Saturday, September 19, 2009

Software Freedom Day 2009

Today is Software Freedom Day.

Rawr.

Earlier today, students from different universities filled the UST Medicine Auditorium to celebrate the SFD. There were talks on the basic ideas of FOSS (Free and Open-Source Software), a tour of an open desktop, an update on the FOSS bill in congress, using ICT to serve the people and on CMS.

By the afternoon, the crowd broke into three groups for specialized topics ala seminar on LAMPP, Blender/GIMP and CMS.

It was my first time to join and it was actually worth it to see/ listen/ interact with the people advocating freedom in information technology. I think that the specialized topics were very interesting and could expand to more topics by the next year.

Also, with a lot of physics people moving to open OS... i hope to find more of my physics friends on the next SFD celebration.

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