Thursday, February 19, 2004

I'm thrilled that Brian Behelndorf, co-founder of Apache Software Foundation, and CTO and co-founder of CollabNet will be visiting Sri Lanka next week for a few days. Brian has agreed to give two presentations - one to the IT sector CEO types on how companies can make money with open source and the other to techie types on open source history and Apache history etc.. I look forward to an exciting few days and to meeting Brian finally! I'm also organizing a one-day excursion to the Sigiriya area and hopefully to the Minneriya National Park (see this blog entry for some pictures). 12:13:53 AM

Jivaka Weeratunga, co-founder of LSF with me, and I have written a report for the Swedish International Development Agency on open source in developing countries. We welcome any and all comments on it! The report is here. 12:06:41 AM

On January 23rd the Lanka Software Foundation organized an open source conference in Sri Lanka to get local folks interested and excited about open source. The entire conference was organized in < 3 weeks and our target was to get about 100 to show up. We were overwhelmed with more than 170 people attending the conference! It was a 1-day affair and it was very very high energy. We had two visitors gracing the conference too - James Clark (of XML fame) and Ken Coar (of Apache fame) and had a very lively event, ending with a dynamic panel discussion about the role of open source in developing countries. The conference material will soon be up at the LSF Web site. (I have to get around to updating that one of these days ..) 12:00:57 AM

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