The Free Software Movement (AP) is organizing a 15-day Industry Oriented summer school, a training camp where a student can learn not just the various technologies used in the Industry but can also understand the various dynamics of the IT Industry.

Technology Sessions: The programme includes detailed sessions on variety of topics ranging from 'setting up a GNU/Linux Operating system' to 'Professional Programming' to 'Server Administration'. Apart from these, there will also be “Hands-on” sessions in laboratories for the technologies where the student can get a practical understanding of using the technology. These practical sessions will be well-facilitated.

ImpAct Sessions: The programme is designed to provide not just the technical knowledge required to develop software but also the skills required to scale up to the industry standards. The “ImpAct” Sessions are designed to not teach but make the students experience the different environments in which professional work is carried out. It includes sessions on Effective Communication, Positive Work Culture, Time Management, Internet Revolution and Working in Collaboration. These will provide the students an insight into 'things that are not taught in classrooms'.

The speakers for the sessions will be Industry experts working on these technologies.

Here's a list of sessions planned for the summer camp:

Deploying a GNU/Linux Operating System

System Administration

Structured Programming Methodology

Compilers and Debuggers

Srmt. Purandeswari garu Member of parliament (Lok Sabha) released swecha07 at tana.
The new release of Swecha contains following softwares and applications

1) this suite contains the entire office

OpenOffice writer

You can now edit Telugu text along with English and apply all the text formats that can be done with English text to Telugu text too.

OpenOffice Calc
You can have your spreadsheets in Telugu. Cells, Sheets, Menus, Option windows are in Telugu

Other tools are

OpenOffice Math
Create and edit scientific formulas and equations.

OpenOffice Impress
Create and edit presentations for slide shows

OpenOffice base

Manage databases

2)gnopernicus

Text to Speech software

it can speak Telugu out of typed text.

it can read all menu items.
it can read stories that are there in text.

3)gnome

The user interface from dialog boxes, menu items, warnings to files names are in Telugu.

4) short stories.
5) Sumathi Satakalu

6) Vemana Padyalu

“National Convention on Free Software Declaration”

March 4, 2007

Information Technology is revolutionizing the way people communicate with other and the way companies run their business. The new space – the cyber space—has facilitated the people around the globe to organize and exchange knowledge, goods and services on a global scale. Mailing lists, forums and online communities are a few forms in which people around the globe organize and exchange ideas, independent of space and time. Encyclopedias made by communities (groups in the cyberspace) are gaining acceptability. While IT and global connectivity has the enormous potential of communities of people in different parts of the world working together for a better future, it can also lead to increasing monopoly of power by a few corporations. In order to fulfill the promise of IT and global connectivity be monopolized by proprietary software and proprietary systems.

Swecha is a project that aims to localise GNU/Linux and other Free Software to Telugu. The project will strive to bridge the language barrier that is one of major reasons behind the digital divide.

We have a working system in which most common tasks like writing and printing documents, browsing the web, sending/receiving emails, chatting, editing graphics etc. can all be in Telugu. The screen shot on the right shows you the Swecha desktop, a GNOME desktop localized to Telugu. Most of this work will ultimately reach all the GNU/Linux distributions. It is also packed into an easy to use LiveCD distribution. The project has also developed a Telugu text-to-speech system and integrated it with the desktop. Since, one can hear the text on the desktop or web page by pointing at it, illiterate people may use it to access the desktop, read news on the web etc. It contains a Telugu text-to-speech system integrated with the desktop. Since, one can 'hear' the text on the desktop by pointing at it, illiterate people may use it to access the desktop, read news on the web etc.

SFD 2006 Poster (small, medium, large)

Software Freedom Day in Andhra Pradhesh was celebrated on 28th September with about 1000 volunteers contributing to localise GNU/Linux to Telugu. Following are some of the details on how the event proceeded.

Press Coverage

• Times of India
• Eenadu - 28th, 29th
• Prajasakti
• Telugu One