SOIT Activities in the Year 2014

Most notable events:

• Commenting on the proposal of the Law on Geodesy and Cartography and other legal provisions

• Conducting the project Free Software in the School Day

• Cooperation with the Linux Professional Institute

Details:

• November 2014: On 16. - 17. November 2014 the OpenSource weekend was held at the Faculty of Science, UPJS in Košice – the talks focused on free software, open hardware, open data and open standards.

• November 2014: Completing the translation of the book LibreOffice 4.0 Getting Started into the Slovak language (with the help of many nonmembers).

• September - October 2014: Collaboration on the collective comment on the amendment to the Petition Rights Act (more than 2600 supporters) and the following dispute proceedings

• July 2014: on 12^th and 13^th of July 2014 SOIT, together with the initiative OpenData.sk, organised the Open Scraper Challenge (OSC) in Bratislava and Brno

• July 2014: Conference OSSConf 2014, Žilina

• July 2014: First certificate tests as part of the collaboration with the Linux Professional Institute.

• May 2014: SOIT participated in the discussion Necessary steps towards an actual integration which was part of the ITAPA 2014 conference.

• March 2014: SOIT drafted a collective comment on the proposed amendments to the Law on Geodesy and Cartography, Law on the property register and advocated open access to geodetic data (928 supporters on changenet.sk).

• March 2014: SOIT organised the Opensource weekend in Bratislava (18 talks, some are accessible on our Youtube channel).

• March - August 2014:  Conducted the Free Software in Schools Day project with financial support from the Orange Foundation. We organised 9 weekend sessions, two-day event “Teacher's days” in Žilina, a course of programming in Python and other activities. The events consisted of lectures, workshops, and mutual exchange of experience. More than 150 teachers attended the events.

• January - December 2014: members of SOIT actively cooperated within the Commission for the standardization of information systems in the public administration at the Ministry of Finance SR and its work groups.