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Open Source workshop at Arab American University - Jenin PDF Print E-mail

 

April 26 2010

The faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at AAUJ organized a workshop on open source to raise the awareness on Free and Open Source Softwares

Background

The faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at AAUJ is committed to the promotion, use and training on open source products. One step in this direction was to conduct this workshop to raise the awareness and to show this alternative to our students.   

 

Date and Time and place

26/4/2009, 13:00-15:00, Faculty of E&IT, Room 11104. 

 

Schedule

The following is the schedule of the workshop with speakers. All the speakers are members of the faculty.

 

Title

Speaker

Duration

Open source initiative

Dr. Osama Salameh

15 min

The relationship between open source applications and creativity

Dr. Khalid Rabaya

15 min

How to profit from Open Source applications?

Mr. Sami Awad

15 min

Open source courses

Prof. Dr. Farouk Musa

15 min

The other side of open    source applications

Dr. Muath Sabha

15 min

Discussion

                                                45 min

 

 

Targeted audience

Around 140 students attended the workshop. The majority of the students are from our faculty but there are some from Art & Science faculty as well. 

 

Expenses and Sponsor

This workshop is funded by a local newly opened restaurant " Mawal"  (300$).

 

Results

Based on the discussions in the workshop it was clear that our students are now more motivated and eager to attend training sessions that we plan next. Around 250 CD with Ubuntu distribution and Open Office were distributed in the workshop and outside.

 

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