by renee | Jan 29, 2009 | Trackbacks
David Dovale explores the obstacles that slow down adaptation of Free Software in an article on Curacao Connected.
by renee | Jan 27, 2009 | Other News
In an answer (Dutch, PDF) to questions asked by political party ‘GroenLinks’, Dutch minister Ronald Plasterk refuses to pay software licenses for the Netherlands Antilles. In his answer, the Dutch Minister states that the Governement of the Netherlands...
by renee | Jan 22, 2009 | Prizes and Awards
On January 22th, 2009, the Award for the best website made with QwikZite, an Open Source Content Management System developed on Curaçao, was won by FilmCom.nl. For more information see the Jury Report (Dutch).
by renee | Jan 11, 2009 | Jobs, Courses, Demos and Workshops
The Kadaster (www.kadaster.an) is looking for a System Developer. The job description mentions PHP, MySQL, XML, Schema, XSLT amongst other non-open source requirements.
by renee | Dec 31, 2008 | Jobs, Courses, Demos and Workshops
The System Administrator of the Department of Finance of the Netherlands Antilles followed a 7 day Linux Training, provided by a local company. In 7 days, the SA learned about the history of Linux, GNU, Free Software and Open Source. When the training was completed,...
by renee | Dec 15, 2008 | Prizes and Awards
QwikZite, the Open Source Content Management System developed locally, has been nominated for the the Curaçao Innovation Award 2008 no less than three times: In the categories ‘most smart idea’ and ‘most economic impact’, as well as in the...
by renee | Dec 6, 2008 | User Groups
The second OSUC meeting was held 6th of December 2008. The goal and structure of OSUC where discussed and a demonstration of the Linux Terminal Server was given. Subscribe to this Google Group to get a notification of the next meeting. Feel free to post links and...
by renee | Dec 5, 2008 | Other News
Questions from the Dutch political party ‘GroenLinks’ about the plan to ask money from the Dutch Ministry of Education to pay for software licenses in the Netherlands Antilles. Since the Netherlands has accepted a policy that prefers Open Source above...
by renee | Nov 25, 2008 | Other News
Amsterdam uses license fee savings to invest in Open Source. See this article (Dutch) http://webwereld.nl/articles/53684/amsterdam-steekt-microsoft-besparingen-in-open-source.html
by renee | Oct 24, 2008 | Other News
Fatum, an insurance company with more than 200 employees, seriously considers the use of Open Source in their IT-environment. Open Source Software is an economically viable option, according to Perry van der Wolde, manager IT infrastructure at Fatum. OSS is often more...
