Tanzania Software Freedom Day!

September 18, 2010
 
FREE SOFTWARE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
FOR LEGAL PROFESSIONALS
Tentative Programme
Workshop title: Free Software and Open Source Software for Legal Professionals
Organizer: Tanzania Free and Open Source Software Association (TAFOSSA)
Target:Legal professionals (Invitation only due to space limitation)
Venue: Conference Hall at the Tanzania Women Lawyers Association (TAWLA)
Duration:3 hours
Date: 18th September, 2010
Expected number of Participants: 20
 
Workshop Content
Presentation (1.30 hrs)
• Introduction
• A bit of history
• freedom of software
• Developers and their motivations
• Free software and public administrations
• Legal aspects of Free Software
• Opportunities for legal professionals
• Case studies
• Free resources
• Question and Answers

Demonstrations (targeted to legal professionals) (30)
• Office Applications
• Website Content Management Systems
• File management systems
• Collaboration software
• Blog Software
• etc

Software Installation (1 hr)
• Ubuntu Linux
• Free Application Software for windows (Office, antivirus, multimedia etc)
• Website Content Management Systems (Joomla, MediaWiki, etc)
• File sharing software

TAFOSSA Team (to be published soon)