Dear Friends,
Free Software Foundation Tamil Nadu (FSFTN) part of Free Software
Movement of India (FSMI), along with Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai
(ILUGC) and PUDUVAILUG, celebrating Internet Freedom and Software
Freedom Fortnight in a series of programmes across the State. The
celebrations kick off on Saturday, 15th September 2012 at DG Vaishnav
College, Arumbakkam, Chennai
Software Freedom Day (SFD) is an annual worldwide celebration of Free
Software. SFD is a public education effort with the aim of increasing
awareness of Free Software and its virtues, and encouraging its use
and giving back to the community. GNU/Linux is a Free operating
system. We also get tons of software which are equivalent to and
better than proprietary software.
This year, the Free Software Movement of India (FSMI) is celebrating
this occasion as Internet Freedom Fortnight where the various policies
and developments that have posed a threat to the freedom of expression
online ? from the problematic clauses in the Information Technology
Rules, 2011 to the acts of outright censorship and intolerance of
opinions. Throughout the celebrations, attempts will be made to raise
awareness among students, professionals, policy makers, and general
public of these issues.
This year, FSFTN is organising a fortnight-long series of programmes.
On September 15, FSFTN and ILUGC will organise Software Freedom Day in
DG Vaishnav College, Arumbakkam, Chennai.
This event is open to the public and entry is free.. In this event,
volunteers from ILUGC and FSFTN and students from various colleges,
will demonstrate various Free Software, give tutorials (in Tamil and
English) to cover the common tools like Office, Image Editing
Tools,Audio/Video Editing Tools, Games, Programming Languages like
Python, PHP etc. Content Management Systems like Drupal and Joomla,
Virtualization Tools and a session to show ?How to install Linux??.
Similarly on the September 16, FSFTN in association with PUDUVAILUG,
will be organizing Software Freedom Day in Puducherry.
On September 22, the programmes will culminate in Vivekananda
Auditorium, College of Engineering, Guindy where alongside stalls on
technology, talks and lectures on various technical issues will also
be held and FSFTN's Interim General Council will be inaugurated.
For the formation of Interim General Council, the registration is open
and if you want your college to be part of it, register at
http://fsftn.org/content/igc-registration-form , our volunteers will
contact and guide you on the requirements and procedures to take part
in the Interim General Council.
Please spread this news to relevant educational institutions and
groups, posters can be found at
http://fsftn.org/content/software-freedom-day-and-internet-freedom-fortnight-celebration
Expecting you all to be part of the celebration, happy Internet
Freedom and Software Freedom Fortenight.
Want to volunteer? or need more information, please contact Yogesh:
9994923969, Arun: 9488000707, Prasanth: 9176661086
--
Alagunambi Welkin
Executive Committee Member,
Free Software Foundation Tamil Nadu,
part of Free Software Movement of India.
www.fsftn.org
