{"id":417,"date":"2015-09-21T14:33:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T08:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techlekh.com\/?p=417"},"modified":"2015-10-31T16:08:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T10:23:19","slug":"software-freedom-day-2015-media-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/software-freedom-day-2015-media-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"“Software Freedom Day 2015” – Media Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>On 19th September, 2015<\/em> the 11th Annual event “Software Freedom Day<\/strong>” was celebrated by the groups of software communities. The program was started at around 11:00 A.M. The program get kicked off by the presentation of Mr. Dhurba, President of Nepal Engineering Association (NEA). He talked \u00a0about the importance of IT and mainly focused on entrepreneurship and self-employment. He said that NEA is always ready to help the young fellows with great idea that could help make our country grow and develop faster in one way or the other. Mr. Dhurba said that in order to become an entrepreneur determination, hard work, sincerity and consistency counts a lot.<\/p>\n There was a lot of question from the audience which he tackled very nicely and lastly ended his motivational presentation by saying \u201cmoney is always on the air, all you need is to find a way to catch it\u201d.<\/p>\n The next presentation was about the Google which was presented by Mr. Saroj Dhakal. Mr. Dhakal is a Google Consultant of Nepal. He talked about the Google Open Source, Google mission and showed various products that Google has launched for the betterment of our country. His overall presentation can be summed up as following:<\/p>\n Google Mission<\/strong><\/p>\n Organizing world\u2019s information and make it universally accessible and useful.<\/p>\n Google Open Source<\/strong><\/p>\n Google Products<\/strong><\/p>\n The next presentation was from Mr. Basanta Shrestha, program manager at Open Learning Education(OLE). He focused on the activities that are conducted by his organization. It includes:<\/p>\n The organization has developed two main products E-path and E-pustakalaya.<\/p>\n E-path is National Curriculum Based learning and E-pustakalaya is a Digital Library.<\/p>\n For more details you can visit\u00a0 https:\/\/www.olenepal.org\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n <\/a>The next presentation was from Mr. Nirab Pudasaini, a mobile app developer from KTM Living Labs. He started his presentation simply by asking the audience about the Open street Map and went on talking about his experience about it. He said that For more details you can visit\u00a0 \u00a0https:\/\/kathmandulivinglabs.org\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n
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his team\u00a0<\/del> See update below) around 8000 volunteers from worldwide mapped the details about the earthquakes in map at the time earthquake hit Nepal. He and his team was able to map almost all the places that was hit by the massive earthquake within almost 48 hours. He mentioned about his work and experience and ended the presentation showing all the details about the work they are doing.<\/p>\n