Danishka's Diary

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart” -- Nelson Mandela I just want to show how you could join the 2012 International Mother Language Day by celebrations by contributing to a FOSS project with your friends and relatives. In this century ICT plays manor role in  various fields including education sector. There are many tools have been localized but most of them not let you in to the project to contribute as a localizer. So where you could contrinute to a softwrae on behalf of your own language or community? Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects let you to enable local language support on behalf of your community. More over FOSS is the best solution in terms of sustainability when we considering ICT literacy programs. Firefox ( www.firefox.com ) Worlds best Open Source web browser in the internet world. It also running on   Windows, Linux or MAC and also the defa...

Free and Open Source Software awareness lecture series organized by ICTA and Hanthana Linux community in line with Deyata Kirula 2012 education and trade exhibition was conducted ICTA stall on 7th and 8th of February. A gift from the ICTA  A lot of people participated at this event and the feedback was highly positive. Participants consisted of students, teachers, parents and employees from the government and private sectors. During the session, teachers got the chance to do a short lessons to their students using the education software in Hanthana Linux. At that point teachers were successful in getting used to the software during a short period of time of like 2 minutes and conducting the lesson to their students.   A school teacher (who visit the ICTA stall) conducting a small session on chemistry using Kalzium application to the audience ICTA presented the students with prizes like shool bags and pens and refreshments were offered . Further, ICTA distrubuted the ...

Openness, meritocracy and transparency anchored in cornerstones of an enduring entity Successful vendor-neutral development model to provide the best free office suite Berlin, February 1st, 2012 - The Document Foundation (TDF) today announces that it will base its community-driven entity in Berlin, in the legal form of a German Stiftung. This kind of structure is recognized worldwide as a legally stable, safe and long term entity, providing the ideal cornerstone for the long term growth of the community and its software. "For the first time in 12 years, the development of the free office suite finally takes place within an entity that not only perfectly fits the values and ideals of the worldwide community, but also has this very same community driving it. The future home of the best free office suite is built and shaped by everyone who decides to participate and join. And the best is: Everyone can contribute and is invited to do so, to further strenghten the free office ecos...

During the LibreOffice Conference, The Document Foundation has announced: * LibreOffice Online Prototype: you can watch a demo video at the following address: http://people.gnome.org/~ michael/data/2011-10-10-lool- demo.webm . LibreOffice Online is based on GTK+ framework and HTML5's canvas, and has been developed by SUSE's Michael Meeks, built on Gtk+ broadway from RedHat's Alex Laarson. * LibreOffice port project to Android and iOS, based on the voluntary work of Tor Lillqvist, a SUSE finnish developer know for having ported GIMP to Windows. The LibreOffice Android and iOS port has the objective of bringing the office suite to iPads and Android tablets, and eventually smaller devices. The user interface work has yet to start in earnest but the bulk of the code is compiling. Please note that these are not products available to end users, but advanced development projects which will become products sometimes in late 2012 or early 2013. * 500.000 desktops...

The Internet, June 1st, 2011 - The Document Foundation constitutes a global team of hundreds of developers working together to improve the LibreOffice product for the benefit of all users. We are governed by an open, and meritocratic community headed by a diverse interim Steering Committee, and a vendor neutral Engineering Steering Committee overseeing development. Today we welcome Oracle's donation of code that has previously been proprietary to the Apache Software Foundation, it is great to see key user features released in a form that can be included into LibreOffice. The Document Foundation would welcome the reuniting of the OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice projects into a single community of equals in the wake of the departure of Oracle. The step Oracle has taken today was no doubt taken in good faith, but does not appear to directly achieve this goal. The Apache community, which we respect enormously, has very different expectations and norms - licensing, member...

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OpenOffice.org, the Open Document Format and their customers are equally important, Michael Bemmer, the Vice President and General Manager of Oracle Office, said at the annual international OpenOffice.org Conference on Wednesday 1st September. Although Bemmer did not divulge details of his company's future strategy he made it clear that the inexorable rise of OpenOffice.org will continue in the years ahead, in a speech entitled “A Decade of Success” at the plenary session of the annual international OpenOffice.org Conference in the Hungarian Parliament building. This year's event was seen as the most important to date, as the international IT community awaited US industry giant Oracle's first statement on the future of OpenOffice.org since its acquisition of Sun Systems earlier in the year. Zsolt Nyitrai, State Secretary of IT Communications at Hungary's National Development Ministry, asked participants of the conference to become partners with the government in the tas...

It was a great pleasure to have the first QA event of the OpenOffice.org Sri Lankan Community and the first gathering of the community. Event was held at The ICTA Auditorium from 8.30AM to 4.00 PM (+5.30GMT) on 25th March 2010. Contributors: Kalpa Pathum Gayan Kalhara Prabath Galagamage Bandula Pushpakumara Bandula Ranathunga Dasun Lokuhetti Gayan Tharaka Rajeen Pranna Chanaka Madushan Anushka Lakmal Prabash Rajarathne + /me The team consisited of school students, university students, school teacher, government and private officials and software developers. These people were selected based on the first come first serve basis. The first 12 people who replied to the mail I sent to the openoffice-lk mailing list were given the chance. Wasantha Deshapriya (Director- Government Re-Engineering), Sujith Jayasooriya, Mahesh Kooragama and Sameera Shakunthala (Intern) who were from ICTA also joined to the team. Booting up... Introduce yourself :) Prabash is introducing himself Let's star...