GLUG-NITH gears up to celebrate Software Freedom Day
GLUG-NITH is the team for the GNU/LINUX Users' Group Of National Institute Of Technology, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, India. We will organise a User interaction session where GNU/LINUX users will interact with each other and other _want_to_be_ users of what/how/why they started using GNU/LINUX and what problems they faced(if any) and how it sorted out. We will also hold a demo session of FOSS and also a install fest where participants can bring their computers and install FOSS on it. We will also be doing workshops(details of which are not yet finalized yet). The details will be soon put up on the GLUG-NITH Homepage as well as on this wiki. To join the GLUG-NITH mailing list go here
As of now the preparations for SFD are in full swing. On the day we are planning to do the following events:
1. Introductory session to FOSS
- An introductory lecture cum demo of a Free and Open Source Software will be held so as to make people aware of Free Software and what are their potentials, the philosophies behind their use and what it offers. It will be an attempt to create an awareness amongst people who have no idea about FOSS or those who are quite not sure how to go about it.
2. GCC/GDB/MAKE workshop
- In this we will be introducing a lot of development tools which are used by programmers a lot which include the GNU Compiler, Debugger and Make tool. It is an attempt to make people aware of the excellent development tools available.
3. Python programming workshop
- In this workshop we are aiming top to teach the participants about Python and get them going in the Python language.
Date
September 22, 2007
Venue
National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur-177005. Himachal Pradesh
The entire GLUG-NITH family is part of the organizing team.
For more details please visit http://wiki.glug-nith.org/index.php/SOFTWARE_FREEDOM_DAY07 See you all there