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The pictures of the just concluded Software Freedom Day, 2008, can be found at the geek galleries here http://geeks.unijos.edu.ng/gallery ...
please enjoy them and comment..
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Software Freedom Day 2008....
well what can i say more than to stress that it was great.
the programme started at 10:28am on saturday, 20th september at the computer center Lab 2...It kicked off with Bot Emmanuel(username--bote), who was the mc of the day. He welcomed the students and gave a brief introduction to the day being celebrated.
Nanyak Loknan (username--nanyaks) came up next and gave a talk on the Software Freedom and the Open source Philosophy and people were just glue to what we were offering..
An Introduction to UJgeeks was given by Nwachukwu Chidi (username--nwachukwuc) which was about orienting the users about the geeks, their mission, aims etc. It seemed the users were not having enough and we couldnt refuse giving them what we had..... Daser Sunday (username--sundayd) was up next talking about "the future of the geeks". The quiz was next and participation was grate on the side of the audience; they answered questions and though most of them were "very wrong", we had a lot of fun.

Hello Geeks,

Watch out for countdown on this year's SFD.

Date: Mon, 2008-02-25 18:59

The advent of open source in kaduna took no dramatic phenomenom as that has always been the norm when programmers perceive any whisper of "OPEN".
It all started with a seminar about "THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE LINUX KERNEL" and "SYSTEM PROGRAMMING IN THE LINUX PLATFORM" and "OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGY" by a renowned IT firm in Kaduna state of Nigeria in which an open source programmer Daser Sunday David was invited as guest speaker to speak on the topics. As greatness as always been the virtue of the free and open source technology, the seminar was conducted in such greatness.

This is to inform all geeks and intending geeks that there will be a general meeting to be held at the Computer center on Saturday the 9th of Febuary.The meeting will commence at 11:00am prompt. Please be present and punctual.

You can view pictures from the last SFD 2007 on http://geeks.unijos.edu.ng/gallery/

UJGEEKS/LINUX CHIX CELEBRATES SOFTWARE FREEDOM DAY (SFD), 2007 WITH REST OF THE WORLD
The event'll be exciting, participative and above all informative. I am sure those of us that were around for the previous event (SFD 2006) still have memories about that event, well this one will even be better than the previous, with new things, new ideas and people contributing in the true spirit of the Open Source (sharing knowledge).

http://softwarefreedomday.org/

Date: Saturday, 15th September 2007
Venue: Computer Centre Lab2
Time: 10:00am

Dear Freshers and Returnees,
UJGeeks family wish to use this medium to welcome you back to campus and to request that you join us as we collaborate to work on projects that will improve the general lots of the unijos community. Please you are requested to sign up to the site to become a member.

Source: http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS5656359853.html

The Mono Project on Feb. 20 announced that it has developed a Visual Basic compiler that will enable software developers who use Microsoft Visual Basic to run their applications on any platform that supports Mono, such as Linux, without any code modifications.

Though often disparaged by developers, Visual Basic remains one of the world's most commonly used programming languages. According to Forrester Research, 37 percent of enterprises use Microsoft Visual Basic.NET for development and maintenance of their in-house applications. What's more, among .NET developers, 59 percent use Visual Basic.NET as their only programming language. Thus, as of 2006, at least 20 percent of all in-house business programs were still being written in Basic, according to the market analyst firm.

The Software Freedom Day was more from successful...it was a BLAST!

On the day, more than 100 people were in attendance and all very zealous to move this technology forward.

Some of the geeks on the day

Cletus Okolie talked to us about the UJGEEKS, it's origin and purpose. The UJgeeks website was displayed by Fatima Umar. I talked about SFD and FOSS generally detailing what was to be expected in the world of FOSS.