Hi all, FYI, the recent award-winning news of FOSS Nepal Community has been covered by Nepalnews:
http://www.nepalnews.com.np/archive/2007/dec/dec01/news05.php Cheers, Subir --- FOSS Nepal bags Software Freedom International award FOSS Nepal Community has been declared one of the three winners of Software Freedom Day 2007 Best Event Competition. SFD Nicaragua 2007 Team and Beijing Software Freedom Day (China) are the other two winners in the competition organised by Software Freedom International, a non-profit organisation which coordinates the celebration of Software Freedom Day all around the world. This year the event was celebrated on September 15th all over the world. In Nepal, the celebration was jointly organised by Foss Nepal Community and High Level Commission for Information Technology (HLCIT) for the third successive year with several events including distribution of FOSS, social events, talks, college visits, distro demos, Freedom Toster, FOSS Solidarity Eve, Signature campaign, documentary shows, media awareness program, etc. Over 850 people had attended with an organising team of more than 70 volunteers. Software Freedom Day is a global, grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of software freedom and the virtues and availability of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). FOSS Nepal Community is a team of volunteers who believe in the usage of FOSS. The primary objective of the community is to promote and diversify the usage of FOSS in Nepal. The community has been organizing a series of awareness programs, orientations, talk programmes, discussion programs, install-fests, initiating local communities in colleges, etc. for the past three years. --- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
