Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Soundskool

Soundskool - an inter-school battle of the band competition released teaser videos for this upcoming event, and the “announcement” of a link, going to this particular site (http://www.handakanabangsumikat.ph/).


[Download MP4s]


[Download Reports]


Fellow musicians, join now and help me spread the good news!

Monday, March 17, 2008

T.J. Rodgers on Solar, Politics and Capitalism

T.J. Rodgers is the founder and CEO of Cypress Semiconductor. He is known for his public relations acumen, his brash personality, and strong advocacy of laissez-faire capitalism.


Click here to see where he stands on the issues regarding solar, politics and capitalism.

Monday, March 03, 2008

Focused Group Discussion on FOSS

A research group from Ateneo de Manila University invited developers in a Focused Group Discussion(FGD) on FOSS development at BCD Pinpoint, 4th Floor Bloomingdale Building, 205 Salcedo Street, Legazpi Village, Makati. The FGD was divided into two, the first had it on Feb. 26 and the second on Feb. 28, which targeted freelancers and employees respectively.


The topics were:


1. Software / Deployment stack usage
2. FOSS advocacy
3. FOSS community


Technical discussions were already going on before the formal one started. Michael Cole, an I.T. Manager, who was one of the speakers during Software Freedom Day 2007, gave a lot of his insights regarding the use of FOSS on the desktop space. He also revealed some of FOSS’s limitations at its current state. Re Alvarez, a system administrator, laid out some of his plans for FOSS usage on the company that he is working with. He gave out a lot of tips for newbies. Archie Cortes, a FOSS advocate and a full-time user since 1998, clarified the edge of FOSS against proprietary software.


I have learned a lot from these brilliant people and I have noted some of their FOSS marketing strategies.


Many thanks to Rick Bahague Jr. for the invitation and the 1 GB Kingston DataTraveler give-away.