{"id":4934,"date":"2016-09-15T18:14:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T12:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techlekh.com\/?p=4934"},"modified":"2017-06-25T02:59:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T21:14:09","slug":"software-freedom-day-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/software-freedom-day-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Worldwide Celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is Here at Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like every year, Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Nepal Community<\/a> is going to organize Software Freedom Day 2016 on September 17, 2016. Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). The goal of this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in business – in short, everywhere!<\/p>\n

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In Nepal, FOSS Nepal Community has been regularly organizing and celebrating Software freedom day since 2005. From 2007 to 2009, for three consecutive years, FOSS Nepal’s SFD celebration was recognized as the best event in the world. For last three years FOSS Nepal had decentralized the celebration to meet local masses throughout the country by allowing the college FOSS communities and other individual organizations to organize individual event in their own places. This year FOSS Nepal is targeting to bring 5000 participants in Kathmandu in same hall to discuss, talk, interact and celebrate Software Freedom Day.<\/p>\n

Benefits of organizing SFD Celebration<\/strong><\/h4>\n

In a developing country like Nepal, it is almost impracticable to afford licensed proprietary software. Thus, most of the people have been using cheap pirated proprietary software at homes, offices and almost at every nook and corner. Using pirated proprietary software, we not only become culprits on a moral basis but also are forced to remain under constant trepidation that someday the software may actually crash and thus inflict huge loss of the valuable data. In such extreme cases, we will have nobody to complain to, other than sit and repent for having used unauthorized and unauthentic software. In contrast, the Free and Open Source Software is a software which grants liberal license to the user to legally use, study, change, and improve its design through the availability of its source code. It encourages its free distribution and redistribution among user. Besides being low cost, the benefits of adopting FOSS includes security; reliability and stability; open standards; vendor independence; reduced reliance on imports for software; developing local software capability; promoting local IT Entrepreneurship; respecting copyright law and enabling localization.<\/p>\n

Objectives of SFD Celebration<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The objectives of celebrating SFD are to:<\/p>\n