White Water Rafting
Posted by Nazly on Sunday, 24th September 2006 21:09:51 (GMT +0530)Yesterday I went to Kithulgala with my collegues and it was one of the coolest experiences in my life. This is the first time I have been to Kithulgala and was hoping to have some serious fun. We were guided by Priyantha of Ceylon Adventure Sports. Priyantha is a good friend of my collegue. Though I have heard of him, yesterday only I met him. First we went jungle tracking. The places within the jungle were really hard to believe. We came across a waterfall where we all bathed. The whole course took us about 3 hours to complete. By the time when we came back we were really hungry so we had a good lunch. Then in the evening came the real fun, White Water Rafting. This is why we all went to Kithulgala. We were geared up with life jackets and helmets. Priyantha instructed how we should row when he commands. Then we started the course. On our course there were 5 rapids we had to cross. We took the challenge and when we hit the thrid one Priyantha intentionally got the boat closer to the rock and flipped it up side down. Gosh we were all in the water trying to gather ourselves. Then we got together and flipped the boat and got inside. We successfully went passed the other rapids. After we passed all the rapids then came the other excercise. Jump out of the boat said Priyantha. I was like
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and then jumped. We had to swim from there to the camp site. It was a long swim but was bit difficult with the life jackets for me. But can't take it off either. Its not a Swimming Pool. After I got to the camp site Priyantha said its 40Ft deep where he told us to jump ![[Oops]](/smiles/icon_redface.gif){kind=icon}
. It was a good team building excersie all and all. Had some great fun. Thanks to Priyantha for all the excitement and his crew (couldn't get their names) including our friend Nilantha. A day is not enough for such a trip but had to come back to Colombo.
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SFD 2006 - Summary
Posted by Nazly on Thursday, 21st September 2006 12:21:50 (GMT +0530)I was stuck with work last couple of days so couldn't make a post about the Software Freedom Day Celebrations. Initially the Sri Lankan Team planned to have three teams preaching FOSS + distributing handouts and Free GNU/Linux CDs at three locations which were MC Lobby, Crescat Lobby and Excel World. Due to couple of issues we lost MC location though we mentioned it in the pre-marketing campaign. U can get a good idea what happened if u read Bud's post on 'Freedom LOST at Software Freedom Day!'. But on a positive note things went really well at Crescat and Excel World. The response we got from the people was really amazing. They were really keen to know what FOSS means and how they can use FOSS in their day to day life. Also GNU/Linux CDs were given at zero cost. According to their requirement we gave out Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Xubuntu distro CDs. The foreigners too were really keen to know what we were doing out there and couple of them were amazed to know that there is a LUG in Sri Lanka. Overall its a success but could have been better if we could get a team running at MC where some large potion of the crowd gathers. I'm really glad to be a part in the Software Freedom Day Celebrations.
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Software Freedom Day 2006
Posted by Nazly on Thursday, 14th September 2006 21:48:12 (GMT +0530)The Lanka Linux User Group (LKLUG) along with the Sri Lankan FOSS community will be celebrating the Software Freedom Day on the 16th of September 2006.
Here are the locations & list of activities that have been planned for the event. Don't miss out.. Be there to celebrate the Software Freedom Day..
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