Software Freedom Day 2011 First Day

Finally today was the first day of SFD 2011 and it was amazing :). We started with the Opening by Hams Elashry OSUM Leader (ME :D) then Ahmed mekkawey's session FOSS and the development in the post-revolution times, next there was Ahmed Saeed's session Open Source Science and Finally Soft Skills session by Islam El-Ghazouly It's All About You. The day was really amazing. Can't say any word except Thank you :); SFD team, speakers and finally attendees :). Thank you so much you made my day :).

Software Freedom Day @ Alexandria 2011

Here we go again, Software Freedom Day @ Alexandria University will be held @ 23-8-2011 and will last for 3 days; the fun will start. Some ask what Software Freedom Day is; what’s our target; so let’s start with the term Open Source; what’s Open source? The aim of that event is to spread the culture of Open source and its concepts. Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). The goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in business -- in short, everywhere! The non-profit company Software Freedom International coordinates SFD at a global level, providing support, giveaways and a point of collaboration, but volunteer teams around the world organize the local SFD events to impact their own communities.

The event targets people interested in FOSS technology and principles but also -mainly- people who don't have any background, don’t know anything about open source but are willing to learn about it. We believe that providing the public with information about open source will increase the adoption of open source software and replace- to some extend - closed source software.

Our goal is to foster a general understanding of software freedom, encourage adoption of free software and open standards and celebrate software freedom and the people behind it.
By this we hope to increase the awareness of open source software among our community.
Our mission is to spread the word of open source in our city in every possible way, to give students the urge to learn, use, develop and share different open source technologies, to tell students about technologies that they would want to use and help them use it during this period.

Our mission is to spread the word of open source in our city in every possible way, to give students the urge to learn, use, develop and share different open source technologies, to tell students about technologies that they would want to use and help them use it during this period.

The event will last for three days starting from 23/8/2011 to 25/8/2011. The deadline for registration is next Friday 19/8/2011.

Cost : Free
Place : Bibliotheca Alexandria

Seats are limited so register ASAP
Registration Form:

http://goo.gl/65Ecb

For More Info:
Our Facebook Page

http://softwarefreedomday.org/
http://osum.sun.com/group/alexandriauniversityosum

If you have any problem don't hesitate to ask or send email to SFD2011.HR@gmail.com

Come and join us.
See you there.

Software Freedom Day @ Alexandria University 2011 (Call for speakers)

Yes, we are preparing SFD 2011, We started our work announcing calling for volunteer and now we are working on speakers. Here you are the announcement:
It's our pleasure to announce Software Freedom Day 2011. We're planning on having one of the biggest open source events for this year.
It will have presentations, demos, contests and study groups.
We're interested in having presentations about open source or related to it.

It's required to submit the title of the session, the slides that will be used and the CV of the speaker to SFD2011.HR@gmail.com.
The submission deadline is the 13th of August.
Hope to receive a lot of CVs :D:D