IIHE to celebrate Software Freedom Day 2011

IIHE's team of ICT students: Club ICT have made arrangements to celebrate The Software Freedom Day, on Saturday the 17th, at the university premises. 

According to the organizers, the event will comprise of four major lecture sessions. The lectures are to cover the following areas:

  • Why Free and Open Source software and Why people should care about it
  • Install GNU / Linux with a demonstration done via Hanthana Linux
  • Making use of Linux in a productive way
These lectures are to be delivered by well-regarded personalities in the industry such as Mr. Buddhika Siddhisena, Mr. Suchetha Wijenayake and Mr. Gaveen Prabhasara. 

The organizers will also be opening up an on location Open Source Game Zone on Saturday coupled with many more interesting stuff to be discussed, shared and learnt. 

The Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide event organized by the Software Freedom International (SFI). SFD Wiki has already registered three organizers in Sri Lanka.


Club ICT of IIHE, with the utmost mission of "Gathering hands to win the IT Revolution" would be spearheading such an event in the country, with a vast array of activities organized in assisting those who are interested, especially the newbies in Open Source Software, Linux, Linux based apps and many more.

Interestingly, this would be the first ever project organized and executed by the ICT students at IIHE.


The event is scheduled to kick off at 10:00 hours tomorrow (17) following the registration of the participants, which will start at 09:00 hours. 


You also can RSVP to the event by visiting the official website of Club ICT here: http://www.clubict.org/

Their Facebook Event page: https://www.facebook.com/clubict

Check-in at Foursquare: http://4sq.com/mQ8A5K

Contact the organizers via Jude on 0773 798 470 for more details

THE ENTRANCE IS FREE!!!

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