EIF ANNOUNCES ARMENIAN 24-HOUR WEB OPEN SOURCE PROGRAMMING MARATHON
SYS-CON Media, NJ
Sept 28 2006
Sun Microsystems And Sourcio To Sponsor The Marathon
By: Enterprise Open Source News Desk
Enterprise Incubator Foundation (EIF) and Open Soft Consult teams
announced the launch of first Armenian 24-hour Web Open Source (WebOS)
programming marathon which will take place 14 October 2006.
Armenia IT industry is considered one of the most prominent and
progressive economic sectors with deep historic roots and traditions
in high tech R&D areas. Armenian programmers and engineers had
long started forming alliances and getting engaged in international
contracts with companies in neighboring countries and off-shore.
Open Source 24-hour programming marathon is scheduled to launch 14
October 2006 with an ambitious but realistic goal to promote Armenia’s
potential as one of attractive destinations of highly developed
information technology sector and professional young specialists.
Open Source 24-hour Marathon will motivate the IT area professionals
and engage them in open source development. The objectives of the
marathon is to discover Armenian young IT talents, new ideas and
specialists, help to form businesses in open source technologies,
provide them modern knowledge as well as promote open source
programming in Armenia.
The participants of the Marathon can register at the webos2006 website
and within 24-hours submit their projects to the steering board. The
best projects will be rewarded with interesting prizes.
The event will be publicized both locally and internationally, via
the TV, newspapers, magazines and internet.
The Marathon is sponsored by IT Development Support Council, Union
of Information Technology Enterprise, Sun Microsystems and Sourcio.