Software Freedom Day 2005

SOFTWARE FREEDOM DAY 2005 SENSITIZATION WORKSHOP ON THE USE OF FREE SOFTWARE

To celebrate the software freedom day and within the framework of promoting ICTs to improve the living standards, raise the activities to alleviate poverty that PROTEGE QV organised on the 1st and 28th of October 2005 in her head office two sensitization workshops on the use of free software

Objectives To sensitize civil society organisations and students on the opportunities offerred by the free software

Place Rond Point Express Biyemassi, at the head office of PROTEGE QV

Participants About 15 delegates of the civil society organisations and about 30 students

Content
 The history and bases of this type of software which is used freely
 The advantages and disadvantages in using this type of software
 The techniques in acquisition of this software
 The techniques of contributions to the evolution of free software
 Examples of free software
 Presentation and demonstration of the various applications
 Manipulations by participants

Organising committee
 MOMENI Avis, coordinator,
 DONGMO Derval, development volunteer,
 MBOUOPDA Guy Cédric, development volunteer,
 DJOUMESSI Brice, development volunteer,
 APAN Frédéric, development volunteer,
 NGA MANI Carine, development volunteer,

Methodology In order to optimize the success of this workshop, there was :
 An introductive communication with the aim of bringing out the meaning of « free software » and its surroundings
 Dividing into group works for better understanding of certain free software’s that were found on the OPEN CD given to participants,
 Restitution of works from each group The Software’s presented :
 Open Office Text Document: for processing data
 Open Office Presentation: for prsentation on slideshows
 Open Office spreadsheet: for tables
 7-Zip: for compressing files
 Html Document: for editing HTML pages
 Ubuntu. : For operating systems
 Firefox: for surfing

Partners
 Canonical, Ltd
 Linuxchix Africa