Pipol,
This is the FIRST draft. Pitch in your mods (diffs are welcome \8)
I'll collate. When it's done we submit it to whoever press officer is
interested.
Ambo, I'm not sure from your email addy what company you're from. Send me
privately your company if you want it mentioned.
All the others, if you don't want your company mentioned after your name,
just drop me a line and i'll do the mods.
If I missed naming any volunteer, i'm at fault \8| Tell me about it so i
can correct it.
[Text below distributed to the public by virtue of the open content
license]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PINOY LINUX COMMUNITY EXPERTS ESTABLISH TECH FORUM FOR BEGINNERS
In an uprecedented move this week, the Philippine Linux Users Group [PLUG]
established an online technical forum specifically catered to help
individuals setup and maintain personal computers running the Linux
operating system.
Citing the perrenial reason of the absence of institutional support for
the popular operating system, a virtual "who's who" in the local linux and
open source scene have banded together to establish a mailing list
specifically focusing on helping interested industry professionals,
academics, and tech-savvy individuals adopt Linux and open source in their
respective environments.
As a matter of policy each volunteer-expert is given a specific topic of
responsibility to support. Although all experts may pitch in to help in
any specific topic, the presence of specific topic assignments to each
expert ensures that all questions are answered to the satisfaction of the
asking individual.
True to the nature of open source software, membership and registration to
the mailing list is totally free of any charge, and the resident experts
are lending their talents pro-bono, in the hope that the open source and
Linux solutions might be adopted and appreciated by more people.
Throughout the eight years of its existence, PLUG has gathered a
formidable membership of professionals coming from both the academe and
industry. This fact allows it to to cover a wide range of topics, namely:
installation, networking, hardware compatibility, service deployment and
maintenance, software development, office applications/solutions, software
package managers, and server security.
Comprising the lineup of experts are a mix-match of top notch
professionals and academecians. Dr. Pablo Manalastas, William Yu, and
Jess Uy from the Ateneo de Manila, Migs Paraz of Inter.Net, Mike Maravillo
and Eric Rosel from Q-Linux Solutions, Froilan Mendoza from Tridel
Technologies, Orly Andico from Mozcom, "fooler" from Sky Internet, Ian
Sison from Q Software Research, Deds Castillo from Infinite Info Phils,
Paolo Carballo from SM, Dido Sevilla from UP Diliman, Eric Pareja and Jijo
Sevilla from UP Manila and Ambrosio Berdijo.
The PLUG web-page is at http://plug.linux.org.ph; The PLUG Newbie list is
hosted and maintained by Q-Linux Solutions (http://www.q-linux.com).
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