Nice Initiative guys. Congrats and Keep up the good work. Regards
Narendra Diwate On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 17:19, Shrinivasan T <[email protected]> wrote: > The Ubuntu release party was celebrated again after 6 months > following the release of latest Ubuntu Linux version 10.04 at April 2010. > > The vision of these parties are to share the features of Linux to the > general public. > So far, Linux is in the hands of students, programmers and geeks. > Bring it to public is the need of the hour. > > We, KanchiLUG team decided to celebrate a Ubuntu release party this > time too, on June 6, 2010. > > Unlike last time, we hardly get time for this event as > we have 2 major activities last week. > > 1. Programming bootcamp > 2. Release of Ubuntu Manual in Tamil > > These made our days and nights busy and sleepless. :-) > > But still, we had a team for organizing release party. > > We approached various schools for the venue and finally got the > famous “Pachaiyappan Hr.Sec School”. > > We printed pamphlet and circulated via local newspapers. > > We Invited “Ramadas (amachu) ” as Chief Guest. > > It was a nice evening with little drizzling. > We were busy with arranging hall, fixing projectors, banners and audio > systems. > > Around 3.30, the hall was getting filled with public. > At 3.45, we started. > > Ramya Invited everyone. > > > Arulalan started with a presentation of “History of Gnu/Linux”. > Then, explained on “Open source and its concepts”. > > Rajkumar showed the beautiful compiz effects. > Yasir explained “Why Linux?” > Kabilan explained how Ubuntu born and how it is growing. > > Suresh demonstrated some 3d games like openarena, torcs and tuxracer. > Balakrishnan explained that Installation is very easy and showed a demo on > it. > > Tea and snacks were provided in the meantime. > > Malathi and Suji explained how they started their career with opensource > at their college and how students can contribute to open source. > They explained about their Tamil font creation project and > Tamil spell checker project. > > The Chief Guest Ramadhas, started with his awesome speech. > He explained how the proprietary world is making us as slave. > The need of using opensource, the need of localizations etc. > People got enlighted and understood the concepts of opensource. > > He released the Ubuntu CD and the “Ubuntu Manual in Tamil”. > Mr. Anbu and Mrs. Umamaheswari Anbu, Shakthi ITI, received on behalf > of students. > Mr. Sundhar, Bank of India, received for public. > > Myself explained the job opportunities in the FOSS world. > > Arulalan introduced the activities of KanchiLUG. > Requested the audience to join in mailing list. > Shared the contact numbers for local support. > > The Q&A session was interesting and public raised lots > of queries and we answered them all. > > With National Anthem, we ended the show at 6.45 pm. > > We had around 75 audience and show is a successful one. > > We thank Nandha Kumar, Vignesh, Akilan, Nagaraj, > Rajeshwari, sathish, Arun who traveled from chennai > to attend this event. > > You are welcome to download the Alpha version of “Ubuntu Manual” in Tamil > at http://ubuntu-tam.org/avanam/lucid-lynx > > Still it need more fixes, we are working on that and will release a > final version as soon as possible. > > Here are the snaps of the event. > http://picasaweb.google.com/kanchilug/UbuntuLicud1004ReleaseParty# > > > > > > http://kanchilug.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/ubuntu-10-04-release-party-at-kanchipuram/ > > -- > Regards, > T.Shrinivasan > > > My experiences with Linux are here > http://goinggnu.wordpress.com > > For Free and Open Source Jobs > http://fossjobs.in > > > > -- > Regards, > T.Shrinivasan > > > My experiences with Linux are here > http://goinggnu.wordpress.com > > For Free and Open Source Jobs > http://fossjobs.in > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in >
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