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1. Open Source Coders ChAllenge for Romanians
OSCAR
Open Source Coders chAllenge for Romanians
18 – 19 may 2007, Brasov, Romania

2. Open Source Coders ChAllenge for Romanians
Summary
From an ideea...
Organizers and Partners
What is OSCAR?
OSCAR – research part
Target
Objectives
Projects and research themes (proposals) for this year
Contact us
Questions
18 – 19 may 2007, Brasov, Romania

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From an ideea...
To make something interesting for youngs and students
passionate for programming and open source
Contribute at global OSS development
To be a unique event in Romania
Not a contest, just a challange
To involve youngs and students into open source
18 – 19 may 2007, Brasov, Romania

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Organizers
Faculty of Computer Science Iasi - www.infoiasi.ro
Computer Science Students Association - www.asii.ro
Co - Organizers
Linux Users Group Iasi
WebGroup
Partners
Pro Linux Foundation
18 – 19 may 2007, Brasov, Romania

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What is OSCAR?
● to help the development of open source technology by finding
alternative solutions and establishing partnerships between
the academic environment and Romanian IT industry
It is the only event of this kind in Romania, involving communities
with experience and those willing to learn, OSCAR contributes
to the FLOSS development globally
This project promotes creativity and inventivity of the young
participants
18 – 19 may 2007, Brasov, Romania

6. Open Source Coders ChAllenge for Romanians
OSCAR – research part
4 research groups
- each of them developing during the 4 months research
activities on a chosen topic
- with the possibility of it to be continued during the next year too
- each research group will be coordinated by one ore more persons
from the academic environment
18 – 19 may 2007, Brasov, Romania

7. Open Source Coders ChAllenge for Romanians
Target
Students of Romanian IT faculties
The open source communities in Romania
Others interested in the OSS domain
18 – 19 may 2007, Brasov, Romania

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Objectives
OSCAR wants to change the Romanian programmers mentality
(especially IT students) by promoting open source software, whose
flexibility and ease of use are important qualities
To develop
- existent apps that need improvement
- medium-level applications which cover a large area
- grid-computing
- embedded and designed for mobile
- devices applications
- security,
- ERP systems and databses
- web services
- kernel developement
Contribute at a global level to the development of these technologies,
that could turn out to be the future of programming
18 – 19 may 2007, Brasov, Romania

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Projects and research themes (proposals)
for 2007
- FW/VPN Manager
(FW/VPN Manager is a graphical interface, web-based, for
administering security policies associated to a combined
solution of firewall and VPN)
- Sunbird/Lightning of Mozilla project
- Apache mod_rdf
(Creation of an Apache module that can transcribe an HTTP
message flow (received and sent by the server) in RDF terms,
according to HTTP Vocabulary in RDF)
18 – 19 may 2007, Brasov, Romania

10. Open Source Coders ChAllenge for Romanians
- XwikiXDB
(Creation of a XWiki model that would permit back-end level
storage of data in a XML native database system)
- WebSlides
(Creation of an application that permits making of presentation
slides meant to be viewed in a current browser or on a mobile
device and printed no matter the printer type)
- Wiki engine for Collaboa
(To enrich this application with a wiki that should permit
documentation, specification etc writing in a collaborative manner)
- Mono XNA
(DirectX will be replaced in the future as a platform with XNA)
18 – 19 may 2007, Brasov, Romania

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Research themes (for research groups):
- Web 2.0
- SOA. Distributed Systems
- Applications for mobile devices
- Modules for Linux Kernel
18 – 19 may 2007, Brasov, Romania

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Contact us:
http://oscar.info.uaic.ro
OSCAR website
alina.mierlus@info.uaic.ro
my e-mail
busaco@info.uaic.ro
Sabin Corneliu Buraga
(co-founder/organiser of OSCAR)
18 – 19 may 2007, Brasov, Romania

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Questions?
18 – 19 may 2007, Brasov, Romania