August 2007 - SFD-announce - lists.mailman3.com

SFD team supplies: shipping update

by Robert Schumann

Hi Software Freedom Days teams, This email is to let you all know that all supplies have now been dispatched to teams that registered before the deadline and within the first 200 teams. This year we've been ambitious and multinational in our distribution: * T-shirts to Asian teams have been dispatched from Quezon City, Philippines (last week) * T-shirts to Australia and New Zealand have been dispatched from Sydney, Australia (yesterday) * T-shirts to teams in the Americas were sent courtesy of the Free Software Foundation in Boston, USA (two weeks ago) * T-shirts to African and European teams were dispatched from Abingdon, UK (last week) All these shipments have been via normal postage, and apparently some teams have already received their packages. We hope you like the T-shirts! Balloons and stickers are being sent from Sydney, Australia, today. In addition, CDs have been shipped via courier from the Netherlands this week. Mine were dispatched yesterday and arrived today! This weekend we will be sending out emails to all teams that registered in time to qualify for supplies, to let you know how many T-shirts and CDs you'll be receiving. I'd like to thank all teams for their patience with the various problems we've been having over the last few weeks with our shipments, website and mailing lists. And many thanks also go to John Sullivan and the rest of the team at the Free Software Foundation, who have partnered with us to ease some of our distribution problems by shipping supplies to all teams in North, South and Central America. Their contribution has been invaluable to making SFD a success this year. Happy SFDing, Robert.

Aug. 29, 2007

Apologies and update for teams

by Robert Schumann

Hi all, Firstly thank you to you all for your patience and understanding while we had some technical issues. For those that didn't know, the Software Freedom Day website was down for almost 4 days, and it has taken till now for various reasons to get the mailing lists back up. Details below on what happened: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2007-August/001506.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2007-August/001510.html I am glad to say that though the initial work of Canonical sysadmins, and then through the tireless work of several of the Software Freedom International board members, we now have the website, mailing lists and registration back up and running! All other Software Freedom Day preparations were unaffected by the server issues. All teams that registered prior to the 30th July have already had much of their free team schwag posted, and will be receiving 3 seperate packages: 1) SFD tshirts (already shipped to most teams) 2) SFD stickers and balloons (being shipped in the next 2 days) 3) Ubuntu and The Open CD packs (already shipped) Please note that due to some issues in production, we are only able to ship 5 of The Open CDs to each team this year (not including additional CDs purchased), however we will ensure more are available next year. Please feel free to replicate the CDs being sent and to distribute any other FOSS that is locally relevant and beneficial to your events. We are pleased to say there are already 283 registered teams celebrating Software Freedom Day this year, and we expect plenty more to register in the coming weeks to be included as official events. Hopefully we'll hit at the very least the 300 mark, so please let any teams you know that haven't registered to get their socks on! Please ensure your event pages are up to date because over the coming weeks people will be looking for your events and wanting to see at the very least what you'll be doing, when and where so they can visit your events! Good luck with your SFD planning, and thank you all for helping take software freedom to the world! Through all our efforts we can really help ensure a more open, sustainable and trustworthy digital future! Cheers, Robert (on behalf of Pia and the rest of Software Freedom International) -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

Aug. 26, 2007

Apologies and update for teams

by Robert Schumann

Hi all, Firstly thank you to you all for your patience and understanding while we had some technical issues. For those that didn't know, the Software Freedom Day website was down for almost 4 days, and it has taken till now for various reasons to get the mailing lists back up. Details below on what happened: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2007-August/001506.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2007-August/001510.html I am glad to say that though the initial work of Canonical sysadmins, and then through the tireless work of several of the Software Freedom International board members, we now have the website, mailing lists and registration back up and running! All other Software Freedom Day preparations were unaffected by the server issues. All teams that registered prior to the 30th July have already had much of their free team schwag posted, and will be receiving 3 seperate packages: 1) SFD tshirts (already shipped to most teams) 2) SFD stickers and balloons (being shipped in the next 2 days) 3) Ubuntu and The Open CD packs (already shipped) Please note that due to some issues in production, we are only able to ship 5 of The Open CDs to each team this year (not including additional CDs purchased), however we will ensure more are available next year. Please feel free to replicate the CDs being sent and to distribute any other FOSS that is locally relevant and beneficial to your events. We are pleased to say there are already 283 registered teams celebrating Software Freedom Day this year, and we expect plenty more to register in the coming weeks to be included as official events. Hopefully we'll hit at the very least the 300 mark, so please let any teams you know that haven't registered to get their socks on! Please ensure your event pages are up to date because over the coming weeks people will be looking for your events and wanting to see at the very least what you'll be doing, when and where so they can visit your events! Good luck with your SFD planning, and thank you all for helping take software freedom to the world! Through all our efforts we can really help ensure a more open, sustainable and trustworthy digital future! Cheers, Robert (on behalf of Pia and the rest of Software Freedom International) -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

Aug. 26, 2007

Apologies and update for teams

by Robert Schumann

Hi all, Firstly thank you to you all for your patience and understanding while we had some technical issues. For those that didn't know, the Software Freedom Day website was down for almost 4 days, and it has taken till now for various reasons to get the mailing lists back up. Details below on what happened: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2007-August/001506.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2007-August/001510.html I am glad to say that though the initial work of Canonical sysadmins, and then through the tireless work of several of the Software Freedom International board members, we now have the website, mailing lists and registration back up and running! All other Software Freedom Day preparations were unaffected by the server issues. All teams that registered prior to the 30th July have already had much of their free team schwag posted, and will be receiving 3 seperate packages: 1) SFD tshirts (already shipped to most teams) 2) SFD stickers and balloons (being shipped in the next 2 days) 3) Ubuntu and The Open CD packs (already shipped) Please note that due to some issues in production, we are only able to ship 5 of The Open CDs to each team this year (not including additional CDs purchased), however we will ensure more are available next year. Please feel free to replicate the CDs being sent and to distribute any other FOSS that is locally relevant and beneficial to your events. We are pleased to say there are already 283 registered teams celebrating Software Freedom Day this year, and we expect plenty more to register in the coming weeks to be included as official events. Hopefully we'll hit at the very least the 300 mark, so please let any teams you know that haven't registered to get their socks on! Please ensure your event pages are up to date because over the coming weeks people will be looking for your events and wanting to see at the very least what you'll be doing, when and where so they can visit your events! Good luck with your SFD planning, and thank you all for helping take software freedom to the world! Through all our efforts we can really help ensure a more open, sustainable and trustworthy digital future! Cheers, Robert (on behalf of Pia and the rest of Software Freedom International) -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

Aug. 26, 2007

Last day to order SFD T-shirts and CDs!

by Robert Schumann

Hi all, Due to our shipping deadlines (to make sure T-shirts and other materials arrive with teams before 15 September) we are having to close the SFD shop tomorrow, Saturday 4 August. Teams that were among the first 200 registered before the 31 July deadline will receive 3 free t-shirts plus a variable number of The Open CD (but no more than 25, since our stocks are limited) - but please go ahead and order more shirts to support our mission to send supplies to as many teams as we can! The store website is http://sfd.zac-ware.com/ and we have extended the original 31 July deadline for ordering shirts until *tomorrow* for teams to get their last minute orders in. THIS DEADLINE WILL NOT BE EXTENDED! Tshirts are on there for AUD$30 but teams get them for AUD$15 each (AUD$15 = ~USD$12.50), and for the first time we also have The Open CD Packs (with 5 CDs) available for AUD$25 (AUD$12.50 for teams) so please ensure when you place any team orders that you tick the "Gift Voucher" box once you confirm your order which will apply the 50% discount before paying. The discount code is: sfdt3@ms Don't worry about the "Redeem" button, it'll apply once you click Continue. Also, _ensure_ you also tick the "Comments" section of your order and add the size(s) you'd like and which team you are ordering for so we can bundle the new goodies in with your free SFD Team Pack! We'll then label the additional goodies such that you can determine who ordered more and which are the free schwag. Payment options include Paypal (includes Visa, Mastercard and other credit options), Cheque and Bank transfers, although we don't recommend the bank transfers expect for large orders due to the SWIFT fees (unless you are in the US). Don't worry, you don't have to have a Paypal account to participate. If anyone has issues with the online store, please email info at softwarefreedomday.org Cheers, Robert. PS - One Aussie dollar (AUD$) is about USD0.85, or GBP0.42, or EUR0.62, if you want to figure out how much the T-shirts cost in a slightly more familiar currency. I certainly didn't know how much the Aussie dollar was worth before looking it up....

Aug. 3, 2007