[wsfii-discuss] Fwd: [Fsf-press] Software Freedom Day

Sat Oct 1 20:29:10 UTC 2005

I just thought it would be of interest to wsfii.

FSF India is celebrating October 2nd, the birth date of mahatma
gandhi, as a Software Freedom Day.  It is an accident that we are also
doing the event on 2nd october.  It will be good to inform the
participants of the event and remind them and relate wsfii to
mahatma's ideas of self-reliance.

Nagarjuna

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> Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 18:07:25 +0530
> From: Arun M <arun at gnu.org.in>
> Subject: [Fsf-press] Software Freedom Day
> To: fsf-press at gnu.org.in
> Reply-To: Arun M <arun at gnu.org.in>
> 
> Press Release from Free Software Foundation of India
> Invitation
> 
> Kindly send your reporter/photographer/cameraman to cover the event of
> Software Freedom Day and the Software Freedom Rally. The program
> details are :
> 
> 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.
> 
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