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The Osepa project

A small video presentation about the Osepa (Open-Source for European Public Administrations) project. Currently I participate in the project as an Open-Source expert on behalf of the leading partner KEDE (the Greek Central Association of Municipalities). On March 28-29 the 2nd Osepa conference will take place on Jihlava (~130km from Prague) of Czech Republic. A [...]

Elected at FSFE General Assembly

As officially announced today I got elected on Free Software Foundation Europe’s General Assembly as a representative of the FSFE’s Fellowship community. I hope I can help as much as I can on FSFE’s causes and represent worthily the community on the General Assembly.As officially announced today I got elected on Free Software Foundation Europe’s [...]

Hackerspace.gr: Creative Hacking

A video documentary about the Athens Hackerspace

The birth story of Athens Hackerspace

[you can read this story in greek, published on linux inside magazine: pdf] A few months ago Athens Hackerspace (HSGR) opened its doors for the Open-Source, Open-Hardware, Open-Content Communities. Hackerspace is not a new term, but it’s not many years ago that become a standard way of these Open communities to create a physical meeting [...]

πλανήτης ελληνικής κοινότητας ΕΛ/ΛΑΚ

Μετά από αρκετά χρόνιας γκρίνιας οι πλανήτες ενοποιήθηκαν. Πολλοί θα αγνοείτε τους λόγους που είχαν οδηγήσει στην ύπαρξη δύο πλανητών και ακόμα περισσότεροι να μην έχετε κανένα ενδιαφέρον να μάθετε αυτούς τους λόγους. Γι’ αυτό δεν θα μπω στη διαδικασία να κάνω ιστορική αναδρομή. Είχε τύχει πολλές φορές στο παρελθόν να είμαι παρών σε συζητήσεις [...]

Being a Fedora Developer (aka Package Maintainer)

About a month ago I was sponsored and got accepted as a Fedora Package Maintainer. Being already a Fedora Ambassador I wanted a more technical way to contribute to the project. Currently I only maintain two packages, but I hope I’ll have the time in the near future to help more (I already digging around [...]

MozCamp 2011 recap

This weekend the Mozcamp 2011 took place at Berlin. This was actually the first Mozilla event I participated and I really had a great time, meeting a lot of mozillians, exchanging ideas, talking about the future of the web we are to trying to build. Some of the highlights of this Mozcamp: ReMo project Being [...]

Δράσεις της Εταιρίας ΕΛ/ΛΑΚ για τη Δημόσια (Τοπική) Αυτοδιοίκηση

Στο πλαίσιο του Polis, μιας έκθεσης για την Τοπική Αυτοδιοίκηση στη Helexpo της Θεσσαλονίκης, συμμετείχα στην ημερίδα του e-ΤΕΕ και του Συλλόγου Μηχανικών Η/Υ και Πληροφορικών Βορείου Ελλάδος. Παρουσίασα συνοπτικά τις πρόσφατες δράσεις της Εταιρίας ΕΛ/ΛΑΚ για την αξιοποίηση Ανοιχτού Λογισμικού και Ανοιχτού Περιεχομένου στη Δημόσια (Τοπική) Αυτοδιοίκηση. Μελέτη χρήσης ΕΛ/ΛΑΚ στον Δημόσιο Τομέα Η [...]

Wikimania 2011 Recap

Last week I participated on Wikimania (2-7 August), the annual event of Wikimedia Foundation. This year the event was held in Haifa of Israel. I joined the event from the beginning starting from the Developers Days, two days before the main event. So this post is about documenting the personal highlights from this event. Starting [...]

Open Web Apps: it’s not just the future, it’s also cool.

If you’re following news about web technologies, and not living in a cave, you’d probably heard about Open Web Apps. An initiative of Mozilla Foundation. I could try to prove why this is this the future, but currently I’d like to show you how cool this future is. Let’s call this a glimpse of the [...]

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• #Google Maps Exodus Continues As #Wikipedia Mobile Apps Switch To #OpenStreetMap t.co/F8RVPuXE [comzeradd]
• European Commission sides with business on #ACTA https://t.co/BbIuO8Hd [comzeradd]
• Time for fresh fish by the sea :-) t.co/bcy5y4sP [comzeradd]
• Survey: #Opensource procurement costs less and reduces vendor lock-in t.co/ZgC4Uz6x #osepa [comzeradd]
• Bookmarked m.guardian.co.uk
• #Wikipedia Education Program pilot kicks off in Brazilian universities t.co/NLR2pDwm [comzeradd]
• What happens when public surveillance goes mainstream? t.co/g2sqmpTn [comzeradd]

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