Ma'am Arca (second row) meets new friends in the August 25-26 Conference of the Philippine Elearning Society.

Laguna National High School officers discuss Eminima - read more.

Eminima founder Raffy awards citation to Eminima pioneer Elmer Antioquia in celebration of Elmer's one year of Web publishing at sagipbukid.org.

Sir Raffy contributes a hard disk installation guide for Puppy users. Visit the Puppy Forum

The Human Capital Development Group of CICT tries out EM in a seminar on July 8, 2005 at the National Computer Center - read more.

The first classroom training in Eminima was conducted last June 7, 2005 at Pamantasan ng Lunsod ng Muntinlupa - read more.

You can print the EM brochure: click here to download it. This is in PDF format, so you must have Adobe PDF reader to open it. Or open this link in an Internet Cafe and have the brochure printed there, too. Our first lesson in the use of Puppy mini-CD for education (and communities in general) is here (a new window will open). The lesson is entitled "Simple Collaboration Using Puppy". Feel free to comment on it (the community will benefit from that). For more details in the use of Puppy for simple collaboration, click on the Puppy Tips page.

The co-founders of Eminima will be featured here, soon!

Looking for EM partners or volunteering to be one? Click here. Get a simple text file about Eminima here or a brochure there. Do practice authoring in this site here.

Nov 17 - Eminima joins national finalists in the National Inventors' Week at PTTC, Roxas Boulevard, Manila, up to November 21. See you there!

Oct 14 - Eminima wins Luzon Inventors' Exhibit Cum Contest at TAPI-DOST.

ALERT: Mid-October server outage has reverted this website to one month "younger". Pages are being re-updated. Thanks for your patience.

Aug 27 - CONGRATULATIONS to the organizers and participants of the 4th National Conference of the Philippine eLearning Society! The conference held at UST, Manila on August 25-26 was a success. Eminima was discussed and the EM CD was distributed in the conference.

Aug 25 - Ma'am Laury Arca, Eminima pioneer and co-founder, presented her work in the 4th National Elearning Conference.

Aug 4 - Author revisits Pedro Guevara Memorial National High School for discussing elearning with IT teachers and officers - read more.

July 28 - WindowsXP install of Puppy is added to Sir Raffy's how-to pages.

July 19 - Historical event: Puppy version 1.04 is released with Open Office. Called Chubby Puppy, its size is 96 MB and will require at least a 128-MB swap space in hard disk plus 128 MB memory. Memory of 128 MB is ordinarily available in PCs nowadays, while swap space may be created in hard disk easily (see Sir Raffy's hard disk install guide).

July 16 - Advocate of Creative Commons License speaks about software issues.

July 14 - New Zealand schools go open source.

July 12 - Laptops instead of books in Arizona, and $100 laptop to be produced in Brazil.

July 6 - European Parliament's rejection of software patents moves the Union closer to Community type of patent. Read more.

June 27 - Norway's Minister of Modernization declared that "Proprietary formats will no longer be acceptable in communication between citizens and government." Read more.

Recently, the author had to write this description of Eminima:

EMINIMA is basically a set of free server and client software - this is the basic component of today's free Internet/LAN applications.

EMINIMA also includes minimalist, cross-platform set of tools for delivering content, so when used, the implications are:

(1) Any entity (school, LGU or NGO) with Pentium I (the oldest PC nowadays) and 64 MB memory will be able to enjoy uptodate content.

(2) Any entity will be able to develop content, too, and put the new content in a new CD (but if there is no CD-burner, they just copy the new content to the hard disk).

(3) A national entity (e.g., CICT or DepEd) can foster competition for content creation so that schools, for example, can enjoy multiple content offerings and deploy all those contents in its PC. Such offerings will be low-cost (say, P100 per CD, deployable in the whole school).

(4) When there are many CD-loads of alternative content, virtual internet will be achieved in the most far-flung school and the school's interconnection to the Internet core will not anymore be a precondition to using elearning (or egovernance, for that matter).

(5) Teachers will regain prominence as the facilitators of learning, as they will assume the role of leading/mediating both the creation and exchange of content, using EMINIMA tools.

(6) To propagate EMINIMA, training of trainors will have to be done. This can be done at the school's expense. Pamantasan ng Lunsod ng Muntinlupa has done this last June 7-8, 2005.

Create PDF files from any application in Windows - click here. You will have to download and install the Free Converter then the Free PDF Writer.

If you want to keep using large files for your documents, read about PDF and Scribus.

Our first Wiki just arrived. Read about it here.

The article about the Puppy desktop suite is updated.

A new page about the software wars is added for your appreciation of what is going on in the backrooms of software entities.

Motion attracts attention, so find out how to put animation in your Web pages. Click here.

The EM community page as represented by BlueMen-students of openclipart.org and attended by the pioneer users of EM is here.

The help file is updated with images, so first-timers will be more easily guided in their first use of the EM CD.

Answers to common errors and confusion while using the EM/Slax CD are added through the Errors and Issues page.

And of course, Gypsy (my pet) boldly appeared here to campaign for PUPPY, the amazing desktop suite.