IntelliNet Solutions will participate as a "3Stars Community Sponsor" at the eLiberatica 2008, on May 30-31 2008.

Conference topics

    What does Open Source and Free Software mean
          o Past, present and future;
          o The economical perspective;
          o Governmental, pan-European and world perspective;
          o School and education system.
   

     FLOSS and business
          o Open Source & Free Software versus closed source and the proprietary model.
          o POSS (Professional Open Source) Model concept.
 

     Different types of FLOSS business models:
                + OS/FS (Open Source / Free Software) products development;
                + Support and services based on company’s own OS/FS products;
                + Support and services based on OS/FS products developed by other companies;
                + OS/FS products developed for selling hardware;
                + Proprietary services developed by using OS/FS solutions;
                + Services for providing FLOSS information and documentation;
                + Other examples.
          o Success stories and practical examples of FLOSS based business models.
 

      How to build a career and gain professional growth by getting involved in the FLOSS community
          o Why is it important to participate in the FLOSS community;
          o Success stories and practical examples.
   

      Legal aspects related to FLOSS
          o License types;
          o Romanian legislation;
          o Legal aspects regarding starting a FLOSS model based business in Romania.
  

      FLOSS in government, local administration and education
          o Why is FLOSS important from a governmental perspective (transparency, opening, democracy of information, etc);
          o What are other governments doing;
          o What is the Romanian Government doing/not doing and what it should/shouldn’t do;
          o Why we should insist to teach Open Source and Free Software methods and technologies in schools/universities;
          o The power of the community and why should we care.
   

      Break the code hour
          o Technical presentation;
          o The FLOSS alternative solutions: practical presentation of FLOSS solutions that can be used instead of proprietary software.