The 2010 is off to a superb start for the FOSS Community. The FOSSed on Wheels - A9 has been declared a complete sucess. Our team of FOSS experts visited the Peradeniya University on the 30th of January and conducted a one-day conference/workshop on FOSS related topics and products. Next this team of tireless FOSS experts travelled North to the University of Jaffna and conducted a introductory training on Free and Open Source software on the 2nd of Febuary.

 

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Apache Asia Roadshow 2009

The Apache Asia Roadshow 2009 is scheduled to hit Colombo from the 3^rd - 5^th of December. The layout of the Roadshow would be a two day conference and a one-day hackathon/ unconference at the beach. If you are interested in anything Apache related then this is the place to be.

Conference - 3rd and 4th of December 2009, HNB Towers

Unconference - 5th December 2009, A beach in Colombo

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APIIT FOSScon 2009, a series of talk to encourage the masses about Free and Open Source Software is happening on the 2nd October at APIIT Premises APIIT FOSScon is followed by,

The Presidential Task Force on English and IT will launch a series of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Awareness Programs, as one of its objectives to assist in national ICT capacity building. FOSS is a software that is freely available under a liberal license to study, change, improve and release for the benefit of the whole community.

The first FOSS Awareness Program will be held on September 22, 2009 at the SLIIT Auditorium, Malabe. This program will be conducted by eminent persons in the ICT field, and in partnership with the Lanka Software Foundation, the Sri Lankan FOSS community, and SLIIT and sponsored by Virtusa is sponsoring the event and ICTA is providing strategic partnership. The program is offered free of charge for the participants.

Software Freedom Day (http://softwarefreedomday.org/) is an annual event celebrated around the world to celebrate the freedom in the software world, usually in the 3rd week's Saturday of September. This year its on the 19th September 2009.

What's freedom in software? Quoting from http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html,

Another two day event of a successful series of Free and Open Source Software awareness campaign "FOSSed on Wheels" will be held on 14th and 15th September in Trincomalee. The targeted crowd for this event is mainly government officers from the Northern Provincial Council. This event is organise by the free software community of Sri Lanka and many geeks will be participated in this event to make this success.

Update: Amazing Feedback at Trinco

I would like to thank you for the great job done. The sessions were very informative and effective. I enjoyed very much. We never forget those days.
I am waiting for the photos at your gallery. I uploaded the photos in our official page of facebook. Have a look on the site by clicking the following link.

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Moratuwa University does it again, at the Google
Summer of Code 2009. Congratulations!

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/09/tasty-new-google-summer-of-code-stats.html

University of Moratuwa also tops the all time list: Top 10 Schools 2005 - 2009 by the number of accepted students

Sri Lanka - University of Moratuwa - 79
Brazil - University of Campinas / UNICAMP - 37
Canada - University of Toronto - 34
Austria - Vienna University of Technology - 31
China - Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences - 30
United States - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - 28
Poland - Wroclaw University of Technology - 27
Hungary - Budapest University of Technology and Economics - 21

Firefox, probably the most famous FOSS is trying to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. Contribute this by downloading the latest release, Firefox 3, on June 17, 2008. Join the rest of the community in this effort by pledging today. Click the above banner and make a pledge NOW!

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Sri Lanka in top ten of most number of applicants.

Moratuwa, Sri Lanka – May 22, 2008 – The University of Moratuwa is proud to announce that 24 student projects have been accepted for the Google Summer of Code program this year making it the number one University worldwide to have the most number of accepted projects.

Google, the Internet search engine giant, accepted 1125 applications by students globally to work on Free and Open Source Software projects in the summer. The Google Summer of Code Program (GSoC), now in its fourth year, entices students to submit their ideas to Google approved mentor organizations and contribute to open source projects. Once selected and on successful completion of their tasks in the period of 3 months, Google grants the student a reward of $4500.

An awareness seminar on GNU/Linux and FOSS organized by the Maldivian Students' Association in Sri Lanka was held on the Sunday, 11th May 2008 at 14.00 onwards at the Sosun Vila, Pamankada (Old Maldivian Embassy). Geeks of FOSS.LK participated at the event.

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