Sibi - Free Software Foundation Tamil Nadu (FSFTN)

FSFTN Workshop at National Engineering College (2010)

FSFTN conducted a Workshop for College students, at National Engineering College, Kovilpatti on 6th and 7th August 2010. Workshop was attended by 125 students from 7 Engineering Colleges. Students were given Sessions on Ideology of Free Software by Sibi, Core Member of Free Software Foundation Tamil Nadu (FSFTN). Students were

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MoU with Tamil Virtual Academy

FSFTN and Tamil Virtual Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding on November 30, 2015 to work in the mutually beneficial areas. Memorandum of Understanding Between Free Software Foundation Tamil Nadu and Tamil Virtual Academy. Free Software: Free software, software libre, or libre software is computer software that gives users the

2015

Software Freedom Day 2K15

SFD 2K15 was celebrated at LICET (Loyola ICAM College of Engineering and Tecchnology) on September 27, 2015. The celebration was full of talks on GNU/Linux operating system, Wikipedia, LaTeX and exhibitions by students from different Engineering colleges and movie screening. A skit by FSFTN volunteers was performed during the

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2015

FTW - Python Session for Beginners

As a part of FSFTN Tech Weekend (FTW) Meetups, we have initiated a series of follow up sessions on various technical and philosophical topics. We have had sessions on installation, version control (git), cryptography, security, WordPress, ruby, etc. At this week's FTW (FSFTN Tech Weekend) Meetup, we have planned for

2015

Freedom Bootcamp 2015

The following invitation is prepared by Mugunthan, a free software activist at FSFTN. As a part of our FTW(FSFTN Tech Weekends) initiative, we are organising a Hackathon/Bootcamp on the the 15th of august for college students and general public . Well, Independence day is just a co-incidence! In this

Net Neutrality

Walk-A-Thon Supporting Net Neutrality

Free Software Foundation Tamil Nadu conducted a Walkathon Supporting Net Neutrality in Besant Nagar Beach, Chennai on 23rd April for raising public awareness about the recent violations of Net Neutrality by Telecom Service Providers in India and the related consultation paper floated by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India calling for

2015

Rails Workshop At Loyola ICAM

Free Software Foundation Tamil Nadu conducted a 2-day workshop at Loyola-ICAM College of Engineering and Technology on February 23 and 24 2015. Over 80 students from LICET and other engineering colleges participated in the event. The topics covered were: Free software philosophy. Linux Terminal and Git Basics. Basics of Ruby

Workshop

BOSS Hands-on Workshop For Women

Bharathi Women's College (Autonomous) Chennai, organized a state level workshop on Bharat Operating System Solutions (BOSS) on January 10 , 2015 for Students who benefitted from Tamil Nadu Government Free/Price Less Laptops. Around 100 women's attended the workshop from B.Sc and M.Sc departments. Session was handled by Raj

2014

Software Freedom Day 2K14

Update: This event got cancelled due to various reasons. FSFTN is excited to invites you to Software Freedom Day on 27th September 2014 at College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University in association with CEGLUG and Free Software allied communities like ILUGC, Chennai.py and Chennai.rb. It is a day

2014

Education Freedom Day - 2014

As part of Education Freedom Day celebrations, FSFTN members conducted a session at Chennai Corporation Girls Higher Secondary School at Perambur,Chennai on Friday, 24-01-2014. The crowd comprised nearly 120 class XI students and K. Sibi,Executive Committee member, FSFTN, took a 2-hour session. The students were from the Computer

2014

Workshop at Coimbatore

Workshop on FS Philosophy and Content management system was held in Kumarguru College, Coimbatore on January 23, 2014 @ Coimbatore. Arun, Balaji and Sibi participated from FSFTN. [Event Pictures](Find and Add Link)

2012

Free Software workshop at Anna University

A one day Free Software seminar was held at CEG on March 11 , 2012 . It consisted of philosophical and technical sessions handled by Mr.K.Sibi and Mr. Alagunambi Welkin respectively. There were about 60 student participants from various colleges The morning session covered the Introduction to Free Software philosophy.

CEG

Free workshop on Python @ CEG - Event report

As part of CEG GNU/LUG, a free workshop on Python was organized in CS dept,College of Engineering,Guindy (Anna University) by FSFTN members on 17th March , 2012. The session had 40 people from CEG and most of them were second years mostly from the Dept of CS and

2012

Drupal Workshop @ IIT-M - A happy mail from the mailing list

Call for participation : Free Software Foundation, Tamil Nadu will be conducting a half a day technical session on Introduction to Drupal" the famous Content Management System which is rocking the web world with its simplicity and technical superiority. The session will demonstrate how a website can be created in

2012

Mozilla Localization Event by FSFTN and Mozilla India

Call for the event Free Software Foundation,Tamil Nadu is happy to call you for a L10N event of Mozilla Projects on 19th February , 2012. The Speaker is Mr.Arky - Community Manager/L10N at Mozilla Corporation. He will talking about the Localization of Mozilla Projects. The content of the

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Richard Stallman talk on 'Free Software, Freedom and Education.' - IITMadras

Monday, February 6, 2012 saw history being made as a mammoth crowd came to see and listen to Richard Stallman talk on 'Free Software, Freedom and Education.' The event, organised by Free Software Foundation, Tamil Nadu, part of Free Software Movement of India saw over 3000 people at the

Erode

Workshop at Velalar college - Erode

FSFTN conducted yet another workshop - This time in Velalar college Erode on 17th and 18th August 2010. More than 300 students from different colleges in Erode district attended the session. Thanks to the great work by the organizing committee and college staff. Students were given introduction to Free software

Convention

Convention on Freedom & Software - 2008

Invitation : A Convention on "Freedom and Software" is proposed to be conducted on 21st September, 2008 at the Russian Cultural Center in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. M. Subramanian - The Mayor, N. Ram - Editor, The Hindu, Debesh Das - Minister of Information Technology, West Bengal, Kiran Chandra -