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The first project in open source in Kosovo has been the adjustment of Open Office Packet in December 2003. 〔(Open Office in Kosovo )〕 In 28 July 2004 the Albanian team, users of Linux (GGSL), was one of the first public organizations for the purpose of getting information about the field of open source. This conference was called "Software Freedom Day".〔(Software Freedom Day )〕 Software Freedom Day is known as the first initiative about FOSS in Kosovo in the level of conference. The purpose of that conference was to promote the free and open software. Some of the issues that were discussed were about GNU/Linux, what is free software and open sources in general. Another issue that was discussed in that conference was about the operative system Linux and its benefits. KDE and GNOME were the last issues that were discussed in conference.〔(Software Freedom Day )〕 Ati-Kos has made some surveys in five municipal assemblies of Kosovo in May 2005. According to this survey about 98.6% wanted software box in mother tongue, in Albanian. In another survey, the majority of the participants believed that a software box like Open Office would help in increasing the productivity in different fields because of the interface in Albanian. 〔(Ati-Kos Survey )〕 ==FLOSSK (Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova)== (Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova ) (FLOSSK) FLOSS Kosova is a non-governmental organization which was established in March 2009 that promotes free and open source software. This initiative was undertaken by James Michael DuPont in association with volunteers from Kosovo. The first results of this organization have been seen in August of that year in the (Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering ), where was held the first conference of this organization. The conference became traditional and will be held every year. The conference which resulted to be the biggest conference in the region was called “Software Freedom Kosova 2009”, which promoted free and open source software, the growth of knowledge and maps. 〔(FLOSSK about )〕 The active members are: *James Michael Dupont Co-Founder, Executive Board Member *Shkumbin Brestovci Co-Founder, Executive Board *Ardian Haxha - President of Executive Board *Valon Brestovci - Executive Board Member *Taulant Ramabaja - Executive Board Member and other members around Kosovo and abroad. 〔(Flossk Members )〕〔(Brandsoftheworld.com about Flossk )〕 〔(Pcworld.al article about Flossk )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Open source in Kosovo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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