Re: Open source development in the Phil

Zak Elep <[email protected]>
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On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 3:29 AM, Rogelio Serrano
<[email protected]> wrote:
> How active is the open source development scene in the Philippines? Writing
> open source code is the best way to learn computer science and I'm still at
> it 14 years on. With cost of a college education being a colossal bubble I'm
> wondering if our fellow Filipinos even engage in it.

There's some (new) blood doing their own thing now.  See folks like
those from the Philippine Tech Hackers,[0] and other local programming
language groups like Manila.js[1] or Python.ph[2] for example, who are
a rather eclectic bunch with a lot of interesting code now on Github
(mostly libs/modules for web, but there's also some for games as
well.)

[0]:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/214546845336651/
[1]:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/javascriptdevelopersph/
[2]:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/pythonph/


Cheers,

zakame

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