First International Free Software Conference in Kosova
Written on August 27, 2009, by Milot Shala.

First international free software conference in Prishtina, Republic of Kosova is on 29th and 30th of August. Conference  is organized by the local open source community called FLOSSK (Free Libre Open Source Software KOSOVA)  and University of Prishtina, people from two sides were working together to bring the conference to the masses.

In 24 August 2004 a local linux users group called AlbaLINUX (www.albalinux.org) organized a small conference for software freedom day, in which I was one of the helpers and speakers at the conference, but we had very small place for the presentation and it was very modest one, at that time we gave Linux CDs and software freedom day t-shirts for free. So in other hands this was just a start of activities from the local open source software users.

In August 2008 I was in contact with James Mike DuPont and he informed me that he started to work for a bigger conference and that is where all begun. After one year after I started helping I am happy that finally we made it with both help of FLOSSK and University of Prishtina and other young hacker volunteers.

I will be speaking for the conference on the topic of programming in C++ using Qt framework, for which I am very happy because I want to spread Qt programming in Kosova and see more and more local developers using such a powerful framework. I will be publishing slides online and I will try to record the whole speech and publish that online too under the creative commons license.

For this conference we have a great keynotes which are listed below:

Giuseppe Maxia is the MySQL Community Manager.
Daniel Carchidi is Publication Director at MIT OpenCourseWare.
Flavia Marzano is a Computer scientist. She is a member of the Italian Open Source committee.
Brian King is President of the Mozdev Community Organization.

More information about schedule, other speakers and registration you can find more at the conference website at http://www.kosovasoftwarefreedom.org/

I am inviting all of you that are reading this post to come and join us to mark this special weekend.

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    That sounds great, Milot! Good job; you’ve got some high profile speakers for sure.

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