Software Freedom Day

[Abhishek Kumar]

As the leading supporter of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in
the world, Sun is proud to sponsor Software Freedom Day (SFD) 2008,
and is gearing up to educate the world (especially students), about
the benefits of FOSS and how it is Changing Y/Our World.

SFD Overview:
"In a time when our lives are increasingly dependent on technologies,
it is important we take the time to consider the impact of technology
on our lives, and the importance of ensuring technology isn't used to
limit us, but rather to take us further along a path of opportunity,
innovation and freedom for all people." Pia Waugh, President of SFI -
2007

Pia's vision is the impetus behind Software Freedom Day (SFD), a
worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
scheduled for September 20, 2008.

Please pour in suggestions for organizing the celebrations in our
campus. (We unfortunately have Test1 clashing with the dates).

[Califus]

The best alternative would be to organise the event on a different
date and because it is within the campus, the date would not matter
much.
Having a small event on the same day would not be fruitful as no one
would turn up even for Sun OSUM registration


On Aug 31, 2:44 pm, Abhishek Kumar <abhishek.kumar...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Prachi Mehrotra]

Hey
You could perhaps have a SFD logo designing or T-shirt designing
competition.There can be talks by faculty members or students or video
presentations taken from the web which bring out the uniqueness and
advantages of GNU/Linux and FOSS.And it will be better if it is after
test 1 so that people can participate whole heartedly.

[Abhishek Kumar]

Hi,

So we have the following issues:

1) What date to organize the celebrations.
2) Faculty talks: topics and faculty to contact.
3) competitions: logo design, tshirt design, + what else...
4) A software display of free / oss software developed by students
5) presentations by students: topics and students

The celebrations for SFD in campus will be done jointly by the Sun User Group and the Information Systems and Computer Science Associations respectively.

--
Abhishek Kumar
Sun CA Alumni
& Undergraduate student, BITS Pilani-Goa
ph: +919823981721

[Subiet]

On Aug 31, 2:44 pm, Abhishek Kumar <abhishek.kumar...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>[snip]

>
> Pia's vision is the impetus behind Software Freedom Day (SFD), a
> worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
> scheduled for September 20, 2008.
>

> Please pour in **suggestions for organizing the celebrations** in our

> campus. (We unfortunately have Test1 clashing with the dates).

[Emphasis Added]



In the meet at CSD on Tuesday, i suggested the following events:

1) Gaming on Linux, both native and via wine/crossover. CS, WoW, Alien
Arena, Quake III, American Army can be considered.

2) Bash Scripting Event

3) Turning your Linux Machine into a home web/ftp/mail/dns server and
the benefits of it.

4) Why SSH is the next best thing after sliced bread.

Subiet
---
Linux: My 42

[Califus]

The registration of our team is done on the software freedom day
website:

The team name is BITSOSUM : BITS Open Source University Meetup
Our team wikipage is http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/teams/BITSOSUM

Please keep replying to this post with more and more suggestions which
can be taken to Bharat Deshpande sir tomorrow

[Califus]

The following events have been decided-

1. Install fest
2. openHouse debate
3. openShowcase --- showcase for all the FOSS development in our
campus
4. Cool opensource products demo --- we'll demonstrate some of the
coolest openSource products in a 2 hour talk.
5. A Peek into the most Innovative distros
6. openSource gaming --- America's Army etc.

Presently, the following people have agreed to come to our campus for
the event-

1. Anil Gulecha (previous student coordinator, Sun)
2. Moinak Ghosh (former Belenix Developer)
3. Frederick (Goa LUG)
4. Swapan (Nettech)

Expected more :
1. An engineer from SUN (techdemo on Mobile Applications using
Netbeans)
2. A representative from BOSS.
3. Teleconference with a Novell professional

On Sep 3, 3:23 pm, Califus <luvrakesh2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The registration of our team is done on the software freedom day
> website:
>
> The team name is BITSOSUM : BITS Open Source University Meetup

> Our team wikipage ishttp://www.softwarefreedomday.org/teams/BITSOSUM

[Abhinav Raj]

Hey All...

 

Nice to know about this Software Freedom Day and the various events planned....Wish i can be there in campus at that time....

 

 'An engineer from SUN (techdemo on Mobile Applications using Netbeans)'..... If this happens then it would be very good... Rakesh try out for it. If not I can tell One of my project mate 'Rishi' (he's in campus) to show up our project on mobile applications field. It was a Netbeans based mobile app ( a GPS kind of map navigation system for our BITS campus)...A live demo of it, is also possible as the software works on his cellphone...

 

Install fest - Willl it be on installing of LINUX O.S. or Solaris O.S. ..?

 

Thanks

 

Abhinav Raj

Sun Club Alumni

+91 9966037101

[Aditya Bhiday]

Install Fest: Both

Regards,
Aditya

[Abhishek Kumar]

> The following events have been decided-
>
> 1. Install fest
> 2. openHouse debate
> 3. openShowcase --- showcase for all the FOSS development in our
> campus
> 4. Cool opensource products demo --- we'll demonstrate some of the
> coolest openSource products in a 2 hour talk.
> 5. A Peek into the most Innovative distros
> 6. openSource gaming --- America's Army etc.
>
> Presently, the following people have agreed to come to our campus for
> the event-
>
> 1. Anil Gulecha (previous student coordinator, Sun)
> 2. Moinak Ghosh (former Belenix Developer)
> 3. Frederick (Goa LUG)
> 4. Swapan (Nettech)
>
> Expected more :
> 1. An engineer from SUN (techdemo on Mobile Applications using
> Netbeans)
> 2. A representative from BOSS.
> 3. Teleconference with a Novell professional
>

Excellent!

btw, Moinak is not a former belenix developer, he is a former sun
employee, but still the Lead developer and initiator of the belenix
live cd project.

[Nishith Rastogi]

GNU/Linux primarily, solaris maybe

--
Linux: My 42
http://xkcd.com/451/

[Aditya Bhiday]

We have both the Install Media ready. What the users want to install will be upto them, ob....
:)

Regards,
Aditya

[Califus]

We have to add these events also coz we are getting goodies from
Mozilla

1) A Firefox stall for helping people install Firefox, popularising
the browser ,acquainting people as to how they can browse the web more
efficiently and solving any Firefox related queries.

2) Familiarizing the use of many useful plugins like FoxyProxy for
changing the proxy servers quickly, StumbleUpon, Mouse Gestures and
many others.

3) An interaction on the Development of Extensions for Mozilla Firefox

On Sep 11, 9:00 pm, "Aditya Bhiday" <aditya.bhi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We have both the Install Media ready. What the users want to install will be
> upto them, ob....
> :)
>
> Regards,
> Aditya
>
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Nishith Rastogi

> <subiet.rast...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>
>
> > GNU/Linux primarily, solaris maybe

>
> > On 9/11/08, Abhinav Raj <abhinavra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hey All...
>
> > > Nice to know about this Software Freedom Day and the various events
> > > planned....Wish i can be there in campus at that time....
>
> > >  'An engineer from SUN (techdemo on Mobile Applications using
> > > Netbeans)'..... If this happens then it would be very good... Rakesh try
> > out
> > > for it. If not I can tell One of my project mate 'Rishi' (he's in campus)
> > to
> > > show up our project on mobile applications field. It was a Netbeans based
> > > mobile app ( a GPS kind of map navigation system for our BITS campus)...A
> > > live demo of it, is also possible as the software works on his
> > cellphone...
>
> > > Install fest - Willl it be on installing of LINUX O.S. or Solaris O.S.
> > ..?
>
> > > Thanks
>
> > > Abhinav Raj
> > > Sun Club Alumni
> > > +91 9966037101
>

> > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Califus <luvrakesh2...@gmail.com>

[Abhinav Raj]

Cool enough !!!...Students would like such events....(As it is on firefox)

 

'An interaction on the Development of Extensions for Mozilla Firefox' ....This would be very useful for budding developers and suppporters of open source....

 

> We have both the Install Media ready. What the users want to install will be
> upto them, ob....
> :)
>
> Regards,
> Aditya

install fest for both OS (Linux and Solaris) according to choice is also a good idea...As some people do not prefer to install Solaris on their machine coz of the myth of Hard disk crash, on installion of Solaris...

 

Abhinav

[Abhishek Kumar]

Any update on the status of the schedule and confirmed events so far?

- Abhishek

[Nishith Rastogi]

We can screen a short film, called "Elephant's Dream".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant%27s_dream

Maybe even stuff like "Pirates of Silicon Valley".

will gather crowds, and first will demonstrate the possibilities and
power of open source software while the second one will be
informative.

[hitesh mantrala]

it d be good if we can do it in the openair...

i think we cant get audi for that.....

[Aditya Yadav]

except the lectures i guess most of the stuff will be done outside.
And abt the movies. ANTITRUST(hackers 3): most awesome movie ever and
not borin like others..