Danishka's Diary

A large number of students in Sri Lanka became victims of the recent floods and land slides as a result of non-stop rain in May. Some of the students lost not only their study notes, but also their uniforms and shoes. Our initial attempt was to support them with the study notes, but it seemed that most of the individuals and organizations spend their invaluable time, labor and money to supply the students in need with study notes. So we at Akura decided to shift our focus to supply the students with school uniforms among other necessities. Although the government pledged to give uniform textiles, these students were still required to buy other necessaries such as shoes, socks and undergarments. Our first attempt:   After the floods subsided, students of Biyagama Central College returned to school in casual clothes. Akura arranged transport for all the students in casual clothing (a total of 63) to visit to Thilakawardhana Textile in Kiribathgoda Kiribat...

මම මීට පෙර සටහනේ සඳහන් කළ පරිදි අපි නුවර එළිය දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ, වලපනේ අධ්‍යාපන කළාපයේ දුෂ්කර පාසලක් වන කඳපොල, බිංගතලාවේ,  සාගලපුර විදුහලට පරිගණක විද්‍යාගාරයක් සඳහා අවශ්‍ය පරිගණක 5ක් සහ අවශ්‍ය අනෙකුත් දෑලබා දිමටත්සාහයක නියැලෙනව.  නව පරිගණක උපාංග එකලස් කර තැනෙන පරිගණක 5ක් මුල් අදියරේදි ලබා දීමයි අපෙ අරමුණ. මේ සදහා Core i3 Processor 2GB RAM 500GB HDD LED Display Keyboard/Mouse  (UPS රහිතව)  මහනුවර ආයතනයකින් රුපියල් 52,000ක මුදලකට ලබා ගත හැකි බව මධ්‍යම පළාත් අධ්‍යාපන කාර්යාලයට අනුයුක්තව සේවය කරන අතුල හේරත් මහතා දන්වා සිටිනවා. මධ්‍යම පලාතේ දුෂ්කර පෙදෙසක තියෙන පාසලක් නිසා ප්‍රවාහන පහසුකම් ගැනත් අපි හිතුව. නමුත් මේ සඳහා මීට අඩු මුදලකට ගුණාත්මක උපාංග සහිතව පරිගණක ලබා ගැණීමට උදව් කළ හැකි අයෙක් වෙතොත් අතුල හේරත් මහතාව අමතන්න. දැනට ඇස්තමෙන්තුව පරිගණක 5 සඳහා අවම වශයෙන් මුලු මුදළ ලෙස රුපියල් 260,000ක මුදලක් අවශ්‍යව ඇති අතර රුපියල් 40,000ක මුදලක් දැනට සිව් දෙනෙක් (එක් අයෙක් 10,000) ලබා දීමට පොරොන්දු වී ඇත. ඔබටත් දායක වීමට හැකියාවක් ඇත්නම් පහත සඳහන් වන ඒකා බද්ධ ගිණ...

Project 1: Sagalapura College, Biganthalawa, Kadapola Walapane Education Zone, Central Province 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. Summary: 5 Computers required to initiate the project. Note: 5 new computers are urgently needed. Coordinator: Athula Herath 0718-217443 Project 2: Malalgoda Siri Seewalee Primary College, Ahangama (Galle Education Zone) Currently operational with one computer. There is a possibility to add three more computers after Sinhala Tamil New Year. Note: Group of Officers of Asian Development Bank and Provincial Education Office inspected the school on March 21, 2012 Other Requirements: Need equipment for Electrical wiring and Computer networking Coordinator : Bandula Pushpakumara 0716-146331 Project 3: Dekat...

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 Hanthana was provided for them for the very first time... 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. 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. The opening was made possible entirely due to the work ...

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

The latest release of Hanthana Linux (a Fedora remix), Hanthana Linux 15 was released !. This marks the fifth release of Hanthana Linux project. First release was on 19th September 2009 in parallel with Software Freedom Day celebrations . It is the strong community around Hanthana Linux Project that enabled us to release the fifth consecutive release. Hanthana 14 (Gagana) is used in more than 15 schools (more than 500 computers) 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. Students of Sri Piyarathana Madya Maha Vidyalaya, Gonigoda using Hanthana Linux for their school activities 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. More than 2000 Hanthana Linux DVDs have being deployed a...