Software Freedom Day 2010 @ JEC

    We are organising software freedom day in our college (JEC) on september 18th ...Plan to recieve lot of response this time focused more on School students and lot of new foss interested students to make involve them in open source to learn and contribute to the open source .www.sfd10.co.cc  this is our official website which is been in development for the event my friends r egarly working for the success of event under the supervision of our hod.so invite all ur friends and come up with lot of friends and learn lot !

  

     Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Our goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about of the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in business -- in short, everywhere! The non-profit organization Software Freedom International coordinates SFD at a global level, providing support, giveaways and a point of collaboration, but volunteer teams around the world organize the local SFD events to impact their own communities. This festival offers the students and Open Source Representatives to have an insight into diverse fields of Open Source Tools. The interaction that prevails between the students at the fest is a unique characteristic which helps them to develop their technical skills.

SFD’10 is a platform for future computer science engineers to expand their horizon. We hope to give the students a feel of real industrial world. A wide range of events are hosted by SFD‘10 which aims to inform, inject and impel that learning about science can be fun. This website provides a calendar of events for young people like you.

  Every year in my college ( Jaya engineering college) we conduct software freedom day to promote usage of open source software to many school students even lot of college students ill actively participated for the grant success of the events .Our Hod M.Kumaran sir have formed a foss club to indulge in knowledge gaining activity for the students and to develop the awarness of free software . 

   Jaya FOSS Club (JFC) has been formed with the motive of embracing people into the Free Software / Open Source fraternity. We aim to accomplish this by organizing a stratum of programs targeting various aspects. We aim to achieve all our goals with support from various GNU/Linux user groups as well as students and their earnest efforts. JFC aims to leave a mark for the student generations to come, which in turn shall carry on the legacy of FOSS.

Sixth Sense Technology May Change How We Look at the World Forever

I can't really describe Sixth Sense in a line. Sure, it is a system that projects information about what surrounds you over objects' surfaces, but it's also much more. You just have to watch it:(If you have the time, you can go through the whole video and Pattie Maes' explanation. If not, go to minute 3:10, where the cool demonstrations begin. There, Pranav Mistry—the MIT student who has implemented Sixth Sense—shows how it works).

Basically, Sixth Sense is a mini-projector coupled with a camera and a cellphone—which acts as the computer and your connection to the Cloud, all the information stored on the web. Sixth Sense can also obey hand gestures, like in the infamous Minority Report.

However, instead of requiring you to be in front of a big screen like Tom Cruise, Sixth Sense can do its magic—and a lot more—everywhere, even while you are jumping hysteric over Oprah's sofa.

The camera recognizes objects around you instantly, with the micro-projector overlaying the information on any surface, including the object itself or your hand. Then, you can access or manipulate the information using your fingers. Need to make a call? Extend your hand on front of the projector and numbers will appear for you to click. Need to know the time? Draw a circle on your wrist and a watch will appear. Want to take a photo? Just make a square with your fingers, highlighting what you want to frame, and the system will make the photo—which you can later organize with the others using your own hands over the air.

But those are just novelty applications. The true power of Sixth Sense lies on its potential to connect the real world with the Internet, and overlaying the information on the world itself. Imagine you are at the supermarket, thinking about what brand of soap is better. Or maybe what wine you should get for tonight's dinner. Just look at objects, hold them on your hands, and Sixth Sense will show you if it's good or bad, or if it fits your preferences or not.

Now take this to every aspect of your everyday life. You can be in a taxi going to the airport, and just by taking out your boarding pass, Sixth Sense will grab real time information about your flight and display it over the ticket. You won't need to do any action. Just hold it in front of your and it will work.

The key here is that Sixth Sense recognizes the objects around you, displaying information automatically and letting you access it in any way you want, in the simplest way possible.

Clearly, this has the potential of becoming the ultimate "transparent" user interface for accessing information about everything around us. If they can get rid of the colored finger caps and it ever goes beyond the initial development phase, that is. But as it is now, it may change the way we interact with the real world and truly give everyone complete awareness of the environment around us.

the video description is here in this youtube link can refer and feel the sixth sense ...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUdDhWfpqxg