Free Software Foundation Tamil Nadu (FSFTN) (Page 4)

2015

Introducing FSFTN Techcast Initiative

A new year begins with a new initiative - FSFTN Tech Cast. This initiative releases a set of technical tutorials in association with the local communities in Tamil/English under Creative Commons. The introduction video is released on January 1, 2015 Introduction Video Ruby Tutorial Series by Vysakh can be

2014

Introducing FSM to College Students

Quaid-E-Millath Government College for Women (Autonomous) on 10th October 2014, as part of their Computer Association Inauguration have invited FSFTN to introduce Free Software Movement to entire Computer Science department. Around 300 students and staffs from both the B.Sc and MCA have taken part. Sessions on Free Software Movement,

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

Software Freedom Day 2K14 - Kumbakonam

On 26th September 2014, FSFTN along with SFOSS Club of Sastra Engineering College, Kumbakonam, has conducted Software Freedom Day Celebration. Event started with inauguration of the event, and a seminar on Free Software Movement, continued by demonstrations of Free & Open Source Software Technologies to fellow college students. 28 teams

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)

2014

Knowledge Freedom Campaign 2014

Aaron Swartz and his ideology of Knowledge Freedom campaign on January 11, 2014 at Chennai. Jishnu, Vijay and Sibi took forward the campaign by speaking with students and staffs in and around Potheri. [Event Pictures](Find and Add it here).

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

RMS

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

2008

National Convention on Free Software 2008

FSFTN actively participated in the National Convention on Free Software 2008, held at Kochi, Kerala, by attending and delivering sessions on November 14th and 15th, 2008.

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 -

2008

Summer Camp 2008

First Workshop at SSN in 2008 in the month of July on 19th,20th,26th and 27th. This was a four day workshop with variety topics discussed along with the Lab sessions. This was attended by over 250 students from 25 engineering colleges in Chennai and Pondicherry.