Fresher Orientation (2072/2015)

A TECHNICAL ERROR caused us to get started right at 11:00 am about a half-hour-late than we notified the day before (Thursday) about the program to be schedule at 10:30 am (2072/8/3 , Friday).

The program got started as soon as everything was fixed.the program was hosted by Mr.Kapil karki. we started from introduction  of fresher’s and all participations.

Mr.Prantik Pokhrel started from presentation on What is AOSC & What is Open Source.

followed by Mr.Surendra Gurung who gave a presentation on Mozilla (Mozilla Nepal & Firefox student Ambassador)

 

and Mr.Kapil Karki presented a gallery on the Program conducted by AOSC. we next ended up the program by a group photo shot with freshers.

Acme Mozilla Orientation

On the date of 1st August 2013, Acme Firefox and AOSC [Acme Open Source Community] jointly organized and event named Acme Mozilla Orientation. The event was said to be started from 10:00 AM but a huge traffic jam at Banasthali Chowk it was half hour delayed and it was started from 10:30 AM.

The five member of Mozilla Nepal team entered the college:

1. Avash Mulmi
2. Prashish Rajbhandari
3. Avinash Kundaliya
4. Bansaj Pradhan
5. Nirmal Khanal

Avash Mulmi started the event with their introduction one by one and then all the event participant also gave their introduction. With the participant of 25 student and our HOD sir the event get started and at the starting of the event Prashish Rajbhandari and Avinash Kundaliya ask us a question ” What is Open Source? ” we all get quiet for while because we don’t know the right and complete answer of the question. But after the silence of while one of the student and member of AOSC “Nikesh Balami” stood up and gives an answer but the answer given by him wasn’t complete So, both brother teach us the right definition of Open Source.

After a little talk of Mozilla and Mozilla Nepal Prashish Rajbhandari and Avash Mulmi told use how we can contribute on Mozilla. Avash Mulmi told us about different kinds of involvement process :

1. Helping Users
2. Testing and Quality Assurance
3. Coding
4. Marketing and Evangelism
5. Localization
6. Add-ons
7. Visual Design
8. Developer Documentation
9. Accessibility
10. System Administration
11. User Research
12. Education

Avinash Kundaliya gave us the presentation about Firefox OS. He told us how the Firefox OS is made and Gave us a small demo of the coding. Firefox OS is made up of HTML, CSS and JS . Avinash Kundaliya teach us all the working principle of that OS and He also teach us how to use Firefox OS on Simulator.

Then again Bansaj Pradhan give a small demo of Localization. He teach us how it work and how to contribute on it. Alot of student was interested on this topics and want to work on it.

At last Nikesh Balami a member of Acme Open Source Community takes the feedback of all student and ask them wheather they are interested to do next Workshop of Web Maker or not. All the student gave the Positive answer and then he ask the student in which field they want to contribute and with the collection of all answer and positive Feedback the event ends.

At last a group photo was taken:

Orientation program to freshers…

Orientation program for fresher…

 

Lately AOSC has conducted orientation program for freshers dated on 21^st kartik ,2071. However program was estimated to be conducted at 10:30 am but had started 1/2 hours late. The program had started with the introduction of fresher’s and all participations. Mr. Nikesh Balami, Mr. Suraj Bohora, Mr. Sagar Ghimire and Mr. Rajan Silwal were the main guest invited. The program was host by Mr. Kapil Karki.

                The Presentation about Diploma, open source and AOSC was presented by Mr. Nikesh Balami (1st President and Founder).

 

 Likewise Mr. Srijan Bista has presented a presentation about AOSC and the works and developed done during his era of presidency.

                Likely, Mr. Sagar Ghimire has given a speech about what is Open Source and Open software???

 

Afterwards Mr. Suraj Bohora has given a speech about difficult faced during the foundation of AOSC, what is open and what are Open Source and open software???

Last but not least Mr. Prantik Pokhrel has presented a presentation on the gallery of the programs conducted by AOSC.

Finally, program was unofficially ended. At the end of the program, the active team of AOSC has made deserting of program by “Tea and Biscuit programs”. Finally the program was officially ended with the “Group photos of AOSC members”.

Upgrade Your Browser to Mozilla Firefox

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SFD Orientation By FOSS Nepal

 

On 13 August 2013 AOSC (Acme Open Source Community) organized an event at Acme Engineering College, Sitapila, Kathmandu, Nepal.

The main Agenda of the event was:-

1.     Introduction of FOSS Nepal
2.     Introduction of AOSC
3.     Introduction Software Freedom Day  (SFD)
4.     Planning for upcoming Software Freedom Day 2013 in Nepal

 

The program was started by vice principle of Acme Engineering College                     Er .Dharmendra Kumar Mishra “This is the age of information, works that to be done by the IT professionals.   After a long speech Er .Dharmendra Kumar Mishra ended with by saying if not being a good and expert then we can’t be known in the society and can’t perform activity in the upcoming days.

Guest of the day from FOSS NEPAL:-  

1. Prabin Gautam
2. Hempal Shrestha

 

                            Left: Prabin Gautam & Right: Hempal Shrestha

“Open source is all about freedom, power, future progress & Choice” Hempal Shrestha

What is software? This is a question that each person has simply a software is defined as “Computer instructions or data. Anything that can be stored electronically is software.”

We talked about software but what is really free software.

A  Free Software Definition, written by Richard Stallman and published by Free Software Foundation (FSF), “defines free software as being software that ensures that the end users have freedom in using, studying, sharing and modifying that software.”

“Free software” was defined to refer to “three levels of freedom”.

1. The freedom to run the program for any purpose.

2. The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to

Make it do what you wish.

3. The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor.

The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements (and modified versions in general) to the public, so that the whole community benefits.

Freedoms 1 and 3 require source code to be available because studying and modifying software without its source code is highly impractical.

Software has mainly three key points Binary codes, Source codes, Design. Without these codes we can’t have software and it is not even called software.

“Software freedom is Excess & Right” Hempal Shrestha.

If we design a software then Licensing is must be done.”

The majority of free software falls under a small set of licenses. The most popular of these licenses are:

1. The GNU General Public License,

2. The GNU Lesser General Public License,

3. The BSD License,

4. The Mozilla Public License,

5. The MIT License,

6. The Apache License.

“We believe in good faith”. Prabin Gautam

Software Freedom Day (SFD)? 

        Software Freedom Day (SFD) is an annual worldwide celebration of Free Software. SFD is a public education effort with the aim of increasing awareness of Free Software and its virtues, and encouraging its use.

              Software Freedom Day was established in 2004 and was first observed on 28 August of that year. About 12 teams participated in the first Software Freedom Day. Since that time it has grown in popularity and while organizers anticipated more than 1,000 teams in 2010[1] the event has stalled at around 400+ locations over the past two years, representing a 30% decrease over 2009.

            Since 2006 Software Freedom Day has been held on the third Saturday of September, it has occasionally coincided with International Talk like a Pirate Day.

 

“Software freedom day is sometime beautiful, sometime ugly events should be organized”.

Foss Nepal our contribution with good faith, share with families and friends. Best person to guide yourself.

At last the event was ended by Nikesh Balami (ex- president) of AOSC. But a short introduction about AOSC the events that was held so far and the event was concluded by a saying for women.

“If a man is educated he only educates himself but if the woman is educated whole family is educated.” Hempal Shrestha.

 

 

  And a group photo after the programme

How to sustain an open source community?

What is open source community?

{(Presenter: Spandan Pradhan :- (ex-MSP)

Involvement: Acme engineering college

Acme  open source club(member)

Founder of meroudayapur.com

Founder of Aagaman Foundation

 

Eco- System Of community ( Presentation)}

On the rainy morning of 4^th August 2013, Spandan Pradhan and AOSC (Acme Open Source Community) organized a meeting on what is the actual meaning of open source community. The event was organized sharp at 8:00 am in the premises of Acme Engineering College, Banastali, Kathmandu, Nepal.

The meeting was started by Spandan Pradhan by the introduction of FOSS.

“Open Source is freedom to use”, said by Spandan Pradhan.

Moving on to some points learned:-

• What is main ingredients of community?
  • Involvement
  • Partnership
  • Continuity
  • Motivation
  • Success

At the same moment Spadan Pradhan shared some knowledge:-

1. Participate
2. Listen & Engage
3. Build
4. Activate
5. Never  bias
6. Sportsmanship

The main influence that we had today

“We have to be the hungry for technology not  brand”

Who can contribute to AOSC :-

1. Everyone
2. Experts
3. Beginner
4. Developers
5. Non- Developers

Benefits of community participation:-

1. Increase over ship, Support & responsibility.
2. More Likelihood of sustainability.
3. More cost effective ways of learning
4. Better response to community needs concerns
5. More Culturally Appropriate strategies  & messages
6. Increased coverage and access to information & Services.
7. Be seen, Be heard.
8. Increased  Success ( Results & Sustainability).

Challenges we could face in coming days:-

1. Time & cost
2. Differing  Priorities
3. Member disagree
4. Community volunteers motivation.
5. Community skill and capacity
6. Selection of community patricians may be biased
7. Need to plan for sustainability from beginning.

Spandan Pradhan also shares us about what Software Freedom Day (SFD) is and how we should get involved in it and the merits of participation and we can get through SFD are we will be exposed to more new technology and will be able to think out of the box.

At last we had some saying and discussion about what will be our contribution to AOSC.