Hi, The software freedom day celebration at trichy has been a grand success. This event is steered by The members of Free Software Foundation- Villupuram, hats off to the team.
The 20 dynamic students of Jamal Mohammad College trichy joined us as exhibitors in the endeavor. We started the event with a preparatory workshop on 16th Sept 2014 with the topic briefing and the installation process. Mr.Alagunambi Welkin of ilugc and Executive member of Free Software Foundation Tamil nadu played the pivot role in making this event as a grand success. The Expo happened on Sept 17th 2014.Over 300 students participated in the event, and that was a huge count of people considering the on going Examinations . Eight popular distros where given to Mr.Jeyapaul and he said that he will keep it and people can come with a DVD which he will copy and give the same to the person. Event covered in "The Hindu" trichirappalli edition read: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/training-for-students-in-free-open-software/article6421026.ece Some of the photo snaps are at https://picasaweb.google.com/117663838271582667209/September182014# Thanks to Mr. Baskar Selvaraj of ilugc for donating the Distro copies. On behalf of ilugc I would like to thank Dr. Iyyam Perumal Executive Director, Mr.Lenin TamilKovan Project Director (in charge), Mr.Jaya Paul Scientic Assisant (& a foss lover) and staffs at Anna Science Center, Trichy for hosting the event. Regards, Thyagarajan Shanmugham _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
