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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! | 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! | ||
''''''Happy Software Freedom Day'''''' | |||
== Dates/Location == | == Dates/Location == | ||
* When: September 20th, 2014 | * When: September 20th, 2014 | ||
Revision as of 19:36, 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.
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!
'Happy Software Freedom Day'
Dates/Location
- When: September 20th, 2014
- Where: Gymkhana Hall, G S Science College, Belgaum, India
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.
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.