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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."

3 of 105 comments (clear)

  1. Flirple Plurst by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Er...first post, I guess. Where the hell is everybody?!

  2. bum by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Recent news from Sri Lanka

    "Persecution of Christians has increased in Sri Lanka over the last several years. Statistics from the World Evangelical Alliance show that from January 2003 to March 2004 more than 140 anti-Christian incidents were recorded. These incidents ranged from mild threats to death warnings, arson, and the destruction of church buildings. Church leaders are especially at risk. There are currently efforts by Buddhist monks to pass an anti-conversion law."

  3. Re:Facts about Sri Lanka by Seumas · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, America has about 300 million people and around 70 political parties