page_title: Open source in Kosovo
section_title: OLPC
hierarchical_section_title: Open source in Kosovo / Open source projects and training / OLPC
caption_attribution_description: OLPC - Production Prototype - Functional Survey (Derivative work)
context_page_description: The first project in open source in Kosovo was the adjustment of the Open Office Packet in December 2003.
  On 28 July 2004, an Albanian team, users of Linux, 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 is known as the first initiative about FOSS in Kosovo in the level of the conference. The purpose of that conference was to promote the free and open software. Some of the issues that were discussed were about 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.
  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.
context_section_description: OLPC was one of the most attractive projects of Open source in Kosovo because it was dedicated to children. OLPC was a project which was dedicated to poor places where the basic thing is a laptop which is used by children to learn the system of Linux. This laptop was based on a version of Fedora and it had some basic applications. It was also equipped with WiFi where people could browse in internet and learn new things. This project was supported since the first steps of Flossk and in different conferences. The project was very welcomed in Kosovo.
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