Software Freedom Kosova Conference 2011 schedule

Saturday 12th November 2011

• 3CIS Experience with insourcing to Kosovo

  by Gëzim Pula

  At 10:15am to 10:55am, Saturday 12th November

• Security of web servers and web applications

  by Amir Neziri

  At 11:00am to 11:25am, Saturday 12th November

• Reply to your emails! Customer service, trouble tickets, and replying to emails

  by James Michael DuPont

  At 11:30am to 11:55am, Saturday 12th November

  Coverage slide deck

• Testing web app security

  by Ervis Tusha

  At 11:30am to 11:55am, Saturday 12th November

• How open source helps and enriches 1H Ltd.

  by Marian Marinov

  • Open Source

  At 12:00pm to 12:30pm, Saturday 12th November

• Chyrp CMS

  by Arian Xhezairi

  At 1:30pm to 1:55pm, Saturday 12th November

  Coverage slide deck

• Open ERP

  by Panos Christeas

  At 1:30pm to 1:55pm, Saturday 12th November

• Ditari.im blogging engine

  by Jonian Dervishi

  At 2:00pm to 2:25pm, Saturday 12th November

• Introduction to CouchDB and CouchApps

  by Damjan Georgievski

  At 2:30pm to 2:55pm, Saturday 12th November

• LAMP versus closed code

  by Edlira Kalemi

  A survey on their pros and cons in website development in Albania

  At 2:30pm to 2:55pm, Saturday 12th November

• Intro to the Ruby on Rails web development framework

  by Flakërim Ismani

  At 3:00pm to 3:25pm, Saturday 12th November

• Sistemi për menaxhimin e ashensorve nga distanca me Arduino (in Albanian)

  by Erdet Nasufi

  At 3:00pm to 3:20pm, Saturday 12th November

• The WordPress ecosystem: A free software business case study

  by Baki Goxha

  At 3:30pm to 3:55pm, Saturday 12th November

• Mobile web at Google

  by Omer Keser

  At 4:00pm to 4:45pm, Saturday 12th November

Unscheduled

• Doing Business with Free Software

  The theme of the 2011 conference will be “Doing Business with Free Software”. The conference will be used as a meeting point for a network of individuals and companies with the aim of sponsoring and initiating projects which benefit the people of Kosovo by establishing it as one of the European centers of FLOSS, and ultimately result in commercial benefits for the country.
  The conference aims to introduce Kosovo businesses and public to a low cost alternatives rather than expensive proprietary software, train local people in the latest developments in software and social-collaboration tools, promote respect for legal licenses, and introduce the public to the best methods for localization of software and knowledge.

  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.