Evening discussions between INTEL OSS Technology Center and the Hanoi OSS community

Subject: Evening discussions between INTEL OSS Technology Center and the Hanoi
OSS community
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 20:27:26 +0700
From: David Tremblay <david@ngocentre.org.vn>
Organization: NGO resource Centre
To: ict4ngo@gmail.com

Evening discussions between INTEL Open Source Technology Center and the
Hanoi Free And Open source Community

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

plan to get there : http://blog.hanoilug.org/?p=48

Contacts

* Mr Cang sean.c.mai@intel.com
* Mr Tremblay david@ngowiki.net
* Mr Quang nguyen.hong.quang@auf.org
* Mr Quynh Vu.do.quynh@auf.org

Programme of the evening discussions

Those subjects are very short presentations (around 5 minutes) to start
discussions and comments :

* General presentation of the IFI / AUF / C3LD and their position in
the world of Free and Open source Software.
* General Presentation of Intel OTC and Intel software group
* General Presentation Hanoi GNU/Linux User Group
* Monthly Linux for newbies Community driven courses
* Intel OTC and Open Source Communities
* Ubuntu-Vi + OpenOffice localization project
* Vietnam Backbone repository Server Project
* Open Discussion and lunch
* Other subjects and vietnamese Open Source projects presentations
are planned as well

Participants
IFI http://www.ifi.auf.org/

Is the host of the evening. IFI, which stands for “Francophone Institute
of Informatics”, 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 automatically receive the
Vietnamese Master’s degree. IFI also supports an incubator program, a
4-day annual international conference in Computer Sciences and a summer
school to bring up to date on latest computer technologies francophone
college professors in Vietnam.

INTEL

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.

C3LD http://hanoi.centre-linux.org/

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.

Hanoi Linux User Group http://www.hanoilug.org/

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.

AUF http://www.auf.org/

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.

To facilitate co-ordination regarding the introduction of OSS SW in Vietnam

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