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We participated the [[SFD/Bangalore/06 |Software Freedom Day 06]] celebrations of [[Bangalore|Bangalore FOSS Community]].

== Software Freedom Day 06 ==

The event was on 16th September 2006. We started at 9.30am.

====Blogs====

# [http://netravathib.blogspot.com/2006/09/16th-september-2006-software-freedom.html Nethravathi B]
# [http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/?p=12 Aanjhan R]
# [http://www.pravi.co.nr/2006/09/16/software-freedom-day/ Praveen A]
# [http://aceraks.blogspot.com/ Akshay]

====Sessions====

* Revolution OS (video)
* Free Software Philosophy -- by Aanjhan R, Praveen A 
* Discussion/FAQ on FOSS (motivation, benefits, challenges, student contributors) -- Praveen A, Aanjhan, Srikanth, Dinesh, Dilip V
* Demo of AIGLX and [http://ipodlinux.org/ GNU/Linux on ipod] -- Aanjhan R
* SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop/Server 10 - Rajababu Gorjala, Technology Sales Specialist - Linux Impact,Novell Inc.
* Future plans for BMS FOSS Community/Upcoming events/BoFs - Praveen A, Aanjhan, Srikanth, Dinesh, Dilip V

====Co-Ordinators====

# Praveen A - pravi -dot- a -at- gmail -dot- com
# Aanjhan R - aanjhan -at- gmail -dot- com
# Anish Jacob - anishblogs -at- gmail -dot- com 
# Sharadha M - sharadha -dot- bmsce at- gmail -dot- com 
# Netravathi B - netra -dot- b86 -at- gmail -dot- com

==FOSS Day 05==
On 24th September 2005  the FOSS Community Bangalore conducted a seminar on FOSS. The speakers were
*[http://www.dilpu.net Dilip V] 
*[http://www.pravi.co.nr Praveen A]
*[http://www.techmag.biz Thejesh GN]
*[http://www.livejournal.com/users/prady/ Pradyumna Sampath]
Dilip and Praveen introduced FOSS and the advantages of FOSS. Pradyumna Sampath gave a demo of glade and gtk programming. It was followed by a talk on FOSS Tools and advantages specific to students. The event was organised in association with Protocol, Computer club of BMSCE.

Read on the blogs on the seminar
*[http://www.pravi.co.nr/2005/10/03/foss-day-at-bmsce/ FOSS Day at BMSCE] by Praveen A
*[http://www.techmag.biz/FOSS_and_college_projects FOSS and College Projects] by Thejesh GN
*[http://www.dilpu.net/archives/2005/09/26/a-day-with-a-difference/ A Day with a difference] by Dilip V

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