Posts Tagged ‘Sri Lanka’

Sri Lanka becoming a FOSS giant in Asia ?

Recently Google has released a report with the statistics of the Google Summer of Code 2006 (FYI : It’s a program where Google pay for students for working on various open-source projects). According to this report Sri Lanka comes under top 20 countries with highest accepted students and highest number of applications. It seems 10 […]

eSriLanka PC - how it will affect ?

Remember all flames we had with Intel CEO Craig Barrett labeling that OLPC’s $100 laptop project as just a gadget ? Even though $100 laptop is still in prototype, intel had made a step ahead by sponsoring the eSriLankaPC.
eSriLankaPC is a project under ICTA which has the object of increasing the PC adoption in country. […]

Home Office, anyone ???

The life in this island is getting too difficult. The rising flames of the war and ever increasing oil charges are screwing the people. Today, coming to Colombo has become the worst nightmare to anyone. The number of checkpoints and barriers has doubled the traffic jam and virtual it takes two hours to travel 20 […]

Becoming a Semi Geek…

These days I’m undergoing a flip and turn in my life with the admission into University education. Now I’m spending most of the time in meatspace rather than in siliconspace. In this part of world, students still have more faith on Kuppi(local university slang for group studies) rather than O’Reilly books or Wikipedia, and the […]

Stepping into the Higher Studies

Last week I began the chapter 2 of my life, after going through 13 exciting years of college education, I finally entered into higher education. I got selected as an internal student of IT Faculty of University of Moratuwa (UoM).
I regard this as a great opportunity, since this course is considered more job oriented and […]

Why Sri Lankan designers should adapt to Web Standards ?

It seems most of the web designers in the world are adapting to web standards and many major sites are redesigning (realigning or rebooting or what ever) to comply with the web standards, but the interest of the subject here in Sri Lanka is very poor. Most of the sites, whether it government or commercial, […]

Share Alike Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan geek community has been all excited for these days with the arrivel of Prof. Lawrence Lessig founder of Creative Commons. Eventhough I was not able to attend for the conference for unforseen circumstances, I’m keeping track of the event thanks to some hardworking bloggers and flickers (unfortunately no podcasters !)
CreativeCommons.lk Launched ??
Eventhough several […]

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