Clemson University celebrated the Software Freedom Day on 18th September 2009. We had a day long event (9:00a:m - 3:30p:m) where we provided information to the students as well as to the staff at Clemson on the features of Open Source Software. The response was overwhelming and almost 50 more students joined the Clemson University OSUM Club. We put up a booth in front of the library to attract maximum number of students towards the open source inititative. The booth was decorated with SFD baloons and posters of OpenSolaris.
An open source quiz was designed and gifts were given to the students who answered the quiz. Almost everyone who have shown interest in the Open Source movement were given a sling back with OpenSolaris and Ubuntu Operating System. Right now the Clemson University OSUM Club has 175 members. We answered questions and had a brief chat with students about everything from the OpenOffice to OpenSolaris and Ubuntu Opearting Systems. We ended up giving pamphlets about Sun Academic Initiative , Ubuntu CDs, copies of the OpenSolaris and of course we all spoke to folks about using free software. Thanks to everyone who made it a success, especially to Anup, Nisarg, Bosco, Githin. Special thanks to Wanda, Tzel, Tina and Scott Dickson for all the advise and resources.
Another event on MySQL coming up. Stay Tuned!!! Go Tigers!!
