Under the FlossWorld project (flossworld.org) Internet Society - Bulgaria is organizing a workshop on "Free and Open Source Software in South-Eastern Europe".

The workshop will be held on 24th and 25th of March, 2006 in Sofia, Bulgaria. The main goal of the workshop will be to identify regional specifics in FLOSS, addressing the FlossWorld tracks (Human capacity building, Software development, e-Government policy) and create a basis for further collaboration with the community.

The SEE countries which will be represented during the workshop are Bulgaria, Croatia, Turkey and Macedonia. The topics to discuss will be: the FLOSS community, the business, e-government,skills development and education with FLOSS. Görkem Çetin (TUBITAK – UEKAE)and Bulent Ozel (Bilgi University) from tOSSad will be giving a presentations about F/OSS presence in Turkey. You can find more information from the web site of the workshop and check the agenda on http://www.foss.bg/conf.

We believe that this organization will be a driving initiative between tOSSad and FLOSSWorld and lead to future communications and collaborations among other parties related to F/OSS.