GNU/Linux and Free Open Source Softwares Festival has been being held for a couple of years with the help of Iranian Ubuntu Users Community and scientific chapters of several universities. The objective of such a festival is primarily providing an opportunity for FOSS enthusiasts to convene and meet each other. In recent years, various technical talks have been added to the festival program to enrich the meetup in terms of content.

This year, ACM Student Chapter of University of Tehran took the responsibility of holding the festival on the occasion of Ubuntu 15.04 release. We expended several weeks to specify content-related, advertising, and executive aspects of such a festival and plan for them. For instance, festival program was presented in various active and famous Persian IT blogs. Moreover, several posters were designed and consequently distributed in CS faculties of some schools.

Festival program was composed of two main parts, technical workshops and annual speeches respectively from 9 AM to 16 PM. We did our best to have an even small share in increasing knowledge of the participants by providing up-to-date and rich technical workshops. For instance, Prof. Sadjad held a workshop about Map Reduce or Iranian Ubuntu Users Community held another workshop about Go programming language which is developed by Google and is rapidly becoming a major candidate for developing scalable and real-time web services.

In the second part of the program, several people, active and well-known in Iranian FOSS community, presented related talks including changes in Ubuntu in recent 10 years or Big Data which is currently one of the hottest challenges of major applications/services.

Please note that beside the aforementioned intentions, such programs can be potentially effective in increasing team-work ability among students. Observing voluntary cooperation of students in holding the festival, their interactions and team-works was one the main reasons that assured us this decision (taking the responsibility) was worth it.