Invitation for Software Freedom Day 2009

[Akash Deep Shakya]

Dear all,

On behalf of FOSS Nepal Community, I would like to invite you all in "D2Hawkeye Services Software Freedom Day 2009". The theme for this year event is "FOSS for Enterprise ". The program will take place at Yalamaya kendra, Patandhoka on Septamber 19, 2009 (Saturday) from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.

Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Our goal in this celebration is to educate the whole public about of the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in business -- in short, everywhere!  The events that will take place are:

           Open Enterprises, Open Space (Come - Sit - discuss)

            Satasat GB: get some movies or distros

            OSCN project showcase

            Free DocumentaryShow

            Signature Campaign

            Open Enterprises Demo

            TuxDance

            FOSSials

            FOSS Quiz

            Games on GNU/Linux

      Presentations from FOSS Enthusiast

FREE CD/DVDs and many many more

Please please be there and help us to serve you all, and know more... its a great opportunity to meet people, talk abt FOSS and know more and more about everything you want to know.. people who knows nothing to geeks are invited!!!


Regards
Akash Deep Shakya "OpenAK"
FOSS Nepal Community
http://www.akashdeepshakya.com.np
akashakya at gmail dot com
P.O.Box: 8975 EPC: 4235

~ Failure to prepare is preparing to fail ~

[Akash Deep Shakya]

Regards
Akash Deep Shakya "OpenAK"
FOSS Nepal Community
http://www.akashdeepshakya.com.np
akashakya at gmail dot com
P.O.Box: 8975 EPC: 4235

~ Failure to prepare is preparing to fail ~

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Bishwas Bhatta <bish...@gmail.com> wrote:

wat d hell is this??

D2HawkEye, a proprietary software company, sponsoring SFD, the
supposed festival for open source enthusiast!! even the name is
changed....its "D2Hawkeye Services Software Freedom Day 2009"
now....that totally sucks!! its like thieves are sponsoring a seminar
on reducing thefts!! if it goes like dis one day we will see stallman
made brand ambassador for microsoft!! hehehehe

where is the philosophy and enthusiasm that started the FOSS
movement?? stallman will be a sad person if he knows about dis for
sure!!

Bishwas Bhatta
http://www.bohemian.net63.net

[Bibek Shrestha]

Hi Bishwas,

afaik, D2HawkEye has done a lot recently to the opensource field in Nepal. They have started an open source project hosting service at collaborate.d2labs.org and recently organized their first Nepal wide Opensource software competition.

And their willingness to sponsor one of the biggest FOSS Event in the country does show their commitment toward FOSS. This is doing no harm, instead I believe we're bringing new players to the OpenSource field, thus our community grows even stronger.

Comparing a proprietary company to thieves shows that you are totally mistaken about the whole concept of FOSS. Any company has its own right to develop applications as they want. Making it OpenSource or not is their own choice. Instead, the fact that proprietary software exists is a boost for opensource developers to compete and come up with a better product. I don't see how a company becomes thief unless they take Opensource code and sell it without giving credit to the original developers.

where is the philosophy and enthusiasm that started the FOSS
movement?? stallman will be a sad person if he knows about dis for
sure!!

Humm It hasn't gone anywhere! I as a part of the community feel proud of people like you who take FOSS philosophy to a personal level, but then I think we have to broaden our thought about FOSS and think more about the common benefits every player brings to the community and not focus on what it does on its own.

See you on Software Freedom Day (oops D-SFD)

Cheers!!

Bibek Shrestha
bibekshrestha at gmail dot com

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Bishwas Bhatta <bish...@gmail.com> wrote:
> wat d hell is this??
>
> D2HawkEye, a proprietary software company, sponsoring SFD, the
> supposed festival for open source enthusiast!! even the name is
> changed....its "D2Hawkeye Services Software Freedom Day 2009"
> now....that totally sucks!! its like thieves are sponsoring a seminar
> on reducing thefts!! if it goes like dis one day we will see stallman
> made brand ambassador for microsoft!! hehehehe
>
> where is the philosophy and enthusiasm that started the FOSS
> movement?? stallman will be a sad person if he knows about dis for
> sure!!
>
> Bishwas Bhatta
> http://www.bohemian.net63.net
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Akash Deep Shakya <akas...@gmail.com> wrote: