Knastik 2010 is Over

Today, finally we can held KNASTIK 2010 which has been postponed due to Merapi eruption last month. Although the participant has decreased due to schedule changes, we were still glad to have this event held because we have prepared this event for some time and it will be our annual event.

I woke up at 6 AM in the morning (and i just slept at 4.30 AM, so only 1.5 hours to rest) and t hen i went to my campus to do early preparation. I went back at home at 5.30 PM, so it's almost 12 hours in my campus.

Now i need some rest

KNASTIK is Over

After preparing for more than three months, finally KNASTIK is now over and all the efforts are paid off. The seminar were great and the chairs were almost full (i was actually afraid that the attendance were more than we anticipated, but luckily that didn't happened).

See you on next year's KNASTIK with new topic

Conference Via Skype

Tonight, i'm trying to held a conference using Skype as the media with some of my students. I tend to use Skype as it has better compression compared to other application. So far, i have been using it on Linux and it worked just fine for audio call, since i have never tried to use video call.

Let's hope the conference works as expected

Invitations

I received several invitations this month, but unfortunately, i can't attend all those invitations, because it most of them are held outside Jogja. I can't sacrifice my classes just to attend all those events. The first is JAX Asia 2008. I have attended this event on 2006. At that time, i was still working in Jakarta, so i could came to this event. In 2007, i pass the event and probably i will do that again in 2008.

The second event is Asia Africa Conference on Open Source which will be held in Jakarta at 18-19 November 2008. The conference will be hosted by RISTEK (Indonesian ministry of research and technology).

The third one is IEEE ComSoc Indonesia 2008 which will be held in Bandung at 22 November 2008.

The only event that i can attend was Sun Developer Day 2008 last week.

I really wished that those kind of event would be held in Jogja someday in the future, so i can attend it more often.

OpenOffice.org Reached Ten Million Downloads

OpenOffice.org has reached ten million downloads since it's release (OOo 3.0). This number was achieved after one month and also after the end of OpenOffice.org Annual Conference that was held in Beijing, China. This also marks the first OOo Con outside Europe. What a great achievement for OOo project which was ran by the communities and without advertisement budgets.

You are totally awesome and thanks to the developers who have contributed to this release. We are looking for more contributions to make OOo better in the future