Category: Limassol

This is my home. This is where I lived, worked, and enjoyed life for more than ten years now. This is where most of my friends and family are.

Chocolate Week at Four Seasons Hotel, Limassol, Cyprus

Chocolate Week – a celebration of chocolate – is scheduled to take place at Four Seasons Hotel (Limassol, Cyprus) for the 6th consecutive year. Here is a quote from this Facebook page:

The Four Seasons “Chocolate Week” at the Colors Cafe is now enjoying its 6th Consecutive year, it has become a landmark event in the diaries of Chocolate lovers, visitors and locals from all over the island. A celebration of all things chocolate, with much to tempt everyone, including chocolate cakes, drinks and many more surprises. This year at “Chocolate Week” expect to find a variety of Chocolate fountains and Chocolate Fondue. Four different types of Chocolate Ice, including Bitter chocolate with caramelized sesame seeds and paprika and our gorgeous homemade pralines which our very own Miss Chocolate will be offering to all Colors patrons. Colors will be buzzing with activity during “Chocolate Week” as it heralds the start of the winter season every year!

If you are a chocolate fan, mark your calendars for November 12 – November 21, 2011.

Via CyBlog.ru.

Free Software Workshop 2011

I totally forgot to blog and let you know in advance about this, but they say it’s better late than never, so here it goes. The Ubuntu-Cy guys are organizing yet another event – Free Software Workshop 2011. It’s going to take place tonight, Friday, October 21st, 2011 at KXE1 Computer Lab at Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) in Limassol, Cyprus.

Below is the English version of the announcement, including the program. Visit this forum thread for any updates and for the Greek version.

Workshops of Free and Open Source Software 2011

The Ubuntu Linux Local Community in collaboration with the Information Systems and Technology Service of CUT and the New Technologies Club of CUT, invites you to a showcase event about the features the Free/Open Source Software in medicine, computing, home entertainment and search methods . The event will be held on October 21, 2011 in the KXE1 computer room of CUT, in the Andreas Themistocleous building (Old Land registry) in Limassol:

Click here for the Google Maps location

The agenda of the event is as follows:

18:00 to 18:30: “Free / Open Source in everyday medical practice” (Greek)
Dr. Eugene Metaxas

18:40 – 19:10: “What is version control software and why do you need it?” (English)
Leonid Mamchenkov

19:20 – 19:50: “XBMC as a core of home entertainment” (English)
Michael Stepanov

20:00 – 20:30: “make install: Installation Methods of Free/Open Source Software” (Greek)
Marios Isaakidis

20:30 to 21:00: “Intelligent search techniques” (Greek)
Theodotos Andreou

21:10 – 21:40: “Linux Security Tools” (Greek)
Gregoris Chrysanthou

The event is open to everyone and you can bring your laptop if you need any help. We are also going to give away Linux CDs/DVDs

Try Free and Open Source Software! Information without obstacles!

As you can see, I will be one of the speakers. Also, my very good friend Michael will do a presentation.

Once we are all done with the talks, we’ll probably move to a bar to continue the discussion over a pint. So if you are interested in Free and Open Source software, Linux, or just want to meet with fellow geeks, don’t miss this opportunity. They don’t come that often.