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mandela'/><title type='text'>ඩනිෂ්කගේ දින පොත | Danishka's Diary</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/-/linux'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/search/label/linux'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/-/linux/-/linux?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><author><name>Danishka Navin</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/104125031630392976949</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' 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Human Rights</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://0.gvt0.com/vi/JN8vXFUv8sA/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JN8vXFUv8sA&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266"  src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JN8vXFUv8sA&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;credits: UNTV&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fedora'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sri Lanka'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='school'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lanka'/><title type='text'>Hanthana Linux School Labs Project Progress Report - 2012 March 22</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div class="entry entry-content"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Project 1: Sagalapura College, Biganthalawa, Kadapola&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Walapane Education Zone, Central Province&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was meant to be our maiden School lab and we promised them to  provide new computers. This project can be initiated as soon as the  computers are available. College has enough room for a laboratory and  local politician have promised to provide the electricity supply.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Summary:&lt;/b&gt; 5 Computers required to initiate the project.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Note:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 5 new computers are urgently needed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333399;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Coordinator:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Athula Herath 0718-217443&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Project 2: Malalgoda Siri Seewalee Primary College, Ahangama (Galle Education Zone)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Currently operational with one computer. There is a possibility to add three more computers after Sinhala Tamil New Year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Note:&lt;/b&gt; Group of Officers of Asian Development Bank and Provincial Education Office inspected the school on March 21, 2012&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;Other Requirements:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Need equipment for Electrical wiring and Computer networking&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333399;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Coordinator&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: Bandula Pushpakumara 0716-146331&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Project 3: Dekatana Primary College, Dekatana (Gampaha District)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;School already has one computer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Note:&lt;/b&gt; 4 Computers required&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333399;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Coordinator:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; Bandula Ranatunga 0714-315426&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Project 04: Herath Halmillawa College, Kabathigollawa&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In progress of getting few used computers. This would be success most likely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Note:&lt;/b&gt; Friends from Rajarata University or Anuradapura area with linux knowledge are required for initial training program.&lt;br /&gt;Helping hands of two teachers Mr Athula Herath and Mr Thusitha Kumara are available for getting the used computers refurbished.&lt;br /&gt;Sponsor is required to provide equipment (such as Capacitors, ICs) for the refurbishments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333399;"&gt;Coordinator:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Tharaka Thisera, 0718-665002&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Donations&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Buddika Siddisena agreed to hand over his used computer after repairs.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Three used computers are about to receive via Gayan Kalhara&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A private company has agreed to donate a New computer. This  opportunity was achieved due to the promotion done by Sadeepa  Palliyaguru&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mihira Fernando agrees to help with his LSTP knowledge.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;What you can Do….&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please provide us your helping hands to complete above 4 projects as soon as possible.&lt;br /&gt;Let us know if you are interested to join the course with us.&lt;br /&gt;Inform your friends who are willing to help or letting us know the  schools those need our attention is also a way of contribution. And also  make the public aware of the project via your blog, Facebook, Twitter,  Google+ or even at your company’s meetings is a fine contribution that  cost you nothing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Join with us~! &lt;a href="http://school.hanthana.org%20/" target="_blank"&gt;school.hanthana.org &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2800114261235070536-439811164248555844?l=danishkanavin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/feeds/439811164248555844/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2800114261235070536&amp;postID=439811164248555844' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/439811164248555844'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/439811164248555844'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/2012/03/progress-report-2012-march-22.html' title='Hanthana Linux School Labs Project Progress Report - 2012 March 22'/><author><name>Danishka Navin</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/104125031630392976949</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-WbukiFMHMiE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAABMc/bej2YMFpkoY/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2800114261235070536.post-5380732234342943311</id><published>2012-03-12T21:09:00.004+05:30</published><updated>2012-03-13T10:56:52.148+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='teachers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='students'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ICT'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sustainable'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='labs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='community'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FOSS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='open source'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='education'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='linux'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hanthana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sri Lanka'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rural'/><title type='text'>Make their future with your PC!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;While the initiative to provide computer labs for schools project is going forward as planned, a project to bring PCs in the classroom for primary schools was held as a pilot project was held at the Malalgoda Siriseewali Primary School. Invest a few moments of your precious time to see the feedback and opinions of the students, teaches and parents when &lt;a href="http://www.hanthana.org/" title="Hanthana Linux Project"&gt;Hanthana&lt;/a&gt; was provided for them for the very first time...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q7wBwyTRlRA/T17aFFZgljI/AAAAAAAABOw/Ak1Ncm--h9s/s1600/HanthanaSchoolLabs01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="151" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q7wBwyTRlRA/T17aFFZgljI/AAAAAAAABOw/Ak1Ncm--h9s/s400/HanthanaSchoolLabs01.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Proving the saying “Only the Best for the children”, Hanthana Linux was introduced to the school children of the Malalgoda Siriseewali Primary school which is located in the Habaraadoowa Educational zone of the Imadhoowa Provincial Council within the Galle District, on the 30th of January 2012.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This school had been closed down for around one year and was re opened on the 16th of January 2012 under the 1000 Schools initiative. The school comprises of 15 students, Grade 1 class teacher, an English teacher and the principal.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The opening was made possible entirely due to the work done by the locals and the parents, the majority of whom are estate workers and private sector employees. Another special point to highlight here is that a family, who’s father is a labourer and the mother employed as a house keeper abroad, donated the PC which was worth about 12000/- Rupees. Upon inquiring from the mother, she said that had her child had to go to another school (due to this school being closed down), they will have to spend 1200/- a month for three wheeler charges and it totals out to around 12000/- a year and rather than spending that amount just for travelling, she’s happy to spend it on a PC for her child as well as other children for the their education.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Far thinking parents of this schools, such as her, were instrumental in getting Hanthana Linux installed and help the primary education. Also need to highlight that other parents who labour during the day, spend sleepless nights dedicated on maintaining and repairing the school buildings and equipment. These villages personify “lead by example” from the sacrifices they make to educate their children.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;On the first day Hanthana was used for the primary education several things of note took place. As there was only one PC, the multimedia projector of the Habaraaduwa Educational Zone Office was used in the class to illustrate the theories for the various subjects using the Educational Software Packages that comes with Hanthana Linux. Especially the “Identifying Colours” lesson. In contrast to other occasions, the children partook the lesson most enthusiastically and constantly requested their teacher to allow them to use these software by themselves. This bought many a happy tear to the eyes of the Director of Education for the Habaradoowa Educational Zone, who attended the occasion, as well to the principal and the parents who were present.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;“I’m hungry.. I’m hungry...” the lunch time grumble that comes up everyday were not be heard on this day as the kids were so engrossed with computer aided lessons.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zTN-6e0Sa_Q" width="560"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The teachers agreed that teaching subject concepts and theory using the educational software were extremely easy as opposed to other methods. Also even after the school time was over the children were still in class on this day.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;As the students are the focal point in the educational system within the school, a single PC and multimedia projector is hardly sufficient. There should be at least a PC for every four students for this to properly work out. In areas such as these where the majority of the people are low income earners, the parents hardly has the capability to sponsor the required number of PCs and equipment. External sponsorship is highly important for cases like these.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A qualitative school education system helps the whole nation to grow. Therefore the Hanthana Community is committed to the task of building the school IT education using Hanthana Linux through the &lt;a href="http://school.hanthana.org/" target="_blank" title="Hanthana School Labs Project"&gt;Hanthana School Labs Project&lt;/a&gt;.We hope that you’ll join us.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Come lets pave the way for these children to Sign in to the future...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Video: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTN-6e0Sa_Q" target="_blank" title="Hanthana School Lab Project - Pilot Program 01 "&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTN-6e0Sa_Q&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2800114261235070536-5380732234342943311?l=danishkanavin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/feeds/5380732234342943311/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2800114261235070536&amp;postID=5380732234342943311' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/5380732234342943311'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/5380732234342943311'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/2012/03/make-their-future-with-your-pc.html' title='Make their future with your PC!'/><author><name>Danishka Navin</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/104125031630392976949</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-WbukiFMHMiE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAABMc/bej2YMFpkoY/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q7wBwyTRlRA/T17aFFZgljI/AAAAAAAABOw/Ak1Ncm--h9s/s72-c/HanthanaSchoolLabs01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2800114261235070536.post-8489882611073508161</id><published>2012-02-20T14:35:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2012-02-20T15:34:53.245+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tdf'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fedora'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='international'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nelson mandela'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kde'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FOSS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='UNESCO'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Irina Bokova'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Firefox'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sugar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gnome'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='linux'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mother language'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Debian'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='language'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='LibreOffice'/><title type='text'>Your Language! Your Freedom!  preserve it for the next generation!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;“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”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;-- Nelson Mandela &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just want to show how you could join the &lt;b&gt;2012 International Mother Language Day&lt;/b&gt; by celebrations by contributing to a FOSS project with your friends and relatives.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;In this century ICT plays manor role in&amp;nbsp; 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?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Firefox &lt;/b&gt;(&lt;a href="http://www.firefox.com/"&gt;www.firefox.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mozilla.org/img/covehead/firefox/brand-toolkit/download/logo-wordmark-vertical.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://www.mozilla.org/img/covehead/firefox/brand-toolkit/download/logo-wordmark-vertical.png" width="170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Worlds best Open Source web browser in the internet world. It also running on &lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt; Windows, Linux or MAC and also the default browser of GNU/Linux systems. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Firefox comes with more than 70 language support which powered by hundreds of volunteers localizers around the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;LibreOffice &lt;/b&gt;(&lt;a href="http://www.libreoffice.org/"&gt;www.libreoffice.org&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/6/65/LibreOffice_Initial-Artwork-Logo_ColorLogoBasic_500px.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="102" src="http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/6/65/LibreOffice_Initial-Artwork-Logo_ColorLogoBasic_500px.png" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;LibreOffice is the power-packed free, libre and open source personal  productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and GNU/Linux, that gives you  six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data  processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RnfVw5tINX0/T0H4YjRQs-I/AAAAAAAABOo/8Xh31ITNI8k/s1600/gnome-logo-300px.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RnfVw5tINX0/T0H4YjRQs-I/AAAAAAAABOo/8Xh31ITNI8k/s200/gnome-logo-300px.png" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gnome Desktop&lt;/b&gt; (&lt;a href="http://www.gnome.org/"&gt;www.gnome.org&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Gnome is one of the most popular Desktop among the GNU/Linux users, which use as the default desktop of Fedora, Debian, CentOS, RHEL, etc&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;https://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/ContributeTranslations&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sugar Desktop&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;(&lt;a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/"&gt;www.sugarlabs.org&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="logo" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div class="headline"&gt;The  award-winning Sugar Learning Platform promotes collaborative learning  through Sugar Activities that encourage critical thinking, the heart of a  quality education. Designed from the ground up especially for children,  Sugar offers an alternative to traditional “office-desktop” software.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="headline"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="headline"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Sugar Labs—learning software for children" border="0" height="49" id="logo" src="http://www.sugarlabs.org/assets/logo_black_07.png" title="Sugar Labs—learning software for children" width="223" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="text" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Sugar  is the core component of a worldwide effort to provide every child with  equal opportunity for a quality education. Available in 25 languages,  Sugar’s &lt;a class="link" href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=page&amp;amp;page=about_activities"&gt;Activities&lt;/a&gt; are used every school day by almost two-million children in more than forty countries.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="text" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Originally  developed for the One Laptop per Child XO-1 netbook, Sugar runs on most  computers. Sugar is free/libre and open-source software.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;http://translate.sugarlabs.org &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1994396883"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;KDE Desktop &lt;/b&gt;(&lt;a href="http://www.kde.org/"&gt;www.kde.org&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xVVRVGbf77w/SaT4-jctSqI/AAAAAAAAAt8/5v58S6Lq9pE/s1600/klogo-small-crystal-128.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xVVRVGbf77w/SaT4-jctSqI/AAAAAAAAAt8/5v58S6Lq9pE/s1600/klogo-small-crystal-128.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The KDE Community is an international technology team dedicated to  creating a free and user-friendly computing experience, offering an  advanced graphical desktop, a wide variety of applications for  communication, work, education and entertainment and a platform to  easily build new applications upon. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fedora &lt;/b&gt;(&lt;a href="http://fedoraproject.org/"&gt;fedoraproject.org&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U7TFNFnl920/SCbH4WsddNI/AAAAAAAAAXs/7gXx65JrFTI/s1600/fedora_logo1%255B1%255D" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U7TFNFnl920/SCbH4WsddNI/AAAAAAAAAXs/7gXx65JrFTI/s1600/fedora_logo1%255B1%255D" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Fedora is a fast, stable, and powerful operating system for everyday use  built by a worldwide community of friends. It's completely free to use,  study, and share.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Debian &lt;/b&gt;(&lt;a href="http://debian.org/"&gt;debian.org&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Its your responsibility... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;According to the &lt;a href="http://www.unesco.org/" target="_blank"&gt;UNESCO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;nearly half of the            more than 6,000 languages spoken in the world could die out  by the end of the            century.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Just check out each project listed above and feel free to join us to bring your language to forward by enabling your local language support via a true community based project. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="text" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;"The language of our thoughts and our emotions is our  most valuable asset. Multilingualism is our ally in ensuring quality  education for all, in promoting inclusion and in combating  discrimination. "&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="text" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;For the 13th time the UNESCO celebrate the 2012 International Mother Language Day 'Mother tongue instruction and inclusive education'.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The date represents the day in 1952 when students demonstrating for  recognition of their language, Bangla, as one of the two national  languages of the then Pakistan, were shot and killed by police in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhaka" target="_blank"&gt;Dhaka&lt;/a&gt;,  the capital of what is now Bangladesh.&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2800114261235070536-8489882611073508161?l=danishkanavin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/feeds/8489882611073508161/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2800114261235070536&amp;postID=8489882611073508161' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/8489882611073508161'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/8489882611073508161'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/2012/02/your-language-your-freedom-preseve-it.html' title='Your Language! Your Freedom!  preserve it for the next generation!!'/><author><name>Danishka Navin</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/104125031630392976949</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-WbukiFMHMiE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAABMc/bej2YMFpkoY/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RnfVw5tINX0/T0H4YjRQs-I/AAAAAAAABOo/8Xh31ITNI8k/s72-c/gnome-logo-300px.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2800114261235070536.post-3563094978757553599</id><published>2012-02-15T20:38:00.007+05:30</published><updated>2012-02-15T20:38:00.087+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='teachers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='students'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='exhibition'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='community'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fedora'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tdf'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ministry of Education'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FOSS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ICTA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='education'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='linux'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hanthana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sri Lanka'/><title type='text'>FOSS Session at Deyata Kirula, a success!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Free and Open Source Software awareness lecture series organized by &lt;a href="http://www.icta.lk/" target="_blank" title="ICT Agency of Sri Lanka"&gt;ICTA&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.hanthana.org/" target="_blank" title="Hanthana Linux Project"&gt;Hanthana Linux&lt;/a&gt; community in line with Deyata Kirula 2012 education and trade exhibition was conducted ICTA stall on 7th and 8th of February.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.hanthana.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/IMG_7710.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="392" src="http://blog.hanthana.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/IMG_7710.jpg" width="588" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;A gift from the ICTA&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;A lot of people participated at this event and the feedback was highly positive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Participants consisted of students, teachers, parents and employees from the government and private sectors.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.hanthana.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/IMG_8018.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="aligncenter" height="426" src="http://blog.hanthana.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/IMG_8018.jpg" title="IMG_8018" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;A school teacher (who visit the ICTA stall) conducting a small session on chemistry using Kalzium application to the audience&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;ICTA presented the students with prizes like shool bags and pens and refreshments were offered . Further, ICTA distrubuted the &lt;a href="http://hanthana.org/download.php#hanthana15.5" target="_blank" title="Hanthana Linux 15.5"&gt;Hanthana Linux 15.5 LiveDVD&lt;/a&gt; free of charge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although it was scheduled to conduct only three sessions a day, a new session had to be started just after a session driven by the enthusiasm of the students and parents on Free and Open Source Software awareness lecture series.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.hanthana.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/IMG_7941.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="aligncenter" height="411" src="http://blog.hanthana.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/IMG_7941.jpg" title="IMG_7941" width="616" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Two winner of the TuxMath game (a mathematical game)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Information Technology Branch of Ministry of Education also in their stall introduced Free and Open Source Software for the second time throughout the exhibition.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Hanthana community pays the gratitude to Mr. Bandula Ranathunga who supported at the very first step to join Deyata Kirula exhibition, Ministry of Information Technology, team from ICTA, Mr. Athula Pushpakumara, Mr. Wasantha Deshapriya, Mr. Mahesh Kuragama,  Mr. Priyanka without whom this won't be a reality and finally to Mr. Sujith Jayasooriya who coordinated and supported Hanthana community.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.hanthana.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/IMG_8118.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="aligncenter" height="411" src="http://blog.hanthana.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/IMG_8118.jpg" title="IMG_8118" width="616" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;Discussing.. what is the answer?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.hanthana.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/IMG_7689.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="392" src="http://blog.hanthana.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/IMG_7689.jpg" title="IMG_7689" width="588" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;No matter its day or night.. all the FOSS sessions flooded by the parents, kids, etc&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2800114261235070536-3563094978757553599?l=danishkanavin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/feeds/3563094978757553599/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2800114261235070536&amp;postID=3563094978757553599' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/3563094978757553599'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/3563094978757553599'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/2012/02/foss-session-at-deyata-kirula-success.html' title='FOSS Session at Deyata Kirula, a success!'/><author><name>Danishka Navin</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/104125031630392976949</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-WbukiFMHMiE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAABMc/bej2YMFpkoY/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2800114261235070536.post-6276861327577793163</id><published>2012-02-05T05:02:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2012-02-05T08:51:50.716+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='open source'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ICTA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='education'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='linux'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hanthana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sri Lanka'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Deyatakirula'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FOSS'/><title type='text'>Feel the freedom at Deyatakirula 2012</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;Hanthana Linux team, with the collaboration of the &lt;a href="http://www.icta.lk/" target="_blank" title="ICT Agency of Sri Lanka"&gt;ICT Agency of Sri Lanka&lt;/a&gt;, is about to a conduct an awareness event on Free and Open Source Software and &lt;a href="http://www.hanthana.org/" target="_blank" title="Hanthana Linux Project"&gt;Hanthana Linux&lt;/a&gt; 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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Following topics will be covered in lecture series.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Free and Open Source Software&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Free and Open Source Software for education&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hanthana Linux project&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Contribution for Free and Open Source Software&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Free and Open Source Software launched and sponsored by ICTA&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;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 of North Central Provincial area as well as to other who wish to visit the exhibition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apart from that Information Technology Unit of the Ministry of Education is about to conduct a awareness session of Free and Open Source Software in their stall.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For Deyata Kirula, &lt;a href="http://hanthana.org/download.php#hanthana15.5" target="_blank" title="Hanthana Linux 15.5"&gt;Hanthana Linux 15.5&lt;/a&gt; was released and ICTA has made arrangements to deliver a copy of the operating system for those who need at the exhibition premises. &lt;a href="http://hanthana.org/download.php#hanthana15.5" target="_blank" title="Hanthana Linux 15.5"&gt;Visit this link to get the latest version&lt;/a&gt;. Danishka, Bandula, Kalhara and Hiranya  representing Hanthana Team will assist you in Deyata Kirula exhibition premises.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2800114261235070536-6276861327577793163?l=danishkanavin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/feeds/6276861327577793163/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2800114261235070536&amp;postID=6276861327577793163' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/6276861327577793163'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/6276861327577793163'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/2012/02/feel-freedom-with-deyatakirula-2012.html' title='Feel the freedom at Deyatakirula 2012'/><author><name>Danishka Navin</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/104125031630392976949</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-WbukiFMHMiE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAABMc/bej2YMFpkoY/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2800114261235070536.post-8135923030908982389</id><published>2012-01-25T09:07:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2012-01-25T17:48:18.534+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='හන්තාන'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ලිනක්ස්'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='download'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stats'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='linux'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hanthana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sri Lanka'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FOSS'/><title type='text'>Hanthana Linux Download stats from the Sourforge.net</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="filename files-breadcrumb"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="picker"&gt;Here is the download statistics from the SourceFourge for the period of 1st&amp;nbsp; of&amp;nbsp; January 2012 to 25th of January 2012. The total downloads for the period was 263 while Philippines listed as the leading country with 20% of downloads. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;form action="http://sourceforge.net/projects/hanthana/files/stats/map" class="bp"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;form action="http://sourceforge.net/projects/hanthana/files/stats/map" class="bp"&gt;List of Top downloading countries for the last 25 days&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table class="ui-corner-all { sortlist: [[2,1]] }" id="data" title="Listing of downloads broken down by geographical region"&gt;&lt;thead&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th class="{sorter: false}" id="files_no_h"&gt;&lt;/th&gt;                 &lt;th class="header usersortable" id="files_date_h"&gt;Country&lt;span class="ui-icon fs-toggle"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt;                 &lt;th class="{sorter: 'localnum'} header headerSortUp usersortable" id="files_downloads_h"&gt;Downloads&lt;span class="ui-icon fs-toggle"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt;             &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/thead&gt;         &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr class="odd"&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;1.&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;Philippines&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td headers="files_downloads_h"&gt;48&lt;/td&gt;             &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="even"&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;2.&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;Sri Lanka&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td headers="files_downloads_h"&gt;41&lt;/td&gt;             &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="odd"&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;3.&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;Israel&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td headers="files_downloads_h"&gt;27&lt;/td&gt;             &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="even"&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;4.&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;Canada&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td headers="files_downloads_h"&gt;26&lt;/td&gt;             &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="odd"&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;5.&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;Germany&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td headers="files_downloads_h"&gt;23&lt;/td&gt;             &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="even"&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;6.&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;United States&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td headers="files_downloads_h"&gt;23&lt;/td&gt;             &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="odd"&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;7.&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;United Kingdom&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td headers="files_downloads_h"&gt;10&lt;/td&gt;             &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="even"&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;8.&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;Italy&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td headers="files_downloads_h"&gt;8&lt;/td&gt;             &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="odd"&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;9.&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;Czech Republic&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td headers="files_downloads_h"&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;             &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="even"&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;10.&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;Portugal&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td headers="files_downloads_h"&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt; &lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/hanthana/files/stats/map?dates=2012-01-1+to+2012-01-25" target="_blank"&gt;Full List of countries from the download stats for the period of 1st Jan 2012 to 25th Jan 2012&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please note that Hanthana Linux is hosted at two servers within the Sri Lanka. So, we could not calculate the exact download statistics from the Sri Lanka and also the ibiblio also providing hosting service for the Hanthana Linux over their servers around the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is the overall download statistics from the Sourceforge since the very first release.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Total Downloads&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;b&gt;3650&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Top 10 countries who dowloaded Hanthana Linux from the Sourceforge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table class="ui-corner-all { sortlist: [[2,1]] }" id="data" title="Listing of downloads broken down by geographical region"&gt;&lt;thead&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th class="{sorter: false}" id="files_no_h"&gt;&lt;/th&gt;                 &lt;th class="header usersortable" id="files_date_h"&gt;Country&lt;span class="ui-icon fs-toggle"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt;                 &lt;th class="{sorter: 'localnum'} header headerSortUp usersortable" id="files_downloads_h"&gt;Downloads&lt;span class="ui-icon fs-toggle"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt;             &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/thead&gt;         &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr class="odd"&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;1.&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;Sri Lanka&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td headers="files_downloads_h"&gt;1,448&lt;/td&gt;             &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="even"&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;2.&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;United States&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td headers="files_downloads_h"&gt;420&lt;/td&gt;             &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="odd"&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;3.&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;Germany&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td headers="files_downloads_h"&gt;113&lt;/td&gt;             &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="even"&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;4.&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;United Kingdom&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td headers="files_downloads_h"&gt;100&lt;/td&gt;             &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="odd"&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;5.&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;Canada&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td headers="files_downloads_h"&gt;97&lt;/td&gt;             &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="even"&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;6.&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;France&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td headers="files_downloads_h"&gt;63&lt;/td&gt;             &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="odd"&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;7.&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;Brazil&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td headers="files_downloads_h"&gt;56&lt;/td&gt;             &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="even"&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;8.&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;Philippines&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td headers="files_downloads_h"&gt;53&lt;/td&gt;             &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="odd"&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;9.&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;Italy&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td headers="files_downloads_h"&gt;52&lt;/td&gt;             &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="even"&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;10.&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td&gt;Russia&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td headers="files_downloads_h"&gt;49&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Visit following URL to check the full list of countries and feel free to change the date range to get information for a&amp;nbsp; selected period.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/hanthana/files/stats/map?dates=2009-11-20+to+2012-01-25"&gt;http://sourceforge.net/projects/hanthana/files/stats/map?dates=2009-11-20+to+2012-01-25&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2800114261235070536-8135923030908982389?l=danishkanavin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/feeds/8135923030908982389/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2800114261235070536&amp;postID=8135923030908982389' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/8135923030908982389'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/8135923030908982389'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/2012/01/hanthana-linux-download-stats-from.html' title='Hanthana Linux Download stats from the Sourforge.net'/><author><name>Danishka Navin</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/104125031630392976949</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-WbukiFMHMiE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAABMc/bej2YMFpkoY/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2800114261235070536.post-970853310197142959</id><published>2011-12-12T15:38:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2011-12-12T15:38:49.872+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='teachers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='students'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='NIE'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='community'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fedora'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ministry of Education'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FOSS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='NCOE'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='education'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gnome'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='linux'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hanthana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sri Lanka'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MoE'/><title type='text'>Hanthana 15 with revolutionary Gnome 3</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; The latest release of &lt;a href="http://www.hanthana.org/" target="_blank"&gt;Hanthana Linux&lt;/a&gt; (a &lt;a href="http://fedoraproject.org/" target="_blank"&gt;Fedora&lt;/a&gt; remix), &lt;a href="http://hanthana.org/download.php#hanthana15.1" target="_blank"&gt;Hanthana Linux 15 was released&lt;/a&gt;!. This marks the fifth release of Hanthana Linux project. &lt;a href="http://blog.hanthana.org/2009/11/17/hanthana-linux-launched/" target="_blank"&gt;First release was on 19th September 2009 in parallel with Software Freedom Day celebrations&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; It is the strong community around Hanthana Linux Project that&amp;nbsp;enabled   us to release the fifth consecutive release. &lt;a href="http://blog.hanthana.org/2011/08/05/linux-empowers-computer-laboratories-at-schools/" target="_blank"&gt;Hanthana 14 (Gagana) is  used in more than 15 schools (more than 500 computers)&lt;/a&gt; in the island and   one being a primary school is of importance. Further, the computer   laboratory with 80 computers at Ruwanpura National College of Education   is facilitated with Hanthana Linux.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://itpro.lk/files/studentshanthana.jpg" style="height: 336px; width: 450px;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;em&gt;Students of Sri Piyarathana Madya Maha Vidyalaya, Gonigoda using Hanthana Linux for their school activities&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Active forum for Hanthana Linux community and the recently released  Hanthana Community Magazine  play a major role in penetrating  information and knowledge to the  community.&amp;nbsp;More than 2000 Hanthana  Linux DVDs have being deployed around  the island and more than 1000  have participated in practical training  sessions and workshops. More  than 25 computers in several departments of  the National Institute of  Education  are installed with Hanthana Linux and 5 teams have  successfully  completed their practical training. Further, three days  training session  was conducted at the Sri Lanka Navy  base for 35 naval  employees rated to IT with the aim of training them  to do day to day  activities as well as software development using  Hanthana Linux.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.hanthana.org/2011/02/17/minister-of-education-admires/" target="_blank"&gt;ICT Branch of Ministry of Education introduced Hanthana Linux to the public at the Deyata Kitula 2011 exhibition at Monaragala&lt;/a&gt; and at the educational exhibitions at  Southlands College&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;   and information technology exhibition at Ruwanpura National Institute   of Education (around 500 copies were distributed), public were allowed   to use Hanthana Linux on the site and educated. &lt;/span&gt;Dheeranandha Nanasala&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt; took the initiative as the first Nanasala to introduce Hanthana Linux to rural areas.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Teachers in the Hanthana community are  so  advanced that they conduct practical training sessions not only for   their students but also to fellow teachers including the principal. Sri   Piyarathana Madya Maha Vidyalaya, Gonigoda of Katogasthota Educational   Zone is the best example. &lt;br /&gt;We recall with great respect the opportunity of having a stall for   free at IFO+ exhibition by the School of Computing University of Colombo   and at the exhibition by the Faculty of Engineering, University of   Ruhuna to spread the word among public. Further, we recall with great   respect, the Ministry of Education, using Hanthana Linux in school   computer laboratories when they first served schools with free and open   source software.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; Bundling of recently introduced &lt;a href="http://www.gnome.org/gnome-3/" target="_blank"&gt;Gnome 3&lt;/a&gt; is special in Hanthana 15.  &amp;nbsp;As you know Hanthana Linux is based on &lt;a href="http://fedoraproject.org/" target="_blank"&gt;Fedora&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and  Hanthana Linux 15 is  based on Fedora 15. But several enhancements than  Fedora have been  introduced in using the desktop, places menu, ability  to shutdown  without any additional key strokes, ability to use themes by  default  are some of them. With this release a user guide for the  desktop and a  keyboard layout for Tamil introduced by ICTA are included.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are happy to announce that Hanthana Linux project was appreciated at the recently held e-swarnabimani award ceremony.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Community pays respect for you who supported us with dedication even among many difficulties.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To build a linux system is an easy task, but to maintain it and to   build a community around is a great challenge. With each and every   challenge we had and have, we grow stronger and we keep moving forward!…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hanthana Linux project may merely viewed as an operating system, but   it is really a project of empowering the community. This enables the   members of the community to improve their knowledge and skills by   contributing back to the project via the elements which are for the   betterment of the community themselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have proved that information technology experts as well as the   ordinary public of the country can contribute to information technology   services. The default wallpaper of Hanthana 14 (Gagana) was from a   professional photographer of Sri Lanka, a teacher serving as a physical   education instructor (PEI) in a school represented Hanthana Linux at  the  recently held information technology exhibition at Karandeniya  Madya  Maha Vidyalaya. He was merely a Hanthana Linux user some time  back but  now, he not only represent Hanthana Linux at community  workshops but  also writes technical articles. Although they do not get  any proper  recognition for their skills and knowledge at their service  places, in  community services, recognition and social praise is  unavoidable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Users of Hanthana Linux project which is with the sole aim of the   betterment of the community, range from a grade one student to &amp;nbsp;adults.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next release of Hanthana Linux, Hanthana Linux 16 (Dharani) is scheduled to be released in 2012.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To conclude… Our aim is to educate people in the country about free   and open source software and increase their usage. We are happy to   announce that we hope to improve on this purpose in the year 2012.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reference:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hanthana Linux first release – from SirasaTV news first (20th September 2009 7.00PM)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpMYZXFa0jc" target="_blank" title="Hanthana Linux 11.1 release news"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpMYZXFa0jc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sunday Times article&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sundaytimes.lk/110731/Magazine/sundaytimesmirror_05.html" target="_blank" title="Sunday Times ලිපිය"&gt;http://www.sundaytimes.lk/110731/Magazine/sundaytimesmirror_05.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2800114261235070536-970853310197142959?l=danishkanavin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/feeds/970853310197142959/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2800114261235070536&amp;postID=970853310197142959' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/970853310197142959'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/970853310197142959'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/2011/12/hanthana-15-with-revolutionary-gnome-3.html' title='Hanthana 15 with revolutionary Gnome 3'/><author><name>Danishka Navin</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/104125031630392976949</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-WbukiFMHMiE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAABMc/bej2YMFpkoY/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2800114261235070536.post-6515302495591525728</id><published>2011-07-16T16:46:00.005+05:30</published><updated>2011-07-16T17:03:07.288+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='හන්තාන'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='පොලොන්නරුව'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='හිඟුරක්ගොඩ'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ලිනක්ස්'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='linux'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='අධ්‍යාපනය'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hanthana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FOSS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='අනුරාධපරය'/><title type='text'>උතුරු මැදපලාතේ නිදහස් සහ විවෘත කේත මෘදුකාංග හදුන්වාදිමේ වැඩසටහන්</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Y5OUo-X_s3E/TiF1kISqewI/AAAAAAAABM4/BrjrkvPXJHw/s1600/Higurakgoda1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iaT3r1QJlc4/TiF1KwFCoEI/AAAAAAAABM0/hKXAYoBIbR0/s1600/1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;පසුගිය මාස දෙක තුළ ලංකාවේ විශාලතම පලාත වන උතුරු මැද පලාතේ ලිනක්ස් භාවිතය නැන්වීම සඳහා වැඩසටහන් කිහිපයක් දියත් කරන ලදි.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ තබුත්තේගම සහ මැදවච්චිය අධ්‍යාපන කලාප සඳහා ද පොලොන්නරුව දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ හිගුරක්ගොඩ සහ දිඹුලාගල අධ්‍යාපන කලාප සඳහා ද හන්තාන ලිනක්ස් භාවිත කරමින් විවෘත කේත මෘදුකාංග හදුන්වාදිමේ දෙදින පුහුණු වැඩසටහන් ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන ලදි. මේ සඳහා අදාල කලාප අධ්‍යාපන කාර්යයලාවල සහාය ඇතිව එම ප්‍රදේශයේ තොරතුරු තාක්‍ෂණ ගුරුවරුන්ගේ සහභාගිත්වයෙන් ඉතා සාර්තකව නිමා විය.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්‍රික්කය&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;තඹුත්තේගම අධ්‍යාපන කලාපය&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;දිනය&amp;nbsp; : 2011 මැයි මස 20 හා 21&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; වේලාව : පෙ.ව. 8.30 සිට ප.ව. 5.00 දක්වා&lt;br /&gt;ස්ථානය : &lt;/span&gt;එප්පාවල සිද්ධාර්ථ විද්‍යාලය&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; සම්බන්ධීකරණය :- තුසිත &lt;/span&gt;කුමාර &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;මහත්මා&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="hP" id=":4zb"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="hP" id=":4zb"&gt;කැබිතිගොල්&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;ලෑව අධ්‍යාපන කලාපය&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;දිනය &amp;nbsp;: 2011 ජුනි මස 08 හා 09&lt;br /&gt;වේලාව : පෙ.ව. 8.30 සිට ප.ව. 5.00 දක්වා&lt;br /&gt;ස්ථානය : මෛත්‍රිපාල සේනානායක මධ්‍ය මහා විද්‍යාලය, මැදවච්චිය &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;සම්බන්ධීකරණය :- ලයනල් මහත්මා&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;පොලොන්නරුව දිස්ත්‍රික්කය&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;හිඟුරක්ගොඩ අධ්‍යාපන කලාපය&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;දිනය&amp;nbsp; : 2011 ජූලි මස 12 හා 13 &lt;br /&gt;වේලාව : පෙ.ව. 8.30 සිට ප.ව. 5.00 දක්වා&lt;br /&gt;ස්ථානය : හිඟුරක්ගොඩ ආනන්ද බාලිකා ජාතික පාසල&lt;br /&gt;සම්බන්ධීකරණය :- පාලිත බද්දේගම මහත්මා&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;දිඹුලාගල අධ්‍යාපන කලාපය&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;දිනය&amp;nbsp; : 2011 ජූලි මස 15 හා 16 &lt;br /&gt;වේලාව : පෙ.ව. 8.30 සිට ප.ව. 5.00 දක්වා&lt;br /&gt;ස්ථානය : පො/දිඹු/ සෙවනපිටිය මහා විද්‍යාලය&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;සම්බන්ධීකරණය :- පාලිත බද්දේගම මහත්මා හා කලාප තොරතුරු තාක්ෂණ විෂයය භාර අධ්‍යක්ෂතුමිය&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Y5OUo-X_s3E/TiF1kISqewI/AAAAAAAABM4/BrjrkvPXJHw/s1600/Higurakgoda1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="217" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Y5OUo-X_s3E/TiF1kISqewI/AAAAAAAABM4/BrjrkvPXJHw/s640/Higurakgoda1.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JUtWpj4SAVQ/TiFpRShpxAI/AAAAAAAABMw/yict06NsHLs/s1600/Higurakgoda.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; වැඩසටහනට එක් වූ හිගුරක්ගොඩ කලාපයේ තොරතුරු තාක්‍ෂණ ගුරුවරුන් පිරිසක්&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;වැඩසටහන් සියල්ල අතරින්ම හිගුරක්ගොඩ කලාපය සඳහා දියත් කළ වැඩ සටහන සඳහා 50කට ආසන්න පාසැල් ගුරුවරුන් පිරිසක් එක් වීම සුවිශේෂි සිද්ධියක් වූ අතර, පරිගණක 20ක් මඟින් මේ කටයුතු ආවරණය කරගැනීම අසීරු වුවත් ගුරුවරුන්ගේ උණන්දුව සම්පත් හිගයට වඩා කැපිපෙනුනි.&amp;nbsp; නාගරික පෙදෙස්වල මෙන් ප්‍රවාහන පහසුකම් නිසි ලෙස නොමැති කම නිසා සමහරෙක් මද සවස 4.30ට පමණ නික්ම ගියත් සමස්තයක් ලෙස වැඩසටහන සාර්ථකව නිම විය.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iaT3r1QJlc4/TiF1KwFCoEI/AAAAAAAABM0/hKXAYoBIbR0/s1600/1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iaT3r1QJlc4/TiF1KwFCoEI/AAAAAAAABM0/hKXAYoBIbR0/s320/1.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;ඉහත සියලු වැඩසටහන් සඳහා මූලික කටයුතු මෙන්ම සම්බන්ධීකරණ  කටයුතු අනුරපුර, අන්ගමුව, රාජාන්ගනය යාය 6 අ/අන්ගමුව යාය 6 විද්‍යාලයේ  තුසිත කුමාර මහතා විසින් සිදු කළ අතර වැඩසටහනට දායකවු සියල්ලන්ටම ප්‍රජාව  වෙනුවෙන් ස්තුතිය පළකරමි.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;තවද දිඹුලාගල කලාපය සඳහා සිදු කළ වැඩසටහන සඳහා පැමිණි ගුරුවරුන්ගෙන් එක් පාසැලකට පමණක් ADSL සබදතාවය හිමිව තිබීම පුදුමයකට කාරණයක් විය. කොළඹ සිටින මිතුරු මිතුරියන් තමන්ගේ ජාල වේගය පිරික්සද්දි මෙවැනි පලාත් වල කරන්න තියෙන්නේ වේගය කෙසේ වෙතත් ජාල සම්බන්දය තිබේද නැද්ද යන වගයි.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;කෙසේ වෙතතත් අන්තර්ජාල භාවිතය සඳහා අවම පහසුකම් ඇති පෙදෙස්වල සිටින පරිශීලකයින් ඉලක්ක කරගනිමින් එළදැක් වූ හන්තාන ලිනක්ස් ව්‍යාපෘතිය මෙහි අවශ්‍ය තාවය ඇති පිරිස් වෙත රැගෙන යාමට විවිධ අයුරින් (සම්බන්ධීකරන, නවාතැන් ඇතුලු මූලික අවශ්‍යතා) එක් වූ සැමට ස්තුතියි.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;මා සමඟ වැඩසටහන් අතර වාරයේ උතුරු මැදපලාතේ සුවිශේෂි ස්තාන දැකබලා ගැනීමට සහාය වු උදාර, නදීක, දිමුතු, අසේල, බණ්ඩාර, පාලිත සහ තිලක් යන මිතුරන්ද සතුටින් මතක් කර සිටිමි.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2800114261235070536-6515302495591525728?l=danishkanavin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/feeds/6515302495591525728/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2800114261235070536&amp;postID=6515302495591525728' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/6515302495591525728'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/6515302495591525728'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/2011/07/blog-post.html' title='උතුරු මැදපලාතේ නිදහස් සහ විවෘත කේත මෘදුකාංග හදුන්වාදිමේ වැඩසටහන්'/><author><name>Danishka Navin</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/104125031630392976949</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-WbukiFMHMiE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAABMc/bej2YMFpkoY/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Y5OUo-X_s3E/TiF1kISqewI/AAAAAAAABM4/BrjrkvPXJHw/s72-c/Higurakgoda1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2800114261235070536.post-2479605195343552777</id><published>2011-06-18T09:45:00.006+05:30</published><updated>2011-06-18T11:45:08.121+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ravaya.lk'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='open source'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='linux'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FOSS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Microsoft'/><title type='text'>ඇත්තද මේ රාවය කියන්නේ?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&amp;lt;උපුටා ගැනීම&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;"අනෙක්  අතට නොමිලේ ලැබෙන ඕපන් සෝස් මෘදුකාංගවලට රටක් වශයෙන් එකවර නැඹුරුවීම කළ  නොහැක. තවත් පැත්තකින් ඒවා සංවර්ධනය නොකර ගෙඩි පිටින් ගෙන භාවිත කිරීමද  ප්‍රායෝගික නැත. ඒවා සංවර්ධනය කිරීමට අපේ රටේ නිසි ක්‍රමවේදයක්ද නැත. අනෙක්  අතට මේවාට නිසි අයිතිකරුවකු සහ වගකීමක් නොමැතිකම නිසා ඒවාට නැඹුරුවීමට  මිනිසුන් තුළ පවතින රුචිකත්වයද ඒවා පිළිබඳ ඇති විශ්වාසයද අල්පය."&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;උපුටා ගැනීම අවසන්&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zfU2epr8enM/TfwqtNjNTrI/AAAAAAAABJI/4kKhmX3CgJQ/s1600/Screenshot-8.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="243" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zfU2epr8enM/TfwqtNjNTrI/AAAAAAAABJI/4kKhmX3CgJQ/s400/Screenshot-8.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Cjo8CGii8vQ/Tfwq2hVG0RI/AAAAAAAABJM/8HBdwlnSIg0/s1600/Screenshot-9.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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සහ Arch Linux කට්ටිය එකතුවෙලා අලුතින් ව්‍යාපෘතියක් පටන්ගන්නවා. මේ ලිනක්ස් මෙහෙයුම් පද්ධතියේ නම &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Canterbury_Distribution"&gt;Canterbury.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මෙහිදි "Canterbury Package Manager" පැකේජ කළමණාකරනය සඳහා භාවිත කිරිමට යන්නේ cant :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;cant දැනටම ArchLinux මත භාවිත වන අතර මුල් අවදියේදි &lt;tt&gt;cant search&lt;/tt&gt;, &lt;tt&gt;cant install&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/span&gt; හෝ &lt;tt&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;cant remove &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;ලෙස අනෙකුත් මෙහෙයුම් පද්ධති වලද භාවිත කළ හැකි වන අතර ඉදිරියේදි වඩා වැඩි ගුණාංග එක්වනු ඇත. මීළඟ මිරර් කිරිමේදි Debian හරහා cant භාවිතයට පැමිනෙයි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මීට පෙර ද Fedora සහ OpenSuse අතර මෙන්ම&amp;nbsp; Mozilla සහ Google අතර එකාබද්ධ කටයුතු පැනතුණි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;පොඩි කොස්සකට තියෙන්නේ මේකෙ නිළ නිවේදනය ආවේ ඊයේ නිසා ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arch ලිනක්ස් වගේ තාක්‍ෂණිකව සරලව, Debian වගේ ස්ථායි, Gentoo වගේ ආහන්‍ය, Grml වැනි ශක්තිමත් සජිවී රාමුවක් සහ&amp;nbsp; openSUSE මෙන් විවෘතව සිතන පද්ධතියක් ලෙස කැන්ටබරි කරලියට එනු ඇතැයි මෙහි නිර්මාපකයෝ පවසයි.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2800114261235070536-6077542977528996487?l=danishkanavin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/feeds/6077542977528996487/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2800114261235070536&amp;postID=6077542977528996487' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/6077542977528996487'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/6077542977528996487'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-post.html' title='කැන්ටබරි ව්‍යාපෘතිය'/><author><name>Danishka Navin</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/104125031630392976949</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-WbukiFMHMiE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAABMc/bej2YMFpkoY/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2800114261235070536.post-4861457842281396946</id><published>2011-03-22T20:32:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2011-03-22T20:32:00.049+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sinhala'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='open source'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ෆයර්ෆොක්ස්'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='සිංහල'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mozilla'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='linux'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='මොසිලා'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FOSS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Firefox'/><title type='text'>Firefox 4 Announcement</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Mozilla Launches Firefox 4 and Delivers a Fast, Sleek and  Customizable Browsing Experience to More Than 400 Million Users  Worldwide &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Mozilla, a global, nonprofit  organization dedicated to making the Web better, is proud to release  Mozilla Firefox 4, the newest version of the popular, free and open  source Web browser. Firefox puts users in control of their Web  experience, providing a streamlined user interface, fun new features, a  boost in speed and support for modern Web technologies.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-EEk1U_qPb8o/TYiYsyYJznI/AAAAAAAABHo/uAkyJM7Xec4/s1600/logo-wordmark-version-vertical-4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-EEk1U_qPb8o/TYiYsyYJznI/AAAAAAAABHo/uAkyJM7Xec4/s320/logo-wordmark-version-vertical-4.png" width="272" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Firefox  4 is available to download for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in more than  75 languages. Firefox 4 will also be available on Android and Maemo  devices soon. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Firefox 4 is the fastest Firefox  yet. With dramatic speed and performance advancements across the board,  Firefox is between two and six times faster than previous releases.  Major enhancements to the JavaScript engine make everything from startup  time to page load speed to graphics and JavaScript performance  screaming fast in Firefox.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The latest version  of Firefox introduces a sleek new look that lets Web content take center  stage. With features like App Tabs and Panorama, Firefox makes it  easier and more efficient to navigate the Web. Firefox delivers  industry-leading privacy and security features like Do Not Track and  Content Security Policy to give users control over their personal data  and protect them online. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Firefox Sync gives  users access to their Awesome Bar history, bookmarks, open tabs and  passwords across computers and mobile devices. Firefox also offers  hundreds of thousands of add-ons, extensions and Personas and a new  Firefox Add-ons Manager to make it easy for users to manage and discover  add-ons to customize their Web experience.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://3.gvt0.com/vi/mv_sq5zpN0M/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mv_sq5zpN0M&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mv_sq5zpN0M&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Firefox  supports modern Web technologies, including HTML5. These technologies  are the foundation for building amazing websites and Web applications.  Go to Web O’ Wonder and check out the incredible online experiences  developers can now create.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;What’s New in Firefox 4:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fastest Firefox Ever&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Performance:  Firefox is up to six times faster than the previous release. With  improved start-up and page load times, speedy Web app performance and  hardware accelerated graphics, Firefox is optimized for rich,  interactive websites.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Streamlined Interface&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;App Tabs: give a permanent home to frequently visited sites like Web mail, Twitter, Pandora, Flickr.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Switch to Tab: easily find and switch to any open tab from your Awesome Bar without opening duplicate tabs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Panorama: drag and drop tabs into manageable groups to save time while navigating many open tabs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Private and Secure Synchronization&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Firefox  Sync: access your Awesome Bar history, bookmarks, open tabs, passwords  and form data across multiple computers and mobile devices.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Most Customizable&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;New  Add-ons Manager: easily discover and install more than 200,000 add-ons  to customize the features, functionality and look of Firefox.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Private and Secure&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Do  Not Track: Firefox is leading the Web towards a universal standard Do  Not Track feature that allows users to opt-out of tracking used for  behavioral advertising.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Firefox puts privacy first, fixing flaws in some Web standards to prevent others from accessing your browser history.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;HTTP  Strict Transport Security (HSTS): automatically establishes secure  connections to stop “man in the middle” attacks and keep sensitive data  safe from interception during the log-in process.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Content  Security Policy (CSP): prevent cross-scripting attacks by allowing sites  to explicitly tell the browser which content is legitimate.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cutting Edge Tools for Web Developers:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The  JavaScript engine incorporates the new JägerMonkey JIT compiler, along  with enhancements to the existing TraceMonkey JIT and SpiderMonkey’s  interpreter for faster page-load speed and better performance of Web  apps and games.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;HTML5 support in Firefox includes hardware  accelerated, high-definition video (WebM), 3D graphics, offline data  storage, professional typography, touchscreen interfaces and the Mozilla  Audio API to help create visual experiences for sound and more.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Firefox 4 also improves existing tools like CSS, Canvas and SVG to enable developers to make exciting Web pages.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Firefox  provides uninterrupted browsing when there is a crash in the Adobe  Flash, Apple QuickTime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins. If one of these  plugins crashes or freezes, it won't affect the rest of Firefox. Simply  reload the page to restart the plugin.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2800114261235070536-4861457842281396946?l=danishkanavin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/feeds/4861457842281396946/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2800114261235070536&amp;postID=4861457842281396946' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/4861457842281396946'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/4861457842281396946'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/2011/03/firefox-4-announcement.html' title='Firefox 4 Announcement'/><author><name>Danishka Navin</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/104125031630392976949</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-WbukiFMHMiE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAABMc/bej2YMFpkoY/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-EEk1U_qPb8o/TYiYsyYJznI/AAAAAAAABHo/uAkyJM7Xec4/s72-c/logo-wordmark-version-vertical-4.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2800114261235070536.post-4082662335366214840</id><published>2011-03-22T19:48:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2011-03-22T19:48:53.576+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mozilla'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='linux'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='#fx4'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='firefox4'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Firefox'/><title type='text'>Mozilla Twitter Party!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-gLv4KPeF5iI/TYik4el0-sI/AAAAAAAABH0/Bixlyl-v7WE/s1600/mozilla2.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-gLv4KPeF5iI/TYik4el0-sI/AAAAAAAABH0/Bixlyl-v7WE/s320/mozilla2.gif" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Join with us! Be part of Team Firefox!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Ct0H5cuMpPo/TYikpnTysrI/AAAAAAAABHw/8V6DRzFKFeE/s1600/Screenshot-1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Ct0H5cuMpPo/TYikpnTysrI/AAAAAAAABHw/8V6DRzFKFeE/s320/Screenshot-1.png" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-gLv4KPeF5iI/TYik4el0-sI/AAAAAAAABH0/Bixlyl-v7WE/s1600/mozilla2.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Tweet about Firefox 4 with the &lt;span class="hashtag"&gt;#fx4&lt;/span&gt; hashtag and your avatar will join thousands of others from around the world as part of our logo mosaic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitterparty.mozilla.org/%20"&gt;http://twitterparty.mozilla.org/ &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2800114261235070536-4082662335366214840?l=danishkanavin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/feeds/4082662335366214840/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2800114261235070536&amp;postID=4082662335366214840' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/4082662335366214840'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/4082662335366214840'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/2011/03/mozilla-twitter-party.html' title='Mozilla Twitter Party!'/><author><name>Danishka Navin</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/104125031630392976949</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-WbukiFMHMiE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAABMc/bej2YMFpkoY/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-gLv4KPeF5iI/TYik4el0-sI/AAAAAAAABH0/Bixlyl-v7WE/s72-c/mozilla2.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2800114261235070536.post-1748049694822826139</id><published>2011-03-08T00:12:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2011-03-08T00:12:49.114+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='open source'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mozilla'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='linux'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Web Browser'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FOSS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Firefox'/><title type='text'>Brand of the Year 2011: Mozilla Firefox!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;Brand of the Year 2011: Mozilla Firefox&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;span&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mozilla.org/"&gt;The Mozilla Foundation&lt;/a&gt; receives for their work on the &lt;a href="http://www.getfirefox.com/"&gt;Firefox&lt;/a&gt; browser the &lt;a href="http://www.chip.de/news/CHIP-AWARDS-2011-Das-sind-die-Preistraeger_47598277.html"&gt;CHIP AWARD&lt;/a&gt; "Brand of the Year."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt; &lt;span&gt;With this browser, it is now and so far succeeded unique, from an open-source project, a successful, big-brand to bring forth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt; &lt;span&gt;A brand with such important attributes such as progressiveness, safety and openness, of course, be connected.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt; &lt;span&gt;Firefox is available for the end of the monopoly of Microsoft's Internet Explorer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt; &lt;span&gt;Firefox is available for tens of thousands of add-ons, from which users assemble their very own browser could.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt; &lt;span&gt;And Firefox is a free software, and also in many companies&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt; &lt;span&gt;organizations and competition could prevail against.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt; &lt;span&gt;No other open-source project is now even beginning to like it succeeded.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Google translation: &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/hDCbB6"&gt;http://bit.ly/hDCbB6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-_N-Qa5VCR54/TXUkqVDy3HI/AAAAAAAABG8/bZbLKnbtVdA/s1600/5499389134_a28ccaa6da_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-_N-Qa5VCR54/TXUkqVDy3HI/AAAAAAAABG8/bZbLKnbtVdA/s400/5499389134_a28ccaa6da_o.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="photo-desc" id="description_div5499389134"&gt;&lt;div id="yui_3_3_0_1_1299523228714561"&gt;Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs receiving the Chip Award&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="yui_3_3_0_1_1299523228714561"&gt; Firefox won "Brand of the Year"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="yui_3_3_0_1_1299523228714561"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="yui_3_3_0_1_1299523228714561"&gt;Best Browser &amp;gt; Best Brand! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="yui_3_3_0_1_1299523228714561"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="yui_3_3_0_1_1299523228714561"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Oriiginal Post @ Chip&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_841936222"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="general2"&gt;http://www.chip.de/news/CHIP-AWARDS-2011-Das-sind-die-Preistraeger_47598277.html&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.chip.de/news/CHIP-AWARDS-2011-Das-sind-die-Preistraeger_47598277.html%20%20"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="general2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Marke des Jahres 2011: Mozilla Firefox&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="general2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Die Mozilla Foundation erhält für ihre Arbeit am Browser Firefox den  CHIP AWARD „Marke des Jahres“. Mit diesem Browser ist es erstmals und  bisher einzigartig gelungen, aus einem Open-Source-Projekt eine  erfolgreiche, große Marke hervor-zubringen. Eine Marke, mit der so  wichtige Attribute wie Fortschrittlichkeit, Sicher-heit und natürlich  Offenheit verbunden werden. Firefox steht für das Ende des Monopols von  Microsofts Internet Explorer. Firefox steht für zigtausende Add-Ons, aus  denen sich Nutzer ihren ganz persönlichen Browser zusammenbauen können.  Und Firefox steht für eine freie Software, die sich auch in unzähligen  Firmen und Organisationen gegen die Konkurrenz durchsetzen konnte. Keinem  anderen Open-Source-Projekt ist bisher auch nur ansatzweise  Vergleichbares gelungen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="general2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="general2"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2800114261235070536-1748049694822826139?l=danishkanavin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/feeds/1748049694822826139/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2800114261235070536&amp;postID=1748049694822826139' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/1748049694822826139'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/1748049694822826139'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/2011/03/brand-of-year-2011-mozilla-firefox.html' title='Brand of the Year 2011: Mozilla Firefox!'/><author><name>Danishka Navin</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/104125031630392976949</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-WbukiFMHMiE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAABMc/bej2YMFpkoY/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-_N-Qa5VCR54/TXUkqVDy3HI/AAAAAAAABG8/bZbLKnbtVdA/s72-c/5499389134_a28ccaa6da_o.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2800114261235070536.post-2570330715026855402</id><published>2011-03-02T19:03:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2011-03-02T19:17:38.422+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='open source'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='OpenOffice.org'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cebit'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='linux'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hanover'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Germany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Oracle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FOSS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='documentfoundation.org'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='LibreOffice'/><title type='text'>Let the pictures speak for themselves...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;These pictures were taken during the &lt;a href="http://www.cebit.de/home"&gt;CeBIT 2011 &lt;/a&gt;Hanover, Germany.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Onp1FcuCtkM/TW5CqIi6FpI/AAAAAAAABGw/0Yczjcv2cjc/s1600/250780349.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="297" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Onp1FcuCtkM/TW5CqIi6FpI/AAAAAAAABGw/0Yczjcv2cjc/s400/250780349.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;~ the past ~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-kbrlce57DAs/TW5DdDTJ9OI/AAAAAAAABG4/dxgwA0PEKc0/s1600/250779668.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="297" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-kbrlce57DAs/TW5DdDTJ9OI/AAAAAAAABG4/dxgwA0PEKc0/s400/250779668.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;~ the future ~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;yeah.. its growing day by day...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;We love the FREEDOM&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;"free as in freedom" &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Credits:&amp;nbsp; pictures taken from http://twitpic.com/photos/radiotux&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img 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term='southlands'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FOSS'/><title type='text'>Girls of Southlands College join Hanthana Community</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;Latest release of Hanthana Linux (Gagana – 14.5) was introduced to  the public at the educational exhibition conducted to celebrate the  125th anniversary of Southlands College, Galle. Students of the IT unit  of the college successfully carried out the stall and had delivered more  than 300 DVDs free of charge among the visitors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="aligncenter" height="200" src="http://blog.hanthana.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/southland02-300x200.jpg" title="southland02" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Students, employees from both government and private sector,  foreigners were among the visitors. It is notable that Mr. Helmer, one  of the Dutch visited the stall the very first day, stated that he will  ship 8 computers with Hanthana Linux installed to a school in Sri Lanka.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="aligncenter" height="200" src="http://blog.hanthana.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/southland01-300x200.jpg" title="southland01" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ten presenters (college girls) at the stall who had no prior  experience with Hanthan Linux were armed with the required knowledge in a  one day workshop conducted by the Hanthana Linux team. It should be  mentioned that they did their best to spread the word of freedom among  the visitors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A school making the public aware of Free and Open Source Software and  Hanthana Linux adds more and more strength to the Hanthana Linux  community.&lt;br /&gt;We, the Hanthana Linux team, pay our sincere thanks to teachers and  students of the IT unit of Southlands College for their commitment to  make this event happen. 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14.5 DVD තැටි 300කට වඩා ප්‍රදර්ශනයට පැමිණි අය අතරේ නොමිලේ බෙදා  දීම ද විශේෂත්වයකි.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-60 aligncenter" height="200" src="http://blog.hanthana.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/southland02-300x200.jpg" title="southland02" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මෙම ප්‍රදර්ශන කුටියට පාසැල් සිසුන්, රාජ්‍ය සහ පුද්ගලික ආයතනවල සේවය  කරන අයට අමතරව ගාලු කොටුව ආශ්‍රිත කටයුතුවල නියැළි ඕලන්ද ජාතිකයෝ ද  පැමිණියහ.&amp;nbsp; මෙලෙස පළමු දිනයේ පැමිණි හෙල්මර් නම් වූ ඕලන්ද වැසියා ඔහු  ලබාගත් හන්තාන ලිනක්ස් පිටපත ස්ථාපනය කළ පරිගණක යන්ත්‍ර 8ක් ශී ලංකාවේ  පාසැලකට එවන බව කියා සිටියේ ය.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-59 aligncenter" height="200" src="http://blog.hanthana.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/southland01-300x200.jpg" title="southland01" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මීට පෙර කිසිදු දිනෙක ලිනක්ස් භාවිත නොකළ සිසුවියෝ දස දෙනෙක් හන්තාන  ලිනක්ස් කණ්ඩායම විසින් ඔවුන් වෙනුවෙන් ම පවත්වනු ලැබූ එක් දින වැඩසටහනකින්  ලද දැනුමෙන් සන්නද්ධ ව මෙසේ ප්‍රදර්ශන කුටිය තුළ ගාලු පුවරයේ ජනයාට නිදහස්  සහ විවෘත මෘදුකාංග හඳුන්වාදීමේ යෙදුණහ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;පාසැලක් මෙසේ නිදහස් සහ විවෘත මෘදුකාංග හදුන්වා දෙමින්, හන්තාන ලිනක්ස්  මෙහෙයුම් පද්ධතිය ප්‍රජාව අතරට ගෙනයාම හන්තාන ලිනක්ස් ප්‍රජාවට තවත්  ශක්තියකි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මේ සද්කාර්යය වෙනුවෙන් කැප වූ සවුත්ලන්ඩ්ස් විද්‍යාලයීය තොරතුරු තාක්‍ෂණ  ඒකකයේ ආචාර්ය මහත්මීන්ට හා සිසුවියන්ට අපේ ස්තුතිය!&lt;br /&gt;ඉදිරියේ දී තවත්  මෙවැනි කටයුතු සාර්ථක අන්දමින් සිදුකිරීමට ශක්තිය හා ධෛර්යය ලැබේවා යි අපි  ප්‍රාර්ථනා කරන්නෙමු!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.hanthana.org/2011/01/30/southland-hanthana/"&gt;මුල් ලිපිය blog.hanthana.org&amp;nbsp; 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වෙබ්&lt;br /&gt;පිටු නිර්මාණය වැනි කරුණු මෙන් ම ලොව බහුලව භාවිත වන වෙබ් සේවාදායකය වන&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_HTTP_Server" target="_blank"&gt;ඇපාචී (Apache) වෙබ් සේවාදායකය&lt;/a&gt; භාවිතය ද මෙහි දී ආවරණය කරන ලදි.  මීට&lt;br /&gt;අමතරව ජාල සැකසුම් කළමනාකරණය සහ පරිශීලක  කළමනාකරණය වැනි අංශ ද සාකච්ඡා&lt;br /&gt;කෙරණි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මෙම වැඩසටහනේ තවත් සුවිශේෂි කාරණයක් නම් පළමු දින අධ්‍යයන කටයුතුවලට අදාළ&lt;br /&gt;හන්තාන මෙහෙයුම් පද්ධතියේ ඇති  කොටස් පිළිබඳ  පුද්ගලිකව විමසා සහ&lt;br /&gt;තාක්‍ෂණික කරුණු සපුරාගෙන පැහැදිලිකර ගත් ආචාර්ය මණ්ඩලයේ සාමාජික දෙපළක්&lt;br /&gt;දෙවැනි දින වැඩසටහනට පෙර වැඩසටහනට අදාළ &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysql" target="_blank"&gt;MySQL&lt;/a&gt; වැනි පාඩම් කොටස්&lt;br /&gt;සිසුවියන්ට ඉගැන්වීමට තරම් උද්‍යෝගීමත් වූහ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bw3vkII2tXg/TWaLxiFPl_I/AAAAAAAABGY/hf0T8lDKA3U/s1600/dhargatown.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bw3vkII2tXg/TWaLxiFPl_I/AAAAAAAABGY/hf0T8lDKA3U/s400/dhargatown.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මෙම වැඩසටහන පුරාම වැඩසටහන සංවිධානය කළ රිස්කාන් මහතා සහ එම ආයතනයට සේවය&lt;br /&gt;ලබාදෙන  ජයිකා ආයතනයේ නියෝජිත අසුකා ටොමියමා මෙනෙවිය ද  අගනා සහායක් ලබා&lt;br /&gt;දුන් අතර ගුරුවරුන්ගේ සහ සිසුවියන්ගේ උනන්දුව නිසා ඉතා වැඩි පරාසයක කොටස්&lt;br /&gt;ආවරණය කළ හැකි විය.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;වැඩසටහනින් පසුව සිසුවියන් සඳහා පාසැල් සිසුන්ට මෙම දැනුම ලබා දෙන ආකාරය&lt;br /&gt;ඇසුරින් පැවරුමක් ලබා දීමට රිස්කාන් මහතා කටයුතු කිරිම මෙම වැඩසටහනට තවත්&lt;br /&gt;විශේෂත්වයක් එක් කළේ ය. 2012 වසරේදි සිමාවාසික පුහුණුව ද  2013 වසරේදි&lt;br /&gt;පාසැල් සඳහා පත්වීම් ද ලැබීමට නියමිත මෙම ශිෂ්‍යාවන් යාපනය, මඩකලපුව,&lt;br /&gt;අම්පාර සහ පුත්තලම වැනි දුරස්ථ ප්‍රදේශ කරා නිදහස් සහ විවෘත මෘදුකාංග (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_Open_Source_Software" target="_blank"&gt;FOSS&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;පිළිබඳ පණිවිඩය ඉතා විධිමත් ව ගෙන යනු ඇත. යාපනය ප්‍රදේශයේ නිදහස් හා&lt;br /&gt;විවෘත මෘදුකාංග පිළිබඳ වැඩසටහන් පැවැත්වීම සඳහා ඔවුන් අවසානයේ අපට ඇරයුම්&lt;br /&gt;කිරීම ද මෙහි අවශ්‍යතාව මැනැවින් තේරුම්ගත් බවට මනා සාක්‍ෂියකි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;එම සිසුවියන්ට අනාගතය ජය ගැනීමට අපෙන් සුබ පැතුම්!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2800114261235070536-8403019261780238162?l=danishkanavin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/feeds/8403019261780238162/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2800114261235070536&amp;postID=8403019261780238162' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/8403019261780238162'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/8403019261780238162'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/2011/02/blog-post_25.html' title='අලුත්ගම ධර්ගා නගරයේ ජාතික අධ්‍යාපන විද්‍යාපිඨයේ හන්තාන ලිනක්ස් වැඩසටහන'/><author><name>Danishka Navin</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/104125031630392976949</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-WbukiFMHMiE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAABMc/bej2YMFpkoY/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bw3vkII2tXg/TWaLxiFPl_I/AAAAAAAABGY/hf0T8lDKA3U/s72-c/dhargatown.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2800114261235070536.post-6238354947376042953</id><published>2011-02-24T21:31:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2011-02-24T22:26:56.165+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='c++'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='java'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='NCOE'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='education'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mysql'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='linux'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hanthana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sri Lanka'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FOSS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='apache'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='JICA'/><title type='text'>Hanthana Linux workshop at the NCOE, Dharga Town</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.hanthana.org/2011/02/24/hanthana-linux-workshop-ncoe-dharga-town/"&gt;Original Post of blog.hanthana.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A two day Hanthana Linux awareness program was held at National College of Education (NCOE) – Dargatown, Aluthgama on the 11th and 23rd of February, 2011. Twenty students (trainee teachers) from Jaffna, Ampara, Batticaloa, and Dharga Town as well as from the National College of Education itself and several teachers of these students participated in the program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This program was especial because this was the very first such program conducted for the Tamil medium students (trainee teachers).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this program more focus was on introducing Linux, installation, using office packages and software development. Creating C++ programs and Java, HTML web pages on Linux and using the Apache web server, which is very popular in the world was discussed. Other than that, network management and user management was also thought in the program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On day one there were two teachers in the staff that inquired about the content to be thought on day two. They self studied the content such as MySQL and enthusiastically thought the students these topics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bw3vkII2tXg/TWaLxiFPl_I/AAAAAAAABGY/hf0T8lDKA3U/s1600/dhargatown.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bw3vkII2tXg/TWaLxiFPl_I/AAAAAAAABGY/hf0T8lDKA3U/s400/dhargatown.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rizkhan, who organized the event and Ms. Asuka Tomiyama who is a representative of the JICA institute that provides service to the National College of Education were present Throughout the program and provided invaluable help. Due to this and the enthusiasm of teachers and students alike, it was possible to cover a wide range of topics in this program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the end of the program, Rizkhan Basheer gave an assignment for the student which will help them gaining further knowledge of the subject matter presented on the two days. These students are supposed to attain residential training in 2012 and receive appointments to teach in schools in 2013 and there is lot of hope that they will spread the message and knowledge of free and Open Source software in remote areas of Jaffna, Batikaloa, Ampara and Ptlam. At the end of the progam we were invited to conduct programs on free and open source software (FOSS) in Jaffna was a sign of understanding the value of FOSS software.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We wish all the participants a brighter future!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bw3vkII2tXg/TWaLxiFPl_I/AAAAAAAABGY/hf0T8lDKA3U/s1600/dhargatown.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2800114261235070536-6238354947376042953?l=danishkanavin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/feeds/6238354947376042953/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2800114261235070536&amp;postID=6238354947376042953' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/6238354947376042953'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/6238354947376042953'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/2011/02/hanthana-linux-workshop-at-ncoe-dharga.html' title='Hanthana Linux workshop at the NCOE, Dharga Town'/><author><name>Danishka Navin</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/104125031630392976949</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-WbukiFMHMiE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAABMc/bej2YMFpkoY/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bw3vkII2tXg/TWaLxiFPl_I/AAAAAAAABGY/hf0T8lDKA3U/s72-c/dhargatown.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2800114261235070536.post-4247320515465727744</id><published>2011-02-21T19:16:00.005+05:30</published><updated>2011-02-28T09:15:55.482+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='හන්තාන'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ලිනක්ස්'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='education'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='linux'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='remix'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hanthana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fedora'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sri Lanka'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ශ්‍රී ලංකාව'/><title type='text'>Hanthana Linux for all ~</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mMXNoZFNsPo/TWsTViTJJyI/AAAAAAAABGs/AI4F9rWG0jY/s1600/Screenshot-prg.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mMXNoZFNsPo/TWsTViTJJyI/AAAAAAAABGs/AI4F9rWG0jY/s320/Screenshot-prg.png" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Hanthana Linux is an easy to use operating system in a environment with less or no internet facility. A lot of applications to be used to aid in school curriculum are included. Applications to study periodic table, planetary behaviour and astronomy as well as to generate 2D and 3D graphs, to solve equations are there in Hanthana Linux. Nevertheless, educational games, applications to design and simulate circuits, GNUoctave which is an alternative to MathLab for statistics and wine in case to run a .exe file and many more comes by default.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is significant that programming languages and tools like C++, Python, PHP, Ruby on Rails, OpenJDK, Apache web server which is widely used throughout the world, MySQL for database management and NFS and SAMBA servers for Network File Sharing services are also included.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jG-PblgCcPo/TWJmN4IDf1I/AAAAAAAABGM/_NrQVQRmHjw/s1600/Screenshot-2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="250" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jG-PblgCcPo/TWJmN4IDf1I/AAAAAAAABGM/_NrQVQRmHjw/s400/Screenshot-2.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although the threats from virus are less in Hanthana Linux as in any other linux based system, you can enable SELinux (Security Enhanced Linux) security management facility if you want. Further, if you want you can run any other linux based operating system, Windows system or Mac system with the help of Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) that is built-in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VPznaY8iIfU/TWJoz1-LTmI/AAAAAAAABGU/ypPXwG44-6g/s1600/Screenshot-6.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="250" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VPznaY8iIfU/TWJoz1-LTmI/AAAAAAAABGU/ypPXwG44-6g/s400/Screenshot-6.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Besides  the office suite, applications for project management and for domestic  and personal finance are included. A lot of applications are there for  multimedia applications. To update the system, connecting to the  internet is only sufficient and applications can be installed from  similar Hanthana Linux systems also.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hanthana  Linux which is well developed to suite educational needs of school and  university students and to ordinary usage is a community project that is  continuous and planned to be so. Information about the project can be  obtained from &lt;a href="http://www.hanthana.org/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;www.hanthana.org&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; web site while information about community activities from &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.hanthana.org/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;blog.hanthana.org&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;, the official blog of Hanthana Linux project. You can forward your queries and get answered at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://groups.google.com/group/hanthana-community" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Hanthana User Group&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;,  further you can contribute to the community by answering others’  queries. You can download Hanthana Linux also from the SchoolNet. To  download Hanthana Linux from SchoolNet use this &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ftp.schoolnet.lk/Linux/hanthana_linux/Hanthana-14.5-i386-dvd.iso" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;link&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/danishkanavin/tags/hanthana/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Hanthana Linux Screenshots&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hanthana Linux was introduced by the Information Technology Unit of  the Department of Education at the education and development exhibition,  Dayata Kirula 2011, which was held in Buttala for seven consecutive  days from the 4th of February. The Chief of The Information Technology  Unit, Director of Education, Mr. Niel Gunadasa explained&amp;nbsp;to Hon.  Minister of Education Bandula Gunawardena,&amp;nbsp;how the Hanthana Linux  operating system is useful for education purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.hanthana.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/deyatakirula2011-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class=" size-medium wp-image-77 aligncenter" height="225" src="http://blog.hanthana.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/deyatakirula2011-1-300x225.jpg" title="deyatakirula2011-1" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hanthana Linux is a &lt;a href="http://fedoraproject.org/"&gt;Fedora&lt;/a&gt; remix.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2800114261235070536-4247320515465727744?l=danishkanavin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/feeds/4247320515465727744/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2800114261235070536&amp;postID=4247320515465727744' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/4247320515465727744'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/4247320515465727744'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/2011/02/hanthana-linux-for-all.html' title='Hanthana Linux for all ~'/><author><name>Danishka Navin</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/104125031630392976949</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-WbukiFMHMiE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAABMc/bej2YMFpkoY/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mMXNoZFNsPo/TWsTViTJJyI/AAAAAAAABGs/AI4F9rWG0jY/s72-c/Screenshot-prg.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2800114261235070536.post-5765917343700588171</id><published>2011-02-21T18:53:00.004+05:30</published><updated>2011-03-01T11:06:46.477+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='හන්තාන'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ලිනක්ස්'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='education'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='linux'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='අධ්‍යාපනය'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hanthana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sri Lanka'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ශ්‍රී ලංකාව'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FOSS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GNU/Linux'/><title type='text'>අධ්‍යාපනික කටයුතු සඳහා හන්තාන ලිනක්ස්</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;හන්තාන  ලිනක්ස් යනු අන්තර්ජාල පහසුකම් අවම හෝ රහිත පරිසරකය සිට අධ්‍යාපනික කටයුතු  සඳහා භාවිතා කළ හැකි පහසු මෙහෙයුම් පද්ධතියකි. පාසැල් විශය නිර්දේශයට  උපකාරක ලෙස භාවිත කළ හැකි මෘදුකාංග රැසක් මෙහි ඇතුලත් කර ඇත. ආවර්තිතා  වගුව, සෞරග්‍රහ මණ්ඩලය සහ තරු රටා අධ්‍යයනය සඳහා &amp;nbsp;මෙන්ම, ද්විමාණ සහ  ත්‍රිමාණ ප්‍රස්තාර නිර්මාණය සහ සමීකරණ විසදීම සඳහා ද මෙහි මෘදුකාංග ඇත.  අධ්‍යාපනික ක්‍රීඩා වලින් ද සමන්විත මෙහි ඉලෙක්ට්‍රොනික පරිපත සැලසුම්  කරණයට සහ නිර්මාණයට අවශ්‍ය සමාකෘති (simulators) සහ මෙවලම් ද, සඛ්‍යානය  සඳහා අවශ්‍ය MathLab මදෘකාංගයට ආදෙශකයක් වන GNUoctave මෘදුකාංගය ද, අවශ්‍ය  විටෙක .exe ගොනු භාවිත කිරීම සඳහා wine මෘදුකාංගය ද අඩංගු කර ඇත.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: white; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jG-PblgCcPo/TWJmN4IDf1I/AAAAAAAABGM/_NrQVQRmHjw/s1600/Screenshot-2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jG-PblgCcPo/TWJmN4IDf1I/AAAAAAAABGM/_NrQVQRmHjw/s320/Screenshot-2.png" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මීට  අමතරව පරිගණක ක්‍රමලේඛනය සඳහා භාවිත කරන C++, Python, PHP, Ruby on Rails,  OpenJDK මෙන්ම ලොව බහලුව භාවිත කරන Apache වෙබ් සේවා දායකය, MySQL දත්ත  සමුදාය කළමණාකරන සේවාදයකය, ජාලය ගොණු කළමනාකරණයට අවශ්‍ය NFS සහ SAMBA  සේවාදායක යනාදිය ද මෙහි අඩංගු වීම සුවිශේෂී කරුණකි. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;අවශ්‍ය නම්  මෙහි අඩංගු වන SELinux (Security Enhanced Linux) &amp;nbsp;ආරක්‍ෂණ කළමනාකරණ  පහසුකම සක්‍රීය කර ගැනීමට ද හැක. එසේම, අවශ්‍ය නම් වෙනත් ලිනක්ස්  පද්ධතියක් හෝ වෙනත් වින්ඩෝස් හෝ මැක් වැනි මෙහෙයුම් පද්ධතියක් මෙහි ඇති  Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) ඔස්සේ භාවිත කිරීමට ද හැක.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මෙහි,  කාර්යාලීය යෙදුම් කට්ටලයට අමතරව ව්‍යපෘති කළමණාකරනයට හා ගෘහස්ත හෝ  පුද්ගලික ගිණුම් කළමණාකරනයට අවශ්‍යය මෘදුකාංග ද එක්කර ඇත. එසේ ම ශ්‍රව්‍ය  &amp;nbsp;සහ දෘශ්‍ය සංස්කරණය කිරීම් සහ භාවිත සඳහා මෙවලම්&amp;nbsp; රැසක් එක්කර ඇත. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;එමෙන්  ම පද්ධතියට අවශ්‍ය යාවත් කිරීම්  ලබා ගැනීම සඳහා අන්තර්යාලයට සම්බන්ද වීම පමණක් සැහෙන අතර ම, අන්තර්ජාල  පහසුකම් සහිත සම තත්ත්වයේ හන්තාන ලිනක්ස් පද්ධතියක් හරහා අවශ්‍ය මෘදුකාංග  ලබා ගැනීමට ද හැකියාව ඇත.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: white; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YKJpApI7yX0/TWJm312crGI/AAAAAAAABGQ/LaT9t_XlB9I/s1600/Screenshot-prg.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YKJpApI7yX0/TWJm312crGI/AAAAAAAABGQ/LaT9t_XlB9I/s320/Screenshot-prg.png" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;පාසැල්  සහ විශ්ව විද්‍යාල සිසුන්ගේ අධ්‍යපානික කටයුතු සහ සාමාන්‍ය භාවිතයට සුදුසු  ලෙස සකසා ඇති හන්තාන ලිනක්ස් ඉදිරියටත් අඛණ්ඩ ක්‍රියාත්මක වන සහ වීමට  සැලසුම් කර ඇති ප්‍රජා ව්‍යාපෘතියකි. &amp;nbsp;මෙම ව්‍යපෘතිය පිළිබඳ තොරතුරු &lt;a href="http://www.hanthana.org/"&gt;www.hanthana.org&lt;/a&gt; වෙබ් අඩවියෙන් ද, ප්‍රජා වැඩසටහන් පිළිබඳ තොරතුරු &lt;a href="http://blog.hanthana.org/"&gt;blog.hanthana.org&lt;/a&gt; යන හන්තාන ලිනක්ස් ව්‍යාපෘතියේ නිළ බ්ලොග් අඩවියෙන් ද ලබා ගත හැක. &lt;a href="http://groups.google.com/group/hanthana-community"&gt;හන්තාන පරිශීලක සමූහයට&lt;/a&gt; සම්බන්ධ විමෙන් ඔබට, ඔබේ ගැටලු ඉදිරිපත් කර උදව් ලබා ගැනීමට හැකි අතර  ප්‍රජාවට උපකාර සැපයීමෙන් දායක වීමට ද හැක. &amp;nbsp;මෙම මෙහෙයුම් පද්ධතිය පාසැල්  ජාලය ඔස්සේ ද, ලබා ගැනීමට දැන් කටයුතු සලසා ඇත. හන්තාන ලිනක්ස් පාසැල් ජාලය  තුළින් ලබා ගැනීම &amp;nbsp;සඳහා &lt;a href="http://ftp.schoolnet.lk/Linux/hanthana_linux/Hanthana-14.5-i386-dvd.iso"&gt;මෙම සබැඳිය භාවිත කරන්න.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/danishkanavin/5145519230/" target="_blank"&gt;හන්තාන ලිනක්ස් තිරපිටපත් මෙතනින් බලන්න&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;පසුගිය පෙබරවාරි 4 වැනි දින සිට පුරා දින 7ක් බුත්තල දී පැවැත්වුණු දැයට  කිරුළ 2011 අධ්‍යාපනික සහ වෙළඳ ප්‍රදර්ශනයේ දී අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යාංශයේ  තොරතුරු තාක්‍ෂණ ඒකකය විසින් හන්තාන ලිනක්ස් හදුන්වා දීම සිදු කරන ලදි.  අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යාංශයේ  ප්‍රදර්ශන කුටි වෙත පැමිණි අධ්‍යාපන ඇමති  බන්දුල  ගුණවර්ධන මහතාට තොරතුරු තාක්‍ෂණ ඒකකයේ ප්‍රධානී අධ්‍යාපන අධ්‍යක්‍ෂක නීල්  ගුණදාස මහතා විසින් හන්තාන ලිනක්ස් මෙහෙයුම් පද්ධතිය අධ්‍යාපන කටයුතු සඳහා  වැදගත් වන අයුරු පැහැදිලි කෙරුණි&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-TmVB6PLc1kQ/TWpJARIQy4I/AAAAAAAABGo/uWX5JEVJvzk/s1600/deyatakirula2011-1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-TmVB6PLc1kQ/TWpJARIQy4I/AAAAAAAABGo/uWX5JEVJvzk/s320/deyatakirula2011-1.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2800114261235070536-5765917343700588171?l=danishkanavin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/feeds/5765917343700588171/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2800114261235070536&amp;postID=5765917343700588171' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/5765917343700588171'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/5765917343700588171'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/2011/02/blog-post_21.html' title='අධ්‍යාපනික කටයුතු සඳහා හන්තාන ලිනක්ස්'/><author><name>Danishka Navin</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/104125031630392976949</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-WbukiFMHMiE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAABMc/bej2YMFpkoY/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jG-PblgCcPo/TWJmN4IDf1I/AAAAAAAABGM/_NrQVQRmHjw/s72-c/Screenshot-2.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2800114261235070536.post-8256374983306808812</id><published>2011-01-10T22:31:00.005+05:30</published><updated>2011-01-10T23:26:00.917+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='හන්තාන'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ලිනක්ස්'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='linux'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hanthana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sri Lanka'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ශ්‍රී ලංකාව'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='පොලීසිය'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='police'/><title type='text'>Birth Day @ Police Head Quarters</title><content type='html'>For the first time I spent the Bday at Sri Lanka Police Head Quarters. :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No worries.. i wasn't a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WANTED&lt;/span&gt; person.  ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have conducted a FOSS workshop for Police Officers and the Civil Staff.&lt;br /&gt;The workshop was based &lt;a href="http://www.hanthana.org/" target="_blank"&gt;Hanthana Linux&lt;/a&gt; 14.5, a remix of &lt;a href="http://fedoraproject.org/" target="_blank"&gt;Fedora&lt;/a&gt; 14.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the some of them were installed the H14.5 in their systems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PK-lh2PQ0g8/TStIGoyHldI/AAAAAAAABFY/xKCY1zOMwxA/s1600/hanthana_logo.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 280px; height: 80px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PK-lh2PQ0g8/TStIGoyHldI/AAAAAAAABFY/xKCY1zOMwxA/s400/hanthana_logo.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560617443783054802" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Highly appreciated the kind help rendered by the Deputy Inspector of Police and the ASP attached to the Department of ICT, Sri Lanka Police. This was arranged within a day. :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I did not sent single reply in the day time as the mobile was switched of due security reasons. But it was really productive. Otherwise I have to keep replying to wishes.. ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Note: &lt;a href="http://hanthana.org/dvdf.php" target="_blank"&gt;Hanthana Linux 14.5&lt;/a&gt; yet to be upload..&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2800114261235070536-8256374983306808812?l=danishkanavin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/feeds/8256374983306808812/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2800114261235070536&amp;postID=8256374983306808812' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/8256374983306808812'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/8256374983306808812'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/2011/01/birth-day-police-head-quarters_10.html' title='Birth Day @ Police Head Quarters'/><author><name>Danishka Navin</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/104125031630392976949</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-WbukiFMHMiE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAABMc/bej2YMFpkoY/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PK-lh2PQ0g8/TStIGoyHldI/AAAAAAAABFY/xKCY1zOMwxA/s72-c/hanthana_logo.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2800114261235070536.post-2762813342542393455</id><published>2010-12-13T22:13:00.004+05:30</published><updated>2010-12-13T22:54:26.115+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ලිනක්ස්'/><category 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/&gt;ඉතින් නිදහස විදින් සහ එහි රසය තම මිතුරන්ට බෙදන්න කැමති අයට, නිදහස් අදහස් වලින් මෙම වැයම ශක්තිමත් කරන්න ඇරයුම්.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-----------------------------&lt;br /&gt;පසුව එක් කළ කොටස:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මෙම ව්‍යාපෘතිය හුදෙක් &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;නිදහස් සහ විවෘත මෘදුකාංග &lt;/span&gt;සාමාන්‍ය ජනයා අතරට ගෙනයාමට, ඒ ගැන අවබෝදයක් දීමට සහ ජනප්‍රිය කරවීම පිනිසයි!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2800114261235070536-2762813342542393455?l=danishkanavin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/feeds/2762813342542393455/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2800114261235070536&amp;postID=2762813342542393455' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/2762813342542393455'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/2762813342542393455'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/2010/12/blog-post.html' title='නිදහසේ පණිවිඩය ගෙනයාමට පොස්ටර් තරගයක්!'/><author><name>Danishka Navin</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/104125031630392976949</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-WbukiFMHMiE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAABMc/bej2YMFpkoY/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2800114261235070536.post-6518427271724793279</id><published>2010-11-27T07:08:00.004+05:30</published><updated>2010-11-28T22:49:07.736+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ලිනක්ස්'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='linux'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sri Lanka'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ශ්‍රී ලංකාව'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FOSS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Microsoft'/><title type='text'>අපි විතරද?</title><content type='html'>ලංකාවේ බොහෝ දෙනා සිතන්නේ ලංකාවේ සිටින සුලු පිරිසක් පමණක් විවෘත සම්මත  (Open Standards) සහ නිදහස් සහ විවෘත මෘදුකාංග ජනප්‍රිය කරවීමට වලිකන බවයි.  මෑත කාලයේ කියුබාව නිදහස් සහ විවෘත මෘදුකාංග වැදලගත් අතර අලුත්ම මුහුණු  දෙකක්ද මේ අතරට දැන් එක් වී ඇත.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;පසුගිය දිනෙක ඉංදියාව සිය විවෘත  සම්මත යන් පිළිබඳ පිළිවෙත (Open Standard Policy) නිම කළ අතර. නොර්වේ  රාජ්‍යද ඉතා වේගයෙන් මෙම නිදහස කරා ඇදියන්නට පටන්ගෙන ඇත. නොර්වේ රාජ්‍ය තුළ  පාසැල් සහ පලාත් පාලන ආයතන තුළ මේ වන විට OpenOfffice.org සහ අනෙකුත්  නිදහස් සහ විවෘතු  මෘදකාංග භාවිතය ප්‍රවර්ධනය වෙමින් පවති.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;අදාල ලිපිය:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="documentDescription"&gt;                      &lt;span class="" id="parent-fieldname-description"&gt;              Public administrations in Norway are increasingly turning  to  open source, says Martin Bekkelund, business developer at Friprog,  the  country's open source competence centre. This year, all ninenteen  county  administrations are using open source in some form, compared to  76  percent in 2005.         &lt;/span&gt;              &lt;/p&gt;                                          &lt;div id="parent-fieldname-text" class="plain"&gt;              &lt;p&gt;Uses  varies from server operating systems , content management  systems to  OpenOffice. A recent example is procurement of an open source  telephone  system based on Asterisk in the county of Akershus.  "Moreover, now 75  percent of all 430 municipalities are using this type  of software,  including for example OpenOffice in high schools and a  complete stack  of server software."&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Five years ago, a little less than 60  percent of municipal  administrations used open source. In Norway there  are roughly a thousand  public offices, which includes government  offices, municipalities and  counties, now more than 60 percent uses  open source, compared to 34  percent in 2005.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Bekkelund says  public administrations should work together to reuse  data, knowledge  and software. Failing to collaborate on this will result  in increasing  IT costs and mounting bureaucracy. "This in turn leads to  decreasing  quality and a loss of knowledge."&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;"On the other hand, forcing  public administrations to switch to open  source is not the way to go,  public sector need to see the benefits of  sharing and collaboration for  themselves." This explains why Friprog is  working on incentives to  make open source more attractive. The cente has  created a site where  public administrations and IT service providers  can work together,  called Delingsbazaren.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;A similar website focusses on sharing  documentation, research, case  studies and data, Kunnskapsnazaren.  Friprog also organises conferences,  such as the GoOpen conference  taking place in Oslo in March next year.  "Free and open source has  become a natural part of the market."&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Bekkelund presented on  Friprog's progress 25 September at the Kosova  Software Freedom  conference that took place in the city of Prishtina.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;ලංකාවේ දැන් &lt;span dir="ltr" id=":2k1"&gt;සමෘද්ධි සංවර්ධන නිලදාරින්&lt;/span&gt; හරහා පවා බලපත්‍ර සහිත මෘදකාංග ප්‍රවර්ධනය සිදුවෙමින් පවති.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://itpro.lk/node/7864"&gt;http://itpro.lk/node/7864&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මේක  වැරදියට තෙරුම් ගන්න එපා. බලපත්‍ර  සහිත මෘදුකාංග ප්‍රවර්ධනයේ වැරද්දක් නැ  ඒ සඳහා යන මුදල් අපිට දරන්නට හැකිනම්. ඉපදෙන්නට ඉන්න ළමයිනුත් ණයකාරයින්  වෙලා ඉන්න අපේ රටට ගැලපෙන්නේ මොකක්ද කියලා මොහොතක් හිතන්න.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ඒවගේම  සෝබනේට වෙජිටෙරියන් වගේ දැන් සෝබනේට FOSS හැදිලා වගේ. මම භාවිත කරන්නේ FOSS  කිමෙන් අමුතු පිළිගැනීමක් නැ. මොකද මේ FOSS හෝ FOSS නොවන ඕනෑම මෘදුකාංග යකින් සමස්තයක් ලෙස වන්නේ  අපේ කාර්යය පහසු කිරීම. අවශ්‍ය වෙන්නේ අදාල පුද්ගලයා තම ප්‍රජාව තුළ නිදහස්  සහ විවෘත මෘදුකාංග අවකංව ප්‍රවර්ධනය කරනවා ද නැද්ද යන්න.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;අනෙක්  කාරණය වන්නේ මෙලෙස නිදහස් සහ විවෘත මෘදුකාංග කෙරෙහි කටයුතු කළ යුත්තේ  නොමිලේම කියලා හිතන් ඉන්න එක. FOSS භාවිතයට සහාය දෙන හෝ ඒ අශ්‍රීතව කටයුතු  කරන අය නොමිලේ නම් ඒ අයගේ ගෙවල් වල අයට කන්න දෙන්නේ ගමෙ ග්‍රාමසේවකද?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ගොඩක්  තැන්වල Open Source වලට නිසි සහායක් නැ කියනවා. මේකට හේතුව නොමිලේ සහාය  ලබා ගන්න බැලීම. මෘදුකාංග සඳහා බලපත්‍ර අවශ්‍ය නැති උනාට ඒ සඳහා කටයුතු කරන  අයගේ කාලය සහ දැණුම අවතකසේරු කරන්න බැ නේද?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2800114261235070536-6518427271724793279?l=danishkanavin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/feeds/6518427271724793279/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2800114261235070536&amp;postID=6518427271724793279' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/6518427271724793279'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2800114261235070536/posts/default/6518427271724793279'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/2010/11/blog-post.html' title='අපි විතරද?'/><author><name>Danishka Navin</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/104125031630392976949</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-WbukiFMHMiE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAABMc/bej2YMFpkoY/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry></feed>
