by renee | Nov 12, 2004 | Open Source Seminar
In November 2004, a 2-day Seminar on Open Source was held in Willemstad. About 80-100 ICT-professionals from all sectors, including government and education, gathered at the WTC Curaçao to participate in this event. Speakers included Arjen Kamphuis, Immanuel Derks,...
by renee | Nov 4, 2004 | Open Source Seminar, Regional
The Governement of St. Lucia organizes an Open Source Conference, on November 4 and 5, 2004.
by renee | Oct 11, 2004 | Jobs, Courses, Demos and Workshops
The Curacao Tourist Board is interested in using Open Source. Open Office was considered a viable alternative to their existing Office Application. Installing Firefox immediately lead to lesser virusses and downtime.
by renee | May 15, 2004 | Jobs, Courses, Demos and Workshops
Stimul-IT, Savant Communciations and Suares & Co demonstrated the Linux Terminal Server Project at the EFEX 2004 Computer Fair, May 14th till 16th, 2004. Many flyers and Linspire CD’s where given away.
by renee | Jun 26, 2003 | Open Source Seminar, Regional
On June 26, 2003 a conference on Open Source was held in Trinidad & Tobago Mr. Robin Miller, keynote speaker, wrote an article about the conference, which you can find here. The article describes the high level of interest for FLOSS solutions with the governement...
by renee | Mar 19, 2003 | Jobs, Courses, Demos and Workshops
As a result of a ‘letter to the editor’ about Open Source, published in the Amigoe in February, the System Managers of the ADC received a demo of Open Office.
by renee | Mar 17, 2003 | Jobs, Courses, Demos and Workshops
Eleven IT teachers of the Frater Aurelio MBO (FAMBO) followed a course on Linux. Since Linux is a part of the curriculum (as part of Operating Systems), the school decided to train its teachers in this Free Operating System. The course covered 5 mornings and was...
by renee | Feb 11, 2003 | In the Press
In a “letter to the editor”, published in the Amigoe (Curaçao newspaper) in February 2003, a point is made for savings in the educational and government sector by using Free Software and Open Source. The original article (in Dutch) can be found...
by renee | Aug 29, 2002 | Jobs, Courses, Demos and Workshops
The ICT-coordinators of the three largest Curaçao schoolboards followed a one day introductionary workshop on Open Source and Free Software. About 12 people from the RKCS, VPCO and DOS participated and received an introduction in Linux Server and Desktop.
by renee | May 16, 2002 | Jobs, Courses, Demos and Workshops
On May 16th till 19th, 2002, the Computer Fair EFEX, held every two years in Curaçao, sported a demonstration of Linux.
