[Urgent] Cultural Freedom Day Request
by A. Mani
The Indian team for cultural freedom day is planning an online event
on 20th May. Primarily it includes Women in Free s/w and Culture
(wfs-india.dreamwidth.org), Kolkata GLUG, Mozilla, Gnome and I want
to include Fedora as well.
So far we 3 free s/w related event proposals and 1 culture-free s/w
related proposal. More of the latter type will be able to help us
extend the free s/w network instead of strengthening existing ones.
We want
1. more event proposals
2. Fedora T-shirts etc to be given as prizes for certain events.
Who can supply these?
3. I am not sure about what Mozilla can offer
(I know since we have little time what else can be done ... esp about funds )
Essential points of the irc meeting will be out soon.
Please reply soon.
Best
A. Mani
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A. Mani
CU, ASL, AMS, CLC, CMS
http://www.logicamani.in
10 years, 10 months
[Event Report] Introduction to Fedora, Tech Shiksha Institute, 5 May 2013
by Navneet Singh
Hi,
An event named "Geek" was organized by "Tech Shiksha Institute" on Sunday,
5 May 2013, in Seminar Hall of Hotel Chandra Inn, Jodhpur, Rajashtan.
Mr. Aaditya Maheshwari [1], was the chief guest of the day. The day started
with "Introduction to F/OSS" by Mr. Aaditya Maheshwari in which more light
was thrown on the difference between Free Software and Open Source
Software. He also told the audience about FSF Foundation [2] and GNU/Linux
[3], which was followed by "Why Open Source is necessary ? " for
development.
After a short break, I started with "Introduction to Fedora" in which I
told them about the Fedora OS and Fedora Project. Then, I told the audience
about the communication guidelines which is required in "Free Software
Communication" with the help of
"i-want-2-do-project-tell-me-what-2-do-fedora" [4]. I also told them about
the different "Fedora Sub-Projects" [5] in which they can contribute. We
had a Q/A session in the end where various queries of the the attendees
were answered. The photos taken during the event are available on my blog
[6].
Thanks,
Navneet Singh
[1] Mr. Aaditya Maheshwari. http://en.gravatar.com/aaditya025
[2] FSF Foundation. http://www.fsf.org/
[3] GNU/Linux. http://www.gnu.org
[4] i-want-2-do-project-tell-me-what-2-do-fedora.
http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads.html#i-want-2-do-project-tell-me-wat...
[5] Fedora Sub-Projects. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects
[6] Blog and Photos. http://navneetsingh06.blogspot.in/2013/05/geek.html
10 years, 11 months
Event Report
by Navneet Singh
Hi,
An event was organized at Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 2 AFS[1], Jodhpur,
Rajasthan on Tuesday, 30 April, 2013.
The day started with the discussion about why software piracy is done
specially of operating system, why we are unable to learn the software we
use or modify it, which was followed by “Introduction to Open Source”. I
discussed about advantages of open source and explained the concept of
“Free Software” to them which was followed by “Why to use Free Software”. I
told them about about various free software which can used in by them like
Libre office, GIMP, gedit. I also discussed advantages of FOSS in a
student's learning.
After a few minutes break, I continued with “Introduction to Fedora” to
them and advantages of Fedora was discussed with them. I introduced the
audience with Fedora's website and also I gave demo of Fedora 17 and Fedora
18 to them. It was followed with a hand-on lab session which included “How
to install Fedora” and then students were left to experience Fedora for few
minutes. After that a Q/A session was there in which various queries of the
students were answered. I also distributed Fedora 17 and Fedora 18 iso
images.
I would sincerely like to thank Mr. Rohit Gupta who helped me through out
the session.
The photos taken during the event are available on my blog[2].
Regards,
Navneet Singh
[1] Kendriya Vidyalya No. 2 AFS, Jodhpur, Rajasthan.
http://www.kv2afsjodh.nic.in/
[2] Photos. http://navneetsingh06.blogspot.in<http://navneetsingh06.blogspot.in/2013/04/introduction-to-freeopen-source...>
10 years, 11 months