Danishka's Diary

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart” -- Nelson Mandela I just want to show how you could join the 2012 International Mother Language Day by celebrations by contributing to a FOSS project with your friends and relatives. In this century ICT plays manor role in  various fields including education sector. There are many tools have been localized but most of them not let you in to the project to contribute as a localizer. So where you could contrinute to a softwrae on behalf of your own language or community? Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects let you to enable local language support on behalf of your community. More over FOSS is the best solution in terms of sustainability when we considering ICT literacy programs. Firefox ( www.firefox.com ) Worlds best Open Source web browser in the internet world. It also running on   Windows, Linux or MAC and also the defa...

Free and Open Source Software awareness lecture series organized by ICTA and Hanthana Linux community in line with Deyata Kirula 2012 education and trade exhibition was conducted ICTA stall on 7th and 8th of February. A gift from the ICTA  A lot of people participated at this event and the feedback was highly positive. Participants consisted of students, teachers, parents and employees from the government and private sectors. During the session, teachers got the chance to do a short lessons to their students using the education software in Hanthana Linux. At that point teachers were successful in getting used to the software during a short period of time of like 2 minutes and conducting the lesson to their students.   A school teacher (who visit the ICTA stall) conducting a small session on chemistry using Kalzium application to the audience ICTA presented the students with prizes like shool bags and pens and refreshments were offered . Further, ICTA distrubuted the ...

දැයට කිරුළ 2012 අධ්‍යාපන සහ වෙළඳ ප්‍රදර්ශනයට සමගාමීව ශ්‍රී ලංකා තොරතුරු තාක්‍ෂණ ආයතනය සහ හන්තාන ලිනක්ස් ප්‍රජාව එක්ව සංවිධානය කළ නිදහස් සහ විවෘත මෘදුකාංග පිළිබඳ දැණුවත් කිරිමේ වැඩසටහන් මාලාව පෙබරවාරි මස 7 සහ 8 දෙදෙන තුළ ශ්‍රී ලංකා තොරතුරු තාක්‍ෂණ ආයතනයේ ප්‍රදර්ශන කුටිය තුළ දි සිදු කරන ලඳි.   ICTA ආයතනයෙන් තෑග්ගක්.. මේ සඳහා අති විශාල පිරිසක් එක් වූ අතර සහභාගි වුවන්ගෙන් උණුසුම් ප්‍රතිචාර ලැබුණි. පාසල් ළමුන්, ගුරුවරු, දෙමාපියන් මෙන්ම රාජ්‍ය සහ පුද්ගලික අංශවල රැකියාවන්හි නියුතු කොටස් මෙම වැඩසටහන සමඟ එක් විය. මෙම වැඩසටහන අතර තුළ දි පාසැල් ගුරුවරුන් සඳහා හන්තාන ලිනක්ස් පද්ධතියේ ඇති අධ්‍යාපනික මෘදුකාංග භාවිතයෙන් කෙටි පාඩමක් තම පාසැල් දරුවන්ට කිරීමටද අවකාශ ලබා දීම විශේෂත්වයකි. එහිදි එම මොහොතේ විනාඩි 2ක් පමණ කාලයකදි අදාල මෘදුකාංගය භාවිතයට හුරුවීම මඟින් පාසැල් දරුවන්ට කෙටි පාඩමක් කිරීමට පාසැල් ගුරුවරු සමත් වූහ. ප්‍රදර්ශනකුටියට පැමිණි පාසැල් ගුරුවරයෙක් පැමිණ සිටි පාසල් ළමුන් ඇතුලු පිරිසට Kalzium මෘදුකාංගය භාවිතයෙන් රසායන විද්‍යාව පිළිබඳ කෙටි පාඩමක් කරමින්... පාසැල් දරුවන් සඳ...

Hanthana Linux team, with the collaboration of the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka , is about to a conduct an awareness event on Free and Open Source Software and Hanthana Linux on 7th and 8th of February at "Deyata Kirula 2012" Education and Trade exhibition which is held at Oyamaduwa, Anuradhapura in line with the 64th Independence Day. Lectures series which 100 people can participate at a time, opportunity to use free and open source software installed on computers and people will get the chance to get their queries answered. Following topics will be covered in lecture series. Free and Open Source Software Free and Open Source Software for education Hanthana Linux project Contribution for Free and Open Source Software Free and Open Source Software launched and sponsored by ICTA Get to know about Free and Open Source Software, visit ICTA stall at Deyata Kitula exhibition premises on 7th and 8th of February. Please be kind enough to spread the word to teachers and students...

64 වන නිදහස් දිනයට සමගාමීව අනුරාධපුර, ඔයාමඩුව ප්‍රදේශයේදි පැවැත්වෙන "දැයට කිරුල 2012" අධ්‍යාපන සහ වෙළඳ ප්‍රදර්ශනයේදි ,නිදහස් සහ විවෘත මෘදුකාංග සහ හන්තාන ලිනක්ස් ව්‍යාපෘතිය පිළිබඳ දැණුවත් කිරීම සඳහා හන්තාන ලිනක්ස් කණ්ඩායම පෙබරවාරි 7 සහ 8 දෙදින තුළ ,දැයට කිරුල භූමියේදි ශ්‍රී ලංකා තොරතුරු තාක්‍ෂණ නියෝජිත ආයතනයේ සහයෝගීත්වයෙන් වැඩසටහනක් ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට නියමිතයි. මෙහි දී , එකවර සිය දෙනෙකුට සහභාගි විය හැකි දේශන මාලවන් පැවැත් වීම, පරිගණක තුළ ස්ථාපිත නිදහස් සහ විවෘත මෘදුකාංග භාවිතයට අවස්ථාව ලබා දීම මෙන්ම තමන්ට ඇති ගැටලු පිළිබඳ විමසීමටද අවකාශ ලැබේ. දේශන මාලාවන් තුළදි පහත මාතෘකා පිළිබඳ දැණුවත් කරනු ලැබේ. නිදහස් සහ විවෘත මෘදුකාංග අධ්‍යාපනය සඳහා නිදහස් සහ විවෘත මෘදුකාංග හන්තාන ලිනක්ස් ව්‍යාපෘතිය නිදහස් සහ විවෘත මෘදුකාංග ව්‍යාපෘති සඳහා දායක වීම ICTA ආයතනය මඟින් දියත් කළ සහ අනුග්‍රහය දැක් වූ නිදහස් සහ විවෘත මෘදුකාංග ව්‍යාපෘති මෙලෙස නිදහස් සහ විවෘත මෘදුකාංග පිළිබඳ දැණුම ලබා ගැනීම සඳහා දැයට කිරුල ප්‍රදර්ශන භූමියේ ඇති ICTA ආයතනයේ ප්‍රදර්ශන කුටියට පෙබරවාරි මස 7 සහ 8 දිනයන් තුළ ප...

இலங்கைத் திருநாட்டின் 64 வது சுதந்திர தினத்தை முன்னிட்டு அனுராதபுர, ஓயாமடுவே பிரதேசத்தில் நடைபெறும் “தேசத்திற்கு மகுடம் 2012″ வருத்தக, கல்வி கண்காட்சியில் கட்டற்ற மென்பொருள் மற்றும் ஹந்தான லினக்ஸ் பயன்பாடு குறித்து விளக்கமளிக்கும் பயிலரங்க நிகழ்வொன்றினை ஹந்தான லினக்ஸ் குழுவினர் எதிர்வரும் பெப்ரவரி மாதம் 7 ஆம் 8 ஆம் திகதிகளில். ICTA அமைப்பின் அனுசரணையுடன் “தேசத்திற்கு மகுடம்” பிரதேசத்தில் நடாத்தவுள்ளனர். இந்நிகழ்வு ஒரு தடவையில் நூறுபேர் கலந்து கொள்ளக்கூடிய கற்றல் கூடமொன்றில் நடைபெறவுள்ளது. இதில் கலந்து கொண்டு தங்களுக்குள்ள கட்டற்ற மென்பொருள் பயன்பாடு குறித்தான ஐயங்களைளைத் தீர்த்துக்கொள்ளலாம். இப்பயிலரங்கில் ஐந்து விடயங்கள் பற்றி விளக்கப்படும் 1..கட்டற்ற மென்பொருள் பற்றி 2. கல்வி தொடர்பான கட்டற்ற மென்பொருள் 3. ஹந்தான லினக்ஸ் திட்டம் 4. கட்டற்ற மென்பொருள் திட்டங்களில் பங்களிப்பது 5. ICTA வினால் முன்னெடுக்கப்படும் கட்டற்ற மென்பொருள் திட்டங்கள் கட்டற்ற மென்பொருள் தொடர்பான மேலதிக விபரங்களை பெற “தேசத்திற்கு மகுடம்” நிகழ்வு நடைபெறும் இடத்திலுள்ள ICTA வின் குடிலிற்கு பெப்ரவரி...

Openness, meritocracy and transparency anchored in cornerstones of an enduring entity Successful vendor-neutral development model to provide the best free office suite Berlin, February 1st, 2012 - The Document Foundation (TDF) today announces that it will base its community-driven entity in Berlin, in the legal form of a German Stiftung. This kind of structure is recognized worldwide as a legally stable, safe and long term entity, providing the ideal cornerstone for the long term growth of the community and its software. "For the first time in 12 years, the development of the free office suite finally takes place within an entity that not only perfectly fits the values and ideals of the worldwide community, but also has this very same community driving it. The future home of the best free office suite is built and shaped by everyone who decides to participate and join. And the best is: Everyone can contribute and is invited to do so, to further strenghten the free office ecos...