---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Anupama <anup...@fsftn.org> Date: Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:02 PM Subject: [FSFTN] Software Freedom Day at Pondicherry To: mailingl...@fsftn.org
Pondicherry witnessed the first software freedom day celebration yesterday. PuduvaiLUG organized the event at Petit Seminaire school.The venue, and some of the later events brought out the significance of introducing Free Software in schools Mr.Prasanna Venkatesh and his team were hospitable and made arrangements for FSFTN to set up a stall on "Free Software Philosophy" which was run by PuduvaiLUG and FSFTN members. Mr. Prakash and Mr.Deepak Johnson chipped in their artistic skills and and created a collection of uber cool Free software logos in a matter of minutes. There were stalls on a variety of languages and applications such as LISP,Python,Android,Virtual box,Stellarium etc. Professionals from BlueLight technologies gave a demonstration of booting the OS from a server through LAN and also explained how and why Linux made the system more secure. A lot of people were attracted to the stall on Stellarium, a free software that models space. The volunteers at Free Software stall did a great job and gave a clear overview of Free Software in general, and Pinguy OS and Wikpedia in particular. Mr. Yogesh Girikumar talked on Free Software philosophy and extended the concepts of openness. He held the audience spell-bound and was kept busy by eager students throughout the day, who approached him to clarify their doubts. There were some shortcomings. 1. Some stalls demonstrated free software applications on a closed,non-free Operating System. This defeated the purpose of using Free Software 2. Practical demonstration of certain concepts was missing. The demos required very little effort and would have made the concepts much more understandable 3. Freedoms were numbered starting from 1. The Deputy Inspector of Schools paid a visit and expressed her strong desire to introduce FOSS to students from the elementary level. Her enthusiasm and encouragement was motivational. Mr.Bala and Mr.Amachu spoke on the scope of FOSS and the reasons for using it. Mr.Bala put forth thought-provoking questions which made us ponder on the positive impact of FOSS in India. Mr. Welkin gave suggestions for building on the community base established today. Many of the participants agreed to visit Chennai on 22nd September to celebrate Software Freedom at College Of Engineering, Guindy. Kudos to PuduvaiLUG for their initiative. Anupama and Guna Jyothi Basu FSFTN _______________________________________________ Mailinglist mailing list mailingl...@fsftn.org http://fsftn.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_fsftn.org -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc