Kudos! Congrats! to Holden, Mylene and the all that made this possible! Kepp up the good work.
For World Domination! hehehe :) On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Francisco Sarmiento III < francis.sarmiento3 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Mabuhay Pilipinas! > > IOSN ASEAN+3 joins the Philippine open source community in > congratulating DabaweGNU and freeIT as those among hundreds of SFD2008 > Teams in 90 countries who made it to the top and special spots in this > year's SFD event. > > More at http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/Competition2008 > > Indeed, it is with great joy and pride to see the Philippines - > particularly those from Mindanao - reaching out, sharing and touching > lives to both technical and non-technical groups and pursuing advocacy > in the adoption and use of Free/Open Source Software in line with the > objectives of the IOSN ASEAN+3. > > The SFD2008 DabaweGNU Team, led by Holden Hao made it to the top 3 > with Nepal and Nicaragua and won for each team a pair of OLPC laptops > from SFD International. DabaweGNU has been a reliable partner of IOSN > ASEAN+3 in its various projects. > > SFD2008 Team freeIT, led by Mylene Sereno, is from the Mindanao State > University in General Santos City. MSU-GenSan is the first OpenHUB > state university designated by the IOSN ASEAN+3 as a F/OSS resource > center for the SoCSKSarGen (South Cotabato-Sultan > Kudarat-Sarangani-General Santos) region. Its SFD2008 participation > is another important step in its aim to raise awareness and > appreciation of F/OSS among the various individuals and groups in > General Santos City and thereby facilitating its outreach program to > other areas in the region. > > DabaweGNU and freeIT - as SFD2008 winners - have successfully > fulfilled its mission to tell the world that F/OSS in the Philippines > is alive and kicking. > > DabaweGNU and freeIT - as strong F/OSS groups in their communities - > have further reached out and shared the benefits and advantages of > what F/OSS can bring to their personal and professional lives. > > DabaweGNU and freeIT - as reliable partners and volunteers to IOSN > ASEAN+3 - have truly earned our highest regards to their unwavering > support our shared advocacy in building capacities through F/OSS. > > DabaweGNU and freeIT, truly Pinoy's pride and role models for the > Pinoy F/OSS community! > > To the rest of the SFD2008 Philippine and other world teams, our > equally sincere gratitude for all jobs well done. > > MABUHAY Pilipinas! Mabuhay F/OSS! Mabuhay SFD2008! > > > > All the best with F/OSS, > > Francisco "Francis" E. Sarmiento III, MD > Program Manager for Southeast Asia > International Open Source Network > ASEAN+3 Sub-Regional Node > > University of the Philippines Manila-National Telehealth Center > 3rd Floor I.T. Complex > Philippine General Hospital Compound > Taft Avenue, 1000 MANILA, Philippines > Telefax no: +00 63 2 522 9231 > Mobile PLDT landline: (02) 6929711 > Mobile: +63 915 8501111 > Website: http://www.iosn.net > List: http://lists.iosn.net/mailman/listinfo/iosn-general > > Let's CONNECT, RECONNECT, and INTERCONNECT with FOSS! > > ----------------------- > IOSN ASEAN+3 was established by the United Nations Development > Programme (UNDP) thru the Asia-Pacific Development Information > Programme (APDIP) initiative. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "IOSN-InWEnt-Laos-LTOT-1" group. > To post to this group, send email to > iosn-inwent-laos-ltot-1 at googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > iosn-inwent-laos-ltot-1+unsubscribe at > googlegroups.com<iosn-inwent-laos-ltot-1%2Bunsubscribe at googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/iosn-inwent-laos-ltot-1?hl=en > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Happiness is not a destination ... Its a journey Everyday is a good day! ---------------------------------------------------------- Ariel S. Betan University of the Philippines Linux Counter Reg. Linux User # 146358 Linux Professional Institute # LPI000121339 http://free-ur-minds.com/yel http://www.linkedin.com/in/arielbetan https://launchpad.net/~yelbetan OpenPGP Key: 0D55BF96 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hanoilug.org/pipermail/hanoilug/attachments/20081127/bada3993/attachment.htm
