ILUG-Cochin

SFD 2009 Procession Inauguration

ILUG Cochin conducted a peaceful procession on 26th September 2009 at Marine Drive, Ernakulam to Celebrate Software Freedom Day 2009. The procession was inaugurated by Manu Zacharia, Consultant to the Cyber Cell of Kochi City Police, at 4.45pm. There were 14 people in the procession. The procession started from Ernakulam Broadway and proceeded towards Ernakulam Boat Jetty. From there the procession moved on to Menaka. We put body posters.  The procession stood there for half an hour. Read more…

Sreenadh Activities 2009, Cochin, ernakulam, kochi, september, sfd

ILUG Cochin has participated in the Software Freedom Day 2009 Celebrations held at Rajagiri College of Social Sciences, Kalamasserry, Ernakulam. We were also one of the organizers of the event. It was a one day program. We have also put a stall at the venue which helped students and other people to clear their doubts, both technical and non-technical, about Free Software. There were seminars, exhibitions, technical talks. The seminar, “Introduction to Free Software” by Sreenadh and “FOSS in Web development” by Binny were some of them.

The event inspired some of the students at Rajagiri to start a Free Software User Group. There were students from VHSS Irimpanam who have put a stall for “Malayalam Computing” and also exhibited different Computer Hardware. There were also some students from GTHSS and they exhibited “Wordpress”, a Free Software application for blogging.

Team:

Venkat
Kevin
Manu
Sreenadh
Hari
Jay Jacob
Lenin

Photos:

Jay Jacob

ILUG Stall

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Sreenadh Activities 2009, ernakulam, kalamasserry, rajagiri, september, sfd, software freedom day

For the IRC meeting conducted on 19 July 2009 almost 20 people attended. Agenda was “Campaign to promote Free Software in Kerala”::Part[1]>Bringing Hardware vendors closer to the  Swathanthra Software Community”, as this was the second meeting, it was kind of dull, though it started ontime, it took some time for  people to pop in, and show some life to channel.

Date : 19.07.2009
Time : 4:00pm – 6:00pm
Attendance : 20

The attendees included professionals, freelancers and students.Initially meeting started of with an introduction session, where most of the them introduced, then the agenda was announced, though it took some time to get people to talk in full spirit, it was interesting towards the last 45mins, we spoke of how Hardware vendors be educated regarding free software, how the people can influence the hardware vendors with demand for free software, etc it would be better if you skim through the transcript that would be uploaded soon.

The next IRC meeting agenda would be “Campaign to promote Free Software in Kerala”.  Part[2] “How to  Educate the Schools and colleges about Free Software”( as voted by majority).

The transcript of the meeting, will be available soon as someone uploads it. A mail will come in this regard.

Hope the next meeting is more exciting, let us look forward to the next Sunday official meeting, Agenda mail will come out soon.

Transcript of July 2009 Meeting

Sreenadh Meetings 2009, irc, july, meeting