Into the Digital World

Digital Freedom International announce their new project aside from Software Freedom Day(SFD) is the culture freedom day.

Culture Freedom Day is therefore a logical extension of Software Freedom Day bringing an international date for all Free Culture artists and activists to showcase what Free Culture is really about, reach out to the public and use this opportunity to meet like-minded people. We invite everybody who cares about knowledge sharing to organize or join an Culture Freedom Day event in their area.

The event is targeted to celebrate on May 19, 2012 visit their official site at http://culturefreedomday.org/ for more information on joining and celebrating the event.

Sorry for the late post. Last September 17, 2011 the Software Freedom Day Philippines 2011 which was held in University of Santo Tomas (UST) was a success. Organized by Computer Professionals Union together with the computer science society of UST, Office of the Representative Teddy Casiño of Bayan Muna Partylist,UP Network for educational technology,Wikimedia Philippines, Open Street Map Philippines, Blender Philippines,CodeFlux Inc, DSource Inc, Mozilla Philippines, Exist, Devcon Philippines, Libreplanet,Devsoc, GroupAid, STI Muñoz, Web Hosting Manila, Net25 and Wahoy Philippines ,. Thanks to our sponsors and supporters making the event possible.

Aris is a Senior Software Engineer in one of the largest outsourcing Companies here in the Philippines, he’s co-founder and CTO of slumnote, a web social curation tools. He promote and organize free software ideas at LibrePlanet Philippines Group and on his blog at arisroyo.com In his free time, he plays around with Trisquel GNU/Linux OS and new Free Software and Open Source Technologies. Watch im on Software Freedom Day Philippines 2011 as he will talk about Comparing Free And Proprietary Software.

Gladys Regalado works on special ops with Computer Professionals’ Union (CPU). She is the coordinator of the Junior Computer Professionals’ Union and CPU’s special projects. She is studying in the University of the Philippines under the BS Applied Physics Program.
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