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[SFD-TC] Fwd: Tshirts and balloons sent!

by Robert Schumann

Subject: Tshirts and balloons sent! From: Pia Waugh <greebo(a)pipka.org> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:47:17 +1000 To: SFD Team Contacts <team-contacts(a)sf-day.org> Hi all, Half the tshirts and balloons have been sent today with the other half going tomorrow. There are about 140 packages all up, so we had to do it in two batches. We are sending everything by air mail, which means you will all receive your packages in 7-10 working days (about 2 weeks) in plenty of time for Software Freedom Day! :) Remember to blog and take photos, so we can build up the community buzz before the event. If anyone uses FlickR or blogs, please use the tag sfd2006 so we can easily find any photos and posts. Below are a few important bits of information about the packages: * The tshirts have been "valued" at $2 and the balloons at less than a dollar to hopefully avoid any import tax in all your countries. Most of the smaller packages ended up being valued at AUD$5 so hopefully that is below the taxable import amount for each country. * Each package contains 2 free shirts for teams, as many balloons as we could allocate reasonably, the details of your team pack and a team page with some useful details. Extra shirts were included for teams that purchased them and those that made special requests for extenuating circumstances. Get your last press releases, newsletter announcements, radio announcements and posters out this coming week to give people enough notice to come to your SFD event. Make sure your wiki page is up to date on the SFD website, and try to get everyone talking about it in the lead up :) You can find posters, artwork, press releases and more on the website. We suggest you print out little single-page information sheets with some basic information about Software Freedom Day and also about your local FLOSS organisations and community. The day isn't just about spreading the word of Software Freedom, it is also about growing your local communities, and gaining support for FLOSS. Please make sure you all do a final scan through the Start Guide as there might be some ideas you haven't thought of, or some idea you have that others might benefit from. Also, remember the competition! Details on the website. Many thanks to the gang from the Sydney Linux User Group (Australia) who helped pack up all the goods for shipping! They all put in most of a day to get everyone packed up and sent out to you all. - Mark Phillips - Andreas Fischer - Lindsay Holmwood - Julia Decates - John Ferlito - Jeremy Apthorp - James Dummay - Dave Dummay - Pascal Klein and his Dad - Chris Smart - Paul Wayper Have a GREAT Software Freedom Day everyone! We look forward to seeing all the reports and photos on the SFD website. Make sure you keep copies of old events and reports archived on your wiki pages for future reference. Cheers, Pia -- Linux Australia http://linux.org.au/ Software Freedom Day http://softwarefreedomday.org/

Aug. 29, 2006

[SFD-TC] SFD T-shirts and a proposal

by Robert Schumann

Today's the last day to order SFD T-shirts - get yours now from http://tinyurl.com/h3kgl ! The following email was sent to the Planning-en mailing list recently. Unlike the Team-Contacts list (this one), any subscriber can post to the Planning lists - so it's useful for asking advice from other teams, or coordinating efforts. Go and sign up at http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/planning-en (if you speak English) http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/planning-es (if you speak Spanish) Robert. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Planning-en] Introduction and a proposal Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:04:50 +1000 From: James Purser <purserj(a)k-sit.com> Reply-To: Discussions about planning for SFD (english) <planning-en(a)sf-day.org> To: planning-en(a)sf-day.org Hi all, Firstly a brief introduction. My name is James Purser and I run a community news site ( http://www.localfoss.org ) which focuses on promoting FOSS communities around the world. I also, along with my wife Karin, produce a weekly online radio programme called Open Source On The Air ( http://www.localfoss.org/Open_Source_On_The_Air ). We are planning a SFD event with a difference. What we would like to do is run a live broadcast that will attempt to talk to SFD teams from around the world. This would be a combination of live interviews and pre-recorded interviews. The aim is to have this show streaming live for those SFD teams who have net access at their events to show that its a global event, as well as help the different regions listen in to what everyone else is up to. I am looking for groups in each region who would be interested in taking part. If you're interested then please let me know, either off list or on, it doesn't matter. If you want to talk to me further about the idea then you can contact me via Skype with the username purserj1977 or you can hop on irc and find me in either #sfd or #localfoss on freenode. -- James Purser Producer/Presenter - Open Source On The Air A LocalFOSS Production http://www.localfoss.org irc: #localfoss on irc.freenode.net

Aug. 25, 2006

[SFD-TC] How's your SFD competition entry?

by Robert Schumann

This is just a reminder to kick your Software Freedom Day preparations up a notch - and to make sure that we here at SFD Central hear about it so that we can give away glittering prizes! For individual competitors we've got a bunch of SFD T-shirts with Officially Cool Peoples' signatures on it, including everyone's favourite millionaire cosmonaut Linux enthusiast, Mark Shuttleworth. Just imagine what those shirts will be worth on ebay.... And if that's not enough for you we've also lined up some seriously powerful hardware from IBM: five POWER5 servers for team entries to the competition. You can get your hands on a T-shirt by snapping a cool photo of your SFD event, or perhaps sending us a photo of a Very Important Person enjoying your SFD event. For the IBM servers you need to do a little more work, like * get your local/national newspaper to publish an article about your event * get yourself interviewed on radio or TV * write in your blog or podcast about SFD * make some interesting "urban art" about software freedom * put some leaflets through people's postboxes * get some posters up on the lampposts around town The full competition details and rules (including the categories for entries) are at http://softwarefreedomday.org/Competition2006. Competition entries need to be emailed to board(a)sf-day.org. Robert. PS - 24 days left to go.....

Aug. 22, 2006

[SFD-TC] Get your SFD T-shirts before Friday!

by Robert Schumann

Buy your look-at-me-now orange SFD T-shirt now at http://tinyurl.com/h3kgl The deadline for buying extra T-shirts for Software Freedom Day is this *Friday 25 August*, so make sure to get your order in! Every team that registered before the 19 July deadline (that's 136 teams) will be receiving at least two free T-shirts (although final numbers will only be known this weekend). If you would like more T-shirts you will need to buy them before THIS FRIDAY - our shipping deadline is this weekend! PRICES (including shipping from Australia) are * AUD$20 or approx. USD$15.27 * AUD$15 or approx. USD$11.45 if you want your shirt shipped to a registered team address * CHEAPER than that for teams in developing countries (simply reply to this email for further details) To have your shirt shipped to a registered team address, enter teamzshirtz into the discount code section of the ordering process. Make sure you include your team details (city, country and team leader) in the order comments, so we know where to send it. Payment can be made by Paypal or credit card. Available sizes are: * Womens M and L * Mens M, L, XL, XXL and XXXL Specify chosen sizes in your order comments. Go orange on SFD - buy a T-shirt to support the event! Robert.

Aug. 21, 2006

[SFD-TC] T-Shirt sales & free shirts' shipping

by Matt Oquist

Dear Team Leaders, Some of you may wonder why you should buy "official" SFD shirts for AUD$20 when you can make your own locally for less than that. There is some overhead that comes with having "official" shirts, doing currency conversions to pay for them, and then shipping them all over the world. In the end, that AUD$20 (and even the lower prices for teams in developing nations) subsidizes the cost of the free t-shirts, which is all some teams can afford. Don't look at it as "buying a shirt," think of it as contributing to the global effort to educate the public toward the ideals of Software Freedom. "Freedom isn't free", and purchasing SFD shirts for your teams enables us to send more shirts to everyone overall. SFI[1] is a non-profit organization and all our funding is exhausted to provide these materials to SFD teams each year. This year we decided to take a risk with the potential reward that hundreds more of you could sport SFD T-Shirts at your events in 2006. We bought more shorts than we could afford to ship, at the risk that not enough of them would sell. As our budget stands now, we still need many of your teams to purchase shirts or we will not be able to afford to ship all of the free shirts[2], and we would like every team to have two free shirts. So if your team can afford shirts, or you'd like to buy a SFD shirt for your mom -- or anybody else! -- please order yours today so that we can ship as many of the free ones as possible! We'd like to see you all in orange at your SFD celebrations, so help out the other teams around the world and buy your SFD shirts today! Buy shirts here: http://tinyurl.com/h3kgl Discounts are available for team purchases and those in developing nations; email info(a)softwarefreedomday.org for more information. Regards, Matt Oquist [1] Software Freedom International: http://softwarefreedomday.org/sfi [2] Shipping is included in the price of purchased shirts, so all the purchased shirts are guaranteed to ship. The only items at risk are the free shirts; we may not be able to ship all of them. -- --------------------------------------------------------- SoftwareFreedomDay.org : Celebrating Free and Open Source Software in Your Community info AT softwarefreedomday.org http://softwarefreedomday.org/ SFD Sponsors: http://canonical.com http://www.dkuug.dk http://ibm.com

Aug. 17, 2006

[SFD-TC] URGENT SFD: Send your phone number ASAP

by Matt Oquist

Well, we don't have this thing figured out perfectly yet, but we're getting better every year. :) Last year our registration form had a simple text box for all the address information so we had to do a bunch of manual interpretations of addresses (some of you put some really interesting stuff in there :), and this year I forgot to ask for phone numbers, and we just found out that we need them. So please bear with us; we're doing our best to get everything to you on time! I sent the following to the email addresses submitted on the supplies registration form, but I'm sending it to this list as well to make sure that we reach everyone as soon as possible. Regards, Matt Oquist ---------------------------------------------- ------------------------- Registered SFD email: Team Name (copied from list below): Phone number: ------------------------- Please fill out the above form and reply to this email IMMEDIATELY -- we must have your phone numbers. Reply from the email address you used to register for your SFD materials, and include the name of your team copied from the list below. (Apologies that we didn't collect your numbers in the first place.) Adelaide Ass. Sputnix Associazione culturale Revolutionary Mind BVBCET Barrie Linux Users Group Brunei LINUX Users Group Bryant Patten CIALUG CLAN Central Indiana Linux Users Group Centre for Youth and Social Development Chelmsford Linux User Group Christchurch NZ Coffs Harbour Australia College of Engineering Chengannur Computer Club South Computerbank Council Cultura Libre Cyber Network Dubbo El proyecto mayix Emory Free Culture FFCWI FREE AND OPEN SOFTWARE BURUNDI FREE GEEK Chicago Free Software Organization Guatemala Free Software User Group,Kochi GAIA GNUCHILE GUG/L Universidad de Nari�o / ParqueSoft Pasto GULEV Gainesville Geocaching Tasmania GlugCN GlugCN Grupo de Usuairos de Linux de Nayarit Hackaserta 81100 Hellug (Hellenic Linux User Group) Hobart ILUG-Goa ILUGC ISLUG Interface.org.nz Victoria University of Wellington Computer Club JHU ACM KnowlegdeHouseAfrica Kumbo Free and OpenSource Software Community LCA- Swaziland LOSURS Advocacy Group LUG-Indore Launceston Lewiston-Auburn Linux Chix Namibia Linux Chix Uganda Linux Users Victoria - Melbourne Linux Users' Group of Davis LinuxBaja.org LinuxChix Africa Ghana LinuxChix Africa Malawi Chapter LinuxChix Africa-Kenya Chapter LinuxChix Africa-South Africa team LinuxChix Africa-Uganda Team LinuxChix Senegal LinuxChix South Africa LinuxChixZimbabwe LinuxchixNigeria Lower Hutt SFD Team MVSD MajaGLUG Mawson Lakes Milford Minuteman Morrocco NZOSS Auckland Nepal Team OpenSource ([WWW] http://opensource.3wsi.net) Debian ([WWW] http://debian.3wsi.net) Linux-aktivis ([WWW] http://www.linux.or.id) Opensource @ SFSU PSL-Trinacional Pangasinan Linux Users Group Penguins for Penguins QOAC RapidLinux Richmond, Indiana SFD Bangladesh Team SFD Nashua SFD Zambia SFD-Xela SFD-Zim Team SchoolNet Zambia Slovak SFD team Social Watch India Software Freedom Day Kids Software Freedom Day Team Pakistan SoftwareLivreVS Southern Vales Linux User Group Suncoast Linux Users Group Sydney TALUG TLUG Team Cardiff Team NZOSS Team Zambia Manda Hill Thailand The Copenhagen Team UDUS FOSS Movement UK-Hampshire Ubuntu DC LoCo Team WOS Waikato Linux Users Group Walla Walla SFD Team WiLug Xavier's Open Source Cell Youth Alive Youth Hotline Network Zambia NGOs eRiding Project denvertech engico hullFLOSS ilug-bwn os freedom parquesoft rajaram scarborough team_galicia_spain vsl www.sf-lug.org -- --------------------------------------------------------- SoftwareFreedomDay.org : Celebrating Free and Open Source Software in Your Community info AT softwarefreedomday.org http://softwarefreedomday.org/ SFD Sponsors: http://canonical.com http://www.dkuug.dk http://ibm.com

Aug. 16, 2006

[SFD-TC] Website back up again - apologies

by Pia Waugh

Hi all, website is cranking again. Apologies for yesterday, we had some issues. Back to updating the wiki :) Cheers, Pia -- Linux Australia http://linux.org.au/

Aug. 13, 2006

[SFD-TC] How to get your team discounts on shirts

by Pia Waugh

Hi all, I forgot to say _how_ teams can get their discount :) Put "teamzshirtz" (without the quote marks) into the discount code section of the ordering process to get team shirts for $15 each (Australian). Make sure you put your team name into the comments for your order and we'll label the extra tshirts clearly in the team bundle. This discount is different for the developing nations discount, and anyone wanting to take advantage of that discount, please send an email to info(a)sf-day.org with your circumstances. Cheers, Pia -- Linux Australia http://linux.org.au/ "We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free." - Bill Hicks

Aug. 13, 2006

[SFD-TC] Website temporarily down

by Pia Waugh

Hi all, we are having a few little problems with the main sfd website. In the spirit of keeping everyone in the loop, we wanted to let everyone know that we are dealing with it asap. Apologies for any inconvenience. The website for the tshirts is still fine. Cheers, Pia -- Linux Australia http://linux.org.au/ "Is kneeling a criteria for talking to you?" - Philip Lindsay to Jeff

Aug. 12, 2006

Re: [SFD-TC] Tshirts, balloons and CDs - status update

by Pia Waugh

Hi Robyn, <quote who="Robyn M"> > Can we designate the size of the 2 t-shirts that are coming with our > packs? Great questions. Yes everyone can designate those sizes and let me know asap and I'll supply them on a best case basis. Sizes available are: Womens M and L Mens M, L, XL, XXL and XXXL Also, you can buy extra tshirts at http://sfd0.sauceopen.com/portal/ and if teams want to order them they can order shirts at $15 each (Australian dollars) which will be shipped with your team packs (and clearly labelled). This is discounted from the website listing of $20 per shirt. Teams in developing nations can get a higher discount rate (email us to get the discount code), and teams that can't use paypal or can't afford the discount rate can get a few extra by special request to info(a)sf-day.org. We only have 500 tshirts for everyone (though we can order more if we need to) so please consider other teams, and if everyone gets their orders in within the week, then we have time to order more shirts if we need them. Cheers, Pia -- Linux Australia http://linux.org.au/ "Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye." - Bill Hicks

Aug. 12, 2006