We held the last of three demonstration sessions during early evening and suddenly there was a power cut. Students had kerosene lamps as back up and it was  an interesting contrast: they were watching a demo of Thinkpad while kerosene lamp was source of light. We were fortunate that laptop battery did not die.

Our next two sessions brought us to Kathmandu, Nepal. With help of folks from Janaki Technology, we held an Open Source Software (OSS) awareness seminar to students of Pulchowk Engineering College and few software professionals. All together there were about 25 attendees. This was mostly about describing how OSS works, its relevance in Nepal and how those students can be active members of OSS community. This was followed by another OSS talk at the premise of a software company which is a branch of a US based company. The talk was more interactive here because some people were already using different OSS such as Fedora, JBoss, Apache, Joomla, Drupal etc.  Result of this session had an immediate impact. One of the attendees became an OSS contributor and you can see details of that at this blog.