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Sri Lanka Declares an Open Source Week

Posted by Zonk on from the tux-for-all dept.

AnuradhaRatnaweera writes "Sri Lankan Government has declared (Google cache) the week starting from the 5th of September as the National Free and Open Source Software Week. The FOSS Community, Government's ICTA and the industry are working together to organize the week's events including the FOSSSL Conference and Asia Open Source Symposium. The week has been selected to end (well, almost) with the Software Freedom Day."

5 of 105 comments (clear)

  1. FOSS Week by lakiolen · · Score: 2, Informative

    I suppose this is to lure people away from warez?

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    What are you expecting to find here?
  2. Facts about Sri Lanka by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 2, Informative


    Sri Lanka has a population of 20 million and has 19 political parties.

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    Faith-based lying? Faith-based killing?

  3. cool by SolusSD · · Score: 2, Informative

    I work for a company called Interact whose hardware/software runs cell phone networks down there... and yes They DO run Linux! ;)

  4. Re:wow.. editors.. really.. by Coneasfast · · Score: 3, Informative

    are we outsourcing editorial work to India, too?

    uh, since when is Sri Lanka in India

    they are 2 seperate countries,
    know your geography, read a book.

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  5. Re:Sri Lankan Propaganda by shadowmas · · Score: 2, Informative

    SL has been in a civil war for 30 years. and how is this open source movement going to make good press for us? do you think that the goverment hoped that Linus or you slashdotters come and help fight the civil war once they declared the open source week? FYI the week is the result of the local linux and opensource movment which is gather momentum among university students and several IT companies.