WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress, the free and open source personal publishing software that powers over 75 million sites on the web. In May of 2015, WordCamp will finally have its debut in Finland. The event is set to take place at the home base of Seravo in Tampere. WordCamps come in all different flavours, based on the […]
OpenFOAM (Open source Field Operation And Manipulation) is a numerical CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) solver and a pre/postprocessing software suite. Special care has been taken to enable automatic parallelization of applications written using OpenFOAM high-level syntax. Parallelization can be further extended by using a clustering software such as OpenMPI that distributes simulation workload to multiple […]
Due to popular demand we are organizing a second event! Would you like to learn how to write a Sailfish OS app and get it into the Jolla store? Or are you already working on a Sailfish app but need help with it? Join us on Jolla and Sailfish Hack Day to code and learn […]
Would you like to learn how to write a Sailfish OS app and get it into the Jolla store? Or are you already working on a Sailfish app but need help with it? Join the Jolla and Sailfish Hack Day to code and learn from other SailfishOS and QML enthusiasts. And if you already have […]
The first device running SailfishOS, the successor of Meego, has finally been released. It’s elegant and beautiful both on the outside and inside. It has multiple unique features that makes it unlike any mobile device we’ve seen so far. We have been waiting for Jolla to release their phone for more than a year and […]
What do you need for a secure and well managed Linux environment? SUSE and Seravo presents SUSE Finland and Seravo Oy will have a joint SUSE event in Tampere on Wednesday 2013-11-20 starting at 13:00. The event is in Finnish and more details can be found in the COSS.fi calendar, which is the primary listing […]
Update October 2013: We bought a new Dell XPS 13 in October with Ubuntu pre-installed but unfortunately it seems to have problems with the wireless: wifi connections seem to disconnect at random and thus wifi is useless. We found out that the in the new laptop shipped to us this fall the Intel wifi card […]
FLOSS Manuals is here to help people use the open source software programs. There is a clear lack of useful end user manuals for open source software. Open source software has to be combined with open source manuals created in the same spirit of collaboration. And the content should not be locked down but forever […]
Seravo staff member Otto Kekäläinen was given the Nordic Free Software Award 2012 at FSCONS held in Göteborg on the 9th to 11th of November. The award was shared by two people. The other recipient was Ole Tange, who is the director of IT-Politisk Forening, a non-governmental organisation that has succeeded in bringing Free Software to the public sector in […]
The SUSE Roadshow will visit six locations in Finland. Seravo Oy will be co-hosting the event at Tampere, where it will be held at Bravo Plaza, which is located just next to our office at the Finlayson area. Lately SUSE has released several new products (all of course based on open source software) and there will […]
To honor the OKFestival currently held in Helsinki, Finland, we’ll publish this week a few articles on open data work we’ve done. You might also bump into some of us at the festival! During the fifth HS Open event Seravo participated in creating an open data visualization (in Finnish) on the maintenance relation in Finland, meaning […]
To honor the OKFestival currently held in Helsinki, Finland, we’ll publish this week a few articles on open data work we’ve done. You might also bump into some of us at the festival! By using selection path analysis, we demonstrate that it is possible to create a political campaign with maximum voter popularity. Media corporations […]
In May 2012 I (Otto Kekäläinen) attended an internal event by the Ministry of Employment and Economy that was intended for officials working within the branch. There where two outsider speakers, and the second was Pasi Mäkinen of Microsoft Finland. Avoimen lähdekoodin ratkaisut palvelujen kehittämisessä (2012-05-29) from Otto Kekäläinen In my presentation (in Finnish, available […]
Alexander Stubb, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, appointed a delegation to develop Finland’s country brand in September 2008, and Jorma Ollila, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nokia and Shell, was invited to be its Chairman. The work culminated in a country brand report published at the end of 2010 called “Mission for Finland – How Finland […]
