Software Freedom Day 2008 - Jamaica
All Campus Event
Led by the Mona School of Business, The University of the West Indies, Mona joins with over five hundred other teams in celebrating Software Freedom Day on Thursday, September 18, 2008.
As part of the celebrations CDs (also downloadable from http://www.theopendisc.com/) with free productivity, multimedia and other software of use to students and other knowledge workers will be made freely available in Lab 6, the Population Lab, and the Department of Management Studies Computer Lab, in the Faculty of Social Sciences. These CDs will also be available in the Computer Sciences Computer Lab in the Faculty of Pure & Applied Sciences.
Flyers describing the CDs and the event will be available in these locations. Print your own flyer: SoftwareFreedomDay_20080918.pdf
Original and PDF is at softwarefreedomday_20080918.zip
FOSS Colloquium
As part of the celebrations, we had a colloquium on "Facilitating a Digital Commons with Free and Open Source Software: Paving the Way for Generations to Come" by Dr. Sameer Verma, who is at UWI Mona on sabbatical leave from San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, USA. Slides are available at foss-digital-commons.pdf
The team in action
Craig Perue meets UWI founder for a discourse on the benefits of Free and Open Source Software.
The founder reads about Software Freedom Day and agrees!
Creating posters in OpenOffice Presenter.
Greg makes posters in his office.
Flyers on doors all around campus labs. Free yourself from the bonds of digital tyranny.
Arlene proudly shows off the poster and flyer.
Already ahead of the curve. Comp Sci offers Linux classes.
Kiesha panics. We need more CDs. They are going like hot cakes. It seems students love this "free" thing.
Sweetest Taboo or Free Software. UWI Students in the residence halls have tough choices to make!
