SFD '07 @ Sarawak, Malaysia

Welcome to the Software Freedom Day (SFD) 2007 page for Sarawak, Malaysia which is organized by Kuching Open Source Community in collaboration with Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS). We are celebrating the SFD on 12th September 2007 (instead of 15th Sept due to fasting/Ramadan month) at the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology (FCSIT), UNIMAS.

We also have our friends celebrating the same event at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Photos

More photos are available from our website's Photo Gallery.

Our activities

• Presentation: "Introduction to FOSS & Open Standards" (Download - 269k, PDF)

  • Educating the public on what FOSS is about
  • Promoting FOSS and open standards
• Burning of the following software:
  • The OpenCD SFD Edition

  • OpenOffice.org 2 Novell Edition

  • Various Linux distribution

    • Debian (http://www.debian.org/)

    • OpenSUSE (http://www.opensuse.org/)

    • Kubuntu (http://www.kubuntu.org/), Edubuntu (http://www.edubuntu.org/) & Xubuntu (http://www.xubuntu.org/)

    • LinuxMint (http://linuxmint.com/)

    • Fedora (http://fedoraproject.org/)

    • Other distros

• Showing documentary video titled "The Codebreakers" by UNDP-APDIP (http://www.apdip.net/elibrary#videos)

• Demo of various FOSS and operating systems (OS)
• Hands-on experience with FOSS for interested audience
• Questions and answers

Please refer to our forum page for more information on our preparation.

Collaboration

• Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) (http://unimas.my/)

Sponsors

• UNDP-APDIP (http://www.apdip.net/) IOSN (http://www.iosn.net/) for some books and documentary movie "The Codebreakers"

• Novell Malaysia (http://www.novell.com/)

Publications

We have designed out posters (see below) and leafleats to be distributed out and paste on public notice boards. We also have it released in the local newspaper (Eastern Times).

• Announcement on FCSIT, UNIMAS website: http://www.fcsit.unimas.my/

• Poster (View)

Organiser

Kuching Open Source Community or also known as KuchingOSC is a community-driven effort for sharing knowledge, promoting the awareness and pushing the adoption among its members and the public on free and open source software (FOSS) as well as open standards. The main goal of this community is to promote FOSS and open standards among its members and the public in Malaysia, mainly Sarawak.

visit our website at http://www.kuchingosc.org/, and feel free to drop by to our forum at http://forum.kuchingosc.org/.

Contact

• Kuching Open Source Community