PRESS RELEASE
FOSS
Nepal Community wins Software Freedom Day 2007 Best Event
Competition!
FOSS
Nepal Community has been declared one of the three winners of
Software Freedom Day 2007 Best Event Competition. The other winners
are SFD Nicaragua 2007 Team and Beijing Software Freedom Day (China).
The competition was organized by Software Freedom International, a
non-profit organization which coordinates the celebration of Software
Freedom Day all around the world.
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). This year, the
event was celebrated on September 15th all over the world. In Nepal,
the celebration was jointly organized 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. This year's event was marked with the
slogan 'Linux for Desktops, Let's make iT FOSSible!' Over 850 people
had attended with an organising team of more than 70 volunteers.
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
programs, discussion programs, install-fests, initiating local
communities in colleges, etc. for the past three years.
We
would like to congratulate everyone involved in the celebration of
the event and thank our supporters and media for their co-operation
in making the event a huge success!
Subir
B. Pradhanang
President,
FOSS Nepal Community
Email:
subirbp AT gmail DOT com
Reference: http://softwarefreedomday.org/Competition2007/Winners
