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Who we are?

Thursday, 28 May 2009 23:25 Benjie Zamora
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We are a group of Filipino IT enthusiasts focusing on Open Source technologies such as LAMP, Perl, Java, etc.

Our group lead, Benjie Zamora, has envisioned an IT-aware Philippines through web advocacy, up-to-date education and domestic interaction. Together with his college classmate Aaron Cabuling, he tried to form a free hosting of favicons/avatar (also known as avatar) through http://www.myfavatar.com. As the traffic rose (thanks to everyone who supported Smile), the cost of maintaining the said site has became dim. Now, together with Ryan Ty, he is hoping to create a web service to our fellow Filipinos to know where the cheapest and most affordable goodies are located here in the country.

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Last Updated on Friday, 05 June 2009 03:12
 

Meet Benjie

Friday, 05 June 2009 03:15 Benjie Zamora
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 14 October 2009 06:08
 

FOSS in the Philippines is alive

Wednesday, 19 August 2009 10:08 Benjie Zamora
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I've just encountered iosn.net today and WOW I couldn't believe my eyes. I thought Free Open Source Software (FOSS) in the Philippines is only concentrated in the academe and I was darn wrong (and I'm very happy at that).

As you may well know, Sitesphil is an advocate of opensource technologies and in a Microsoft-centric country like ours, its very rare to see this kind of institutions. Anyways, I have just joined the network (UNDP-APDIP International Open Source Network) and I am happy to report that there is an upcoming event that they will be sponsoring, Asia Source 3 (How I hope my boss would allow me to join).

Kudos to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada for this establishing project and I hope that Open Source will continue to grow.

The IOSN regional node for our country is located at University of the Philippines Manila National Telehealth Center and serves the ASEAN countries (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam) including China, Japan and Republic of Korea.

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