“eLiberatica, the first national Romanian conference on free and
open source software (FOSS), is scheduled for May 18-19 in the city
of Braşov. The conference is the result of 18 months of
planning by Lucian Savluc, a Romanian immigrant to Canada, assisted
by FOSS licensing consultant Zak Greant. The goal is nothing less
than unifying FOSS promotion throughout Romania and encouraging its
adoption by business through grassroots organization. The goal,
says Greant, ‘is to help build a broad, sustainable, effective free
and open source movement in Romania that includes programmers,
university students, and business people.’“The conference was born when Savluc and Greant started
brainstorming about a project that would employ all of Suvlac’s
skills…”