Have no idea how to start the report. rather i feel comfortable/should share
some information about Asia Source 3, inWEnt, other sponsors, participants,
projects and obviously the delicious FOOD (though sometimes we: the halal
eaters find nothing to eat, coz others find those food more tasty than
theirs).
*About the Organizers*
Asia Source 3 was jointly organized by UNDP's International Open Source
Network (UNDP-IOSN) through its ASEAN+3 Centre of Excellence (Philippines)
and InWEnt - Capacity Building International (Germany) together with the
Tactical Technology Collective (Netherlands), Aspiration (USA) and The
Centre for Internet and Society (India). Funders include the Federal
Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany (BMZ), the
ASEAN Foundation and the Open Society Institute.
Where the PRINCIPLE ORGANIZERS are
- International Open Source Network
- inWEnt
CO-ORGZNIZERS are
- Tactical Technology Collective
- Aspiration
- The Centre for Internet & Society
EVENT FUNDERS are
- Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
- ASEAN Foundation
- Mozilla Foundation
- Open Society Institute
*About Asia Source 3, Held: 07-12 November, 2009, Where: Silan, Cavite,
Philippines*
Main Theme: Building Capacities and Empowering Humanity through the use of
Free and Open Source Software to connect, cooperate, and collaborate – the
FOSS way.
Aims of Asia Source 3: The aim of Asia Source 3 is to increase appropriate
access to technology by non-profits and small enterprises in Asia. Its
primary goal was to act as a focal point in increasing the awareness,
integration and adoption of free and open source software(F/OSS) desktop and
tools amongst the voluntary sector and IT support providers in the region.
Some Focul Area: Asia Source 3 was a six day hands-on open source camp in
the Philippines aimed at building Open Source IT-skills of those working
with NGOs and SMEs in Asia. From November 7 to 12, 2009, the gathering
brought together more than 140 participants from 15 Asian countries in
Silang, located in Cavite, Philippines to build capacities to connect,
cooperate, and collaborate. Asia Source 3 reunited IT-experts from
non-governmental organizations (NGOs), small and medium sized enterprises
(SMEs) and youth networks to focus on the practical elements of the
deployment of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) within an economic and
social context. The event was run as a hands-on training camp to increase
the awareness, integration and adoption of FOSS tools in Asia.
It is the third event of the Asia source camp series, two of which have been
held so far – in Bangalore, India in 2005 and Sukabumi, Indonesia in 2007.
This community building event is the first of its kind in the Philippines
Previous large scale FOSS events have been policy oriented events, industry
trade shows or Linux User Group Events. Asia Source is the first regional
event bringing people together to focus on the practical elements of FOSS
deployment specifically within a social context of sustainable human
development.
Asia Source 3 Schedule: F/OSS-themed track sessions
- Track 1: Managing Your Information: As technology continues to pervade
human activity, digital information will accumulate at a phenomenal rate.
- Track 2: Migrating to F/OSS: Free and/or open source software are easy
to install and fun to use! But how do you get your colleagues, friends, and
organization to experience the same?
- Track 3: Broadcasting Your Information: Now that you have all your
files neatly organized and under control, you need to share these to the
world and let others benefit from your own resources.
- Track 4: Joining the F/OSS Community or Using F/OSS Tools: F/OSS is all
about community. AS3 aims to bring seasoned F/OSS developers into the camp
and allow cross-pollination of ideas and techniques.
The Community we made to CONNECT, COOPERATE, COLLABORATE:
http://www.as3community.iosnasean.net/
How did I come to know: Got an announcement letter from IOSN informing about
the event details and other stuffs.
Had some conversations with Munir Vaia, Shehab Vaia & obviously with my
family members about my participation - should I apply or not on behalf of
BdOSN. They encouraged me to apply and so I did.
IOSN, inWEnt short listed the applicants, and informed them about their
participation. This time we were 4 people from Bangladesh - Me, Jamil Ahmed,
Israt Jahan, Loba Yeasmen
I got chance in Track 4. We were 25 participants in this track. The total
no. of participants were 150+
Mifan Careem (the SAHANA boss) and Johan Janassen (the joomla! guy) were the
facilitators of Track 4. In track 4 we learn how to build up a community,
the key factors, the nature of a community, sustainability of a community
etc. We divided ourselves in 5 Teams and build up an online Community Portal
(http://www.as3community.iosnasean.net/) for AS3 participants. I am one of
the members of those teams(I worked/work as Coordinator for the Core
Development team). I got some real time experience with community building,
case study: SAHANA, Joomla!, AS3.
Gather some knowledge on SAHANA from Mifan. He demonastrated SAHANA. Mifan
asked me/BdOSN to share the module with SAHANA Main Dev Team, which we build
for Disaster Management Bureue.
Got some other valuable ideas, knowledge on some other F/OSS Tools, F/OSS
practice, F/OSS business case studies from other participants, facilitators.
I conducted a session on telecentre-in-a-box. Basically it was an open
discussion session. I heared from the telecentre practitionars - their
stories, what they want etc. They encouraged me to go ahed with
telecentre-in-a-box.
IOSN encouraged me/BdOSN to continue working with telecentre-in-a-box,
SAHANA etc.
IOSN also asked me/BdOSN to organize a camp on F/OSS in our country, IOSN
will love to support us.
you will find lots of photographs/kodac moments in my facebook account
album.
-----------------------------------------
Sabila Enun
Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN)
Jamil-Sarwar Trust,
278/3 Elephant Road (3rd Floor), Dhaka
http://www.bdosn.org
g/talk: sabilaenun
skype: sabila.enun
tel: +88 0 1713 1234 28
Sent from Dhaka, Bangladesh
