Foss
Free and Open Source Software Primer
Rick Bahague
Computer Professionals' Union www.cp-union.com Who am I?
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I am Rick Bahague, Coordinator for the Computer Professionals' Union Has been working with Free and Open Source Software since 2001 One of the Initiator of the Debian Tagalog Translation Team Trainor, Consultant, Lead Developer for CPUnion's K-Rights Monitor http://code.google.com/p/karapatan-monitor Researcher, National Institute of Physics, Theoretical Physics Group
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CP-Union | www.cp-union.com
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CP-Union has been providing skills training to NGOs since 2001. Our Free and Open Source Software Advocacy started in 2004. We are the lead organizer of the annual Software Freedom Day in the country since 2004 We believe that technology will not solve the problems of the Philippines but it can greatly help nonprofits and organizations in their work for social change.
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After this session, we hope that you will see...
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Nursing Informatics will greatly benefit from Free Software Free software is a viable alternative / replacement to proprietary software Free software is practical especially if your work is on information management The learning curve for most desktop GNU/Linux distributions is not that high.
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Nursing Informatics
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Nursing informatics is a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge and wisdom in nursing practice
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American Nurse Association
Free and Open Source
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Computer science Information science Manage and communicate Technology
Our Agenda
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What is Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)? Why we should use FOSS ?
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Philosophical reasons Technical reasons
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FOSS in Nursing Informatics A Tour of FOSS Desktop
Computer Systems: a first look
Applications
Operating System Hardware
Operating Systems
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Can be
Rick Bahague
Computer Professionals' Union www.cp-union.com Who am I?
●
I am Rick Bahague, Coordinator for the Computer Professionals' Union Has been working with Free and Open Source Software since 2001 One of the Initiator of the Debian Tagalog Translation Team Trainor, Consultant, Lead Developer for CPUnion's K-Rights Monitor http://code.google.com/p/karapatan-monitor Researcher, National Institute of Physics, Theoretical Physics Group
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CP-Union | www.cp-union.com
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CP-Union has been providing skills training to NGOs since 2001. Our Free and Open Source Software Advocacy started in 2004. We are the lead organizer of the annual Software Freedom Day in the country since 2004 We believe that technology will not solve the problems of the Philippines but it can greatly help nonprofits and organizations in their work for social change.
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After this session, we hope that you will see...
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Nursing Informatics will greatly benefit from Free Software Free software is a viable alternative / replacement to proprietary software Free software is practical especially if your work is on information management The learning curve for most desktop GNU/Linux distributions is not that high.
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Nursing Informatics
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Nursing informatics is a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge and wisdom in nursing practice
●
American Nurse Association
Free and Open Source
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Computer science Information science Manage and communicate Technology
Our Agenda
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What is Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)? Why we should use FOSS ?
– –
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Philosophical reasons Technical reasons
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FOSS in Nursing Informatics A Tour of FOSS Desktop
Computer Systems: a first look
Applications
Operating System Hardware
Operating Systems
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Can be