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Tag: Mario Behling

  • Summer of Code: Meet up with Leslie Hawthorn Community Manager of Google

    The strength of an Open Source FOSS project comes from its community. Google has realized that and supports the community with its Summer of Code programme. I had the chance to meet up at an earlybird breakfast in Brussels with Leslie Hawthorn and some folks from Google like Peter Anvin to discuss some ideas of […]

  • LXDE Talk at FOSDEM 2009

    We had a fantastic time at FOSDEM 2009 in Brussels. After the Chaos Communication Congress a few weeks ago, we have again seen many people already using LXDE. Christoph Wickert (Fedora)  and I had a lightning talk where we gave an overview of LXDE and the expanding community in front of about 500 people. Special […]

  • New download page for LXDE

    Mwei in Taiwan and me (Mario) in Germany have set up a new download page for LXDE on http://download.lxde.org. The page currently features a Live-CD version and USB version of pud, which was put together by Penk, who is also a LXDE contributor from Taiwan. LXDE/PUD GNU/Linux is an Ubuntu-based mini distribution based on LXDE. […]

  • LXDE featured in prestigious magazine 新新聞 The Journalist

    Shen Wanyu from the prestigious magazine ¨新新聞 The Journalist¨ in Taiwan interviewed us some time ago. Result was a six page article ( PDF-Download, 5,9 MB ) about business opportunities for companies with free and open source software. [slideshow id=5] More information on the amazing global media coverage of LXDE in the Media Section of […]

  • LXDE at the 25C3 Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin

    Members of the LXDE community are currently meeting at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. The 25C3 is one of the biggest hacker and developer events in the world with more than 3000 hackers gathering for 4 days just after Christmas. Mario Behling, Maces, alx It is exciting to be here and see that many […]

  • LXDE presentation at ICOS 2008 in Ilan, Taiwan

    Fred Chien, core developer of LXDE, and me had a presentation of LXDE at ICOS 2008 in Ilan Taiwan. Lxde Icos2008 Presentation 今年的會議議程，將從『政府』、『教育』、『商業』、『社群』及『非營利組織』等五 大族群，邀請政府官員、民意代表、企業代表、學術研究人士，社群計畫發展人員、 非營利組織應用發展代表等，共同參與各項發表會、座談會。希望藉由這個研討會 的舉辦，提供一個網路之外的交流機會，透過各方英雄好漢的分享經驗及心得交 換，也期望能為未來相關領域的發展及合作提供一些助力。 本研討會之議程委員皆在自由軟體相關單位、產業界、學術界或相關社群享有 盛名，具有高度成就。本大會將著重於: 「自由軟體/開放源碼」與政府相關政策； 「自由軟體/開放源碼」與教育的關係； 「自由軟體/開放源碼」於國際社會發展脈動及合作； 「自由軟體/開放源碼」之商業應用模式； 「自由軟體/開放源碼」之非營利組織應用模式； 「自由軟體/開放源碼」社群的現況及發展。 本次會議預計將會吸引來自各地的學者、專家、研究生及相關社群人士與會。 希望能提昇國內產官學研等單位人士對自由軟體、自由軟體社群、自由軟體共同開 發平台之瞭解。並建立自由軟體有助於增進數位學習、縮減數位落差之形象。建立 產官學社群交流之機制並提昇各界對國家自由軟體政策推動之認識。(Aug, 30, 2008, http://www.slat.org/icos2008/) Mario BehlingMario Behling is a German born serial entrepreneur. He founded the lubuntu […]