MSC MALAYSIA OSCONF 2009 Filed under ( OSCONF 2009 )

MSC MALAYSIA OPEN SOURCE CONFERENCE 2009 will be held at Berjaya Times Square Hotel & Convention Center, Kuala Lumpur from 31st May 2009 to 3rd June 2009. This event is organized by MSC Malaysia & MAMPU and jointly supported by the Malaysian Open Source Community and MOSTI. This is the first time 4 crucial stakeholders consisting of government, businesses, developers and community will take part together. This conference positioned as an international forum will have sharing and exchanging ideas on technical advancements, applications, development and business cases on open source.

Developers, designers, systems administrators, community leaders, innovators, CTOs and CIOs, evangelists and activists, researchers, strategists, and entrepreneurs are invited to lead and contribute during all conference sessions, tutorials and discussions. Moreover, this conference will have renowned speakers from prime Open Source Enterprises which are Mozilla, Google and Red Hat to name a few and also not forgeting from the developer community - Ubuntu, BSD, Fedora, PHPs and etc...

More info is on the official portal of MSC Malaysia OSCONF 2009

Facebook chat plugin in Pidgin Filed under ( Pidgin )

Pidgin (formerly named Gaim) is a multi-platform instant messaging client, based on a library named libpurple.It supports multiple chat protocols such as AIM, GoogleTalk, MSN, YM, ICQ, IRC and so on.Recently i discovered it too supports Facebook chat. To enable it, one should just install the facebook chat plugin in pidgin ("pidgin-facebookchat"). Once installation done, the machine need to be restarted.

For example, those using Ubuntu/Kubuntu :-

1)sudo apt-get install pidgin-facebookchat

2)Reboot your machine (Optional)

3)Open your pidgin and add your facebook account.To do it got to Accounts > Manage Accounts > Add > Choose the protocol as Facebook (In the drop down menu) and fill up the login options.

Now you can enjoy the feature.

For Ubuntu/Kubuntu users, you also can add the Facebook WebApp for Prism(XULRunner browser for web applications) by installing prism-facebook . Once done you can start your facebook from your desktop.Its really cool..