**NEW**: The SFK'11 Conference Agenda can be downloaded here: Download
Software Freedom Kosova Conference 2011 is the third annual conference about Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) to be held in Prishtina on November 12th.
The Conference gathers professionals, academicians and enthusiasts
who share the vision that software should be free and open for the
community to develop and customize to its needs, including commercial
ones, and that knowledge is a communal property and free and open to
everyone.
FLOSS Kosova has succeeded in making the conference a traditional event, which will gather a regional audience yearly for lectures and presentations by a variety of international and national professionals and academicians who will present the latest developments in the global FLOSS community.
The first conference took place in August 2009 with some 500 attendees and speakers from Sun Microsystems, Mozilla, MIT, European Union Government Open Source consultants and others and the second conference took place in September 2010 and had several FLOSS luminaries present.
Theme of SFK11
The theme of the 2011 conference will be “Doing Business with Free Software”. The conference aims to introduce Kosovo businesses and public to low cost Free Software, inform the audience about the latest developments in software and social-collaboration tools and promote the use of legally obtained software.
The conference will present speakers from the business world that use
FLOSS in their commercial development projects. It will also present
examples of companies from the region that are using FLOSS as a
competitive leg up in the outsourcing European market. Free software is
especially suitable to this type of economic activity as it presents
very low barriers to entry by being free at acquisition, well documented
and having a free ecosystem of support. Moreover, by presenting free
code to build on, it helps entry level professionals and companies build
up skills and work up the leader towards more value added projects.
Reserve your seat
Due to the limited number of seats available at the venue we can promise you a seat only if you make a reservation for free at http://sfk11.eventbrite.com
