FOSS Committee Universiti Malaysia Perlis

Thank you for your participation! The event was conducted without much fanfare, but still we got as many as 60 participants. Look forward to another event like this!

FSGM WEBINAR SERIES-17 ON " Foss Server OS @ Enterprise Data Center"

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AP/MTT/EMC Webinar Series Introduction to SciLAB

“2020 fundamentally changed how many companies and teams work…..However, for those of us who have been deeply engaged in open source, remote work has been our norm for many years because open source communities are large, globally distributed, and require effective collaboration from developers around the world,”

- Sarah Novotny, Microsoft’s open source lead for the Azure Office of the CTO

Microsoft says now is the time for all firms to embrace open source Microsoft is looking forward “to learning, growing, and earning our place in open source.”

Timetable GNOME Asia Summit 2020
24-26 November 2020 (Online)

https://events.gnome.org/event/24/timetable/ #20201124

Hurry! Submit your paper(s) as soon as possible. Only TWO (2) days left before the submission dateline.

Click this link to submit your paper - https://events.gnome.org/event/24/page/68-information-on-call-for-abstracts.

GNOME.Asia Summit is the featured annual GNOME conference in Asia. It focuses primarily on the GNOME desktop, but also covers applications and platform development tools. The summit brings together the GNOME community in Asia to provide a forum for users, developers, foundation leaders, governments and businesses to discuss the present technology and future developments.

Therefore, we are proud to invite you, yes you - all UniMAP staff, to showcase your brilliant idea through paper submission to our committee.

Click this link now to submit your paper - https://events.gnome.org/event/24/page/68-information-on-call-for-abstracts

Together we make a better world.

FOSS software are using equivalenced to purchased software

20 FOSS applications for Education
Links to a list of Free and Open Source Software in
our Open Source Options presentation.

http://libreoffice.org - office productivity suite
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox - web browser
http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/ - email client
http://inkscape.org - scalable vector graphic editor
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ - sound editor
http://www.geogebra.org - maths, geometry, algebra
http://gimp.org - photo and image editor
http://gcompris.net/ - early learning literacy and numeracy
http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org/ - maths, typing, painting
http://synfig.org - vector based 2d animation
http://scratch.mit.edu - programming and animation
http://celtx.com - story board and creative development tool
http://freemind.sourceforge.net - mindmapping
http://musescore.org - music notation and composition
http://moodle.org - learning management system
http://mahara.org - eportfolio server software
http://koha-community.org - library automation software
http://drupal.org - content management software
http://status.net - microblogging engine
http://mediawiki.org - the wiki software that runs wikipedia

Free open source implemented at Digital Management and Development Centre UniMAP.

What's the difference between open source software and other types of software?

Some software has source code that only the person, team, or organization who created it—and maintains exclusive control over it—can modify. People call this kind of software "proprietary" or "closed source" software.

Only the original authors of proprietary software can legally copy, inspect, and alter that software. And in order to use proprietary software, computer users must agree (usually by signing a license displayed the first time they run this software) that they will not do anything with the software that the software's authors have not expressly permitted. Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop are examples of proprietary software.

Open source software is different. Its authors make its source code available to others who would like to view that code, copy it, learn from it, alter it, or share it. LibreOffice and the GNU Image Manipulation Program are examples of open source software.
As they do with proprietary software, users must accept the terms of a license when they use open source software—but the legal terms of open source licenses differ dramatically from those of proprietary licenses.

Open source licenses affect the way people can use, study, modify, and distribute software. In general, open source licenses grant computer users permission to use open source software for any purpose they wish. Some open source licenses—what some people call "copyleft" licenses—stipulate that anyone who releases a modified open source program must also release the source code for that program alongside it. Moreover, some open source licenses stipulate that anyone who alters and shares a program with others must also share that program's source code without charging a licensing fee for it.

By design, open source software licenses promote collaboration and sharing because they permit other people to make modifications to source code and incorporate those changes into their own projects. They encourage computer programmers to access, view, and modify open source software whenever they like, as long as they let others do the same when they share their work.

Reference :

What is open source? What is open source?