- Team members: 150 Audience reached: 11000 Promotional CDs distributed: 2000 Received government support? : Yes Received non-government local support? : Yes Event duration: 80
Notes on audience reached
- Event Website: www.softwarefreedomweek.org
www.bvbsfw.org
Event report:
6000 + People, 1500 + registrations, 4100 + website views across 46 countries, 61 organizations, 5 schools, 20 colleges, 11 news papers & TV Channels, 150 volunteers (loosing 5 kgs on an avg! over 2 months of preparation ) about 23 events & 7 days of FOSS promotion. This was software freedom week 2008 !!
The event reached out to NGOs, Government bodies, Entrepreneurs, Small/Large scale industries, College students & school children. It was indeed the biggest open source promotion event in this part of the country. Emphasis was given on making an advantageous impact on all the people to whom the event reached rather than just creating FOSS awareness, The events were designed to sustain the FOSS spirit beyond the week and aid the people who wish to embrace open source revolution by providing support in terms of training/installation & closed to open source migration assistance. The event was a preface to the Year long activities carried out by the Open Source Developer's Community of BVBCET.
All India SFD 08 Video : http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=qlKVkhKZU2A
Consolidated Photo Gallery: http://picasaweb.google.co.in/talkingkarthik Consolidated Video gallery: http://in.youtube.com/profile_favorites?user=talkingkarthik Press & Media : http://softwarefreedomweek.org/press-media/ SFW 08 Magazine: http://softwarefreedomweek.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/ember.pdf Event promo video : http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=7TOZEELNmNQ
It all began with a grand Inaugural on 14th september 2008 in Biotech seminar hall of B.V.Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering & Technology Hubli, India. Mr Rajesh from SUN Microsystems was the guest of honor. The function was presided by Dr Ashok Shettar - Principal BVBCET, & was graced by Prof B.L.Desai - Vice Principal BVBCET, Dr Satish Annigeri - Dean Academic Affairs BVBCET, Dr R.M.Banakar - Branch Counselor IEEE Student Chapter.
This was followed by The Java Starter workshop to promote Java - revolutionary opensource programming language from SUN. This workshop witnessed 163 registrations. Thanks to Varsha & group from ISE Dept.
Workshop on Joomla Web development was indeed event of the week, witnessing 300+ student registrations, thanks to Praveen, Shailesh & their group for delivering practical & lecture sessions.
The Java Starter workshop was followed by Debugging(Debugger ) & Programming (Prostar ) contests to ensure application of what has been learnt in the workshop. Special thanks to the whole ISE Dept marshaled by Prof Shankar Setty for organizing all these technical events.
Open Talk & Open Debate were the two events that made people think about some burning issues in the FOSS Industry. Business model presentation event unleashed the commercial side of FOSS.
The main attraction & heart of SFW 08 events were Reach-out & open desktop. our student teams reached out to 5 organizations & 5 schools in groups and delivered interactive sessions on FOSS advantages. They created awareness about FOSS that could benefit those institutes.
Reach out team led by Vikas Kantu group & Open desktop team led by Sanjay B group did a wonderful job of taking FOSS out of the SFW Venue . They evangelized open source out of the way and made Software Freedom week a complete package with the mission "Freedom of Software is important for everyone, not just software developers…"
"Workshop on opensource Technologies for NGOs" & Government Bodies was an impactful event of this SFW 08 about 30 NGOs & Government organizations participated in this workshop & they were made aware of relevant FOSS by Dr Satish Annigeri - Dean Academic Affairs, BVBCET. Thanks to Mr Naveen Jha from Deshpande Foundation for supporting this workshop & making this event possible.
Open Freshers was an event exclusively targeted for freshers of BVBCET on FOSS awareness, Thanks to Prof Shankar Setty. Quiz & Wordstar were the 2 events witnessing 400+ registrations among them, Thanks to Laxman, Rizwana & their group for intellectual entertainment to the student crowd. System Designing was an event aimed at grooming designing skills of budding Engineering students, thanks to Sumit Bhat from Sankalp semiconductors, Divya & their group.
NFS, FIFA, Counter Strike & Other open source games made an adrenaline rush into about 500 gamers, thanks to Sanket, Anand, Mayur & their group.
The real open source promotion among masses happened in the cultural evening cum FOSS Rock show where open source project slides rolled on amidst rocking performance from the BVBCET Rock Band followed by sizzling dances & vocal melody from very own BVBians entertaining & creating FOSS awareness amongst thousands of people. Thanks to Shravan & group for the rock show & thanks to Naina & group for enlightening slide show.
The whole event was meticulously documented in the software freedom week bulletin "Ember" (On its way ... )thanks to Shreya, Reshma, Asha, Deepak, Punit, & the editorial board for the hard work behind.
The event was generously sponsored by IBM, SUN Microsystems, Computer Shoppe Hubli, Sankalp Semiconductors Hubli, ALUPRINTS Hubli we thank all these sponsors.
The registration counter which was put up amidst college campus was responsible for 1500+ registrations, thanks to Prashanti, Asha, Ashwini, Rizwana & their group for generating such a huge response.
Tech Speak by Dr Prasad Bhaarath Ram - CTO Google India , was the main attraction of SFW 08, BVBians were indeed very lucky to have him in our campus.
We had Tech speaks by Mr Rajesh from SUN Microsystems, Mr Sachin Kinagi & Mr Parsvanath from IBM, we also thank Mr Ashok & Mr Virendra from SUN Microsystems our invited judges. Mr Vivek Pawar CEO Sankalp semiconductors was the guest of honor for the valedictory of SFW 08. SFW o8 was indeed a very big event, Hats off to all 150 volunteers , who worked hard to make this event a grand success.
There were some very prizes including Apple Ipods, TV Tuner Cards, Web Cams, Gaming Consoles, Pen drives & Head Phones etc with total prize money accounting to around INR 40,000/-
This event was all possible only with the strong support from our beloved Principal Dr Ashok Shettar, Prof B.L.desai - Vice Principal, Dr Satish Annigeri - Dean Academic affairs, Dr R.M.Banakar - Branch Counsellor IEEE Student Chapter & Prof Shankar Setty- Faculty ISE Dept.
Special thanks to Basavaraj Sankeshwar, Rudramuni & Khuram for their marathon support right through the event. special thanks to Asha, Sagar, Raavi, Ashwini & group from Electrical dept for their kind support.
Special thanks to Gary Serda, Ganesh Hiregoudar, Rajesh Uma Shankar & Vijaya Santhosh from SUN who have been so encouraging all the times. Pia Wough - President Linux, Australia was instrumental in guiding us to overcome the problems our site was facing, we are very thankful to her for her concern. This event was smoothly run due to kind co-operation of HODs from all the departments, Staff & Students of BVBCET, special Thanks to all of them.
Hats off to Software Freedom International (www.softwarefreedomday.org) for marshaling such a successful global movement of software freedom day, we wish them success in the future.
-- Yours Sincerely, Karthik Kulkarni SUN Campus Ambassador, BVBCET Hubli
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General feedback
- Below is the message from Mr Syed Riyaz, the one who introduced SUN CA program to BVBCET, about software freedom week on orkut.
I just did my duty in initiating, all credit goes to you for doing fantastic job, and I can see my dream getting realized " every bvbian uses open OS, code well, add some new utilities to opensource like games, software etc, create webpages in PHP and mozilla browser etc"
And I can see you doing your job very well, keep motivating every new bvbin towards open source and without wasting time kick butt, have fun, Which you are doing it very well
Do not let this enthusiasm and spirit let die, instead spread it to next generation by mentoring juniors and involving them in these activities
Convey my regards to B.L..Desai Sir and other professors
By Mr Syed Riyaz
Other feedbacks from various people/Students/School Children/NGOs etc
1.open source are really very good…thanks for coming to our school and creating awareness of free open source software… 2.You guys are really doing a wonderful job…presentation and demo of open source software was good and informative…will use only open source.. 3.It is a good way of fighting software piracy..I am very happy with this programme and i will contribute to it.
1.I felt that the presentation and demo of open source was very motivating and interesting,where we learned a lot about open source softwares…We find that open source software are the best alternative for closed softwares …thanks a lot… 2.Presentation was very interesting and motivating….We gained a lot of knowledge about open source software and its benefits…Thanks for showing the demos of open source softwares…please do visit again to teach some more open source software.
1.presentation was very useful and motivating. Hence forth i will use open source software… 2..Open source concept provide freedom for users to use,modify software…We will definitely use these software and promote the use of open source softwares…I want my
1.We were not aware of this open source software…I will start working on open source …Thanks for coming to our school ..We are really happy with OPEN DESKTOP activity.. 2..I was quite interested in your seminar. Hearing that i gained a lot of knowledge about open source softwares,its benefits. It was useful for all.
1..Thanks for creating an awareness about the open source software…Presentation was very good…BVB college students are really doing a great job.. 2.We will definitely download this open source softwares and start working on them…We will make a good use of this..Thank you for coming to our school and giving the Knowledge about this…We will support this activity…
1.Thanks for this wonderful,informative presentation….It is useful for all…We will use open source from today. We will support you for this activity… 2.Thanks for this open source awareness program…We were not aware of these softwares…Presentation was very useful..Thanks for showing demos of open source software… 3.I was quite interested in your seminar. Hearing that i gained a lot of knowledge about open source softwares,its benefits. It was useful for all. “Best of luck for your future .you are doing a great job for the society…You helped us a lot…Thank you.
- Enter competition: Yes
Competition entry URL: http://softwarefreedomweek.org
Software Freedom Week 2008 Intellect is no man’s property… Our official Website is : http://www.bvbsfw.org
With a grand debut last year ( 2007 Event report: http://signalspot.com/software-freedom-week-07 2007 SFD Event recognition:http://softwarefreedomday.org/Competition2007/Winners ), we are in for a wider, bigger and grander Open Source promotion this September 2008. We have as many as 12 open source promo events spread across 6 sections this time in SFW 08 which will open from 15th Sept 2008.
Vision
1) To make a difference to many organizations by replacing commercial and cracked wares they use, by suitable and potential open source contemporaries. 2) To be the major and key promoters of the spirit of Open source in this part of the Country.
Mission
1) To popularize and promote the spirit of Open source - “Intellect is no man’s property”. 2) To reach out and educate people/organizations about the opportunities,availabilities,advantages of Open Source wares, that can revolutionize and ease there work habitat. 3) To trigger,excite and orient the thoughts of budding techies towards the impact and destiny of this contemporary Open Source revolution.
People
Dr Ashok Shettar -Principal, BVBCET. Prof B.L. Desai -Vice-Principal, BVBCET. Dr Satish Annigeri -Dean Academic Affairs, BVBCET. Dr R.M.Banakar -Branch Counselor, BVB IEEE. Prof Shankar Setty -Faculty, ISE Dept.
Venue
BVBCET Hubli. (www.bvb.edu ).
Dates
Sept 15th to 20th.
Participating colleges
BVBCET Hubli, SDMCET Hubli, KLEIT Hubli, P.C Jabin College Hubli, REC Hulkoti, BEC Bagalkot, KLE Belgaum, GIT Belgaum, Engg College Laxmeshwar, JT College Gadag.
Programs and contests in Software freedom week 2008
1) Reach Out
1) A workshop for the employees and IT managers of HDMC (Hubli Dharwad Muncipal Corporation) on enlightening them with the OpenSource wares (OpenOffice,OpenSource HRMs, ERPs, blogwares,CMS etc) that can make a difference to their work habitat.
2) Software
1) The Java starter - 2 days workshop on Java for the students of all branches and semester students.(Followed by programming & debugging contests) 2) The Debugger - The Java Debugging contest 3) Prostar - The Java Programming contest 4) OpenTalk - Talk on any OpenSource project. 5) OpenDebate: Tech Debate. Topics “NetBeans V/s Eclipse”; “OLPC is the Mission justified?”. 6) Jommla Web Development Contest
3) Business
1) Business Model Presentation: “SUN and OpenSource”; “How does Google make money?”. 2) Mock Stock: IT stock market simulation. (Fun Event).
4) Hardware
1) System Designing: Contest Featuring OLPC & OpenSPARC.
5) Fun Events
1) Gaming - NFS gaming. 2) Mock Stock: IT stock market simulation.
6) Tech Speak
Tech talk by invited resource person.
Please visit http://bvbsfw.org for more...