Iran Free Software Users Group, Iran FSUG

2015 Event

Date: 2015 October 1

Time: 8 - 17 (Local time)

Conference: Jaber Ibne Hayan Hall, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. (map)

Workshops: Computer Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. (map)

Report

Software Freedom Day of 2015 (1394 in Jalali Calendar) has been held on October 1st, 2015 from 9 to 17 in Tehran, Iran. The Conference contains two simultaneous parts, one was the presentaions which have been placed in Jaber Ibne Hayan Hall and the other was four workshops, placed in Computer Engineering Department of Sharif University of Technology. More than eight hundred individuals from all over the country participated in this period. Attendance was gratis and free for everyone, and most of the conference cost were provided by donations from free software community in Iran.

Most of the presentations were about non-technical, philosophical issues. Namely Why privacy matters, The community of free software, Free software concepts, LPIC certificates, Massive online open courses, Free software in big data, Tools, policies and the future of Wikipedia, Free and open source software foundation of Iran and Data loss prevention system. At the Startup of the event, the video of Richard Stallman which was recorded for SFD in Iran was played. Besides, two free animations from Blender foundation, Sintel and Cosmos Laundromat continued by Nelson Mandela interview about Ubuntu and We are Linux clip from Linux foundation were played in break times.

Workshops were held at the same time with presentations were about technical and general terms in free software. Install, and usage of GNU/Linux for newbie users was the other part of the event, held in the Lobby of the computer engineering department from 10 to 16. Workshop subjects were varying about Wikipedia development tools, Privacy protection tools, Blender training, web front-end frameworks, Free hardware design and Aurduino, Embedded Linux from scratch, Security topics (SE Linux, Kali Linux, White hat hacking, Network penetration test), programming topics (Qt application development, R programming language), Web programming topics (YII framework, Component development for Joomla) and Git version control system. From 232 votes sent by participants to choose the best presentation, the first presenter had 34 votes, the second one had 33 votes, and the third one had 32 votes which were awarded by some presents.

The other simultaneous part of this event was painting free software logos on clothes. In this section, participants gave their T-Shirts, scarves, etc. to the director of this chapter and she painted some free software logos on them. The profit of this chapter was spent as a part of event expenses.

16 individuals participated as executive team and organizers of the event. After scientific referee sessions from 33 proposals which have been submitted, 13 of them held workshops, and 10 presented their articles. Six video clips with a total amount of 48 minutes were played in main conference Hall. Unfortunately because of some technical faults, some of the presentations and workshops were not recorded correctly, but from 24 hours of presentations in workshops and conference, after video codifications 12 hours of speeches was uploaded on youtube, takhtesefid and Internet Archives with 5 different formats.

The total amount of donations was 14 million and 300 thousand IRRs from 50 individuals, with maximum donate of 5 million IRR. About 25 million IRRs have been spent for the event. Detailed financial report of the event is published on the website.

Media impression of this event was in such a way that some of the magazines, Internet forums, blogs, news websites, websites which are active in Free Software field and IT companies broadcasts the news of Tehran SFD event. Besides, Al-Kosar International Arabic TV Station produced and broadcast a report of the event. Artworks which are used in these reports and websites was published from Tehran SFD official website.

After appreciation of staffs and executive team, presenters, and patrons, at the end of this event, all participants took some photos.

About Us

IranFsug, is an independent Iranian network of Free software movement activists founded in 2010. Later this group become a part of Libre/Free Knowledge Foundation (LFKF), and it's open to everyone to join and share their knowledge with society.

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Organizers: Saeed Alijani, Mohamad Razeghi, S. M. Masoud Sadrnezhaad
Executive Team: Ebtesam Akherati, Danial Behzadi, Erfan Besharat, Amirhossein Goodarzi, Shayan Habibi, Mohammadhossein Hamedi, Ali Hefazati, Mohammadhossein Hooshmandi, Hossein Kamalzadeh, Saeed Rajabzadeh, Ali Rostami
Other Contributors: Farzad Abdolhoseini, Behdad Abedi, Mohamadjavad Aboutalebi, Vahid Alamfard, Seied Masih Alavi, Alireza Ansaripour, Mohamad Damavandi, Khashayar Danesh, Ramin Fayyazzadeh, Alireza Fekri, Ehsan Golshani, Hamidreza Goodarzi, Ali Jafarabadi, Iman Jami, Salar Moghadam, Amir Nabizadeh, Ali Nikkhah, Alireza Pourabedin, Mohamad Shahmaleki, Mobin Shaterian, Mehran Torki

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