Every year, on the third Saturday in September, geeks all around the world gather to celebrate Software Freedom Day. Sri Lanka is no exception, with lug.lk - the Lanka Linux User Group - having celebrated SFDay
since its' inception in 2004. This year, lug.lk celebrated SFDay by holding Free Software promotion events in six locations covering four different parts of the country.
The Ruwanpura NCOE - the primary teacher training institute in the Ratnapura District, as well as the only IT teacher training institute in Sri Lanka - held a four-day Tech Expo
for students and teachers in the Ratnapura district. The exhibition was very well attended with over 3,000 visitors over the course of the event.
lug.lk was represented there by many people who taught the visitors about Linux and free software, held seminars to the many people gathered, and generally educated the participants (visitors and other exhibitors alike) what Free as in Speech really means.
September 13th:SLIIT Campus, Malabe
The Linux User Group at SLIIT celebrated SFDay with a full day campus-wide event, with speakers from all parts of the Sri Lankan Linux community. It was attended by students from the SLIIT campus and also from schools in the area.
September 14th: APIIT Campus, Colombo
September 15th: University of Peradeniya, Kandy
September 15th: University of Ruhuna, Matara
September 15th: ExcelWorld, Colombo
SFDay 2007 was organised by the Lanka Linux User Group, FOSS.lk, APIIT, SLIIT, Ruwanpura NCOE, the University of Peradeniya, and the University of Ruhuna. Funding was providad by our sponsors - Google and Intel. Hardware was sponsored by DigitalBase Computers.
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