I searched whole day in nepalnews to get this article... thanx subir dai for the link :) On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Subir Pradhanang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi everyone, > > Just to let everyone know that FOSS Nepal's second consecutive win in > the Global Software Freedom Day has been covered on today's Nepalnews: > > http://www.nepalnews.com/archive/2008/dec/dec08/news08.php > > --- > FOSS Nepal receives global accreditation > > The FOSS Nepal Community has been accredited as one of the three > global winners for the second consecutive year in the Software Freedom > Day (SFD) 2008 Best Event Competition. > > The announcement to this effect was made on the SFD website by > Software Freedom International, which coordinates the SFD celebration > worldwide, according to a press release issued by the FOSS Nepal > Community. > > SFD is an annual grass roots effort to educate the public on the > virtues of Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) and also to encourage its > use, to the benefit of the public. > > SFD is marked on the third Saturday of every September. The 2008 event > took place on September 20 and was celebrated by over 500 teams from > over 120 countries all around the world. In Nepal, the celebration was > organized by FOSS Nepal Community for the fourth successive year with > the theme "Create, Share, Collaborate". Over 1000 people had attended > the event. > > The community has been organizing a series of awareness programmes, > orientations, talk programs, discussion programs, install-fests, > initiating local communities in colleges, etc. for the past four > years. > > nepalnews.com nd Dec 08 08 > --- > Cheers, > Subir > > > > -- Regards Akash Deep Shakya "OpenAK" ~ Failure to prepare is preparing to fail ~ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
