The event was scheduled at 3 o clock in the evening. Behalf of Ubuntu Tamil Team, Amachu was preparing the Ubuntu Mazhailar Minnedu, (ThangamaniArun)me too joined with him, once its done. My self and amachu started leaving from NRC-FOSS,Chennai at 2:30pm towards kanchipuram. Amachu is the chief guest for Ubuntu release party :)
Event was started at 3:45pm , before we reach kanchi @ 4pm and we joined in the middle while Arulalan was giving presentation of “History of Gnu/Linux”.
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
Malathi and Suji shared their experience and contribution in Tamil Computing (Tamil Font, Spell checker projects).
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 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.
We end with National anthem.
And also i shared my cutomized ubuntu iso image 920MB with kanchilug team to spread the same.
In the middle i took some photos, please click here
Thanks to Shrinivasan T and Kanchilug Team for the wonderful event.
"Free Software is the Future.. Future is ours"
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