Team SFD Philippines '06

SFD Philippines Location: The Philippines Team Contact: PLUG, UnPLUG, Bluepoint, UP-ACM, UPCOE-DCS, Alpha Phi Omega

1. Announcement

The University of the Philippines Linux Users' Group (UnPLUG), UP College of Engineering Department of Computer Science (UP COE-DCS), UP Computer Center (UPCC), Association for Computing Machinery - UP Student Chapter (ACM-UP), Alpha Phi Omega Fraternity (APO) - UP Diliman Chapter, Bluepoint Institute of Higher Technology Foundation, and the Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) would like to thank everyone who attended the Annual Software Freedom Day celebrations along with the Third Quarter Free Technical Seminar for the year 2006 on 16 September 2006, from 9AM to 6PM at the UP College of Engineering Theater, UP Diliman Campus, Diliman, QC.

2. Itinerary

Saturday, 16 September 2006

9am - 6pm

UP College of Engineering Theater

UP Diliman Campus, Diliman, QC

Time Talk Title and Speaker

9AM onwards Registration

10AM - 10:05AM Opening Remarks and Introductions

10:05AM-10:10AM About the UP Computer Center, from Sheryl Heromoso, System developer, University Computer Center

10:10AM - 10:20AM Remarks from PLUG and Ubuntu-PH, from Jerome Gotangco, VP-External of PLUG and Member of the Ubuntu Project and the Free Software Foundation

10:20AM - 10:30AM Remarks from the ASEAN3+, from Dr. Alvin Marcelo, Coordinator of ASEAN3+ of IOSN

10:30AM - 10:45AM Remarks from OpenMinds, from Manny Amador, Representative of OpenMinds and Chief Tech Evangelist of Infoweapons

10:45AM - 11:00AM Remarks from the POSITIVE Project, from Danny Escasa, Representative of POSITIVE

11:00AM - 11:15AM Launching of BUKAS (Bagong Ugnayan para sa Kalayaan sa Sambayanan sa Software), by Al Alegre, Member of FMA and Convenor of BUKAS

11:15AM - 11:30AM Remarks from Bluepoint Foundation, by Engels Antonio, Chief Instructor and Trustee of Bluepoint Institute of Higher Technology Foundation

11:30AM - 11:45PM More about the UP FOSS Migration, by Dr. Francisco Nemenzo, former President of the UP System

12PM - 1:15PM Introduction to Free Software and Reactions to the FOSS Bill by Richard Stallman, President of the Free Software Foundation

1:15PM - 2PM Remote Deployment of Windows Clients using Linux-based Remote Installation Services, by Peter Santiago

2PM - 3PM Pervasive Linux Devices, by Rowell Atienza

Feature Project Presentations:
# SMS to Speech for Safe Driving, by Romeliza Ejercito
# Deployment of an Easy-to-use VOIP Phone under a Linux-based Thin Client by Mark William Co Despi

3PM - 3:05PM Semi-Finals of the Frozen Bubble Tournament

3:05PM - 4PM Migrating to Postgresql, by Charlie Lopez

4PM - 4:10PM More about the FOSS Bill of 2006, by Rep. Teodoro Casino (Bayan Muna), author of the FOSS Bill of 2006

4:10PM - 4:15PM Finals of the Frozen Bubble tournament

4:15PM - 5PM The Halalan Open Source Voting System, by Diwa del Mundo

5PM - 6PM BOF SESSION

3. Policy-oriented Activities

The SFD '06 celebration in UP Diliman was the culminating activity for a number of FOSS-related activities conducted by various organizations (notably Linux Users' groups like Oriental Negros Linux Users Group (ONeLUG), Bicol Open Source (BIOS), DabaweGNU and the Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG); trade and commercial consortiums such as Open Minds and the Philippine Open Source Initiative (POSITIVE); and civil society groups such as the Agri-Aqua Development Coalition, Advanced Science Foundation (ASF), Center for Migrant Advocacy (CMA), Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), Institute for Popular Democracy (IPD), Isis International-Manila, Philippine Ecumenical Action for Community Empowerment (PEACE) Foundation, Philippine Network Foundation (PH Net), UP Manila National Telehealth Center, UP Law – Internet & Society Program (UP ISP), and Women's Hub) in coordination with the executive (through the Commission on Information and Communications Technology - Office of the President) and the legislative branches of government (through the House of Representatives).
Morning Session
- o Members from the major FOSS groups in the country gathered to celebrate SFD in UP Diliman, particularly from the LUGS such as the Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG), Bicol Open Source Society (BiOS), DabaweGNU; academic student bodies such as the University of the Philippines Linux Users' Group (UnPLUG), Association for Computing Machinery - UP Student Chapter (UP-ACM), and the Alpha Phi Omega Fraternity (APO); trade and commercial consortiums such as the Open Source Technology Association of the Philippines (OpenMinds) and the Philippine Open Source Initiative (POSITIVE); as well as non-government organizations such as the Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA) and the Peace Foundation.
  o Speakers from PLUG, FSF, Ubuntu-PH, ASEAN3+ IOSN, OpenMinds, POSITIVE, Bluepoint Foundation as well as the UP System gave commentaries and reactions regarding the celebrations of SFD, copyrights, movement against software patents, the ongoing push of the United Nations (via the ASEAN3+ node of the UNDP-IOSN-APNIC) for FOSS, as well as individual experiences regarding migrations, maintenance, and advantages of FOSS. o A policy-oriented FOSS consortium called BUKAS: Bagong Ugnayan para sa Kalayaan sa Sambayanan sa Software (which can be wittily translated to OPEN: A New Convergence for the Freedom of Software for Society) was launched. Its members is initially comprised of Agri-Aqua Development Coalition, Advanced Science Foundation (ASF), Bicol Open Source (BIOS), Center for Migrant Advocacy (CMA), DabaweGNU, Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), Institute for Popular Democracy (IPD), Isis International-Manila, Oriental Negros Linux Users Group (ONeLUG), Open Minds, Philippine Open Source Initiative (POSITIVE), Philippine Ecumenical Action

for Community Empowerment (PEACE) Foundation, Philippine Linux Users Group (PLUG), Philippine Network Foundation (PH Net), UP Manila National Telehealth Center, UP Law – Internet & Society Program (UP ISP), and Women's Hub. Its aim is to be a united front that would push for policies regarding FOSS in the Philippines.

Afternoon Session
- o Richard Stallman gave a video speech he recorded a few hours earlier to be played during the conduct of the SFD. His speech concentrated on an orientation to Free Software, as well as reactions to the FOSS Bill being presented in the Philippine Congress. A copy of his video speech was also given to Rep. Teddy Casino later in the afternoon, as well as to the other organizations such as UnPLUG, CPU, PLUG, etc. o Representative Teodoro 'Teddy' Casino of the party-list Bayan Muna gave an introduction and more information about the FOSS Bill of 2006 which he has submitted to the House of Representatives 3 days earlier. He urged the audience to support the FOSS bill as this will promote the local software industry as well as save more money for the country.

4. Miscellaneous Activities

CD/DVD Burn Fest
- o available for CD/DVD burning are the ff:
  - + FOSS applications for different platforms (Linux, Windows, Mac) e.g. TheOpenCD for Windows, FreeSMUG Suite CD for Mac OSX, etc.
    + Major Linux distributions cited by DistroWatch.com + misc FOSS and Linux stuff:
    - # guides, tutorials and manuals
      # OpenMusic CD album and the like using Creative Commons license, etc. # Elephant's Dream -- the world's first open movie, made entirely with open source graphics software such as Blender, and with all production files freely available to use however you please, under a Creative Commons license. # Go Open Source TV series episodes from South Africa
  o Venue: 3rd floor ENG'G Lobby o Time: 10am-4pm o CDs/DVDs can be provided (by us) at a minimal price
FOSS and Linux InstallFest
- o for laptops and desktops of different hardware architectures (PC, Mac, AMD64) o FOSS applications for installation on different platforms (e.g. Mozilla Firefox for Linux, Windows, Mac OSX) o installation of the Linux OS can be done for a dual-boot environment (e.g. Windows and Linux or Mac OS X and Linux) or a multiple-boot of different Linux distros o Venue: 3rd floor ENG'G Lobby o Time: 10am-4pm
  o For Linux OS installations, clients must register online (perhaps an email to root@uplug.org conatining details about the machine) or through SMS, 2 days prior to SFD 2006.
FOSS Gaming Tournament (for our entertainment)
- o featured FOSS game is Frozen Bubble o Elimination Round
  - + composed of around 32 partcipants (only 8 shall advance to the Quarterfinals) + Venue: 3rd floor ENG'G Lobby + Time: 10am-12nn + there shall be an online pre-registration, however should the online registrant fail to appear on the exact time of the activity itself, his/her slot shall be given to an interested walk-in participant on a first-come-first-served basis.
  o Quarterfinals, Semifinals, and Finals Matches
  - + Venue: ENG'G Theater + Time: 1pm-5pm (2 matches after every program topic interval)
  o in-charge for this activity is UP ACM

5. Technical Activities

The following topics were presented by the following people:
Remote Deployment of Windows Clients using Linux-based Remote Installation Services, by Peter Santiago. Typical RIS installation for Windows often require a lot of extras that are not really neccessary. If one just want to deploy Windows workstations remotely, you would often need to install a least two Windows servers. One to serve as domain controller and the other as an RIS. Furthermore, the RIS server should be joined to a domain. The presentation aims to show that it is not necessary to use Windows Server to provide RIS services, that opensource software can do the job with minimal overhead and maximum flexibility
- Peter Santiago is affiliated with the antivirus and PC security firm Trend Micro Inc. for the last four years, as part of the European Technical Support group. He took up BS IT in AMA Computer University in Makati and claims to having learned Linux the hard way. He currently runs his own mail server at home.
Pervasive Linux Devices, by Rowel Atienza. This is a discussion on project ideas and implementation and the current challenges in the area of Embedded Linux. The talk will mainly cover Linux for media and thin clients.
- Rowel is a consultant of Embedded Linux at Eazix Inc. He developed software such as application programs, device drivers, and kernel porting for embedded Linux systems. He is an assistant professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of the Philippines Diliman. He is also a former systems administrator of Solaris and Linux servers at Australian National University. After Rowel's introductory talk, two of his students presented the following topics as applications of the pervasiveness of Linux in the embedded computing realm:
  - # SMS to Speech for Safe Driving, by Romeliza Ejercito. Ms Ejercito demonstrated a Java MIDP2.0 application running on a Nokia 6680 which communicates with a Linux-based SBC platform via Bluetooth which effectively converts SMS messages and broadcasted aloud using Festival.
    # Deployment of an Easy-to-use VOIP Phone under a Linux-based Thin Client by Mark William Co Despi. Mr. Despi demonstrated a Linux-based thin-client which connects to a Windows terminal server. The VOIP software that runs on the terminal server is then redirected to the thin client.
Migrating to Postgresql, by Charlton Lopez. Learn some of the ins and outs of migrating into PostgreSQL, such as migrating users and roles into PostgreSQL, migrating schemas and objects into PostgreSQL, what to watch out for during application integrity, testing, migrating your backup and recovery schemes and other routine database maintenance tasks into PostgreSQL, and database object size monitoring.
- Charlton Lopez, OCP DBA, RHCE, Novell CLP is a consultant specializing in database administration. He primarily works with Oracle technologies like Real Application Clusters for high availability and load balancing, Recovery Manager for backup and recovery, Data Guard for high availability and data protection, among other disaster recovery solutions. In his spare time, he does research on database administration best practices and how these could adapted for the open source databases PostgreSQL and MySQL. He eventually contributes these knowledge to PLUG.
The Halalan Open Source Voting System, by Diwa del Mundo. Halalan is an Open Source web-and-mobile-based voting system designed for student elections. It features an easy-to-use interface, customizable election parameters management, and secure and scalable backend design. The system is written in PHP with HypWorks framework and PostgresSQL as database. It is currently being developed and maintained by the UP Linux Users’ Group (UnPLUG), a student organization in the University of the Philippines in Diliman.
- Diwa del Mundo is a returning BS CS student from the University of the Philippines in Diliman. He left school last 2005 to “experience” the life of an employee by working as a software developer for Pusit.com or also known as Friendster Philippines. He worked for various Friendster services and products such as Friendster Classifieds, Flowers and Fads.

6. Links to Media

7. Photos

Most of the photos courtesy of wakizaki's Flickr account

Software Freedom Day at the Engineering Theater

Burnfest at the UP Computer Center

Engels Antonio of Bluepoint Foundation, discussing Project TULAY

Al Alegre of FMA, discussing the BUKAS FOSS consortium

Manny Amador discussing about the dangers of software patents

Dr. Alvin Marcelo of UP Manila and ASEAN3+ of IOSN-APDIP, discussing his experiences on FOSS

Jerome Gotangco of PLUG, Ubuntu Project and the Free Software Foundation, giving a primer on Software Freedom Day

Former UP President Dodong Nemenzo, discussing the FOSS migration of UP

Charlton Lopez, discussing Postgresql migration

An invitation from an FOSS-based animation studio in the Philippines

Rep. Teodoro 'Teddy' Casino (Bayan Muna), discussing his authored 'FOSS bill of 2006' now pending in the House of Representatives, Philippine Congress

Team SFD'06

Diwa del Mundo, discussing the Halalan Open Source Voting System

The Frozen Bubble tournament finals

Rowel Atienza, preliminary talk on Pervasive Linux Devices

Romeliza Ejercito project presentation: SMS to Speech for Safe Driving

Romeliza Ejercito demonstrating her project: SMS to Speech for Safe Driving

Philip Santiago of Trend Micro, discussing on RIS using FOSS

Mark William Co Despi project presentation: Deployment of an Easy-to-use VOIP Phone under a Linux-based Thin Client

Mark William Co Despi demonstrating his project: Deployment of an Easy-to-use VOIP Phone under a Linux-based Thin Client

8. Videos

Manny Amador on the dangers of software patents

9. SFD Celebrations done by Other Groups

SFD 2006 sa UP Manila care of the National Telehealth Center, UP Medical Students Informatics Society, and Society of Computer Science Students (SOCOMSCI) at the UP College of Medicine Basic Science Lecture Room (BSLR) last Sept 15, 2006, from 5-7pm
FOSS@CCI care of the Management Information and Computer Science (MICOMS) students of Claret College of Isabela last Sept 16, 2006.

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