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La setmana passada vaig participar a les Jornades de Programari Lliure, a la Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Vaig fer la meva primera presentació en català i vaig parlar sobre la situació del programari lliure a Romania. Fou molt interessant a veure la reacció del auditori pel que fa el programari lliure a Romania. A continuació, escriuré un curt resum de la meva presentació:
1) la situació del programari lliure a l'entorn acadèmic: aquí vaig parlar sobre els projectes més importants en els centres docents de Romania:

Aquesta setmana entre el 2 i 5 de juliol tindrà lloc la VII edició de les Jornades de Programari Lliure a la Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Campus de França) de Barcelona. En el lloc web de les jornades podeu trobar el programa definitiu i, com es pot veure, el dia de 3 juliol faré una presentació sobre la situació actual del programari lliure a Romania. Aviat, en el meu lloc web podreu trobar una presentacio mes completa i mes extensa sobre el tema (en anglès i català). Us hi espero!

Mozilla.ro is an initiative to form a new romanian community around Mozilla products. Thanks to Alexandru Szsaz for helping me to launch this initiative (Alex is the Narro project and also the principal of Mozilla products translation into romanian). Together with Alex I launched the first Mozilla.ro website and now we are trying to build a strong romanian community around Mozilla. First of all, we need help to translate Mozilla Support and all the mozilla-europe webpages.
How you can contribute:

I have neglect my blog in the last month, but I was very busy with some new projects. Last week I came back in Romania for attending eLiberatica conference and also to solve some personal problems. What I've done in the last month:
- I've contributed to a new Romanian OS Community
- I've begun a course of catalan language (yes, I can be proud, I'm speaking good the catalan language now)
Now I wish to enjoy those few days in Romania, to meet my old friens and to spend more time with my familly.

Last week I attended the Openbravo Get Together event in Barcelona. The first day, 12 aprlil was dedicated to business - a set of session regarding Openbravo business model and what they are offering to their partners.

eLiberatica, o oportunitate pentru studentii romani

In perioada 30 - 31 mai va avea loc cea de-a doua editie a conferintei internationale dedicate tehnologiilor Free si Open Source. Locatia: World Trade Plaza, Bucuresti.
Aceasta conferinta reprezinta o oportunitate pentru studentii romani, dearece:
- intalnesti personalitati internationale din domeniul FOSS (Free/Open Source Software);
- proiectele si ideile tale pot fi cunoscute de specialisti in domeniu;
- poti afla care sunt noile trend-uri in ceea ce priveste modelele de business;

26 March: A Global Day for Document Liberation
As the official announcement says: "The Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for Document Liberation with grassroots action for promotion of Free Document Formats and Open Standards in general. The DFD was initiated and is supported by a group of organisations and companies, including, but not limited to the Free Software Foundation Europe, ODF Alliance, OpenForum Europe, IBM, Red Hat and Sun Microsystems, Inc.

This week, on 25 Mars (10:00 AM - romanian hour), Romanian Standard Association will discuss again about OOXML Standard (after in 2 of september 2007, the majority of votes were "yes for OOXML" without comments - more about what happened in Romania you can find at: http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/94/#ig-5). Also, here you can find the 20 reasons to disapprove OOXML: http://www.noooxml.org/open:rejectooxmlnow.
What's happening in Romanian now:
- IBM Romania, Red Hat and Oracle had declared their worry against OOXML;

Sorry for not posting on my blog for long time. It was a very busy period for me (and also I've passed through few nervous moments (maybe the absence of friends and the need to socialize). What have passed those 2 weeks:
- I had my firs interview for employement (now I'm waiting for the response)
- I decided to submmit a paper at ROCHI conference, about Usability of Open Source Applications (in collaboration with my friend, Anca) - now, I'm working on it

As I promised, I'll write some impressions about Open Source Day at University of Barcelona which took place last week (I know, I know that is a little late, but I had some pesonal problems this week). Ok, let's begin...was an interesting day with interesting presentations and speakers. Topics covered a large area of open source and free software: about GNU project and philosophy, about the GPLv3 lecense, its benefits and different aspects regarding compatibility, usage (personally I liked very much this presentation, which were made by Malcom Bain, an english lawyer specialized on ITC).