Memorandum of Cooperation with the LUMBARDHI Foundation

🤝On October 23, FLOSSK signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with the LUMBARDHI Foundation for the donation of a scanner for the digitization of publications and archives held by this cultural institution in Prizren. FLOSSK has worked on the construction of book scanners in order to make this material available to the public and for further […]

Trainings on Arduino and OpenStreetMap

Trainings on Arduino and OpenStreetMap with high school students have begun! During the 2020/2021 period, 16 trainings for each field will be held where Arduino will be presented by using the simulator app TinkerCad, as well as editing on OpenStreetMap will be taught. The trainings will focus on creating experiments with electronics by students by […]

Digitized books platform is ready!

books.flossk.org is a platform that primarily provides opportunities for readers and scholars of the period 1945-1990 to have easy access to the resources of the time. In addition, the platform aims to provide an open and scalable model for the digitization of publications that are hard to reach for the public. Books on this platform […]

Another year of SFK has finished successfully!

Thank you to all the speakers, attendees, and FLOSSK team who made #SFK20 possible! We would like to thank all of our sponsors without whom we wouldn’t have the chance to organize the conference this year. Special thanks to Pixels Productions who helped us with #SFK20 production. Videos will soon be available online. See you […]

SFK20 starts tomorrow!

#SFK20 starts tomorrow at 10 AM and will continue for two full days! Follow the livestream on the SFK website https://sfk.flossk.org/ and on FLOSSK youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/flosskchannel We are ready, speakers are ready, are you?

OpenStreetMap Local Chapter

We are excited to have been approved just now as OpenStreetMap Local Chapter along with OpenStreetMap US. Thank you for the trust and we look forward to mapping more in OSM.    

Online Book Platform

Within the Culture for Change program, FLOSSK has held workshops for scanning and editing Kosovo newspapers from the 90s together with a number of young volunteers and students who have gained knowledge of digital technology as well as gained digital material editing and archiving skills. During the project, a semi-automatic scanner was built, which facilitated […]

OSGeo Annual General Meeting

Our board member Besfort Guri is representing OSGeo Kosovo at the OSGeo Annual General Meeting. ? He is presenting our work on open geographic data and systems, the formation of the OSGeo Local Chapter, and the organization of State of the Map Southeast Europe conference. #OSGeo #FOSS4G #FOSSGIS

Sensor Stations

Building the first air quality and weather station, within the “Sensor Stations” project. These stations will be built together with students and teachers of six high schools in Prishtina, Vushtrri, Lipjan, Prizren, Suhareka, and Rahovec. The ”Sensor Stations” project teaches students to build their own hardware, produce and analyze environmental data, and also aims to […]

FLOSSK has become an OSGeo local chapter

  OSGeo board has approved FLOSSK application to become the OSGeo local chapter in Kosovo. The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to foster global adoption of open geospatial technology by being an inclusive software foundation devoted to an open philosophy and participatory community driven development. It hosts a […]

FLOSSK & Open Labs Webinars

FLOSSK & Open Labs Webinars As coronavirus happens the impact is being felt by everyone, and Open Source communities, despite the good spirit that characterizes them, are not being spared — but the show must go on! With both Open Source Conference Albania (OSCAL’20)(https://oscal.openlabs.cc/) and Software Freedom Kosova (SFK) ( https://sfk.flossk.org/) affected during the past […]

Punëtoritë passhkollore online në Wikidata dhe OpenStreetMap

GjatĂ« muajit prill, nĂ« kuadĂ«r tĂ« projektit ASSET tĂ« organizatĂ«s Kosova Education Center – KEC, kemi mbajtur njĂ« seri tĂ« punĂ«torive passhkollore online tĂ« shtrirĂ« nĂ« 16 komuna tĂ« ndryshme, duke i mĂ«suar tĂ« rinjtĂ« nĂ« mbi 20 pjesĂ«marrĂ«s pĂ«r sesion se si tĂ« editojnĂ« nĂ« Wikidata dhe OpenStreetMap, platforma kĂ«to mjaft tĂ« pĂ«rdorura nĂ« […]

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