Islington Open Source Community

Agenda• Introduction to Islington Open source

Community.• Open Source and Freeware• Open Source Communities in Nepal• Communities we have worked with.• Events That have been Conducted.• Events That are in Order.

IntroductionIslington Open source community is a virtual structure of students, faculties and open source experts, which work for knowledge sharing and capacity building of various Open source products, and tools.Moreover, it acts as a joint platform for all existing open source groups and forums.eg. GDG, Mozilla, PHP, Python, Ruby.

Introduction (Contd.)• Conducting training/workshops for various open

source products.• Calling experts on specific area for knowledge

sharing.• Organizing college/national/international level

seminars events on open source.

Open source & Freeware• Open Source– Available to everyone.– Anyone can edit.– Anyone can extract some part and implement in

their project.

Basically, Justifies the word “OPEN”

Open source & Freeware• Freeware– Basically, the application itself is free of cost

but user possessing it cannot edit, extract or hinder

the original source code of the project

Open source Communities in Nepal• Google Developers Group (GDG).• Mozilla Nepal.• Nepali Wikipedia (ne.wikipedia.org).• Free Open Source Society (FOSS) Nepal.• PHP Developers Nepal.• Android Developers Nepal.• Open Knowledge Foundation Nepal.• Ruby Developers Nepal

Communities we have worked with. • Mozilla Nepal• FOSS Nepal• Nepal Wikipedia• Open Knowledge Foundation Nepal (OKNF)• Developers Nepal (United Group)

Events That have been Conducted.

• Mozilla Nepal Orientation Seminar• The Classic “FOSS Ka Kura”• Developer’s Meet #1• Firefox OS AppsDays

Events That are in Order. • Wikipedia Education Program

• Developers Meet #2

• Arduino Programming Workshop