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== Dates/Location ==
== Dates/Location ==
* When: September 20th, 2014
* When: September 20th, 2014
* Where: [http://gssbgm.edu.in G S Science College, Belgaum, India]  
* Where: [http://gssbgm.edu.in Gymkhana Hall, G S Science College, Belgaum, India]  


== Responsible People ==
== Responsible People ==
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* Chetankumar Dhavale
* Chetankumar Dhavale


And many student volunteers
And many Science Student volunteers




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= Event Schedule =
= Event Schedule =


== September 20, 2014: Software Freedom Day event ==
== September 20, 2014: Software Freedom Day event ==

Revision as of 19:34, 22 August 2014

Event Information

Language
While The SFD event wiki page All Fedora activities would be listed separately here and linked to that main page.

Description

Software Freedom Day Software Freedom Day is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).

This year, SFD would be also organized by fedora volunteers in Belgaum, a city in Karnatak State of INDIA. During this day, a lot of activities would be held for Science students and also for general public. Our goal in this celebration is to educate the public about the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, at home, and in business -- in short, everywhere!


Dates/Location

Responsible People

  • Praveen Patil - SFD Team Leader
  • Subhash Desai
  • Haribhau Rajgolkar
  • Sachin Pawar
  • Dattatreya Dasarai Rao
  • Chetankumar Dhavale

And many Science Student volunteers



Event Schedule

September 20, 2014: Software Freedom Day event

Ideas/Brainstorming

Spreading the word

  • Public announcement on relevant Fedora Mailing Lists
  • Register with Global SFD Community ( already registered link title

SFD Session Ideas

  • Introduction to FOSS
  • FOSS For Everyone
  • Fedora and the four Principles -Talk by Praveen Patil
  • Install Fest - Help people install Fedora or other distros of their choice [it's Freedom ;) ]
  • Contributing to FOSS when you're not a programmer
  • Contributing to FOSS when you're a beginner programmer
  • Swag distribution booth
Event Report
Please use this section to document and report about the event. Nice things to see in this section are blog posts about the event, pictures from the event, and anything else that might be valuable to showing the success of our participation in the event. If there were any "lessons learned" or problems that others might benefit from seeing please do include those here too. Some general information about report expectations can be found on the Event Reports page.

Links to presentations/other resources