Software Freedom Day '09 Celebration

Engineer's Consortium for Open Source Software

The Orissa State LUG , India

ECOSS was established as a platform for open-source enthusiasts in the year 2008 at the department of Computer Science and Engineering of Roland Institute of Technology, Surya vihar , Berhampur. Since its inception, ECOSS has been on the forefront of free software distribution and collaboration in the southern Orissa. The goal of ECOSS is to establish a technical consortium for interaction among budding engineers and to interface them with the industry leaders developing and deploying open source based software and solutions. This year ECOSS has been collaborated with CDAC and DeepRoot Linux Pvt. Ltd. to bring the best brains of India to the reach of the young open source enthusiasts.

Software Freedom Day is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open source Software. The principles behind this are underpinned by the users freedom to distribute, study, run, copy, change and improve the software.

The Roland Institute of Technology campus got crowded with enthusiastic and energetic students of different colleges of different profession to observe Software Freedom Day'09 from 19th - 21st September , 2009 . For many it was the first software celebration of their life.

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