Software Freedom Day
SFD is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Our goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about the benefits of using high-quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in business — in short, everywhere! The non-profit organization Software Freedom International coordinates SFD at a global level, providing support, giveaways and a point of collaboration, but volunteer teams around the world organize the local SFD events to impact their communities.
SFD is going to be celebrated in Nepal and the event details are:
Nepal Open Source Klub, NOSK
NOSK-Nepal Open Source Club has been around from 2008 and is initiated by the free and open-source enthusiasts at Nepal College of Information Technology (NCIT). NOSK organizes and facilitates many of the technical activities that are held at college, and has been organizing “Software Freedom Day (SFD)” in Nepal. Since 2006 Software Freedom Day has been held on the Every Third Saturday of September.
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Events and Timing
Free entrance for everyone:).
Date: 21st September 2019 (2076, Ashoj-04).
Time: 10 AM Onwards
Venue: Nepal College of Information Technology, Balkumari, Lalitpur.
- Introduction to Open Source 10:00–11:00
- Workshops 11:00–16:00
- Professional Project Management using GitHub 11:00–16:00
- Mobile App Development using Flutter 11:00–16:00
- TechTalks
- Cyber Security and Open Source (Speaker: Er. Kumar Pudasaini) 11:00–12:00
- Quantum Computing (Speaker: Sushil Kumar Sah) 12:30–13:30
- TensorFlow (Speaker: Er. Dipesh Das) 14:00–15:00
- NOSKode 3.0 10:00–16:00
- Hackathon (Debian Repository Server) 10:00–16:00
- Distro Demo (Ubuntu, Manjaro, Kali, Fedora, and Debian) 10:00–16:00
- Non-Technical Events (Photo Booth, Gaming such as Tower of Hanoi, Dart), 3D Movie Show, and Food Stalls) 10:00–16:00
For more details: https://nosk.ncit.edu.np/
Vision & Objectives
Our vision is to empower all people to freely connect, create and share in a digital world that is participatory, transparent, and sustainable.
Objectives
- To celebrate software freedom and the people behind it
- To foster a general understanding of software freedom, and encourage adoption of free software and open standards
- To create more equal access to opportunities through the use of participatory technologies
- To promote constructive dialogue on responsibilities and rights in the information society
- To be inclusive of organizations and individuals that share our Vision
- To be pragmatic, transparent, and responsible as an organization
What’s Free Software?
Free software is software that gives you the user the freedom to share, study and modify it. We call this free software because the user is free. To use free software is to make a political and ethical choice asserting the right to learn, and share what we learn with others. Warp Framework – A fast and slick theme framework which provides a rich toolset to develop cross-platform themes.
