[ubuntu-in] Ubuntu 10.04 Release Party at Kanchipuram

[Narendra Diwate]

Nice Initiative guys. Congrats and Keep up the good work.

Regards

Narendra Diwate




On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 17:19, Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Ubuntu release party was celebrated again after 6 months
> following the release of latest Ubuntu Linux version 10.04 at April 2010.
>
> The vision of these parties are to share the features of Linux to the
> general public.
> So far, Linux is in the hands of students, programmers and geeks.
> Bring it to public is the need of the hour.
>
> We, KanchiLUG team decided to celebrate a Ubuntu release party this
> time too, on June 6, 2010.
>
> Unlike last time, we hardly get time for this event as
> we have 2 major activities last week.
>
> 1. Programming bootcamp
> 2. Release of Ubuntu Manual in Tamil
>
> These made our days and nights busy and sleepless. :-)
>
> But still, we had a team for organizing release party.
>
> We approached various schools for the venue and finally got the
> famous “Pachaiyappan Hr.Sec School”.
>
> We printed pamphlet and circulated via local newspapers.
>
> We Invited “Ramadas (amachu) ” as Chief Guest.
>
> It was a nice evening with little drizzling.
> We were busy with arranging hall, fixing projectors, banners and audio
> systems.
>
> Around 3.30, the hall was getting filled with public.
> At 3.45, we started.
>
> Ramya Invited everyone.
>
>
> Arulalan started with a presentation of “History of Gnu/Linux”.
> Then, explained on “Open source and its concepts”.
>
> Rajkumar showed the beautiful compiz effects.
> Yasir explained “Why Linux?”
> Kabilan explained how Ubuntu born and how it is growing.
>
> Suresh demonstrated some 3d games like openarena, torcs and tuxracer.
> Balakrishnan explained that Installation is very easy and showed a demo on
> it.
>
> Tea and snacks were provided in the meantime.
>
> Malathi and Suji explained how they started their career with opensource
> at their college and how students can contribute to open source.
> They explained about their Tamil font creation project and
> Tamil spell checker project.
>
> The Chief Guest Ramadhas, started with his awesome speech.
> He explained how the proprietary world is making us as slave.
> The need of using opensource, the need of localizations etc.
> People got enlighted and understood the concepts of opensource.
>
> He released the Ubuntu CD and the “Ubuntu Manual in Tamil”.
> Mr. Anbu and Mrs. Umamaheswari Anbu, Shakthi ITI, received on behalf
> of students.
> Mr. Sundhar, Bank of India, received for public.
>
> Myself explained the job opportunities in the FOSS world.
>
> Arulalan introduced the activities of KanchiLUG.
> Requested the audience to join in mailing list.
> Shared the contact numbers for local support.
>
> The Q&A session was interesting and public raised lots
> of queries and we answered them all.
>
> With National Anthem, we ended the show at 6.45 pm.
>
> We had around 75 audience and show is a successful one.
>
> We thank Nandha Kumar, Vignesh, Akilan, Nagaraj,
> Rajeshwari, sathish, Arun who traveled from chennai
> to attend this event.
>
> You are welcome to download the Alpha version of “Ubuntu Manual” in Tamil
> at http://ubuntu-tam.org/avanam/lucid-lynx
>
> Still it need more fixes, we are working on that and will release a
> final version as soon as possible.
>
> Here are the snaps of the event.
> http://picasaweb.google.com/kanchilug/UbuntuLicud1004ReleaseParty#
>
>
>
>
>
> http://kanchilug.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/ubuntu-10-04-release-party-at-kanchipuram/
>
> --
> Regards,
> T.Shrinivasan
>
>
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> T.Shrinivasan
>
>
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