01-10-05 Hyderabad.

Invitation

Software Freedom Day and the Software Freedom Rally.

The program details are :

Motor Cycle Rally starting at Hyderabad Central University at 9:00 AM Technical Session on Power of GNU/Linux 9:00 AM Seminar on Free Software and India 11.00AM Venue :OU College of Engineering.

Free Software Foundation of India is celebrating 'Software Freedom day' on 2nd October 2005. As part of the celebration FSF India is organising a half day seminar and exhibition at Osmania University College of Engineering,Hydrabad, Andra Pradesh. The motor Cycle Rally starts at Hyderabad Central University touches JNTU and will reach OU College of Engineering.

Speakers in the Seminar :

Prof. D N Reddy Principal OU College of Engg.

Dr. G.Ravi Kumar Director, Geodata GSI.

M.Arun Secretary FSF India.

Technical Session on Power of GNU/Linux 9:00 AM Seminar on Free Software and India 11.00AM Venue :OU College of Engineering.

Free Software Foundation of India is celebrating 'Software Freedom day' on 2nd October 2005. As part of the celebration FSF India is organising a half day seminar and exhibition at Osmania University College of Engineering,Hydrabad, Andra Pradesh.

2nd October is birth anniversary of one of the greatest freedom fighters of the world, Mahatma Gandhi. FSF India decided to celebrate 'Software Freedom day' on 2nd October as a tribute to Mahatma, and to remind people that fight for freedom is never over.

Free Software Movement is leading freedom struggle in domain of information technology. This movement is fight for the freedom of knowledge and freedom to communicate. Right to share knowledge, and right to communicate are as important as political freedom for which Mahatma fought. Today we are carrying his fight to new frontiers.

Day by day more and more people are realising the importance of software freedom. On this birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi Freedom campaigners from different sections of the society will come together to celebrate Software Freedom day and to pledge to defend freedom in computing,following path shown by freedom fighters around world.

Exhibition arranged on the day will showcase commonly useful freesoftwares like GCC,Kdevelop,Blender etc. Special focus of exhibition will be how free software will help students.

About FSF India

The Free Software Foundation Of India is a non-profit organisation committed to advocating, promoting and propagating the use and development of swatantra software in India. Our goal is to ensure the long term adoption of free software, and aim for the day when all software will be free (swatantra). This includes educating people about software freedom and convincing them that it is the freedom that matters. We regard non-free proprietary software as a problem to be solved, not as a solution to any problem.

Y.Kiran Chandra Convenor FSFIndia AP Chapter