THE Cebu Business Month (CBM)  activity of the Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) next month will hold the first Philippine Open Source Summit at the Cebu International Convention Center.

                Major stakeholders, experts and advocates of Open Source Technology across the world will gather in Cebu City on June 23 and 24 to discuss how the Open Source movement is changing the rules of the game for information and communications technology (ICT).

                “Open source” refers to software or application whose users need no license to operate or use. 

                They will also “focus on the challenges that the Open Source model introduces into modern mainstream ICT corporations and business enterprises so as to effectively manage Open Source as an integral element in any long-term IT strategy,” a statement from CCCI read. 

                Top executives from such open source advocates such as Exist Global, Red Hat, Alfresco, Apache Software Foundation and Open Source Initiatives will lead the plenary discussions on June 23. 

                Breakout sessions will follow the next day with SugarCRM, ADempiere, Pentaho, Drupal, RoR, Eclipse, Maven,  Tomcat/Jetty, MySQL.

                The Philippine Open Source Summit 2008 is one of the major thrusts of the CBM for the year that is being held in collaboration with the Commission on Information and Communications Technology  and in conjunction with the Department of Trade and Industry.

                The provincial and city governments of Cebu have also adopted the summit as among their pioneering projects for 2008. 

                Recognizing that Open Source is one huge wave of the future in the field of ICT, the CCCI now turns its focus to bring together the world-renowned players of various global Open Source initiatives.  

ENVIRONMENT Secretary Lito Atienza has advised Oceana Gold Philippines Inc. to proceed with the construction of its Didipio mine in Kasibu, Aklan, saying the company is operating within the bounds of the law.

Infrastructure projects undertaken by the government are prone to posting cost overruns, according to the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda).

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO—A temporary restraining order (TRO) was issued by the Regional Trial Court here on Tuesday regarding the implementation of Pampanga’s  Ordinance 176, otherwise known as “An Ordinance Provi-ding for the Equitable Distribution of Shares of Fees/Taxes Imposed by the Province of Pampanga for the Extraction of Quarry Materials and for Other Purposes.”

PROJECTS with cost overruns will no longer be processed by the National Economic and Development Authorioty (Neda) without a budget strategy coming from the Department of Budget and Management (DBM).

A THREE-DAY conference on wastes among local officials and their representatives ended Thursday with green groups pushing for the application of innovative solutions to the garbage problem to help reverse global warming and climate change.

THE Cebu Business Month (CBM)  activity of the Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) next month will hold the first Philippine Open Source Summit at the Cebu International Convention Center.

THE Department of Agriculture (DA) signed an agreement with two farm-based nongovernment groups to allow them to recommend industry representatives to join the department in its ocular inspections of shipments of imported farm products at the Bureau of Customs (BOC).

LOCAL seaweed producers has projected that the volume of carrageenan exports for this year may go down by 50 percent to 80,000 metric tons (MT), from 160,000 MT, as production of seaweed slows due to poor harvests and increasing cost of manufacturing carrageenan.

DECRYING the incomparable costs of living against the increase in cost of basic commodities and utilities, militant group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) urged Thursday the scrapping of “unjust charges” to reduce power rates.