FOSS is Free Open source software. FLOSS is Free/Libre/Open-Source software. The term "free software" was coined by Richard Stallman in 1983. Free software is more of an ideology. Free software does not imply free of charge, rather it means software that is available to the user along with the source code, and that which they can modify and redistrinbute. For educators, an example is Moodle. The source code is available. It can be changed according to your requirement and used for your own purpose, all this without incurring a plagiarism penalty!!!
The free software community in India uses the term "Swatantra Software" for Open source software.
The Free Software movement is headed by the Free Software Foundation, a fund-raising organization for the GNU project. Ii is an attempt to guarantee certain rights for both users and developers. These freedoms include the freedom to run the program for any reason, to study and modify the source code, to redistribute the source, and to share any modifications you make.
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Second Day at Freed.in
Today was good. A number of interesting talks, workshops, demos and tutorials were going on everywhere. There were separate and multiple tracks for beginners, intermediate and advanced users of FOSS.
Got to learn a lot of new things - how to become a criminal; bugzilla; virtualization.
However, the Jungle book theme - Mowgli hall, Baloo Hall, et all, was mightily confusing. Volunteers had a tough time guiding people to the right place.
Freed.in, is one of leading community events promoting freedom in technology, software and related fields and personal privacy. This year, it took place in New Delhi on 28 and 29 September 2007 at the School of Information Technology, Jawaharlal Nehru University Campus, New Delhi.
Freed.in is hosted by India Linux Group - Delhi, in collaboration with School of Information Technology, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
More information available at http://www.freed.in.
Got to learn a lot of new things - how to become a criminal; bugzilla; virtualization.
However, the Jungle book theme - Mowgli hall, Baloo Hall, et all, was mightily confusing. Volunteers had a tough time guiding people to the right place.
Freed.in, is one of leading community events promoting freedom in technology, software and related fields and personal privacy. This year, it took place in New Delhi on 28 and 29 September 2007 at the School of Information Technology, Jawaharlal Nehru University Campus, New Delhi.
Freed.in is hosted by India Linux Group - Delhi, in collaboration with School of Information Technology, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
More information available at http://www.freed.in.
Friday, September 28, 2007
Freed.in at JNU
Freed.in - Thats where i was today. The India Linux Users Group has hosted this 2 day workshop at JNU. I attending a few lectures. Quite useful. Did pick up a few pointers, though nothing much. Hope tomorrow is better.
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