Hello all,
Software Freedom Day was celebrated today at MIT in a simple but
joyous way with talks, snacks and games..
The gathering of about 50 students from MIT had their first taste
of FOSS, through an introductory talk given by Mr.Raman, then followed
by Amachu who added a touch of humor to the proceedings with his talk
on FOSS in education.. Both Raman and Amachu explained what Software
Freedom Day was all about in their own unique way.
Sudharsan from Andal Azhagar College of Engineering enlightened
the group on how one could contribute to FOSS while Sanjeev, Ponnusamy
and Prakash of NRCFOSS answered queries from curious students.
The talks were followed by video presentations taken from the web
which brought out the uniqueness and power of GNU/Linux and FOSS.
After snacks being served, the students were allowed to play with
open source through multiplayer games like open arena, frozen-bubble 2
and racing games such as vdrift and torcs. Additional games played
were pingus, tuxmath and blobby volley 2.
A special thanks goes to Rajeev of NRCFOSS for helping out with
configuration and testing of the games.
And I thank Dr.Srinivasan, NRCFOSS for providing the seminar hall
at AU-KBC for conducting the talks and presentations.
Overall feedback from the students was overwhelming and that proved
the event a grand success in spreading the message of FOSS.
Regards,
Sivabalan T,
General Secretary,
Computer Society of MIT.