AGENDA:
Ideology session on free software and on introduction to GLUG at
Mandavya degree college, Mandya on 5th august 2013.
The
journey of freedom fighter will not be ending soon. The process is
continues and the freedom for free software will not be easy task but
our GLUG,PESCE is one such branch of FSMK which is always vibrant
with active members and make their way in every constraints of time
and period. The GLUG PESCE next interesting task was spreading the
aroma of free software to the society and for this our first main
important component of the society was the students and we started
this interesting task with students of Mandavya degree college. This was the third day of G-WEEK.
GLUG-PESCE
conducted the ideology session on free software in Mandavya degree
college ,Mandya .The third day of G-WEEK started with same
enthusiasm.
Team of 6 members from Glug group which was leaded by Yashvant
visited the college.Team members-Praveen,Meghana,Jyothi,Rachana,Chandana,Anusha.The session started at around 12.30pm with
participation of 100+ students from the college and was taken up for about an
hour.
For
more interaction, from student point of view, our team had created
certain interesting movies, slides and demonstate about the operating
system more clearly with the help of projector. The team started
exactly at 12:45pm and completed the whole session. Our effort to
spread the freeness of free software towards the students was successful for some extent but not satisfactory as we had taken up with commerce students who had very less computer knowledge.
As
per the agenda,volunteers of our GLUG, Chandana gave an interesting
presentation on ideology part of free software terminology and this
presentation continued by Rachana.R gave a brief discreption and
overview on free software and educated students about free software
technologies,spoke about FSMK and also discussed 'why free software
is important?' ,what are uses of GLUG, how students will be benifited
by forming GLUG. We also presented the GLUG movie which was effective
and impressive to the students.
Talk
was summerised with the need of free software. Session was concluded
with interaction of GLUG team with the attendees. Some students of
the college came forward and gave us good feedbacks about the
session. We then interacted with the faculties of college and also
interacted with college principal. Thus ended the sessions conducted
as a part of G-WEEK which was another milestone towards success for
GLUG-PESCE. It was a good expirience for us to be the part of session
and achieve our moto of promoting free software technologies.
FREE
SOFTWARE....
FREE
SOCIETY........
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