This is a presentation held at eLiberatica 2009. http://www.eliberatica.ro/2009/ One of the biggest events of its kind in Eastern Europe, eLiberatica brings community leaders from around the world to discuss about the hottest topics in FLOSS movement, demonstrating the advantages of adopting, using and developing Open Source and Free Software solutions. The eLiberatica organizational committee together with our speakers and guests, have graciously allowed media representatives and all attendees to photograph, videotape and otherwise record their sessions, on the condition that the photos, videos and recordings are licensed under the Creative Commons Share-Alike 3.0 License.

2. What is Ceata? (English: [chatta])
● Recursive acronym for:
Ceata eliberează artele și tehnologiile actuale
( Ceata Liberates Actual Arts and Technologies )
● A group founded by Tibi Turbureanu, Marius Latu and
Laurențiu Dascălu with the purpose of promoting free
software, free arts and generally free technologies, IT
localization, Romanian culture and humour

3. Temelia
What is Temelia?
● Generic data structure library written in C
● Aimed to serve as tool for studying data structures and algorithms within the university... and
not only
Author: Laurențiu Dascălu
● Contributors: Tiberiu Turbureanu, Alexandru Macovei, Cristian Bercaru
expectations for more contributors (improvements, hacks, debug, testing)
●
Further development
● add new exotic data structures, algorithms etc
● make it user­friendly, bug free
● add visual module to render on display user defined algorithms
Contact
● http://ceata.org/temelia/
● #ceata irc.freenode.net
● http://liste.ceata.org/listinfo/temelia

4. Free fractal art by Marius Latu
● The first project of Ceata
● Pictures distributed under Free Art Public License at
http://mozaic.ceata.org/?level=collection&id=6
● Source code to be published soon
Desaga (free pastebin)
Inspiration
OpenPasteBin
●
Features
● code compiling
● syntax highlighting
● Firefox plugin for submitting
● CLI tool for submitting
● Vim plugin
Libertate in școli / Freedom in schools
● A program to promote the use of free and open source software within the educational system,
especially highschools
● Awake the interest in developing FLOSS

5. Events and collaborations
Mozilla
● Mozilla presentation within PUB (minorised languages and regionalization, open
standards, open web)
● Mozilla Europe Community Tour '09
Participation in FOSDEM '09, Brussels
Fedora
Fedora 11 release
●
Among the organizers of eLiberatica 2009

6. Contact us
● Our projects are available at:
http://www.ceata.org
● You can join our mailing lists at:
http://liste.ceata.org
● Picture galleries, videos, free fractal art and other
http://mozaic.ceata.org
● If you require any information you can always send an email
liber@ceata.org

7. Ceata – ”Alpha Centauri at 3 p.m. Landing free
software works weird. Private, look througgh the sources”

8. Ceata – ”cute and cuddly, just wave and smile”

9. Ceata - ”we need to develop a powerful tool for making free beer with free software...”

10. Ceata – FOSDEM, Brussels (Tibi & Marius)

11. Ceata & Mozilla

12. Questions ? :D