One day public workshop, Nov. 14, Hanoi

"Drive for change, deploy your own FOSS strategy for outreach and business"

Presentation : An event of the "Foss Bridge EU-Vietnam" network bringing together key organizations promoting FOSS, IT companies engaged in FOSS and their partners and customers. This day intends to provide participants with up-to-date background information on Free, Libre and Open Source software usage in Vietnam and Europe, as well as key ideas to deploy it’s own F/OSS strategy in Vietnam.

Target audience : around 100 attendees are expected, including developers, project managers, IT managers, and decisions makers coming from Vietnamese Intermediaries and SMEs. The Vietnamese and European companies who participated to the matchmaking workshops in November 2007 and June 2008 will also be invited to attend.

Program committee : the program committe includes the FOSS-Bridge management team, the trainer and participants from the previous training workshops

Tentative agenda

    Unique opportunity for decision makers, managers and ‘Free and Open-Source Software' advocates to discover the results and values of FOSS-Bridge EU-Vietnam, and the FOSS regional networking, this event is also a chance for enterprises and intermediaries to receive advanced training material on opening new businesses.

• 8:00 Registration

• 9:00 Welcome Address - Welcoming of the organizers and workshop information 

Speaker: Dr. Luong Chi MAI, IOIT

• 9:15 Opening Session -  What the growing network of FOSS-Bridge EU-Vietnam can offer  to you - a mapping of people, resources, material

Speakers : Mr SEIBOLD Balthas, InWEnt and Mrs NUEL Catherine, INRIA

• 9:30 Keynote  - The FOSS Impacts in Europe and Vietnam

How Free and Open Source Software is changing the fundamentals of the software market in Europe and Vietnam?

Speakers:  Mr Christophe Ney, FOSS-Bridge expert  and Mr Le Quoc Thai, IOIT.

• 10:00 Break and social activities
  Your questions on FOSS, find new open source partners in the FOSS-Bridge business network

• 10:30 Questions & Answers Session

• 10:45 Special talk  - FOSS International Networking in the ASEAN Region - the sample of IOS       
  

Speaker : Dr. SARMIENTO Francisco, Deputy Director of IOSN ASEAN+3

• 11:15 Panel  with FOSS-Bridge participants - 2008 Free and Open Source Software success stories in Vietnam

Panel Chair : Mrs Trinh Thi Kim Lien, VCCI Hai Phong

• 12:05 Lunch

• 13:15 Keynote - FOSS licensing and business models for Vietnam

How to make joint business with FOSS?

Speakers : Mr Le Hoang Thảo, Cantho University and Mr Nguyet Viet Hung, Ministry of Industry & Trade

• 14:00 Main Room Demos and Open Floor  - Demos of Open Source Magics and short talks about real world FOSS projects

• 14:00 Lab Room Training  -    Put your hands on the latest features of Open Office version 3

Trainer: Mrs Le Thi Thanh Binh, IT Center, University of Medical

• 15:30 Keynote - Adopting Free and Open Source Software strategies in 2009: A How-To

Speakers : Mr Dao Duy Bo, Binh Dinh Teacher Training College and Mr Nguyen  Duc Long, Dream Viet Technologies.

• 16:15 Closing Session by Mrs NUEL Catherine, INRIA

   

  Participants of this workshop will receive a special FOSS-Bridge material package including:
  introduction flyers from Vietnamese and European FOSS companies, a unique FOSS Training Materials CD and group contacts of FOSS-Bridge Vietnamese FOSS advocates.
  For information and updates please visit http://www.foss-bridge.org or email contact@fossbridge.org

Outreach to a greater number of SMEs through training conducted by the intermediaries

Date : November 10 to 15th, 2008

Location : Horison Hotel, Hanoi

In the framework of the FOSS-Bridge Intermediary Training, a third training activity will be organized.

This last stage of the Intermediary Training has a double objective :

• Enabling Intermediaries of vietnamese IT sector to spread key knowledge on how to create business based of FOSS.

• Fostering a vietnamese software industry capable of providing localised FOSS applications and services to government and businesses with SMEs serving as the national driver of technological innovation.

 Workshop concept:

During the previous April and  June intermediary FOSS-Bridge workshops, the attendees  have worked together with trainers on defining personal projects relating to raising F/OSS awareness in Vietnam.

This last intermediary-training workshop will be based on supporting those projects.

During the  workshop, the FOSS-Bridge team and participants will work only on selected projects. All participants of the previous FOSS-Bridge intermediary trainings are invited to contribute to one of the selected projects. The week will be dedicated to the adaptation and appropriation  of the Training material and the preparation of the public workshop of nov. 14 (see below).