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Welcome to the wiki of the camp "Asia Source 3 - Building Capacities and Empowering Humanity through F/OSS". This wiki documents event proceedings and other event-related collaborations.

Asia Source 3 was an event for experienced IT professionals and individuals, actively working with marginalised communities and small-to-medium enterprises in Asia. This six-day long workshop has been held in Silang, the Philippines from the 7th to the 12th of November 2009.

Contents 1 What's New 2 Agenda, Outcomes and Minutes of Sessions 3 Participants 4 Organisers 5 Resources 6 Media Section 7 Other things

What's New

• Press Release of Asia Source 3
• AS3 in Youtube
• Join the Asia Source III Community
• Draft Community Charter

For more information on Asia Source 3 and organizers, see also the Website of Asia Source 3

Agenda, Outcomes and Minutes of Sessions

Asia Source 3 featured four in-depth F/OSS-themed track sessions during the mornings, and a set of elective Afternoon Sessions. The following sub-pages give an overview of objectives, agenda, outcomes, minutes and links of the four Tracks and the numerous Afternoon Sessions:

Content of the four track sessions:

• Track 1: Managing Your Information
• Track 2: Migrating to F/OSS
• Track 3: Broadcasting Your Information
• Track 4: Joining the F/OSS Community or Using F/OSS Tools

Content of the Afternoon Sessions:

• Afternoon Sessions

Also online:

• Agenda Guidelines
• Asia Source 3 Event Schedule providing an overview of when the sessions took place
• Requests for Tutorials

Participants

Camp participants were advocates, technologists, software developers, designers and strategists who have used or intend to use free and/or open source software (FOSS) in their line of work. They need not be experts but need to have a proven aptitude in the use of technology tools and have basic computing skills.

Participants were in a range of skills and expertise, be it in advocacy, software development, design and technology in FOSS applications. Asia Source 3 gathered 150 representatives from Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mongolia, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor Leste, Vietnam.

See participants list in detail,

• Participants
• Participants by track
• Participants by country

Organisers

Asia Source 3 was jointly organized by UNDP-International Open Source Network (IOSN) through its ASEAN+3 Centre of Excellence (based at the University of the Philippines Manila) and InWEnt - Capacity Building International Germany, together with the Tactical Technology Collective, Aspiration (USA) and the Centre for Internet and Society (India). Funders include BMZ - the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany, the ASEAN Foundation and the Open Society Institute.

See here to learn more,

• List of organizing team

Resources

The AS3 community developed several online resources from the camp:

• a wiki (this site). Go here to see the content generated by participants within the camp.
• a Joomla-based community site. Use this for post-camp communications and for sharing pictures.
• a Plone publishing site (pre-camp). Go here for camp announcements (past and future) from organizers.
• Mailing list at asiasource3-participants@lists.iosnasean.net
• Network Usage Guidelines
• Infrastructure and Network
• Track Software

Media Section

• Chucky's Playground
• The Pool
• AS3 Refugee Camp
• Villa Escudero Trip
• Outing - Volcano Group
• Funniest Asia Source 3 Pictures
• More Kodak Moments

Other things

• AS3 Coffee
• Local Phone Numbers
• Elements of a go-live-strategy for AS3 content
• IQPC Singapore February 8-10, 2010