Software Freedom Day (SFD) is an annual worldwide celebration of free and open source. SFD 2011 was celebrated with a team of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) students and Koronadal National Comprehensive High School (KNCHS) vocational teachers great zeal to reach out and unite with the global ICT community and SFD’s main advocacies on the 21st of September this year (2011).
Following the steps of KNFOSSociety ’09- vied one of the three “highly recommended entries” out of the more than 1,000 teams worldwide for Best Software Freedom Day (SFD) EventCompetition, this time was a bigger celebration. It was celebrated in two places- San Vicente National High School in Banga, and in Esperanza National High School by two groups- the 4th year and 2nd year DOST students reaching out and advocating the campaign and promotion of FOSS, the group was officially recognized by the Software Freedom International as part of this year’s global SFD teams.
The tour was led by 32 seniors and 36 sophomores KNFOSSociety members and four teachers. The group was then divided into two groups, the 4th year group will handle the 3rd and 4th year students while the 2nd year group handles the 1st and 2nd year students. Each group introduced FOSS to more than 250 high school students through orientations, demonstrations and presentations on various open source applications.
Speed-geeking sessions was then held on GIMP, Scribus, Inkscape and other common open source education and entertainment software.
KNFOSSociety Adviser Latreia Estabillo opens the session by giving an introductory talk about Free and Open Source Software to the students at San Vicente High School.
The seniors and sophomores presented the meaning of FOSS to different groups, different venues.
Getting to know different open source programs through speedgeeking sessions
Maam Lati giving prizes to the winners of the trivias givenThe prime movers of SFD 2011
The prime movers of SFD 2011
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