Offering localized services and solutions is important for being successful in Vietnam. We are offering translation and interpretation services throughout the country. Extending our team and employing more interpreters now on a fulltime basis also gives us the resources to support the projects we like and translate more software projects to Vietnamese. As the first project we are assigning our team to translate LXDE, the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment, and lubuntu which enables users to speed up their desktop.

Freifunk.net and LXDE, the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment, are taking part of this years Google Summer of Code administered by Mario Behling from MBM International.

BarCamp is a user-generated event — open, participatory workshop-event, whose content is provided by participants. Barcamps are unconferences where educators and professionals come together and share ideas and observations. There is no fixed agenda and all participants are encouraged to share or participate in discussions. Topics typically include programming, web design, technology usage, education, entrepreneurship. MBM is co-organizing the event at Asia Pacific College.

FOSSASIA is one of the top Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) events for developers, enterprises, officials and general users in South East Asia. It will be held in Ho Chi Minh City from November 12 – 14, 2010 with the focus: Lightweight Computing and Women in IT. FOSSASIA will be co-hosted with the OpenTechSummit 2010 for Open Hardware. Participants from across Asia and the world are expected to join the three day event. MBM will organize the event and host the Open Source Community in Vietnam.