Introduction

Open Source Community (OSC) Himalaya College of Engineering is a group of students working for the use, promotion and support of Free and Open Source Software. The committee is established as a sub unit of Free and Open Source Softwares (FOSS) Nepal Community. OSC HCOE is working as one of the wings of FOSS Nepal. The primary objective of these communities is to promote and diversify the usage of Free/Open Source Software in Nepal.

Our Community will be dedicated to create awareness about Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) to students in the college. It will always highlight the Open Source achievements in Nepal and also support in the activities of FOSS Nepal. Our presence will mark a milestone in terms of issues regarding Open Source Software in our college. The need, necessity and the urgency to use Open Source Softwares will be pointed out throughout all acedemic years in the college.

We expect you to actively follow Open Source technologies in Daily practice and encourage others to be familiar with it. As an example, the CMS we used here to make our OSC Web Site is DRUPAL which is an Open Source Content Management System(CMS).

OUR OBJECTIVES

* To work for the promotion of free and open software and to conduct presentation, seminar, workshop and training program in our college and in other schools/colleges/organizations.

* To coordinate with Foss Nepal and participate on various free and open
source activities conducted by Foss Nepal.

* To provide open source resources, material and platform for web and
software development.

* To provide open CD's, DVD's, Open source software and open source
alternatives to existing proprietary softwares in the college.