Well, it has been nearly a month and a half since I started as IT Director at Horizon. For us, it is crunch time in choosing what systems to use at our school. The Ministry of Training and Education started classes nearly a month early this year. To add a bit of stress, a hacker took down our website and school information system. This gave us an opportunity to start from … [Read more...] about Joomla/Moodle/openSIS – Perfect match for education?
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Vietnam-based company looking for a Vietnamese Ubuntu Guy
A friend from a Western company is looking for a Vietnamese guy experienced in using Ubuntu Linux. Please see the brief job description below: To prepare an Ubuntu migration from Windows, we are looking for a Vietnamese Person with Ubuntu skills to support : Post-Installation Ubuntu Support Internal Staff Training on Ubuntu / Open Office Location … [Read more...] about Vietnam-based company looking for a Vietnamese Ubuntu Guy
Saigon Software Freedom Day a Success!!!
Today I attended the Saigon Software Freedom Day 2009 organized by the Saigon Linux User Group at the University of Education in District 5. This is actually my first ever SFD that I attended. It was nice to meet Prof. Nguyen Thai Son again, a long time advocate of open source and Linux in Saigon. I made many valuable contacts from this event today including the Ubuntu-VN … [Read more...] about Saigon Software Freedom Day a Success!!!
IT class update, more Vietnamese Linux users :-)
Well, I just completed week 3 at the American International School here in Saigon, Vietnam. I signed a one year contract to teach 2 ICT classes part-time for about 40 high school students ranging from the 9th - 12th grades. This most likely will be my last year teaching IT at this school do to my limited amount of time I have outside of my company. This year my curriculum … [Read more...] about IT class update, more Vietnamese Linux users :-)
Pardus Linux 2009 International on my Thinkpad T60
Well, if you really want to fall in love with a Linux distro, you got to try Pardus 2009 International. You got to give it to the Turks, they created the next great sensation in the Linux world with this distro. Move over Sabayon and Linux Mint, Pardus 2009 is awesome!!! To make it even better, they are one of the first distros to incorporate KDE4 that reminds me alot of KDE … [Read more...] about Pardus Linux 2009 International on my Thinkpad T60