Mass Surveillance is supposed to be handled by Uppuli. Uppuli, can you
update your status on this?
On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 2:48 PM, uppili pranavane <up.pranavane@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Tor me on it
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From: sarath kumar <crazysarath8055@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 19-09-2015 10:40 AM
To: puduvailug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [puduvailug] Re: SFD plans, preparations, schedule
Everything is listed. Lets celebrate Software Freedom Day :)
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 2:27 PM, S.Ramaseshan Mukund <
ramaseshanmukund@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all,
*Note* : This is going to be a long mail.
So SFD it is. To cut the long history short,
Software Freedom Day is a global celebration of free software - software
that can be used in any context, freely modified, shared and distributed in
modified forms. FSHM a part of FSFTN, as an organization has been
spreading awareness about free software, and celebrating SFD is one such
way to promote the use of Free Software among the common people in our
society.
*Plan :*
This year we are celebrating SFD is two parts.
1. Student Outreach. This is specifically focused on students and also
those people who are everyday computer users.
2. Public Outreach : This is aimed in us going to the people and taking
to them about Free Software and its impact in our society.
On the Student Outreach to happen, we are having two tracks. One talks on
Why Free Software and a few technological impacts that we have in our
society and the second track will be stalls demonstrating various tools and
projects that we are currently working on (Eg : Community Weather Station)
*Venue : *Livelihood Resource Center for Marginalized
*Dates :*
Student Outreach -- 20-Sept-2015 ( 10AM - 2PM ) Event link :
https://www.facebook.com/events/1041267205906597/
Public Outreach -- Dates to be decided yet
*Schedule :*
10 : 00 - 10:30 -- Chief Guest Speech and Organization Introduction
(Cheif Guest Profile : https://sites.google.com/a/pec.edu/nsreenath/)
10:30 -- 11 :00 -- What and Why Free Software -- Balu Sir
11:00 -- 11:30 -- Open Hardware (Community Weather Station) - An Intro
and *demo* -- Kavine, Bala and Karthikeyan
11:30 -- 12:00 -- Mass Surveillance, Net Neutrality and Internet
Censorship -- Prasanna + Anybody else interested.
12:00 12:10 -- Break
12:10 : 12:40 -- Mesh Network - An Introduction and *demo* -- Naveen and
Suriyadeepan
12:40 -- 1:00 -- Free your droid -- Prakash Paramasivam
1:00 -- 2:00 -- Stalls Demo and interaction of the participants with the
volunteers of FSHM
*** Note : Time is subject to change depending on various other factors
on the day of event. Some talks could go extended, and some shoter than
expected.
*Stalls : *
1. GNU/Linux Installation -- Purushot , Radha Krishnan and Raj Kumar
Praveen (IFET GLUG)
2. Open Hardware -- Kavine, Bala and Karthikeyan
3. Free Your DROID -- Prakash Paramasivam
4. Multimedia -- Inkscape (Rajalakshmi Sridharan) and Blender (Sandhiya
Moorthy)
5. Mesh Network -- Naveen and Suriyadeepan
6. Tor -- Needs a volunteer
7. Gaming in Linux -- Sharath (Cracken Sio, if you were wondering)
8. Registration Desk -- Needs Volunteers
*** Note : Places for the stalls have been allocated. A few stalls would
be live only from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm and a few all the time.
1. All the Time Stall : GNU/Linux Installation , Multimedia, and Tor
2. After the talk stalls : Mesh Network, Gaming, Open Hardware and Free
Your Droid.
*Why ? We might have a little lack of space. But again the above may be
subject to change depending on the number of audience we get.*
*Preparations (Done and to be done) and Responsibilities :*
1. Banner -- Karthikeyan
2. Projector and movies for screening -- Maniraj (Projector from PSF)
3. Spike Buster -- Maniraj, Naveen, Sarath, ArunKumar and anybody else
who has last year spike busters. (Please do bring. Else we will have buy
another set of new ones again)
4. Bench for stalls -- Murugavel
5. Venue Keys -- Ramaseshan
6. Tea and Snaks (Snacks If possible) -- Murugavel
7. Press -- Murugavel
8. Stalls for Venue -- Prakash Paramasivam
9. Chief Guest Invitation - Ramaseshan and Others
10.
*** Please do let know if anything else is missing. Will add up.
We are meeting on 19-Sept-2015 around 6 at the venue to setup the venue.
Any help would be great.
Feel Free to share your thoughts and pick up some left over spots. It
would also be nice if we have new people who have joined us recently pick
up some of those slots, so that we have the continua of knowledge sharing
and responsibilities.
*Please do invite your friends and juniors and classmates form your
organization for the event. It is your invitation that we are relying on
for SFD to happen.*
Cheers and Happy Software Freedom Day.
--
S.Ramaseshan
+91-8144130292
+91-9916394958
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Thanks and regards
Sharath <crazysarath8055@xxxxxxxxx>
