HYDERABAD BOOK FAIR

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Swecha has put up a stall at the ongoing 26th Hyderabad Book Fair being organized at People's Plaza, Necklace Road in Hyderabad. The book fair was inaugurated on the 15th of December, 2011 and the stall received a reverberating response. All the visitors to the stall commended the work done by Swecha in bringing out 'Swecha OS' in telugu.

“The idea of digitizing and including into the latest release of Swecha OS some of the bed time stories narrated by our grandmothers to put us to sleep is commendable. It brings back into existence those old stories the present generation had almost forgotten,” quipped another visitor Rama Rao, an octagenarian

“I have been feeling bad that the number of telugu speaking people is reducing day by day. Being an ardent admirer of telugu, I feel glad on seeing the kind of work Swecha has been doing to promote the language in one of the most revolutionary technologies of the present day- computer. I congratulate the Swecha team and hope that they continue to do the kind of work they're doing,” said an IT employee who'd visited the stall on the inaugural day.

Swecha in association with Swarnandhra Institute of Engineering and Technology has organized a two-day district workshop as a part of Software Freedom Fortnight on the 23rd and 24th of September, 2011.

This district workshop catered to the students of engineering colleges of West Godavari district. Around 250 students from more than 15 engineering participated in this workshop. The workshop was inaugurated by Dr. D. Madhu, Principal, Swarnandhra Institute of Engineering and Technology. Ashish from Swecha explained the importance of FOSS technologies to the participants after the inaugural session. Chaitanya and Ravi Teja, members of the student chapter of Swecha, free software hacktivists and a students of MVGR College of Engineering have taken technology sessions on the following topics:

• Introduction to Python Programming

• Content Management Systems using Drupal
• Making of a Computer Suite
• Multimedia: Audacity, KdenLive

Ms. G. Prasanthi, HOD, Dept. Of Information Technology, SIET, led the team of student volunteers from SIET who undertook the onus of organizing the workshop. The participants evinced interest in working with FOSS technologies.

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District Workshop on FOSS Technologies in Vijayawada Posted Thu, 2011-11-24 12:59 by Ashish

Swecha in association with VR Siddhartha College of Engineering and NIMRA Institute of Technology has organized a two-day workshop as a part of Software Freedom Fortnight on the 25th and 26th of September, 2011.

This workshop catered to the students of engineering colleges of Krishna, Guntur and Prakasam districts. Around 200 students from more than 10 engineering participated in this workshop. The workshop was inaugurated by Mr. Koteswara Rao, HOD of IT Dept, VR Siddartha Institute of Engineering and Technology. Mr. Siddartha Malempati, Vice President, Swecha took up a session on 'Free Software Philosophy' and explained the importance of FOSS technologies to the participants after the inaugural session. Naveen from Swecha took up a session on 'Making of a Computer Suite' in which he explained the installation procedure of GNU/LINUX based Operating System, Ubuntu. He also demonstrated the various functionalities of the Operating System. Chaitanya and Ravi Teja, members of the student chapter of Swecha, free software hacktivists and a students of MVGR College of Engineering have taken technology sessions on the following topics:

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Visakhapatnam District Workshop on FOSS Technologies in Andhra University Posted Thu, 2011-11-24 12:56 by Ashish

As part of the Software Freedom Fortnight (from 15 th Sept to 2nd Oct) AUCE|GLUG has conducted a 2 day workshop on Free Software Technologies held on 24 th and 25th of September 2011. The workshop was conducted in association with “Swecha”.

Inaugural Function (Day 1):

The inaugural function was presided by Prof.M.Shashi (HOD-Dept. of Computer Science and Systems Engineering), Prof.G.S.N.Raju (Principal AUCE(A)), coordinators for the Workshop Prof.V.Valli Kumari and Prof.N.V.E.S.Murthy and Prof.L.Pratap Reddy (JNTU-H).

The dignitaries gave a brief description about importance of free software and its advantages. Events:

Day 1:
Free Software Philosophy:

This session is the 1st session of the 2 day workshop. This session was presented by Mr.Bhuvan Krishna, General Secretary of Swecha. Introductory things like what is free software, advantages of free software, proprietary software were dealt in the session. The four laws that govern the free software philosophy were presented with example scenarios pertaining to software development. Difference between free software model and open source software model were discussed in the session. Debian operating system was used the host operating system and some of its features were shown to the students. At the end of the session,

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Enabling Telugu In Gnome 3
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Software Freedom Fortnight, 16th Sep - 2nd Oct Posted Wed, 2011-09-14 12:38 by siva

Swecha is celebrating Software Freedom Fortnight between 16th Sep - 2nd Oct in various districts of Andhra pradesh. The final event "Students convention" will be organized in Hyderabad which will sum up all efforts from the district level events. Following are the proposed dates for the events:

DateCity

28th-29th Sep Khammam

23rd-24th Sep Narsapur

24th-25th Sep Vijaywada

• Guntur

• Chittoor

• Kadapa

• Visakapatnam

25th-26th Sep Kakinada

1st-2nd Oct Hyderabad

26th Sep Karimnagar

Please contact Siddharth +91 94900 98016 or write at siddhartha [at] swecha [dot] net for further details

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JNTU – Microsoft A Memorandum of 'misUnderstanding'
Posted Fri, 2009-11-06 16:13 by bhuvan

The Understanding:

Microsoft and JNTU Hyderabad have entered into an agreement to provide Microsoft developer tools 'free of cost' to students in colleges affiliated to JNTU Hyderabad. According to this article which appeared in “The Hindu” on October 27, the Microsoft Corporation will provide these tools under the

DreamSpark programme of launched in November last year.

Click Here for more information The misUnderstanding:

Though it might appear like a great deal, its actually not. Let us look at some aspects of this programme and 'understand' what lies beneath this misUnderstanding.

• Single Use Activation Keys • Operating System • Lack of Office Suite • Science Students • CSE Students ~ frogs in well • The Source? • No Video Streaming • No Updates • Colleges should now wonder • License issues • 11 comments • Read more Petition to Cancel Proprietary Tender by NIC Posted Wed, 2009-09-23 15:50 by siva Endorsed by Individuals Organizations

We appeal to the community, organisations and individuals to sign the following petition to cancel the proprietary tender issued by the NIC for procuring laptops for the Supreme Court of India.

Organisations can add their name in the wiki page provided and individuals can sign the petition.

All the respective organisations are requested to host the petition and gather the signatures of members associated with them. Swecha would gladly provide the space for petitions of the respective organisations.

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