Program

Keynote Speaker: Hon. Councilor Pete Lavina

Teaching Open Source in the University - Dominique Gerald M. Cimafranca
For the past year, Dominique Cimafranca has been teaching Open Source Technologies, Information Security, and Operating Systems as subjects in Ateneo de Davao University. He talks about the challenges he faced, the strategies he used, and the response of the students.

Free Software in NGOs - Victor Sapar
Vic Sapar, a well known advocate for the use of FOSS among NGO's will be presenting his experiences in promoting FOSS to NGOs. He will tackle issues that hinder the mass adoption of FOSS and suggest ways to mitigate such problems.

Laptops for Education:  The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Project
Last Year, DabaweGNU won in the best event competition together with 2 other organizations.  The prize was a pair of OLPC laptops.  The educational theory and features of the OLPC will be presented  during SFD 2009.

Blogging in an Open Source World - Kevin Paquet
His talk in last years SFD 2008 was one of the memorable ones. He was still a high school student then. More mature and with more bullets this time, he will be presenting the latest updates and features of his favorite Blogging platform, WordPress.

Business Intelligence - Evamay dela Rosa
Computer applications and systems are often used to manage operations.  Only a few are being used for business intelligence and decision making.  Evamay will present the importance of business intelligence and available FOSS tools for its implementation.

IdeaCamp: Open Sourcing Ideas - Mark Maglana
IdeaCamp is an unconference of ideas initiated by Mark Magalana.  In this presentation, Mark will talk about the rational of the project and share his experience in organizing an Ideacamp.  He will also share best practices on how to setup your own ideacamps.

Open Source Mapping with Open Street Maps - Engr. Marluwe Pidor
If you always get lost, don't miss this talk by Marluwe.  Open Street Map is a crowd-sourced mapping application that will not only allow you to contribute but will also allow you to use the data for free.

Network Booting and Virtualization - Holden Hao
This will be a demo presentation. Holden will present the FOSS technologies that are currently deployed at the DabaweGNU laboratory. This includes network booting (no hard drives required!) and virtualization. The platform has proven to be an affordable and easy to manage setup for a computer laboratory. And Yes, the platform supports Windows too! ;)

Geeks Got Talent: Ardour + Jack + Hydrogen - George Tujan
Geeks also love music and they can jam!  George Tujan will try to bring the house down by demoing his favorite FOSS tools for music editing.  Crowd willing, we will end up with a mini concert.

Lightning Talks
Lightning talks are mini presentations that are open to anyone who would like to share anything about FOSS philosophy, technology, community and issues.  The participants to SFD 2009 are highly encouraged to share their knowledge and skills during this part of the program.


=== Giveways will be provided by SFD International, DabaweGNU and IBM Philippines ===