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Software Freedom Day 2011 - Minutes

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The Software Freedom Day 2011 Celebrations were filled with lot of fun
and enthusiasm at MIT,Chrompet Chennai on September 17, 2011

We had 18 stalls as follows

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1. Libre Office
2. Kompozer
3. FFMPEG, Audacity
4. Python
5. PHP
6. Drupal
7. Scilab
8. Subversion&GIT
9. Firefox Addons
10. Spoken-Tutorial
11. Mozilla
12. Tamil Wikipedia
13. Ruby
14. Joomla
15. Subversion Edge
16. Open Source CDs and Books
17. Ruby on Rails(RoR)
18. Educational Software

We had a lot of new volunteers for the stalls.

Though the visitors are less then any other years, the stall
volunteers shared the knowledge
to the attended visitors and other stall peers.

Spoken-Tutorial CDs for Linux/Python/Latex and stickers were
distributed to the visitors.

Yogesh explained on how to participate in a open source community to
get help and to contribute.
He emphasized the importance of doing the final year project by own
and doing it as a contribution for
any open source application.

Choosing the best stalls for prizes was so tough as everyone showed
their best enthusiasm.
Tamil Wikipedia, Ruby, Mozilla teams got the prizes.
We gave them the book "Introduction to Python"

We presented Rs 200 for all the stalls as a gift.

Thanks for all the volunteers and donors.
Thanks a lot for Mr.Vimalesh, computer Society of MIT and the team for
their endless efforts.
Thanks for MIT for hosting the event.

Here are some snaps:

     https://picasaweb.google.com/114046458718705656208/SoftwareFreedomDaySeptember172011

     https://picasaweb.google.com/102129583091345389661/SoftwareFreedomDay2011

Carte Blanche '10

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The Computer Society of MIT is proud to present “CARTEBLANCHE 10” the college’s mega event promoting the cause of Free/Open Source software. This event which was started in 2005 saw huge responses and instantly was a hit with the open source community in India.It has been providing a platform for the budding software engineers from across the country to display the prowess in the various fields of computing with a special importance towards open source.

RMS @ Carte Blanche

Richard Matthew Stallman, the founder of FSF and the GNU project is interacting with the students at Carte Blanche through audio conferencing. A pre-recorded video of his talk will be played. After this, RMS will take queries from the students and answer the same through phone.

Date: 27th February, 2010
Time: 6.00 PM

Check here for more information -> http://cb.csmit.org

Event Date: 
27 Feb 2010 (All day) - 28 Feb 2010 (All day)
Event Place: 
MIT, Chrompet
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