Ameble about SFK 2012
- ^ Digjitale.com about SFK 2012
- ^ PCworld.al about SFK 2013/
- ^ Firstpost.com about SFK 2013
- ^ Sikuli.com about SFK 2013
- ^ Telegrafi.com about SFK 2013
- ^ Pr-tech about open source in Municipality of Klina
- ^ Telegrafi.com about Richard Stallman visit in Kosovo
- ^ PCworld.al about Richard Stallman visit
- ^ Digjitale.com about RSM
- ^ Kosovoguide.com about Richard Stallman visit
- ^ Ministry of foreign affairs about Wikiacademy
- ^ albinfo.ch about Wikiacademy
- ^ telegrafi.com about Wikiacademy
- ^ ikub.al MPJ organizon garën “Wiki Academy Kosovo
- ^ univerzum - Kolegji Universum perkrah Wiki Academy Kosovo 2013.
- ^ ICK - Wikiacademy workshops at ICK
- ^ Ipkofoundation - Wiki Academy in Full Swing