Open source centers in Slovenia

Last month I have successfully organized 3. Day of Open Source on Faculty of information studies. I’ve also gathered opinions what was good and what can/should be improved. This year the agenda was richer than ever.

Conclusion: interest for open source is growing. Day of Open Source has become the biggest open source event which is free (without fee payment). The event was third year in a row organized in Novo mesto. The town located in southeast Slovenia has around 23.000 residents. The fact that there were people from all over the Slovenia, is showing that Novo mesto can be (or become) one of pacemakers of open source/co-working environments in Slovenia.

You can look my interview from 3. Day of Open Source (Slovenian):

The fact that one of the centers of open source culture in Slovenia (Kiberpipa) is having trouble with Student Organization of University of Ljubljana (Kiberpipa in under this organization) gives Novo mesto a chance to warmly host hackers, startups and other people who like to share ideas and co-work. A few months ago StartUP Novo mesto started “the story” with first startup incubator. This Friday (10th of May 2013 at 17:00, Location: Podbreznik 15, Novo mesto) me and Brian King will have a presentation about WebFWD and Firefox OS at their place.





Another good thing about Novo mesto: Novo mesto is only 50 minutes (app. 70km) away from capital town Ljubljana. On the other side we have Croatia which will soon be in EU zone. Zagreb (app. 81 km) is only one hour away from Novo mesto. Novo mesto has a perfect location, connecting two capital towns.

Mozilla was also always welcome and had a good response from the crowd in Novo mesto. The fact that me and Brian King (European Community Manager for Mozilla) are living close to Novo mesto gives us another big plus in developing this area.

That’s our chance!

Till next time …

Cheers, Nino Vranešič