International Software Freedom Day in Hereford
The Herefordshire Linux & Open Source Users Group (HLUG) will be holding a free public event. HLUG has lots of free software discs to give away at the event and there will be a friendly team of expert volunteers answering questions and running demonstrations.
Date: Saturday 17th September 10am–4pm
Venue: All Saints Church, High Street, Hereford
As part of this event, HLUG is working with local schools & colleges on a pioneering project to help bring the real educational and financial benefits of Open Source software to education.
Open Source software is free to use, with no license fees. It is high quality, stable and used by companies including Google, Twitter, Facebook and NASA, as well as behind the scenes in android phones, cashpoints, set-top boxes and in-flight entertainment systems.
Open Source applications such as WordPress, Firefox and Libre Office are used by millions of people around the world in corporate, educational and home environments. Implementation of proven free software such as this can save an organization significant sums of money over purchasing traditional proprietary software.
For more information visit the HLUG site at http://www.hlug.org.uk
or follow them on twitter at http://twitter.com/Hfd_LUG
and facebook at http://tinyurl.com/3ym78gy
or email hlug@hlug.org.uk
