Software Freedom Kosova Conference

For the second year running the Kosovar Association for Free/Libre and
Open Source Software
(FLOSSK) and the University of Prishtina are organizing a conference
dedicated to free software - Software Freedom Kosova Conference
2010.

This conference follows upon the success of SFK09 held in August last
year attended by more than 500 participants and over 40 national and
international speakers and professionals.

SFK10 will take place on 25 and 26 September starting at 9:00 in the
venues of the
Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of
Prishtina. This year the conference will host several notable hacker
keynotes.

Leon Shiman will speak on the use of FLOSS in public administration;
Rob Savoy of Gnash project will talk about network protocols; Mikel
Maron will speak on the geopolitical use of open maps and Peter Salus,
historian of operating systems, will lecture on the history of
development of GNU/Linux.

Overall, over 20 topics will be discussed, ranging from issues associated with the Free Encyclopedia Wikipedia, GNU/Linux, intellectual property licenses, building of communities, OpenStreetMap, Sugar, and many other topics in the field of free software.

Topics to be discussed and the quality of lecturers, along with the success of last year's conference make SFK10 the largest conference of its kind in Southeast Europe.

The conference is held under the auspices of the Office of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo and is supported by a number of donors from whom it is worth mentioning: the Ministry of Energy and Mining, Mozilla, Rrota, PC World Albanian and the University of Prishtina Student Center.

The conference is free to participants during the two days. The presentations and detailed information on the conference can be found at www.kosovasoftwarefreedom.org