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REGISTER HERE ! Hi everyone ! We’re happy to announce that we’re conducting a Debian Packaging workshop at Vidya on 24th August, 2019 starting at 9AM. We’re also doing a Debian 10 Buster release party on the same day. This is a public event and anyone can join free. IMPORTANT : Please read the prerequisites and setup your environment before attending the workshop. Speakers Two Debian developers will be joining the event and handling the sessions !

REGISTER HERE ! FOSSers is conducting a Wikipedia + Wikidata workshop on March 4th, 2019. Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines.Wikidata is used for data science. It is a large public database of relations in Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource and others. Along with the workshop, we’re planning to inaugurate LinuxChix VAST, a local community of the international LinuxChix community.

Vyvidh 2019 is here ! And FOSSers is conducting events ! After a long time, FOSSers VAST is conducting events for Vidya’s tech-fest Vyvidh ! FOSSers has been in college for more than 10 years, but has been dormant. This year, we’re excited to announce that we’re back ! We’re the only club to have special events for this year’s tech fest ! Stall FOSSers/LinuxChix will have a stall at room MB-109 (Middle block, first floor, room 109).

FOSSers of Vidya participate in Major League Hacking event at Adi Shankara and win prizes They are really passionate about Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)! As many as thirteen members of the FOSSers’ Club of Vidya participated in the Local Hack Day events organised by the ASIET Hack Club at Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering and Technology (ASIET), Kaladi, on 4 December 2018. The event was part of the 200+ Local Hack Day events worldwide and was sponsored by GitHub, Microsoft, Twilio and Kerala Startup Mission.

FOSSers of Vidya help translation of GNOME to Malayalam The FOSSers Club of Vidya is a thriving community of free software enthusiasts in Vidya’s campus. The members of the Club are actively participating in several free software projects. The latest project in the series of such activities is helping in the translation of GNOME into Malayalam language. The Free Software Community of Kerala had decided to create an operating system for Malayalees.

FOSSers Club organises one-day workshop on “Let’s Learn Linux-V2” FOSSers,in association with IEDC,conducted a one-day fully hands on session titled “Lets Learn Linux – V2 ” on 2 October 2018 at ME CAD Lab. As many as 35 students of S1 and S3 B Tech batches participated in the event. The activities relating to installation and basic command line operations were handled by Mr Shali K R (Server Administrator). Mr Subin (S3 B Tech CSE) gave an introductions to FOSS and free software alternatives.