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New chapter : LUG@RTUKota
by narendra sisodiya Sept. 29, 2009

Sept. 29, 2009

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: rohit <rkbayal(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:54 PM Subject: [LUG@IITD:4945] New chapter for LUG To: "Linux User Group @ IIT Delhi" <iitdlug(a)googlegroups.com> Hello all, On the auspicious day of Navratra Sthapna ( i am not an atheist ) and Software Freedom Day ( but i am linux lover ), 19 Sep '09 , the event was scheduled for 10 a.m. & as you all know, the timely events generally begin with an hour-or-so delay (atleast in India,to be true ), this was an exception,we started it with mere 20 minutes delay ( surprised here for the first time ) . We didn't made much publicity about such happening in the college,only few notice & mouth publicity was done . The turnout was superb nearing to 60 ( & the hall was packed ), we certainly didn't expect this much on govt. holiday .We were overawed ( surprised for the 2nd time ) . Thanks to Electronics Deptt., we got the Resonance hall & thanks to the working A.C.s , we got no unwanted environmental problems . The LUG@RTUKota inaugural event began at 10:20 a.m. with the gracious presence of Dr. S.C.Jain Sir ,HOD,Computer Deptt.; R.K.Bayal Sir, Professor,Computer Deptt; Dinesh Jain Sir,Professor,Computer Deptt . I started the presentation with LUG@RTUKota formation objectives & the plans ahead . The HOD Sir then inaugurated the LUG@RTUKota group & explained the history of Open-Source software & Linus Torvalds and gave other historical & futuristic importance of Open-Source . Then Bayal Sir, who mentor us for LUG@RTUKota formation, presented the difference between the Open-Source & Closed-Source software & benefits of former above latter .He presented the beautiful & astonishing comparison of linux v/s windows,which explains how can we save 5 Lac rupees ( approx 11K $ ) straight by using Open-source softwares ( the uploading section contains all the presentations, the html file contains the comparison ). After that beautiful comparison, I made an interactive presentation ( i am not glorifying myself, here ) over why should we switch over from Windows to Linux . The misconceptions regarding Linux were removed . The benefits of using Linux over Windows ,( the presentation can be downloaded from uploading section ),the large range of distros available to choose & discussed the most downloaded distros Ubuntu & Fedora . After that,Jain Sir gave vote-of-thanks to the students & assured them of their support for LUG@RTUKota & encouraged us to do regular meetings . Then Gaurav Agarwal , gave beautiful presentation on how to install Fedora and covered the various options available such as 1.WUBi ( Ubuntu inside Windows ) 2. Installing using LiveCD, 3. Installing on VirtualBox 4. Hard-disk Installation He focussed on the most difficult part ( as we got to know by surverying the students ;for detailed report regarding the survey report ,you can contact us personally ) of installation i.e. partitioning. He explained every tiny part involved in installing Fedora . Install Fest ----> The students were already asked to come with laptops,who like to install linux. We presented them with wide range of distros available & their features in split-second way. We've volunteers who helped the students to install linux. Fedora, LinuxMint & Ubuntu suited the students requirements and installed subsequently with Gaurav showing them the installation procedure . Although, only 10 students came with laptops it was an encouraging sign that they showed such an interest in the very first meeting . The install fest continued for approx. 35 minutes. The Surprise Package ---> The multibootable dvd was made ( no software was used,only linux commands were used in the making ) by me which contains 10 linux and most importantly PuppyLinux. I ( & few other students too ) started the stopwatch & booted the puppylinux. In 1 min 20 seconds the puppylinux welcome screen was displayed with all the partitions shown. Then i gave them insight into puppy ,that you can play songs.watch videos,connect to network,text-processing,play games & do everything without installing onto hard disk. The students were overwhelmed & multibootable dvd was distributed to those who came with blank dvds. Media Distribution----> The acknowledgements are due to following guys who helped us in arranging medias for distribution --> 1. Sanjay Agarwal ( lug-jhalawar )--> He provided us with SFD kit consisting of Ubuntu LiveCDs,SFD t-shirt & few SFD balloons. 2. Anirudh Singh Shekhawat ( lug-jaipur ) --> He provided us with Fedora 11 dvds . Then medias were distributed to the students . The event got completed at 12:30 p.m. The vote-of-thanks was given to students for huge turnout. I believe,this report will give a quick account of the event for those who missed it.They can download the presentations from the uploading section . They need not to be depressed since it is the beginning which is never going to end . The LUG@RTUKota inaugural event crossed our expectations,we enjoyed it most . We assure them that we'll continue to organize lug meetings every fortnight/month. Great & encouraging feedbacks were given. We expect that the formation of LUG@RTUKota will help promote the linux and cater to the needs of linux lovers, in an otherwise educational city of Kota ( India-->Rajasthan ). We acknowledge the efforts of the following volunteers who help us in organizing the event --> Sulabh Vijayvergiya ( III year CSE ) Gaurav Gupta ( III year IT ) Ashvin Suthar ( III year CSE ) Regards, LUG@RTUKota P.S.--> Please pardon any grammatical erorrs , i tried my best to avoid them . --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Do you have another question? Click here - http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug/post Read archive - http://www.mail-archive.com/iitdlug@googlegroups.com/ LUG@IITD community mailing list -- http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) │ Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org │ Twitter : http://tinyurl.com/dz7e4a └─────────────────────────┘

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SFD'09 in Oslo
by Rubén Romero y Cordero Sept. 26, 2009

Sept. 26, 2009

Hi all! We had a great time in Oslo. A little blog post with pics and a "report" [Norwegian only] can be seen in my blog (which is by the way syndicated @ Planet SFD): http://huayra.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/ubuntu-and-other-floss-eventsconfere… Hope you had a great celebration wherever you are :-) Best regards, Rubén Romero https://launchpad.net/~huayra

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SOFTWARE FREDOM DAY CEREBRATION - COPPERBELT ZAMBIA
by misheck mutuzana Sept. 23, 2009

Sept. 23, 2009

Dear All, We had a nice time during Software Freedom Day. This took place at Mpelembe Secondary School Kitwe -Copperbelt, Zambia. We distributed the CD's to the schools/Teachers that attended this important day. The programme was attended by the following schools and Teachers: 1. ST Marcelline Secondary School (Kalulushi) - Bro. Maxwell Hibajene 2. Kabundi High School (Chingola)- Mr. Kampamba, Mr. Mfuta, Mr. Zimba, Mrs.Chileshe 3. Mukuba High School (Kitwe) - Mr. N. Musukwa, Mr. Mweemba, 4. Chamboli High School ( Kitwe) - Mr. Musanda, Miss. G. Nkumbwe 5. Helen Kaunda High School ( Kitwe) - Mr. Kapila, Mr. Mukuka 6. Mpelembe Secondary school (Kitwe) - Mr. Gonzalo, Mr. Simpande, Mr. Walinkonde. The day was important to us because we unvailed the contents of the Open CD. OFFICE AND DESIGN • OPENOFFICE.ORG (FULLY COMPATIBLE OFFICE SOFTWARE • SCRIBUS (CREATE PROFESSIONAL LOOKING POSTERS AND MAGAZINES • DIA (MAKE TECHNICAL DIAGRAMS AND FLOWCHARTS) • FREE MIND (COLLECT YOUR IDEAS WITH THIS MIND MAPPING SOFTWARE) • GANTTPROJECT (PLAN YOUR PROJECTS WITH THIS PROJECT MANAGEMANT SOFTWARE) • PDF CREATOR (MAKE PDF DOCUMENTS FROM ANY PROGRAM) • SUMATRA PDF (READ PDF FILES QUICKLY AND EASILY) INTERNET • MOZILA FIREFOX (SAFE, SECURE AND FAST WEB BROWSER) • MOZILLA THUNDERBIRD (MANAGE YOUE EMAILS BETTER THAN EVER • PIDGIN (TALK TO YOUR FRIENDS WHATEVER INSTANT MESSAGE CLIENT THEY USE) • KOMPOZER (CREATE WEB PAGES WITH NO KNOWLEDGE OF CODE) • RSSOWL (KEEP UP WITH YOUR FAVOURITE INTERNET NEWS FEEDS ON YOUR DESKTOP) • PROJECT GUTENBERG (WEBLINK) DOWNLOADS BOOKS AND OTHER TEXTS FOR FREE • WIKIPEDIA (WEBLINK) THE FREE ON-LINE ENCYCLOPEDIA ART AND GRAPHICS • GNU IMAGE MANIPULATION PROGRAM (EDIT DIGITAL PHOTOS AND CREATE GRAPHICS) • INKSCAPE (MAKE PROFESSIONAL LOOKING VECTOR GRAPHICS) • PENCIL (MAKE YOUR OWN CARTOONS) • BLENDER (3D GRAPHIC MODELLING, ANIMATION, RENDERING AND PLAYBACK) • TUXPAINT (DRAWING PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN AGES 3 TO 12) • OPEN CLIPART LIBRARY (A GROWING COLLECTION OF FREE CLIP ART) MULTIMEDIA • AUDACITY (RECORD, EDIT AND MIX MUSIC) • TUXGUITAR (COMPOSE YOUR OWN MUSIC) • INFRA RECORDER (BURN YOUR CDS AND DVDS) • CAMSTUDIO (RECORD YOUR ACTIONS ON A COMPUTER) • REALLY SLICK SCREENSAVERS (GREAT LOOKING SCREENSAVERS) SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS • NASA WORLD WIND (DISCOVER THE EARTH AND OTHER PLANETS) • GREENFOOT (MAKE YOUR OWN GAMES AND LEARN HOW TO PROGRAM) • GRAPHCALC (A GRAPHICAL CALCULATOR) • GUIDO VAN ROBOT (TEACH YOURSELF HOW TO PROGRAM) • ALICE (USE PROGRAMMING TO MAKE YOUR OWN 3D ANIMATIONS) • SCRATCH (MAKE ANIMATIONS AND SHARE THEM ONLINE) • CARMETAL (COOL MATHEMATICAL MODELLING TOOL) • MAXIMA (UNIVERSITY STANDARD COMPUTER ALGEBRA SYSTEM) • CELESTIA (EXPLORE THE UNIVERSE IN THREE DIMENSIONS) • STELLARIUM (A PLANET ON YOUR PC) • PHET ( FREE SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS AND TOOLS) GAMES • FREECIV ( CONTROL THE WORLD THROUGH DIPLOMACY AND CONQUEST) • FREECOL (DISCOVER THE NEW WORLD AND BUILD AN EMPIRE) • NUMPTY PHYSICS (USE PHYSICS TO SOLVE A VARIETY OF EXCITING MISSIONS) • TUX TYPING 2 (LEARN TO TYPE LIKE A PRO) • TUX OF MATH COMMAND (TEST YOUR MATHEMATICAL SKILLS) • WINBOARD CHESS (THE CLASSIC GAME OF CHESS) UTILITIES • GIMP TOOL KIT (GTK +) MULTI-PLATFORM TOOLKIT FOR CREATING GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES. • 7-ZIP (COMPRESS AND UNCOMPRESS FILES IN A WIDE VARIETY OF FORMATS) • CLAIMWIN (ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE WITH AUTOMATIC UPDATING) • HEALTHMONITOR (STATUS MONITORING TOOL FOR WINDOWS COMPUTERS) • ABAKT (SCHEDULE AND RUN BACKUPS OF YOUR DATA) • WORKRAVE (PREVENT AND RECOVER FROM REPETITIVE STRAIN INJURY (RSI) ADVANCED INTERNET • NOTEPAD ++ ( A FAST TEXT EDITOR WITH SOME ADVANCED FEATURES FOR CODING) • FILEZILA (A FAST AND RELIABLE FTP CLIENT AND SERVER) • HTTRACK (DOWNLOAD WEBSITES FOR OFFLINE VIEWING) • WINSCP (SFTP AND SCP CLIENT) • TIGHTVNC (SEE THE DESKTOP OF A REMOTE COMPUTER AND CONTROL IT) It was very overwhelming such that teachers discovered a lot about the open Cd. Advantages were highlighted on why teachers and schools should use Ubuntu Cd's. Finally iam thanking all the schools and teachers who took part in this wonderful and important event and also not forgetting the sponsors of the 100 Ubuntu Cd's, T-shirts, ballons, stickers. Without you, the event would have been unsuccessful. Regards Misheck Mutuzana Coordinator SchoolNET Zambia - Mufulira Branch Copperbelt Region Copperbelt Coordinator - Global Teenager project (GTP) Member: OERtn, e-brain, CSZ, OSZ, Itrainer, Project Implementation Team -ENEDCO Email: mutuzana@yahoo.com,mutuzana@gmail.com +260 955-418926 /966-418926/977-418926 --- On Tue, 9/22/09, sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org <sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org> wrote: > From: sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org <sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org> > Subject: SFD-discuss Digest, Vol 35, Issue 34 > To: sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org > Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 7:00 AM > Send SFD-discuss mailing list > submissions to > sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' > to > sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > sfd-discuss-owner(a)sf-day.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more > specific > than "Re: Contents of SFD-discuss digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. SFD 2009 Pretoria: Thank you! > (Karl Fischer) > 2. Re: SFD 2009 Pretoria: Thank > you! (Frederic Muller) > 3. Inmensa Gratitud! desde Neiva - > Huila - Colombia - > Suramerica - Thanks you! (Jorge > Eduardo Mari?o Indaburu) > 4. Re: Don't wash the T-Shirts! or > be careful (Frederic Muller) > 5. Re: SFD 2009 Pretoria: Thank > you! (Ross Addis) > 6. Re: Don't wash the T-Shirts! or > be careful > (Matthias-Christian Ott) > 7. Re: Don't wash the T-Shirts! or > be careful (Frederic Muller) > 8. Re: Don't wash the T-Shirts! or > be careful > (Jorge Eduardo Mari?o Indaburu) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:03:23 +0200 > From: Karl Fischer <kmf(a)fischer.org.za> > Subject: [SFD-discuss] SFD 2009 Pretoria: Thank you! > To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org> > Message-ID: > <f7fabe790909210703v588fec4fo24117f68fca72257(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hi There, > We had a awesome day! > I really believe that this year was a success! > > Here some photos: > http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/gallery/2009/Pretoria-Gauteng-South-Africa > > Karl > > -- > ------------------ > Karl Fischer > SFD 2009 : http://is.gd/2zsH7 > www : http://floss.pro > jid : kmf(a)floss.pro > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:11:38 +0800 > From: Frederic Muller <fred(a)beijinglug.org> > Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD 2009 Pretoria: Thank you! > To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org> > Message-ID: <4AB7899A.1060602(a)beijinglug.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; > format=flowed > > Very nice pictures indeed. Seems like the event went really > well! > > I have a question though: what's in that orange kiosk (3 > pcs apparently) > that everyone seems so attracted to it? > > Fred > > Karl Fischer wrote: > > Hi There, > > We had a awesome day! > > I really believe that this year was a success! > > > > Here some photos: > > http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/gallery/2009/Pretoria-Gauteng-South-Africa > > > > Karl > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:38:58 -0500 > From: Jorge Eduardo Mari?o Indaburu <jemarinoi(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [SFD-discuss] Inmensa Gratitud! desde Neiva - > Huila - > Colombia - Suramerica > - Thanks you! > To: sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org > Message-ID: > <cbb7c9f30909211138q73d1a24btcbf7d31dff8476c7(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Nuestra jornada fue todo un ?xito...que sinergia.. que > calidez y calidad de > evento..viva el Software Libre...el SL es pasi?n!! was a > success! > > Nuestras fotos (Here some photos): > > http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/gallery/2009/Neiva_Colombia > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/7498327@N07/sets/72157622295382977/show/with/3… > > Con sentimientos de admiraci?n a todos! > > Jorge Eduardo Mari?o Indaburu > jemarinoi(a)gmail.com > > -- > Linux Counter: Home page for #396221 JORGE EDUARDO MARI?O > INDABURU > http://jemarinoi.wordpress.com >

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Happy Software Freedom Day Everyone!
by Cat Scratch Sept. 23, 2009

Sept. 23, 2009

We're heading off to our SFD venue soon so just wanted to wish everyone all the best over the next 24 hours or so as you put all your hard work into action. It's great to be part of such a strong global community. Have a wonderful day everyone! - Donna -- Software Freedom Day 2009 http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/melb A world wide celebration of Free and Open Source Software Melbourne event at Melb PC Chadstone and the community behind it. 11am - 4pm, Saturday 19 September

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SFD 2009 Pretoria: Thank you!
by Karl Fischer Sept. 22, 2009

Sept. 22, 2009

Hi There, We had a awesome day! I really believe that this year was a success! Here some photos: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/gallery/2009/Pretoria-Gauteng-South-Africa Karl -- ------------------ Karl Fischer SFD 2009 : http://is.gd/2zsH7 www : http://floss.pro jid : kmf(a)floss.pro

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Inmensa Gratitud! desde Neiva - Huila - Colombia - Suramerica - Thanks you!
by Jorge Eduardo Mariño Indaburu Sept. 21, 2009

Sept. 21, 2009

Nuestra jornada fue todo un éxito...que sinergia.. que calidez y calidad de evento..viva el Software Libre...el SL es pasión!! was a success! Nuestras fotos (Here some photos): http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/gallery/2009/Neiva_Colombia http://www.flickr.com/photos/7498327@N07/sets/72157622295382977/show/with/3… Con sentimientos de admiración a todos! Jorge Eduardo Mariño Indaburu jemarinoi(a)gmail.com -- Linux Counter: Home page for #396221 JORGE EDUARDO MARIÑO INDABURU http://jemarinoi.wordpress.com

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Cool Pics
by andre Sept. 21, 2009

Sept. 21, 2009

Hello Everyone, Just looked through everyone's pic's in the gallery (http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/gallery/2009) it looks great! We are also already having our first meeting for SFD 2010 on the 16th October. If I have to compare what we did this year with last year, we have reached 1000x more people in 2009 now if we can do the same growth in 2010 our whole country will be buzzing! The Linux consultants and companies also did a lot of quotes for business and I think that we will have a lot more contributions in 2010, enough to also donate a little to the central SFD as well Have a great day everyone! :) andre

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Website statistics?
by Leandro Gómez Sept. 21, 2009

Sept. 21, 2009

Hi all, Last year someone posted some stats from the sfd website (total visitors and country of origin). Are there any statistics available for this year? Cheers,

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sfd in Pune - Maharashtra - India
by shirish शिरीष Sept. 20, 2009

Sept. 20, 2009

Hi all, Made a blog post (minus pictures atm) at http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/sfd-2009-challenges-and-cr… -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17

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Welcome to SFD 2009
by Robert Schumann Sept. 19, 2009

Sept. 19, 2009

Hi SFDers, Welcome to Software Freedom Day 2009 - best wishes from all of us at SFD central for a successful SFD event. While you're out there spreading the word, remember to stay positive and focus on the benefits of software freedom and your rights in a digital world - not on the negatives of other approaches. Good luck, and we will be in touch after SFD to let you know how you can shape the future of SFD by letting us know how your event went. Best regards, Robert President, Software Freedom International

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