Cagayan de Oro - Software Freedom Day 2015

September 19, 2015 - A community organized event, Software Freedom Day, for the community in Cagayan de Oro City was held at Capitol University Laboratories.

It has been a tradition that ITGx together with Capitol University to organize and celebrate SFD every year along with various walk-in guests and invited guests from other school organization. Farthest was guests from Ozamis City which is approximately 5 hours away from the venue.

The goal of the event is to educate the public about the benefits of using high quality Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), Cagayan de Oro's Software Freedom Day celebration is filled with talks on various technologies from some of the leading developers in CdeO.


I had participated in the event as a resource speaker to talk about Play Framework fundamental and basics. Day after the event, I had a conversation with one of the audience and its good to hear that I am helping people learn to easily solve problems. Feels great.

Bellow was the schedule of events during that day and it was full of session everyone could learn.

8:00AM - 8:45AM	Registration and Sign up
8:45AM - 9:20AM	Opening program Invocation by CS-SBO President National Anthem Dr. Karen Joie Cuenca IT Supervisor, CHED-REGION 10 Keynote Speech
Morning Sessions	9:30AM - 11:45AM
Virtual Reality By Geoff Diaz and Edmund Madrid Salcedo Jr. Edge Interactive LAB A
Python Fundamentals By ITG-PyTsada with Arvin Vincent Simon from Innovuze LAB B
Introduction to Play Framework for other Devs By Paul Labis Mangium Software LAB C
Open Source DevOps Tools By Romar Mayer Micabalo SysAdmin, Innovuze LAB D
Lunch Break
Afternoon Sessions	1:30PM - 3:45PM
Introduction to Haskell By JR Requiroso, RedLemon Digital Media LAB A
Python Flask By ITG-PyTsada with Romar Mayer Micabalo from Innovuze LAB B
The IoT Stack: A Dissection: Arduino, Python, MQTT and everyTHING By Aryan Limjap and Jay Ginete, Capitol University LAB C
PHP The Right Way By Rudenyl Betonio, Innovuze LAB D
3:45PM - 4:00PM
Closing Ceremonies Signing of event Plaque Group picture taking

Hoping for next years Software Freedom Day.

Information Technology Group X - Balingasag Tech Talk

August 25, 2015 - A technology event was held in Misamis Oriental Institute of Science and Technology (MOIST) organized by host school in partnership with Information Technology Group X (ITGx). Supported by Google Developers Group - CDO, DevCon, Google Business Group and other companies locally like Mangium Software, Cleversoft and Innovuze Solutions.

The event concluded successfully that is able to transfer useful knowledge on various technologies commonly used and practiced by developers, system administrators and DevOps. Most of the audience are college students and faculties members. 

It was a fun ride for about 1 hour and 30 minutes going to the venue from city proper. Effort was worth it specially when you hear audience saying they learn so much from the event that they can use for their projects. ITGx organized great and passionate pool of speakers with over 30+ years of total experience in technology industry. 

Below is a picture giving ITGx token of appreciation to MOIST for hosting and organizing the event. Special thanks to  Felixberto S. Sambere and Tahir Aziz for a successful, fun filled out-of-town, first of its kind ITGx version of technology tech talk event

I hope to go back there someday and do a talk on technologies I love to work on. Hopefully next year we do another one. :)