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IIHE's team of ICT students: Club ICT have made arrangements to celebrate The Software Freedom Day, on Saturday the 17th, at the university premises.  According to the organizers, the event will comprise of four major lecture sessions. The lectures are to cover the following areas: Why Free and Open Source software and Why people should care about it Install GNU / Linux with a demonstration done via Hanthana Linux Making use of Linux in a productive way These lectures are to be delivered by well-regarded personalities in the industry such as Mr. Buddhika Siddhisena, Mr. Suchetha Wijenayake and Mr. Gaveen Prabhasara.  The organizers will also be opening up an on location Open Source Game Zone on Saturday coupled with many more interesting stuff to be discussed, shared and learnt.  The Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide event organized by the Software Freedom International (SFI). SFD Wiki has already registered three organizers in Sri Lanka . Club ICT

Emmanuel Kelly auditioning at X  Factor  Pic Courtesy: Channel 7  Supplied TGIF! Yeah.. and I'm more than happy that I didn't worry myself too much, even I was told to come home via the most hectic bus routes. Simply, I managed to catch the bus :) and that "Langama" bus was awesome which made me to tweet couple of times, with the hashtag #langamarox.  As soon as I got home, I had this article to put up about the SSC Open Badminton C'ships. As usual, I opened my word doc, parallely signing into my gmail and FB. Saw a link on one of my friend's wall, with no thumbnail, but something triggered me to click on that. I was redirected to a Facebook video, one of those uploaded by an artist based in the Middle East. An 'X-Factor' video clip, showing a guy named Emmanuel Kelly, who's just another victim of these bloody wars, specifically at Iraqi blood sheds. 

The Common room, or "Students' area" in my uni (as branded by the students themselves, lecturers and even the minor staff), accommodates all the half-broken computer chairs, tables, the legendary Table Tennis gear and some tennis balls with bats.  Also, this got a wooden floor for those dance geeks who are willing to move themselves into the tunes of Salsa, Jive, ChaCha or whatever they call it. The maroon colour sofa which lies on a corner of this wooden floor, does add some colour to the whole brown spread and most probably gathers guys and girls in numbers. Then, the gossiping, stories, conspiracies and what not are slowly shot at each other :) 

Sri Lanka Cricket’s Interim Committee members appeared before the media today (20). Sujeewa Rajapakse, Treasurer to the SLC, Nishantha Ranathunga, Secretary to the SLC, Eshana De Silva, Acting Chairman of the SLC and Ajith Jayasekara, the Chief Executive Officer of SLC were present at the head table. In today’s media briefing, Secretary to the SLC (Sri Lanka Cricket), Mr. Nishantha Ranathunga revealed that it was none other than the Sri Lanka Cricket Interim Committee Chairman D. S. de Silva, who granted approval for the distribution of over 14 million Sri Lankan Rupees, among the staff of SLC, irrespective of their involvement at the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011. Ranathunga was responding to a question raised by the journalists gathered at the media briefing which was held this afternoon at the SLC headquarters. READ THE REST OF THE ENTRY

Hashan Tillakaratne, who was acclaimed as a defensive batsman in the then Sri Lankan batting line-up, is keeping onto his ‘signature batting style’ though he had retired from one-day cricket in 2003! The cricketer turned politician of the opposition, Tillakaratne claimed that match-fixing had been rampant in Sri Lanka since 1992. He also said that he was determined to reveal the names of those who were involved in fixing and he would do it in the due course, at the most appropriate time. Despite this startling revelation done by a former Sri Lankan skipper, many started pouring in comments, both in support of Tillakaratne’s attempt to expose those who were involved in this ‘criminal activity’ and against his approach, arguing it’s ‘fishy’ as to why he waited this long to make such a statement. READ THE REST

Sri Lanka's Number one sports website: ThePapare.com is at the verge of throwing out a campaign, in recruiting new reporters, writers, photographers, videographers, producers, production co-ordinators and aspiring marketers.  The campaign titled, "The Hunt is on for 'Paparites'" will go online, in the coming weekend and may be around next week. The main objective of the campaign would be to expand the number of reporters and personnel involved in carrying out its operations. The website would be seeking, any individual (despite the gender), who carry the passion for sport, with the ability of working effectively with given deadlines as a writer, reporter, photographer, etc. 

'Tesco', has already planned to build up an advisory board, made up of school children, aged between nine years to 12 years, in helping with the supermarket chain's 'Tesco for Schools & Clubs programme'.  The said advisory board will include six 'young entrepreneurs', as they prove they have a talent in making decisions, and sensory vision towards the future.

World's number one Cola company, Coca Cola is yet again planning on revolutionizing its marketing communications strategies, as they touch upon their consumers' love for music! The company also uses its 'love for music' on par with its 'Open Happiness' campaign, that has strategically being launched in over 200 global markets.