Software Freedom Day 2008 is when I got introduced to the movement and the awesome community attached to the Free Software. Ever since then, Free Software has been a revelatory experience on a daily basis.
The philosophy of learning, sharing and growing together has been manifesting itself regularly with opportunities of interacting with numerous other like minded individuals.
Free Software Movement Karnataka has been involved in propagating Free Software in various educational institutions. With regular efforts BMSIT in Bangalore will become a prospective Free Software hub.
And SFD, every year is something we look forward to and this year's celebration in BMSIT would undoubtedly be one of the most memorable Free Software meet ups.
This celebration comprised of the ritual of cutting a yummy chocolate cake and sharing the 'joy of freedom'. With this setting the premise I tried to invoke some background to the necessity of freedom in software using Eben Moglen's ideas of "Mathematics as property", which I think conveyed to some extent the need of freedom in software.
It was followed by a basic introduction to Python: The programming language by a couple of students from the college. We were trying to project the scalability and usability of Python.
It was followed by a demonstration of a signal processor based wrist watch by Texas Instruments, interfaced with Ubuntu executing python scripts and some aspects of the features that could be extended by writing simple scripts.
I demonstrated the 3-D module in python mayavi and the tool's super capabilities of simulating 3-dimensional surfaces and volumes. There was also a demonstration of solving second order ordinary differential equations using python, which was hopefully of some use to the students gathered there.
In all, this SFD was eventful in Bangalore, while the celebration at BMSIT was only one of the numerous other sessions we had planned to conduct.
Free Software is the future,
The future is ours.
The philosophy of learning, sharing and growing together has been manifesting itself regularly with opportunities of interacting with numerous other like minded individuals.
Free Software Movement Karnataka has been involved in propagating Free Software in various educational institutions. With regular efforts BMSIT in Bangalore will become a prospective Free Software hub.
And SFD, every year is something we look forward to and this year's celebration in BMSIT would undoubtedly be one of the most memorable Free Software meet ups.
This celebration comprised of the ritual of cutting a yummy chocolate cake and sharing the 'joy of freedom'. With this setting the premise I tried to invoke some background to the necessity of freedom in software using Eben Moglen's ideas of "Mathematics as property", which I think conveyed to some extent the need of freedom in software.
It was followed by a basic introduction to Python: The programming language by a couple of students from the college. We were trying to project the scalability and usability of Python.
It was followed by a demonstration of a signal processor based wrist watch by Texas Instruments, interfaced with Ubuntu executing python scripts and some aspects of the features that could be extended by writing simple scripts.
I demonstrated the 3-D module in python mayavi and the tool's super capabilities of simulating 3-dimensional surfaces and volumes. There was also a demonstration of solving second order ordinary differential equations using python, which was hopefully of some use to the students gathered there.
In all, this SFD was eventful in Bangalore, while the celebration at BMSIT was only one of the numerous other sessions we had planned to conduct.
Free Software is the future,
The future is ours.
I am happy to see so much initiate by the BMSIT community and I'm sure that it will go a long way in working towards our 'free knowledge free society' dream.
ReplyDeleteSure Mr.Vikram.
ReplyDeleteWe will try to coalesce our efforts towards "Free knowledge, Free Society".
Would have loved to have you involved in person in our efforts :)