The biggest FLOSS event of the year has ended. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to do LiveBlogging and, due to some personal problems, I wasn’t even able to be there on the second day, but I’ll do a short review of some sessions from the first day.
First of all, congratulations to Lucian Savluc and Zak Greant for organizing this event. I don’t think this was possible without their participation.
The Opening Ceremony was held by Lucian, which talked a little about eLiberatica’s objectives and FLOSS. After that, Zak gave us a more in-depth presentation about FLOSS. I liked that although he had problems with his MacBook connecting to the video projector, he was relaxed and he held his presentation on a Windows notebook, with the notes on his MacBook. Brian Behlendorf’s notebook was the first Linux notebook which was able to connect to the video projector and he held a session about “Open Source and the Choice to Cooperate”. After the coffee break, Georg Greve from FSFE told us how/why to advocacy open standards in Romania and he assured us that if we need help doing this he will be happy to give us a hand. I think Kurt von Finck from Ubuntu was the most expected person at this conference. He explained what is Ubuntu, what’s the philosophy behind, what Ubuntu guarantees and how can we get involved. Rasmus Lerdorf couldn’t be there, and there was a video Q&A session presented by Zak. After that Zak took an open discussion on how can we start a business from Free/Open Source Software which was very interesting. Remus Cazacu, the BIT Software General Manager showed us his company’s Open Source project, Socrate Open, which is based on Compiere and explained us what are the pros and the cons on doing business with OSS. He tried not to do a commercial presentation, and he achieved his goal very well, showing us that you can do business with OSS. Alexandru Lapusan and Alexandru Novac from Zitec also showed us how they made business with Open Source. Bogdan Radulescu, Main NimbleX Developer presented his project, what can we do with NimbleX, and what he intends to do with it. The presentation wasn’t very proffy but I would like to send him my congratulations for the initiative and I’ll try to give him a hand on his project.
I’m sorry for not giving a longer review, but all was much easier if I had a laptop with me to do LiveBlogging… I can’t wait for the next event to take place.
Alina Mierlus, which helds the 
