The program was held as planned on republic day at Government High
School Chandrigiri,Melparamba..Allan Shaji,Saket,Sreedeep,Srihari(All
from LBS College of Engineering) and Jayan(Kanhangad) were
present.Though the response of public to install fest was almost
zero,the response from the students was great.Sreedeep started the
interaction with students talking about basic concepts of
freedom.Allan shaji then told the students about scope of free& open
source software.Srihari spoke about spirit of being a community and
sharing knowledge.Students were also introduced to mailing list and
other ways to reach the others in the community.It was sad to note
that they were not allowed accessing internet from their lab till Xth
standard.Saket then demonstrated Linux mint Desktop and explained
"freedom of choice".Jayan now called for an interactive session from
interested students.Almost all the students stayed back to ask the
team about sending files via blue tooth,browsing internet,using web-
cam and whatever they thought a computer could do.
Though we did not have any response from the public,we were definitely
satisfied with the response of the students.And we look forward for
more interaction with them.
Sooraj had sent the news report to local editions of
newspapers.Unfortunately the news was not published.
Sorry for mailing this in late.
Srihari.