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Now that is fun! When you look at the KDE4 trunk statistics the Germanic minority language Low Saxon is more complete than the German translation/localisation of KDE. Back in 2004 I attended the Linux Information Days in my home town Wilhelmshaven as a speaker, where Heiko Evermann presented his project to translate KDE into low [...]

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ISO/IEC 26300 was approved by INEN as a national standard for Ecuador:
PNTE INEN-ISO/IEC 26300:2009 Tecnología de la información – Formato de documento abierto para aplicaciones de oficina (Open document) v1.0.”
Congratulations!

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Plans of the Kyrgystan Patent and Trademark Office to take over the .ky domain name registration process is discussed by Elena Skochilo. Currently the granting process is managed by a private company name asiainfo.ru.

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Open source software development in Russia is one of the most important directives for Igor Schegolev – the Head of the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications of the Russian Federation. At a key meeting with Werner Knoblich, Red Hat Vice President for EMEA, he announced support for a Russian Fedora association and for Red [...]

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Apparently also Cuba develops its own national operating system, Reuters reports.
The government views the use of Microsoft systems, developed by U.S.-based Microsoft Corp, as a potential threat because it says U.S. security agencies have access to Microsoft codes.
The remarkable aspect about the move is the domino effect. More an more nations develop their own [...]

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Putin explains their educational project to get computers in schools and the quality of their programmers.

Dell: How can we as an IT sector help you broaden the economy as you move out of a crisis and take advantage of that great scientific talent that you have?
Putin: We are not invalids. We [...]

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