Here is my speech during Bulgarian Web Awards:

Link to the video. (in Bulgarian)

I am talking about digital rights, Open Web, Firefox and how I want to see our web in 1 year. I was awarded with a “special award for contribution to Bulgarian Web”

Finally I have time to write here some more about all the events that took place during Firefox’s 5^th anniversary.

Thanks to Mozilla Europe we had a very delicious cake with a unique design. Here it is:

Besides the cake, as you can see we had cookies, many kinds of sweets, balloons, whistles and of course some merchandise:

After the cake-part we had 2 special sessions with talks and demonstrations and a game: “Who creates the Bulgarian web?”.
Here you can see some more pictures:

You can see more moments in this video, created by the OpenFest crew:

OpenFest 2009 from Yovko Lambrev on Vimeo.

There were celebrations in other Bulgarian towns too. In Ruse, even a television station was so curios what were those people doing there:

Here is the abstract of my talk proposal for Fosdem 2010:

20 years have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall. But in many places it still exists in the minds of the people. New Europe is still fighting proprietary software and the FOSS application is still very limited.

The presentation deals with the application of FOSS in several countries from the Balkans and Central Europe, what is going on with the software patents, the open source browsers’ market share and the open standards.

Examples will be given for talks with the governments on the subject. The new and important topic of open digital government, in which everyone can participate on the principle of open source and open interfaces, will also be tackled.

In about 40 minutes the Speaker will present how freedom enters in this part of Europe, even only in its technological aspect.

In the beginning there will be a demonstration, representing the results that can be achieved through the use of open standards in Europe.