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Date: 18th September 2005
Venue: Osmania University, College of Engineering
Sessions in the workshop

1. Title: GNU/Linux BasicsSpeakers: Varanasi Kiran Babu (vakibs at gmail dot com), Vardhman Jain ,vardhman at gmail dot com)Presentation slides: Presentation (PDF), Presentation (ODP), Handouts (PDF), Handouts (ODP)Duration: 2 hours
2. Title: MySQL and Doxygen
   Speaker: Chaitanya Kamisetty (chaitu at gmail dot com)
   Presentation slides: Presentation (PDF), Presentation (SXI)
   Duration: 30 minutes
3. Title: UML Modelling using Umbrello
   Speaker: Chaitanya Kamisetty (chaitu at gmail dot com)
   Duration: 30 minutes
4. Title: LaTeX
   Speaker: O S K Chaitanya (oskchaitanya at gmail dot com)
   Presentation slides: Prensentation (PDF), Examples (TAR.GZ)
   Duration: 30 minutes
5. Title: GNU Compiler Collection and Integrated Development Environments
   Speaker: Sunil Mohan Adapa (sunilmohan at gmail dot com)

SFD 2006 Poster (small, medium, large)

Software Freedom Day in Andhra Pradhesh was celebrated on 28th September with about 1000 volunteers contributing to localise GNU/Linux to Telugu. Following are some of the details on how the event proceeded.

Press Coverage

• Times of India
• Eenadu - 28th, 29th
• Prajasakti
• Telugu One

Title: Software and Freedom
Speaker: Richard M. Stallman
Location: Tagore Auditorium, Osmania University, Hyderabad.
Time: 4 p.m., 20th October, 2006
"Free software is a fundamental requirement for a democratic and free society in which we are surrounded by and dependent upon technical devices." -- Eben Moglen.
Richard M. Stallman is the founder of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU project, which has contributed the most significant part of the GNU/Linux operating system. He is a scientist, a philosopher, a music-lover and musician, and a most passionate programmer. Amonst numerous notable creations and achievements, he has written the GCC compiler, the GDB debugger and the Emacs editor, and has been awarded four honorary Ph.Ds from universities around the world. Stallman argues that software users should have the freedom to "share with their neighbor" and to be able to study and make changes to the software that they use and this forms the basis for the Free Software movement. He is coming to Hyderabad to talk about the relationship between software and freedom. All individuals passionate about software and freedom, who believe that technological development is most effective when we collaborate with each other must attend this talk at 4 PM on the 20th of October to be held at Tagore Auditorium, Osmania University, Hyderabad.

Community to Community
Software Freedom Day in Andhra Pradesh is being celebrated on 28th of September. About 1000 programmers will work from different geographical locations to localise the applications in GNU/Linux to Telugu. This sprint is unique and first of its kind in the world where a huge number of passionate programmers will work on porting the GNU/Linux applications into Telugu. The slogan, "from the community to the community", is the spirit of this sprint.
Students from different engineering colleges, people working in the IT industry in India and abroad, school teachers, people from the media and from different sections of the society will participate to make the software available to the people in Andhra Pradesh.
The advent and growth of Internet is transforming the world into a global village. The Internet users of the world in 1998 was 2.49% which has increased by nearly 6 times to 16% in 2005. In India this growth is visible in the form of an increase from 0.1% to 4.5% in the same period. This shows a thrust towards the Internet usage in the Indian population. If we count this population in terms of the % of the world it is just 4.9%. Where as Japan and China are ahead with 8.3% and 11.8% respectively. This phenomenon is due to the existing language support in their languages. If we look at the web content by language, Japanese content is 5.9% and Chinese content is 3.9%. This content is effectively increasing every year.

Brief description: In a typical newspaper, news comes in from various geographically distributed divisions and each news item has it's own importance. In order that a news article gets printed in a newspaper the new item has to flow through different levels of hierarchy, right from the lowest point in a branch office to the highest point (editor/sub-editor) in the head office. In this journey, each item has to be categorised according to it's importance before finally reaching the layout artist who will then design the page according to the the priority of the item.

ప్రత్యక్షంగానో పరోక్షంగానో మనం ఫ్రీ సాఫ్ట్‌వేర్‌ను వాడుతున్నాము. ఫ్రీ సాఫ్ట్‌వేర్ వాడకం రోజు రోజుకి పెరుగుతోంది. దీని వాడకం వల్ల మనకు ఇతర సాఫ్ట్‌వేర్‌లో లేని ఎన్నొ హక్కులు మనకు వస్తాయి.

Swecha LiveCD is a Telugu localised operating system that runs entirely from a CDROM. It does not require any installation on the hard disk. Common tasks such as writing and printing documents, browsing the web, sending/receiving emails, chatting, editing graphics etc. can all be in Telugu from the LiveCD. Optionally, you can install the operating system onto the hard disk.
Highlights of the 'June 2006' release are:

ఆఫీస్ అవసరాలకు వాడే సాఫ్ట్వేర్ని ఆఫీస్ సూట్ అంటారు. ఒక సాదారణ ఆఫిస్ సూట్లొ వ్యాసాలు రాయవచ్చు, ప్రసెంటేషన్లు ఇవ్వవచ్చు, కంపెనీ ఖతాలు దాచటం వంటి పనులతొ పాటూ మరెన్నో పనులు కూడా చెయ్యవచ్చు.

Swecha is a project aimed at coming out with a localised version of GNU/Linux in Telugu. The target users of the distro being the entire community that is a prey of the digital divide. This project helps in coming out with a solution for the digital divide and allows the possibility of digital unite becoming a reality.
Commencement of the Project:

Software Freedom Day Celebration calls for the decolonisation of Indian minds from Proprietary Software

Commemerating the 136th birth anniversary of Mahatma FSF India AP Chapter celebrated the Software Freedom Day. As a part of the worldwide activity to celebrate freedom in software development, Free Software Foundation of India has organised a seminar on "Free Software and India". The seminar aimed at spreading the spirit of Free Software among young minds at Engineering collges throughout the state.