The CANDIS Blog » foss http://www.candisgroup.com/blog Your IT Gateway with China Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:52:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Beijing Software Freedom Day: A fire breathing Dragon of a success! http://www.candisgroup.com/blog/foss-gnu-linux/beijing-software-freedom-day-a-fire-breathing-dragon-of-a-success http://www.candisgroup.com/blog/foss-gnu-linux/beijing-software-freedom-day-a-fire-breathing-dragon-of-a-success#comments Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:38:32 +0000 richard http://www.utilitycomputing.com.cn/?p=79 SFD

Well, we came, we championed, we explained, we lobbied and we taught. We laughed, we gathered, we swapped tales and we helped clear up some misconceptions.

The sun was out, the sky was blue(ish – not bad by Beijing’s standards) and the students were happy and eager to learn what was going on and to quench their tech/FOSS thirsts. Tsing Hua got rained on by a heap of tech loving goodness!

Photo gallery after the jump….

Anyway, thanks to Google, RedHat, Red Flag, Mozilla and OpenMoko. They paid up cold hard cash to make it all happen. The rest of us did it FOSS style and donated servers, bandwidth, time and eagerness. But at the end of the day, cold hard currency talks! ;-)

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Click HERE for more info from my previous post.

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September 15th, 2007
Tsinghua University East Gate, FIT Building,
No. 1 Zhong Guan Cun Road, Beijing, China

SFD China Webpage in English and Chinese

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