FStival
FStival is a Free Software Festival conducted annually, since 2004, by GLUGOT and GLUG-Madurai in commemoration of Software Freedom Day (SFD). The objective of FStival is to create awareness of Free Open Source Software (FOSS) among the general public of South TamilNadu. Over the years FStival has been a venue where students of various age groups and domains, professionals (of both IT and non-IT fields), enthusiasts and the curious have come together to get introduced to FOSS, interact with each other and share their experiences. Every year, the participants bring in empty CD/DVDs to copy Free Software of their choice from the exhaustive repository at Thiagarajar College of Engineering (maintained by GLUGOT). We will have many stalls in which various Free Software tools are demonstrated.
Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration (since 2004) of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). The goal 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.
FStival 2012 - 15 September 2012
GLUG-Madurai and GLUGOT celebrate Software Freedom Day on 15-09-2012 as FStival'12 at Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai.
Demo stalls and Tech talks on various FOSS tools will be conducted.
All are invited. Entry is free (as in free beer and freedom)
FStival 2011 - 17 September 2011
GLUG-Madurai and GLUGOT celebrate Software Freedom Day on 17-09-2011 as FStival'11 at Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai.
Demo stalls and Tech talks on various FOSS tools will be conducted.
All are invited. Entry is free (as in free beer and freedom)
FStival 2011 - List of demo stalls
The tentative list of demo stalls of FStival'11 is as follows:
- FOSS Philosophy
- Linux in day-to-day life
- Editors (Emacs, Vi)
- IDEs (Netbeans, Bluefish, Anjutha)
- GCC, GDB, Auto tools
- Blender
- GIMP, inkscape
- Virtualization (Xen, Virtualbox OSE, qemu)
- Openstack (Swift, Burrow, Nova, Cactus)
- Moodle, Koha
- Hadoop
- NoSQL DBs (Redis, Riak, Cassandra)
- LAMP and LAPP
- Django, RoR, JQuery
- Wiki (MoinMoin, docuwiki)
- CMS (Drupal, Joomla, PHPBB)
- Version Control Systems (Git, Mercurial, SVN)
- Linux Networking utilities
FStival 2011 - Distros to be made available
The following FLOSS distributions will be made available for FStival'11.
- Debian Lenny and Squeeze (Both CD and DVDs)
- Fedora 13, 14, 15 (CD)
- OpenIndiana (CDs) (Desktop and Enterprise Releases )
- FreeBSD 7.4 , 8.2 (CD, USB image and DVDs)
- Ubuntu 11.04, 10.10, 10.04 (Desktop Release) (CD)
- Belenix 0.8
- Linux Mint (CD)
- Haiku OS (CD)
- PCBSD (CD)
- Puppy Linux (CD)
- CentOS (CD and DVDs)
- KUbuntu 11.04 (CD)
FStival 2010 - 18 September 2010
GLUG-Madurai and GLUGOT celebrate Software Freedom Day on 18-09-2010 as FStival'10 at Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai.
Demo stalls and Tech talks on various FOSS tools will be conducted.
All are invited. Entry is free (as in free beer and freedom)
Software Freedom Day - FStival 2009 on September 19,2009
GLUG-Madurai and GLUGOT celebrate Software Freedom Day on 19-09-2009 as FStival'09 at Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai.
Demo stalls and Tech talks on various FOSS tools will be conducted.
All are invited. Entry is free (as in free beer and freedom).
FStival'08 poster final draft
This is the final draft of FStival'08 poster designed by Joe Steeve. This poster was accepted after many discussions which could be found in the following threads:
FStival.org launched
The FStival team is happy to announce that we have purchased our domain FStival.org and launching the website today. This website will have all the information about FStival.
Software Freedom Day - September 20, 2008
GLUG-Madurai and GLUGOT celebrate Software Freedom Day on 20-09-2008 as FStival'08.
Demo stalls and Tech talks on various FOSS tools will be conducted.
All are invited. Entry is free (as in free beer).
