Software Freedom Day
Software freedom day is celebrating every year in the month of September 3rd week all over the world. the main moto of this day to Create awareness among the people about what is software freedom and free software in the markets(free means freedom).
Free Software -> Freedom to study, copy, modify, share the software.
VGLUG SFD – 2020
Since 2014, Villupuram Gnu/Linux Users Group successfully celebrating the Software Freedom Day every year. In this year we are troubled in COVID-19 pandemic period. So, we plan to conduct the SFD 2020 by Virtually(Remotely).
Planning
Before the SFD event, We plan to give FOSS awareness by collaboratively. So, we publish the FOSS related explanation or tutorials videos in youtube that’s we called as VGLUG_50_50. That means we aim 50 FOSS contributions from 50 contributors.
#VGLUG5050
Actually, That is made possible by following contributions,
| Contributed By | FOSS – Contribution | Link |
| Ravivarman | Touch Free Hand Sanitizer | https://youtu.be/eBppk68k9B0 |
| Annapoorani K | Python Basics Part – 1 | https://youtu.be/vVG9kmocUA4 |
| Annapoorani K | Python Basics Part – 2 | https://youtu.be/MB3RqIxo_14 |
| Annapoorani K | Python Basics Part – 3 | https://youtu.be/aBgZrJRCGr4 |
| Annapoorani K | Python Basics Part – 4 | https://youtu.be/I6Arx3FRpLI |
| Vignesh K | Linux Basic Commands | https://youtu.be/eBVvzwCqRpc |
| Vignesh K | Linux Shell Scripting | https://youtu.be/7ZWgaXnbDrs |
| Deepak | WordPress | https://youtu.be/9DsYKJdHAxc |
| Deepak | NewPipe | https://youtu.be/LrF4dK6wLto |
| Soundarya | LibreOffice | https://youtu.be/AoV2_fEzToI |
| Ajith | Python Flask Framework Part 1 | https://youtu.be/esFQXqkGt_A |
| Ajith | Python Flask Framework Part 2 | https://youtu.be/X1FZb70tLcU |
| Ajith | Python Flask Framework Part 3 | https://youtu.be/5FvKyqOnkDo |
| Vigneshwaran .S | Python Django Framework Part 1 | https://youtu.be/NNeNqRZbygk |
| Vigneshwaran .S | Python Django Framework Part 2 | https://youtu.be/ER_QNSBLmpk |
| Vigneshwaran .S | Python Django Framework Part 3 | https://youtu.be/ZRboUfFsQIo |
| Vigneshwaran .S | Python Django Framework Part 4 | https://youtu.be/0mFwW8zMNiU |
| Inba | Stellarium | https://youtu.be/Lw70TznH82U |
| Dhilip | Linux Distros | https://youtu.be/VWrAUTWQcBY |
| Soundarya | GIMP | https://youtu.be/r4hylwQXcTQ |
| Loganathan | F-Droid | https://youtu.be/VBAWbUrE3vA |
| Guru | Inkcsape | https://youtu.be/XtH0WPSolg4 |
| Nandhini | Tamil Typing in windows | https://youtu.be/RUw1Yqestg8 |
| T. Srinivasan, Kaniyam Foundation | Apacehe Airflow in The Cloud | https://youtu.be/KjswMus9zZg |
| ஞா. ஸ்ரீதர், பட்டதாரி ஆசிரியர் | விக்கிபீடியா மற்றும் அதன் மற்ற திட்டங்கள் பற்றிய தொகுப்பு. | https://youtu.be/JtNsJ9xai2k |
| Manimaran. K | Spell4Wiki – Wikimedia Commons Audio Upload Tool | https://youtu.be/BFIH1cklaBM |
| Haritha. T | Blender | https://youtu.be/_WbTOgsI_lg |
| Baranitharan | Open source NLP package – spaCy | https://youtu.be/z4WZNYaIvoY |
| Latha | HTML – Hyper Text Markup Language | https://youtu.be/Y_RDgh8ye44 |
| Selva magilan | Mozilla Localisation – Tamil | https://youtu.be/FfpFgsEa4us |
VGLUG 50 50 – Contributions
OSM Contributions
We include contribution of Open Streent Map(https://www.openstreetmap.org) as a part of SFD-2020 celebration. Then, we conduct one explanation session about OSM and OsmAnd+ app to all volunteers help of Jitsi(https://meet.jit.si/) tool. After that every volunteers started mapping their surrounding living areas and important places. Successfully, We collaboratively marked 200+ places in various district/areas. Thanks to every OSM mapper.
Mega Virtual Exhibition – SFD 2020
In this COVID-19 situation everything happens virtually. Yes, SFD also happened virtually by help of class meet(https://classmeet.chiguru.tech) is a Bigbluebutton Instance hosted by http://chiguru.tech team. In this year we put various FOSS stalls virtually 10am to 3pm.
VGLUG SFD 2020 Stalls details and used links.
| Stall Name | Volunteers | Class Meet link |
| Wikipedia | Ramaiyah, Annapoorani | https://classmeet.chiguru.tech/app/dil-wik-e2a8 |
| Linux | Ajith, Deepak | https://classmeet.chiguru.tech/app/dee-lin-912a |
| Libre Office | Vigneswaran, Cruz | https://classmeet.chiguru.tech/app/vig-lib-632c |
| Stellarium | Inba,Nandhini | https://classmeet.chiguru.tech/app/inb-ste-dfad |
| GIMP | Soundarya | https://classmeet.chiguru.tech/app/sou-gim-adb6 |
| Inkscape | Guru | https://classmeet.chiguru.tech/app/gur-ink-ea32 |
| Blender | Jayasri, Latha | https://classmeet.chiguru.tech/app/kjl-ble-3dc7 |
| Android Alternatives | Dilip, Haritha | https://classmeet.chiguru.tech/app/dil-and-af68 |
| Free Software Philosophy | Viji, Hari Priya | https://classmeet.chiguru.tech/app/har-who-5518 |
| Who We Are | Viji, Hari Priya | https://classmeet.chiguru.tech/app/har-who-5518 |
Actually, Going very well. Most of them explained what they learned and explored. Bad think also happened, some stalls not able to show case due to internet related problem. Because still bandwidth related problem happens in rural area. But, no one loss their hope. All of them tried their best. Big claps👏👏👏 to every one who have volunteered and participated.
After that, Mega Virtual conference started at 4pm to 6pm. Following speakers are participated virtually and share their experience and thoughts to all. Some of them send their greeting message to VGLUG team.
Key Speakers:
- Suresh Sambandam – CEO, Kissflow
- Dhilip – National teachers awardee, Govt. Hr. Sec. School, Sathyamangalam, Villupuram
- Subashini – President, Tamil Heritage Foundation International (THFi)
- Samyuktha Vijayan – Principle Technical Programming Manager, Coupang
- Vijay Kumar – Head of Engineering at Zilogic Systems
All speeches are recorded and upload here – https://youtu.be/Y_72EsirAh8
Finally, SFD successfully completed with help of all the volunteers. Then, VGLUG elected next one year Co-Ordinators are Haripriaya, Anna Poorani and Vignesh Kannan. Congratulations to everyone.
Previous SFD details :
https://vglug.org/category/software-freedom-day/
Thanks To All volunteers, Guests, Speakers and Participants
#VGLUG #POWER_TO_THE_PEOPLE #FOSS #SFD
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