[fossnews] Software Freedom Day at Anna University on Sep 22, 2012
- From: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:26:54 +0530
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Software Freedom Day celebrations on Sep 15 , 2012 event at DG Vaishnav
College, Chennai, was a great successful event.
Here is another Software Freedom Day celebrations at Anna University,
Chennai on September 22, 2012
*Free Software Foundation Tamil Nadu (FSFTN)*, a community of free software
enthusiasts in Tamil Nadu is organising Software Freedom Day (SFD) in
association with the *College of Engineering, Guindy GNU/Linux USers Group *at
the State level on *Saturday, 22 September 2012*. The venue for the
function will be *Vivekananda Auditorium, CEG, Anna University* campus,
where a range of talks and demonstrations will be organised throughout the
day. There will be stalls on various free software and on free software
movements.
SFD is an annual worldwide celebration of Free Software and a public
education effort with the aim of increasing awareness of Free Software and
its virtues, and encouraging its use. The events are organised with these
objectives (as given in the Software Freedom Day website –
http://softwarefreedomday.org/
- to celebrate software freedom and the people behind it
- to foster a general understanding of software freedom, and encourage
adoption of free software and open standards
- to create more equal access to opportunities through the use of
participatory technologies
- to promote constructive dialogue on responsibilities and rights in the
information society
- to be inclusive of organizations and individuals that share our Vision
- to be pragmatic, transparent, and responsible as an organisation
Through this event, we are targeting the public at large. The philosophy of
‘knowledge freedom’, the issue of ‘internet freedom’ and how free software
can help bridge the digital divide are the focus areas. On 22 September,
around 1000 people – students, scholars from various fields and general
public – are expected to participate in the event. Apart from this various
colleges from across Tamil Nadu are sending their representatives to be a
part of ‘*Interim General Council*‘ of FSFTN to be formed on that day. The
affiliate GNU/Linux Users Groups (from Pondicherry to Madurai) will be
presenting their activities in the stalls. FSFTN is seeing this as an
opportunity to bring more people to the fold of free software and to create
a network among them for our future endeavours.
In this event, volunteers from FSFTN, students from various colleges and
software professionals, 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, Content Management Systems like Drupal and
Joomla, Virtualization Tools and a session to show “How to install Linux?”.
We are looking forward to more students from IITM who are interested in
Free Software for taking sessions on a particular software of their
interest. There can be many useful and innovative software which are
unknown to the students and sparking an interest in them can bring more
users to Free Software. If you have sufficient expertise in the software to
talk about it for 15 minutes, then please come forward to help us!
*Date: September 22, 2012 saturday 9.00AM – 5.00 PM*
*Venue: Vivekananda Auditorium, College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna
University campus, Guindy, Chennai*
All are welcome.
Entry free.
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Regards,
T.Shrinivasan
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