2012/9/16 Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan at gmail.com>
Software Freedom Day 2012 ? Event Report
Free Software should reach the academic and industry in all the ways.
The Principal Dr.S.Narasimhan informed that the faculty and the
students should change their mindset to learn and use Free Open Source
Software for the daily life and for their academic/research needs. He
encourages the students to contribute to Free Software community.
origanizing the event. He told that the computer science department is
already using GNU/Linux for the teaching in classrooms and in labs.
The students are trained on GNU/Linux, Python, Latex, PHP/MySQL in all
the years of their course.
Around 1200 students from various colleges visited the stalls.