a booklet by Frederick Noronha, independent journalist

Opting for a week on the wrong side of the digital divide... is a booklet of Frederick Noronha's weblog from Asia Source. The 26 mini articles featured in the booklet are based on interviews with participants at the event covering their experiences with free and open source in the non profit sector. Articles include:

Cybermohalla in Delhi; OSRC, FLOSS and Pakistan; What’s special about Ubuntu?; Adi fromIndonesia ... cybercafes with GNU/Linus; It’s no tower of Babel, it’s South Africa; Where FLOSS spells Magics (or, Mayix)

From the Introduction: "Scanning a week in the end of January and early February 2005, nearly a hundred people from different parts of Asia (and a few from our planet’s other continents too) met up at the Asia Source event held on the outskirts of Bangalore. For more technical details, the why’s and how’s of the event, visit http://www.tacticaltech.org/asiasource (...)

Below is a series of news-features and reports that I wrote, in an attempt to offer a flavour of the event and also act as an introduction to the people who attended. While this does not claim to be a comprehensive report – and many interview-worthy people were obviously missed out, largely due to paucity of time during an event-packed week – the writer’s hope is that this endeavour will give a feel of what happened, specially for those who were not there."

full text can be downloaded here in pdf (280 kB)