The ICTA Training Voucher Scheme provides a subsidy for applicants who successfully complete an applicable certification.
Linux professional certifications, RHCT and RHCE, are now included in the applicable list of certifications.
Software Freedom Day (http://softwarefreedomday.org/) is an annual event celebrated around the world to celebrate the freedom in the software world, usually in the 3rd week's Saturday of September. This year its on the 19th September 2009.
LK-LUG together with FOSS Community in Sri Lanka celebrated the 5th World's "Software Freedom Day" on the 20th September 2008. Volunteers from many organizations and enthusiastic individuals organized several events in Colombo and Galle Districts. Events were carried out from 17th September 2008 to 21st September 2008.
Places where events were held.
- University of Colombo-School of Computing (UCSC), Colombo.
- Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology. (SLIIT), Malambe.
- National Institute of Business Management (NIBM), Colombo 7.
- Institute of Informatics, Colombo.
- University of Ruhuna, Matara.
- Olcott College, Galle.
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A big thank goes to the Sponsors and organizers for making the fifth Software Freedom Day A Success!.
The Lanka Linux User Group has had a long relationship with the various government organisations, for the longest time. They have worked closely with the ICTA, MoE, on the administrative level, as well as with schools, universities and other organisations on the grass-roots level.
With interest in GNU/Linux and FOSS growing steadily in Sri Lanka, the co-operation between LUG.lk and the various agencies has also increased. With the latest event being the training of Hardware Teams all over the island in installation and basics of GNU/Linux
An awareness seminar on GNU/Linux and FOSS organized by the Maldivian Students' Association in Sri Lanka will be held on the 11th Sunday 2008 at 14.00 onwards at the Sosun Vila, Pamankada (Old Maldivian Embassy). Geeks of LUG.LK will participate at the event.
LUG.lk participated in a GNU/Linux training event at AG School, Negombo on 29th and 30th of March. It was a very successful two day event. Around fifty students and a few teachers took part in it. We started the sessions with an introduction to FOSS and GNU/Linux philosophy. Then we demonstrated an installation and a few application software used in GNU/Linux. On the second day they learnt some more FOSS applications and features of their new operating system.
We successfully completed a two day hands on workshop in Unix shell and shell scripting on the 15th & 16th of March 2008. We used GNU/Linux as our platform and we covered several important areas in the Unix shell. The location was LSF - Sahana Lab at the University of Colombo School of Computing.
Richard Matthew Stallman (aka rms
), father of the GNU Project, founder of the Free Software Foundation, happy hacker, flute/recorder player, and uber-geek, visited Sri Lanka from the 14th to the 19th of January, 2008.
We had another one day GNU/Linux teaching camp on 14th October, 2007 at the Amarasuriya teachers training school in Unawatuna. It proved to be a success with excellent organization. The place is an ancient Wallawa in Unawatuna by the Galle-Matara road. Bhikkhu Mettavihari had arranged everything for the program.
