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

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ http://ilugc.in ] is celebrating the "Software Freedom Day"
[ http://softwarefreedomday.org ]
every year on September month. We setup the demo stalls on various
Free Open source Software to public to demonstrate them.

In 2011, we celebrate it on September 17.

Place is yet to confirm. Will confirm it soon.

We need volunteers for the Free Software Demo.

Please add your details in the following page, if you are interested
in having a demo stall.
http://wiki.ilugc.in/index.php?title=Sfd2011

Thanks.

ILUGC Monthly Meet (August 13 th):-
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Time : Sat August 13 , 2011 (3.00 - 5.30 PM)
Venue: Classroom No 8,
Areo Space Engineering,
Near Gajendra Circle,
IIT Madras.

Link for the Map: http://bit.ly/iit-aero

1.

Topic:
Introduction to calem EAM enterprise asset management tool and its functionality in the industries.

Description:
calem EAM [ http://www.calemeam.com ] is an open source tool. It is a Enterprise Asset Management which can be used for the industries for their manufacturing of their Products. Enterprise asset management is super set of CMMS(Computerized maintenance management system).

Duration: 30 min

Speaker: N.Naresh Aravindh.[aaravindh AT gmail dot com]

About the speaker:
The speaker is a 3rd year computer science student from Jaya engg college,chennai with interest towards FOSS and actively participating in Ilugc with inspiration from his HOD Mr.kumaran. He blogs at http://4etudiant-4etudiant.blogspot.com

2.

Topic:
osCommerce - building your own online store

Description:
Set up a online store in a minute using LAMP using the open source e-commerce web application osCommerce [ http://www.oscommerce.com ]

Duration : 45 min

Speaker : Balachandar Muruganantham [mbchandar AT gmail DOT com]

About the speaker:
Balachandar runs the online store http://chennaishopping.com. He is the maintainer of our site http://ilugc.in

3.

Topic:
Building commandline twitter client using c

Description:
Let us explore how we can build a commandline twitter client in c

Duration: 30 min

Speaker : Mohan [ mohan43u AT gmail DOT com ]

About the speaker:
Mohan loves c programming, packaging and documenting for open source projects. He contributes for FOSS lab manual.

4.
Lightning Talk

Topic : Software Freedom Day 2011 [http://softwarefreedomday.org]
is on Saturday 17th September 2011.
Let us plan for the celebrations.

5.

General group discussions on any queries, events etc.
CDs/DVDs can be shared on prior request.
Announce this to all your friends, social network sites etc.
All are welcome. Entry Free

September 19, 2010 is a grand celebration day for ILUGC.

The software freedom day is celebrated at Birla Planetarium, Chennai.

We had 32 stalls, 87 presenters, around 550 visitors.

The day was filled with a lot of small intro talks, demos in the stalls.
The visitors are enlightened to see powers of the Free Open Source Softwares.

Thanks to Birla Planetarium, Chennai for providing the venue.
Thanks a lot for all the Volunteers.

Some snaps are here.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=38346&id=133359730009404

Jaya Foss Club wishes everyone a grand Software Freedom Day on 18th September 2010. Jaya Foss Club has been incorporating a wide sense of open source knowledge to the students and public for the past 6 years under the guidance of the Department of CSE, Jaya Engineering College. We welcome you to participate in the following events and make this event a grand success:

1. Free Software Demo Stalls (Engineering Colleges, Polytechic and Arts and Science Colleges, Schools)

2. Technical talks have been arranged which would be held in parallel sessions

3. Online Quiz, Online Web Puzzles, Terminal Hack, Hole in the Code & lots of events are conducted

4. Distribution of free Linux distros

5. You can gain a lot of exposure with the open source technicians

6. Can Learn new open source tools

For further details log on to

http://www.jayafossclub.org

Event Date:

18 Sep 2010 - 9 am to 5 pm

Event Place:

Jaya Engineering College, Thiruninravur, Chennai

Ph: 9962282823
Event Date:
18 Sep 2010 (All day)
Event Place:
Jaya Engineering College, Thiruninravur, Chennai

Today, ILUGC celebrated software freedom day 09 at Birla Planetarium.

We had 27 stalls filed with the crowd.
The volunteers done a great job with big enthusiasm.

Thanks a lot for the following.

1. Jaya Engg College
2. Kamban Engg College
3. MIT
4. Arupadai Veedu Institute of Technology
5. Dhanalakshmi Sreenivasan College of Engineering
6. Kongu Engg College
7. College of Engg, Guindy
8 KanchiLUG
9. CDAC

for their wonderful shows.

Thanks for the ILUGC organizers and the Birla Planetarium Officers.

Below are the Fotos:

http://picasaweb.google.com/tshrinivasan/SoftwareFreedomDay09#

http://picasaweb.google.com/mbchandar2/Sfd2009#

http://picasaweb.google.com/aishu.moorthy/SFD09#

Source: T.Shrinivasan, aishwarya via ILUGC

Following are the Agenda for SFD 2009

Apart from these tutorial, for the whole day, we will have nearly 25 demo
stalls, each one is focusing on some specific FOSS tools. You as visitors can
get more info and hands-on in the stalls.

Download Here | Invitation

Note: Please distribute the poster to every one.