Southern Linux User Group (www.southernlug.org) is happy to announce that we have successfully conducted the first event for SFD 2010 in Sri Lanka. This event, in collaboration with the Faculty of Engineering, University of Ruhuna was held at Hapugala, Galle at the Faculty premises. The target audience was the students and IT teachers of the Udugama Educational Zone and around hundred were there. The whole event was with practicals and the participants were given an exposure to operating systems, FOSS, Open Source Initiative, OpenOffice Suite and finally a demo of Hanthana Linux (www.hanthana.org) installation. This event is marked as the forth consecutive event that Souther Linux User Group has conducted for SFDs.

Special thanks goes to Dr. Chandana Perera of Faculty of Engineering, University of Ruhuna and the staff for providing us with the computer laboratory and other help to make this event a success.

Here goes the photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/danishkanavin/sets/72157624972971830/

We hope to conduct another event for SFD 2010 on 26th at Richmond College, Galle targeting a large number of school children.

Happy Software Freedom Day 2010 to all.