This evening has been triggered by the INTEL Open Source Technology Center who wants to meet Linux and open source communities during their visit in vietnam between the 11 to 14 June. They are going to share their time between Hanoi and HCMC . IFI is hosting the event and the Hanoi Linux User Group is facilitating and have invited some actors to present real world accomplishment of the Free and Open Source software Community of Hanoi.
When : June 11 at 17h30 PM
Where : The amphitheater of IFI 42 Ta Quang Buu
How to get there :
1. Enter the Lane 42 on Ta Quang Buu by going through the iron gate of the « Nhà luyện tập và thi đấu » (Bach Khoa Gymnasium)
2. Get through the IFI gate, about 100 m on the left in the Lane 42. Eventually push the gate if it looks closed.
3. Follow the indications
Those subject are very short presentations (around 5 minutes) to start discussions and comments :
Is the host of the evening. IFI, which stands for “Francophone Institute of Informatics” (http://www.ifi.auf.org), was created by AUF (Association of Francophone Universities) in 1995 following a Vietnamese request to AUF to fund the training of high-level Vietnamese engineers and college professors in Computer Science. IFI is for Vietnam an aid to development and a tool for Vietnamese to acquire and master the latest techniques in information processing and computer communications. For the countries that are funding the project (Belgium-Wallonie, Canada-Quebec, France, French-speaking Switzerland, Luxemburg), IFI is a tool to increase trade with South-Eastern Asian countries which are members of “Francophonie”. IFI also helps with regional cooperation between Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
IFI is a 2-year graduate school, which recruits engineers through a written entrance examination. Students are mostly Vietnamese but a few also come from other countries as well. Students take 3 semesters of courses at IFI and spend a semester doing an industrial or research internship in Europe or Canada. IFI graduates receive the Vietnamese Master’s degree in Computer Science. IFI also has an international research laboratory on the themes of Modelization and Simulation of complex systems (MSI).
They are going to be represented by Pete Kronowitt Linux Strategist from the Intel Open Source Technology Center & Valsa Valsa Williams from Intel Software Solution Group. The OTC has active contributors to the Linux and open source communities. You can learn more about this center http://oss.intel.com/en-us/ . Pete and Valsa are sought-after speakers, presenters and attendees at Free and Open source community events and conferences.
By coming in Vietnam Intel OTC want to :
a)Connect with various Free And Open Source Communities
b)Bring Intel relevance to those communities
c)Present their roadmap, and see how they can collaborate with us.
More specifically they wish to explain more in detail their Partner program, technical help or to get us to enable AMT, and multithreading and multicore etc.
At a larger level they want to explain that Intel is part of the Linux and open source community, that Open source software and Linux are growing in importance to Intel. That Linux and other free software are valuable to Intel. Apparently Intel is 3rd or 4th largest contributor to kernel.org and have add millions of line of code into Xen , the Virtualisation project.
The centres for Linux and free softwares for development is an initiative from AUF dating back from 2004. The purpose of the program is to establish such centers among universities, focusing at developing software solutions using free open source softwares. C3LD country centers are part of a more global C3LD network and have three main lines of actions : sensibilization (especially towards the academic community and the FOSS community), training, R&D.
HanoiLUG is the name chosen by a group of Linux users (or wannabe), living and working in Hanoi. Hanoi LUG meetings, unless stated otherwise, take place at the Campus numérique francophone (or CNF, in short) de l’AUF (Agence universitaire de la Francophonie), Ngo 42 Ta Quang Buu (inside the IFI - Institut de la Francophonie pour l’informatique), Hanoi.
Hanoilug stands for “Hanoi Linux user group” i.e. “Users of GNU/Linux living in Hanoi” and in a larger less restrictive view “People using and/or interested in GNU / Linux living in Hanoi”.
Hanoilug is an informal group, this means that it is not an official organization. It’s rather what we would call a “network” of people So do not expect any formal membership, elections of secretary etc. Like for free softwares, joining HanoiLug is a free process meaning that you join HanoiLug by subscribing to its mailing-list so that you can get information about various activities set up by members of Hanoi Lug and participate in the discussions of various topics that may interest “members” of Hanoi LUG.
An other way to participate with Hanoilug is to contribute ideas, comments through its blog or through its wiki. During the evening discussion the HanoiLUG will present 3 sub-project.
Agence universitaire de la francophonie - AUF (in English: Association of Francophone Universities) is a global network of French-speaking higher education and research institutions.
Founded in Montreal (Canada) in 1961, AUF is a multilateral institution which supports the co-operation and solidarity between the university institutions working in French, firstly with the French-speaking countries of Africa, the Arab World, of Southeast Asia, of Central and Eastern Europe and of the Caribbean. It has 635 members distributed in the countries of the International Organization of La Francophonie.
The AUF is present in nearly 70 countries, through its regional offices, its centers of access to information, its campuses numerical or its institutes of formation.