The init Magazine, Issue #8, June 2010 has been released today. This issue contains articles about Map Reduce, Economics of FOSS, A review of Fedora 13 "Goddard", Open Source & Education, Collaborative documentation and management using Wiki, and a How-To on using Drupal Shell (Drush). You can grab your copy from http://fossnepal.org/initmag-issue8.pdf.

FOSS Ka Kura added yet another number on its total with the recent one organized on 18 April, 2010. This time the topic was "The Linux Terminal For Beginners". Er. Suraj Sapkota, a pro in shell scripting and system administration with 2-3 years of experience, from Crossover Nepal was the speaker. He is one of the pioneer of FOSS in nepal and have been involved in our LTSP projects for a long time. He is also leading our Nirvikalpa project. Most of the participants were from IOE, Pulchowk Campus. But there were few from other colleges too.

It was quite a while since the last FOSS Ka Kura on PostgRE SQl happened. Better late than never. Another session of FOSS Ka Kura was conducted by FOSS Nepal Community in February 6, 2010.

Guidinance For SFD
This time,  the sixth Software Freedom Day (SFD) celebration organized by Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Nepal Community in association with various ICT stakeholders in Nepal on September 19, 2009 (ie Ashwin 3, 2066: Saturday).

Welcome to Software Freedom Day 2009 Planning and Coordination Page:

Planning Meeting Minutes:
. 2009-07-18 SFD Planning Meeting
. FOSS Orientation workshop for Prime College
Call For Volunteer:
. Please Click here to register your name as a volunteer for SFD 2009.
The Team formed for Preparation of SFD 2009 are with Lead/Co-Lead of the teams are:
Event Coordination: Abhishek Singh/Prabin Gautam
Finance: Hempal Shrestha/Dadhiram Nepal
Documentation: Akash Deep Shakya/Abhishek Singh
Artwork: Abhishek Singh
Material: Bibek Shrestha

FOSS Nepal Community is a team of volunteers who believe in the usage of Free/Open Source Software (FOSS). The primary objective of the community is to promote and diversify the usage of Free/Open Source Software in Nepal.

• To raise awareness among general public, government bodies, private sector, civil society, educational institutions and media for expanding the scope of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) via Free and Open Source Software

The FOSS Nepal Community has been declared one of the three global winners for the second consecutive year in the Software Freedom Day 2008 Best Event Competition. The other winners are SFD Nicaragua and DabaweGnu. The announcement was made on the SFD website by Software Freedom International, who coordinates the SFD celebration worldwide.

Open Software Challenge Nepal (OSCN) is an event to recognize and award talents in the field of Open software development in Nepal. This competition plays an important role in the open source scenario in nepal presenting the tagline "FOSS for Enterprises". FOSS-Nepal Community have recently joined hands with D2 Labs to support this event.

It is really a great moment of pride to have yet another issue of INIT magazine released. From the very beginning, we were facing lots of difficulties. A huge sense of gratitude to those who are directly or indirectly the part of our magazine.
Grab your copy soon from http://ww.ioefoss.ioelive.com.
Thank you