Damascus

Today I gave a lecture in my faculty about “Collaborative Software Development with SVN”, it was prepared and set by the collaboration of iCommunity, Syrian Computer Society and Damascus University. The lecture included the following points: A Tribute to Mahmoud Darwish iCommunity Introduction Introduction Problem Definition Introducing Version Control System Definitions How it works Introducing SVN How to SVN: Hosting Projects. Local Servers. Installing TortoiseSVN. Basic Operations Advanced Operations. Conclusion ...

I mentioned many times before that I was planning to make a workshop about Free Open Source Software (FOSS) in Damascus, and thankfully I did 🙂 The Idea The idea was to spread the culture of FOSS between the interested people here in Damascus. What I noticed was that almost 99% of computer science students didn’t know what Free Software is and what Open Source software is! ...

Hello, if you don’t know already, I’m a Computer Science student from Damascus University Syria. My friends and I are working on an Open Source Free Software workshop here at the faculty of Computer Science, the workshop will take place on February 2009, but we are gathering some resources and information from now. The workshop will have lectures about Open Source, Free Software, Licenses, Open Source Free alternative for Commercial Proprietary software, and of course Linux OS. The workshop will also contain an Installation Festival where we are going to install Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex for students on their devices and teach them how to use it. I’m gonna put some questions here and I’ll ask you to answer it, whether you own an Open Source company or you work for one. I’m neither a journalist nor an analyst seeker, but I want some answers from you to introduce you the way you want to students, please don’t waste this message because I’m not a journalist, we want to spread the culture of Free Open Source Software here between students and contributing to the workshop would be very kind of you. ...