Software Freedom Day 2012 - Mozilla Report

“Software Freedom Day” is a worldwide celebration to create awareness on GNU/Linux and other various Free Open Source Software to the public.

Indian Linux Users Group – Chennai [ http://ilugc.in ] and Free Software Foundation TamilNadu [ http://fsftn.org ] organised Software Freedom Day on September 15, 2012 in collaboration with Department of Computer Science, DG vaishnav College, Arumbakkam, Chennai at SRG auditorium, in the college premises.

I (Karthik) represented Mozilla Org. in this SFD 2012 event by putting up the Mozilla stall and explained to the visitors more about Mozilla and its products. It was very great since this was my first event where I have interacted with the public representing Mozilla INDIA. Moreover,

Around 1200 students from various colleges visited the stalls. Faculties from other departments of DG vaishnav College and faculties from colleges like Anna adharsh, SDNB Vaishnav College, Chrompet visited the stalls.

30 stalls on various topics including (My stall about Mozilla) were there...

Stalls :

1. Mozilla and its Products

2. Android Application Development

3. Screencasting

4. Open source telephony applications

5. Geany IDE

6. Open source VS Proprietary Software

7. Open Source Security Tools

8. GIMP – Open Source Raster Image Editor

9. Inkscape – Open Source Vector Image Editor

10. Bluefish IDE

11. Ubuntu Linux

12. Desktop Environments

13. Open Source Databases – MySQL/PostgreSQL

14. Open Source Virualization Tools

15. OOAD tools

16. QT/PyQT

17. Mysql Bench

18. Webmin – Web Based System administration

19. Jmeter – Performance Testing Software

20. Subversion Edge – Version Control System

21. LinuxMint Linux Distribution

22. ILUGC

23. Kaniyam

24. wikipedia

25. WebOS operating System

26. MongoDB – NoSQL Database

27. Ruby – Programming Language

28. Ruby on Rails – Web programming framework 2

9. Python – Programming Language

30. Top 10 Open Source Software

From various colleges like Jaya Engineering College, Madras Institute of technology, DG Vaishnav College, Vivekanda College, KanchiLUG

Organizations: CollabNet Software Private Ltd, OpenNovus, Whitestreet IT P Ltd

Some well known people like T. Shrinivasan [head of ILUGC], Welkin, Yogesh, Atul jha, Kingsly,and many more made this event more enriching. Free stickers and Pamphlets were distributed to the visitors by ILUGC.

Book given to Stalls by ILUGC : The visitors were so happy to learn about various products of Mozilla Org. and further more they were very keen to get informations regarding the new Firefox O/S {Boot to Gecko}. Visitors Feedbacks :

Snap Gallery :

SFD 2012 - Mozilla