I'm still in General Santos City and I'm wrapping up my blog on Davao City's celebration of Software Freedom Day. I must say the whole experience was enjoyable, informative and very successful. Students from different colleges flocked together to learn more about free/open source software (FOSS).
Mark Maglana of Morphlabs started the program by talking about the Ruby language and the popular Ruby on Rails framework as well as showing everyone how easy it is to use for developing web applications. He also showcased two of Morphlabs latest services appSpace and appCloud, revolutionary web products that utilize opensource technology. Next was Nathaniel Jayme of DabaweGNU who talked about FFEHR (pronounced "effer") the free and open source Electronic Health Record project. FFEHR, according to Nathaniel, uses the Mozilla framework which includes XUL and XBL. It's interesting to note Nathaniel's passion for FOSS in fact I'm pretty sure he imprinted that passion to the students attending the celebration (I noticed a few students asking him a lot of questions after the event). Next on the list was 17-yr old Kevin Paquet of PinoyTeens.net who talked about Wordpress and why he thinks its the best blogging software ever :). Andrew Abogado wowed the crowd with his skills, showing everyone that GIMP and Inkscape is just as powerful as proprietary graphics software. Lastly we have Ragingmon aka Marlo Noval whose Blender talents never fails to amaze me, raises the bar by showing everyone how Blender with the help of Vodoo can do add 3D objects/effects into live-footages/movies (a process called camera tracking or match moving).
An animated short film made entirely with FOSS (Big Buck Bunny) was shown and signaled the end of the celebration as well. I hope next year's celebration will be bigger and better and will include more topics (w/c means that you guys wanting to contribute shouldn't shy away). See you on the next SFD!
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