A new Lebanese Python Users Group

 A Python Users group is created in Lebanon with the ISSAE Cnam Liban students. If you wich to join just put your request in the discussion bord : lipug.github.io/discussions

FSF news and actions

 

News 

• US Supreme Court makes the right decision to nix Alice Corp. patent, but more work needed to end software patents for good
• To help Reset the Net, FSF launches guide to email protection
• Tehnoetic wireless USB adapter now FSF-certified to respect your freedom
• FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management
• » More news

Blog Posts 

• Friday Free Software Directory IRC meetup: July 18
• Tell the FCC: Net Neutrality is crucial to free software
• Friday Free Software Directory IRC meetup: July 11
• Seattle free software event this fall: Call for Participation now open
• » More blog posts

Take Action

• Tell W3C: we don't want the Hollyweb!
• Stand up for your freedom to install free software; sign the pledge against Restricted Boot
• Protect your freedom and privacy; join us in creating an Internet that's safer from surveillance
• Free a computer from Windows
• » More campaigns

Open Source Lebanon consulting

Open Source Lebanon Consuting

• Application Servers based on Linux Apache Mysql PHP or Linux Apache Tomcat Mysql JSP / JSF
• Full Security solution with Linux : Router, Firewall, Proxy. DMZ, 
• Office solutions based on OpenOffice or LibreOffice
• Developpement using Netbeans or Eclipse

For more informations sen email to oslm.consulting@cofares.net

ICT in Cnam Lebanon - all Free and Open source solutions

The information and communication technology service in Cnam Lebanon  to fourfold mission:

park management, computer networks and their safety features: local networks at each education center, the interconnection between the intranet and the centers managing access to the internet. based on Open Source Solutions (Linux routers, proxy and firewall)

Management platforms, resources and architecture of the web presence of the ISAE CNAM Lebanon: Applications in collaboration with Google Apps (email, Calendar, Online Documents and shared on Google cloud, the groups and Web collaboration tools, Calendar, video and images, blog, buzz, ...) Apache open source applications, TikiWiki (wiki, articles, blog and forum), phpBB (forum), Moodle (ODL platform) and Tomcat .

The specification and development of internal applications, their platform development and deployment forming the information system of the ISAE CNAM Lebanon (educational ERP): Human Resources management, auditors students management, management of teachers, results,  qualifications, management and planning schedules, management reviews.

Study and implementation of a solution distance distance education, real time or delayed, making maximum use of infrastructure intranet and internet.

For now the modules (see http://si.isae.edu.lb/) are developed progressively. We welcome all your comments or needs of the ISAE on our froeums or discussion groups:

The main functions are:

For listeners: Pre-register and then register, view your schedule and view your results online.
Heads of departments may set the qualifications catalog and composition, the prerequisites and equivalencies for each EU (education Unit). This information is taken into account for; registration
The tuition for each service center listed new listeners
The teaching hours of teachers are captured in real time.

Free software movement (WiKiPedia)

The free software movement is a social and political movement^[1] with the goal of ensuring software users' four basic freedoms: the freedom to run it, to study and change it, and to redistribute copies with or without changes. The alternative terms "software libre", "open source", and "FOSS" are associated with the free software movement. Although drawing on traditions and philosophies among members of the 1970s hacker culture, Richard Stallman founded and launched the movement in 1983 by founding the GNU Project.^[2]

The free software philosophy at the core of the movement drew on the essence and incidental elements of what was called hacker culture by many computer users in the 1970s, among other sources.

Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation in 1985 to support the movement.

Open source movement (wikiPedia)

The open source movement is a broad-reaching movement comprised both officially and unofficially of individuals who feel that software should be produced altruistically^{[citation needed]}. The source code of open source software is available for others to use and adapt. It is said to be generally more stable than proprietary software as well as more secure and less likely to get a virus^{[citation needed]}. Open source software is made available to anybody to use, or to modify as its source code is made available. The freedom of the software is subject only to the stipulation that the user of the software makes any enhancements or changes as freely available to the public. Open source software promotes learning and understanding through the dissemination of understanding. The main difference between open source and traditional proprietary software is in the terms of user and property rights. These rights reside in the conditions of use that are imposed on the user by the license of the software, as opposed to a difference in the programming code. With open source software, users are granted the right to both the program's functionality and methodology. With proprietary software programs, such as Microsoft Office, users only have the rights to functionality.^[1] Libraries are using open source software to develop information as well as library services. The purpose of open source is to provide a software that is cheaper, reliable and has better quality. The one feature that makes this software so sought after is that it is free. Libraries in particular benefit from this movement because of the resources it provides. They also promote the same ideas of learning and understanding new information through the resources of other people. Open source allows a sense of community. It is an invitation for anyone to provide information about various topics. The open source tools even allow libraries to create web-based catalogs. According to the IT source there are various library programs that benefit from this. “MARC.pm (http://marcpm.sourceforge.net) is a Perl-based module for reading, manipulating, outputting, and converting bibliographic records in the MARC format.”^[2] Programmerswho support the open source movement philosophy contribute to the open source community by voluntarily writing and exchanging programming code for software development.^[3] The term “open source” requires that no one can discriminate against a group in not sharing the edited code or hinder others from editing their already edited work. This approach to software development allows anyone to obtain and modify open source code. These modifications are distributed back to the developers within the open source community of people who are working with the software. In this way, the identities of all individuals participating in code modification are disclosed and the transformation of the code is documented over time.^[4] This method makes it difficult to establish ownership of a particular bit of code but is in keeping with the open source movement philosophy. These goals promote the production of “high quality programs” as well as “working cooperatively with other similarly minded people” to improve open source technologies.^[3]

A new network is born!

The Open Source Lebanese Movement,  aims to federate and promote the Open source models and concepts for making business.... Come back soon ....