Category Archives: asiasource

Linux Is Going To The Indianapolis 500!

The Linux community is going to put a Linux sponsored car in this year’s Indianapolis 500… and you can help! Today marks the launch of Tux500.com, a community-powered marketing effort!

I remember during the Asiasource II event, I was suggesting to place “Free Open Source Software” in movies, so instead of seeing a MAC or [...]

Lesson of humility

Yesterday morning I had a lesson of humility, Handoko a retired university professor in Indonesia, showed mastering of his hands I wish I had.
We were building an FM radio from various parts, so small my eyes were aching, We were soldering and resoldering our parts and I was shaking, afraid of doing mistakes. Handoko took [...]

Gender evaluation of ICT program.

I already talk about ICT and gender issue, but today at Asiasource I went through an interesting afternoon session few attended to it but it was interesting nonetheless.
GEM is an on-line guide for conducting gender evaluations of initiatives that use Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for social change.
Can ICTs really improve women’s lives and gender [...]

The Asiasource Yawititra Sukabumi “resort”

(resort is maybe a strong word - it is beautiful place but beds are just mattress dropped on the floor)
I just arrived there, after a 4 hours bus trip from Jakarta. After a long stop in Bangkok where the strap of my laptop bag broke. Six hours dragging this bag around and frankly there’s nothing [...]

Going to Indonesia

Right now I’m in the Bangkok airport, it’s around 14:00, I’ll leave the place for Jakarta at 19h30, Still have a long time to wait.
Why am I going to indonesia ? Because I’m attending the second AsiaSource a Free software work camp for NGOs technologist. I’ll be there with more than 150 people from all [...]