Just a reminder that the Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (TTCS)
will be celebrating Software Freedom Day 2010 on September 18th 2010
with a booth display at Trincity Mall, Trincity from 10am to 5pm.

Our booth (in the foyer near to the Payless store) will showcase
various aspects of Free and Open Source Software including :

– Free and Open Source Software for Windows included on our TTCS
OSSWIN DVD (yes, DVD!)
– demoing Ubuntu, a popular linux-based operating system bundled with
many applications.
– Ushahidi crowd-sourcing system to track/monitor incidents/disasters
in Trinidad & Tobago

Booth visitors can get the TTCS OSSWIN DVD and Ubuntu CDs while stocks last.

The TTCS OSSWIN DVD has never been available before and has over 100
programs (the TTCS OSSWIN CD has 91 programs).

See you there!

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Regards,

Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society at http://ttcsweb.org/ ;
http://fb.me/ttcsweb ; http://twitter.com/ttcs
“networking local computer users!”

The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (TTCS) will be celebrating Software Freedom Day 2010 on September 18th 2010 with a booth display at Trincity Mall, Trincity from 10am to 5pm.

Our booth will showcase various aspects of Free and Open Source Software including :

• Free and Open Source Software for Windows included on our TTCS OSSWIN CD 
• demoing Ubuntu, a popular linux-based operating system bundled with many applications.
• Ushahidi crowd-sourcing system to track/monitor incidents/disasters in Trinidad & Tobago

Booth visitors will get both the TTCS OSSWIN CD and Ubuntu CDs while stocks last. 

We will also be giving out flyers with information about the TTCS as well as tips on using Free and Open Source Software and keeping safe online.

The latest version of the TTCS OSSWIN CD
(https://www.ttcs.tt/osswin-cd/), a CD of Free and Open Source
Software for Windows 7, Vista and XP is available for download.
Download links and details can be found at https://www.ttcs.tt/osswin-cd/

Changelog :

TTCS OSSWIN CD v1.99i

Date created : September 10th, 2010
File name : ttcs_osswin_cd_v1.99i.iso
File size : 699 MB (733,374,464 bytes)
MD5 checksum : bcf52a281b35b739a75832f27f0d8994

Changes from v1.99h :

removed : Programmer’s Notepad, WinRoll, Paint.NET, winMD5sum
added : Notepad++, Pinta, WinHasher
updated : Maxima, Sokoban YASC, Inkscape, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla
Thunderbird, Filezilla, Halite, Miranda IM, Juice, VideoLAN,
VirtualDub, PDFCreator, ClamWin Free Antivirus, InfraRecorder,
Truecrypt, KeePass, Axcrypt, Really Slick Screensavers

Went though the documentation throughout the programs – throughout the
OSSWIN CD, the term “open source software” was replaced with “Free and
Open Source Software”

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Regards,

Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society at http://ttcsweb.org/ ;
http://fb.me/ttcsweb ; http://twitter.com/ttcs
“networking local computer users!”

The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (TTCS) announces the
availability of the TTCS FSWIN CD (http://ttcsweb.org/fswin-cd), a
collection of Free Software for Windows, for download.

Free Software is software that meets the Free Software Foundation’s
(FSF) definition :
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html ;

The impetus for the TTCS FSWIN CD came from a request from someone
from Free Software Foundation Europe (FSF Europe)
(http://www.fsfe.org/) currently co-organising Software Freedom Day
2010 (SFD) and was looking for a Free Software for
windows CD for SFD teams to use and distribute to the public.

While the TTCS has a TTCS OSSWIN CD, a collection of Free and Open
Source Software for Windows
(https://www.ttcs.tt/osswin-cd/) ; not all open source software
meets the Free Software definition.
A list of software licenses that meets the FSF’s definition of Free
Software and those that do not can be found at
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html

Hence the creation of the TTCS FSWIN CD since nearly all of the
software on the TTCS OSSWIN CD matched the FSF’s definition of Free
Software.

What was done :

– All of the licenses for all 92 programs on the TTCS OSSWIN CD were
examined. A short list of programs that didn’t meet the FSF definition
of Free Software was determined.

– For those programs, Free Software equivalents were located,
documented and added to the TTCS FSWIN CD webpages.

– All of the program descriptions for the TTCS OSSWIN CD was updated
to mention Free Software instead of just Open Source and used to
provide the web based documentation for the TTCS FSWIN CD.

– webpages and program were assembled together to finalise an ISO of
the TTCS FSWIN CD. See attached screenshot

Short sentences on what was done, but *lots* of hours involved 🙂

The result is the TTCS FSWIN CD – Free Software for Windows is
available for download thanks to a mirror provided by the FSF Europe.
Details about the TTCS FSWIN CD, including the download mirror can be
found at http://www.ttcsweb.org/fswin-cd/ .

Date created : September 8th, 2010
File name : ttcs_fswin_cd_v1.00.iso
File size : 693 MB (727,220,224 bytes)
MD5 checksum : 3a38ef06e56a87199122a425bac020a4 / 3a38ef06 e56a8719
9122a425 bac020a4

The TTCS will continue to maintain the TTCS OSSWIN CD, in addition to
the TTCS FSWIN CD. With our experience of developing multiple versions
of CDs, we are looking to develop a TTCS OSSWIN DVD and a TTCS OSSMAC
CD and/or DVD in the near future.

Regards,

Dev Anand Teelucksingh,
Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society at http://ttcsweb.org/ ;
http://fb.me/ttcsweb ; http://twitter.com/ttcs
“networking local computer users!”

The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (TTCS) will be having a
meeting on Saturday September 11 2010 from 1pm to 5pm at Engineering
Consultants at 112A Edward Street, Port of Spain (corner of Oxford and
Edward Street).

At this meeting, we will be doing preparations for Software Freedom
Day (SFD) 2010 which will be on September 18th 2010.

What is SFD?
———————
Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a global, grassroots effort to educate
the public about the benefits and availability of Free and Open Source
Software (FOSS). The non-profit company Software Freedom International
(http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/) coordinates SFD at a global
level. Volunteer teams throughout the world organise local SFD events
around the third Saturday in September.

What TTCS is doing for SFD 2010
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For SFD 2010, we will have a booth at Trincity mall, Trincity on
September 18 2010 from 10am to 5pm to demonstrate various aspects of
Free and Open Source Software such as :
– our TTCS OSSWIN disc (https://www.ttcs.tt/osswin-cd/)
– demoing Ubuntu, a popular linux-based operating system bundled with
many applications.
– our system to track/monitor disasters in Trinidad & Tobago

This is similar to our booth displays held for SFD2009 at Gulf City
Mall, Lowlands, Tobago and at Long Circular Mall, Trinidad (videos
from this effort can be seen at http://www.vimeo.com/ttcs).

What will TTCS be doing this Saturday September 11
——————————————————————————

Some of the preparations for SFD 2010 that will be done on Saturday
September 11 :

– confirming who will be assisting TTCS on the day itself.
– designing press releases
– preparing 2-3 machines for SFD 2010 – installing Microsoft Windows 7
and installing Ubuntu
– preparing the TTCS OSSWIN disc to add more applications ; we will be
burning DVDs instead of CDs so more applications can be included. Help
is needed to write descriptions, screenshots, etc.

Also, if time permits, further discussion on our larger event to be
held in November 2010 ; a tech day event covering various aspects of
computing including Windows, MacOS, Linux and the Internet.

If you are willing to help TTCS with SFD on Sept 18, do email admin
a@t ttcsweb.org and try to attend this Saturday.

Looking forward to a productive Saturday!

Dev Anand Teelucksingh
Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society at http://ttcsweb.org/
“networking local computer users!”

After the first meeting by the Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society
(TTCS) on Friday 20 August 2010 to discuss the concept of designing a
website using maps of Trinidad and Tobago to track and monitor
disasters such as flooding and to alert persons accordingly, it was
agreed that the TTCS will attempt the project.

(Attached Photo by Mike Tikasingh shows persons at the TTCS meeting on
Friday 20th August 2010)

The TTCS will have a meeting on Wednesday 25 August 2010 from 6pm to
8:30pm at Engineering Consultants (ENCO) at 112A Edward Street, Port
of Spain (corner of Oxford and Edward Streets)
to continue work on this project.

The idea came from a email on the TTCS discussion mailing list, You
can read the entire email thread at
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ttcs/message/27813

Anyone interested in attending are welcome to do so. Email us at admin
a@t ttcsweb.org if you are attending.

See you there!

The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (TTCS) will be having a meeting on Friday August 20 2010 from 6pm to 8pm at Engineering Consultants (ENCO) at 112A Edward Street, Port of Spain (corner of Oxford and Edward Streets).

At this meeting, we'll will be discussing the concept of designing a website using maps of Trinidad and Tobago to track and monitor disasters such as flooding and alert persons accordingly.

The idea came from a email on the TTCS discussion mailing list, You can read the entire email thread at
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ttcs/message/27813

Anyone interested in attending are welcome to do so. Email us at admin a@t ttcsweb.org if you are attending.

See you there!