If you guys remember the SFD event had been covered by kantipur's Saurav dai He wanted to talk to Gayatri about the New events I told him about the LTSP going-ons, but i think we should tell him about this as well! this is worth a mention in the news - right!
On Dec 2, 2007 10:28 AM, Subir Pradhanang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
