July 2010 - SFD-announce - lists.mailman3.com

A few updates (marketing and registration)

by Frederic Muller - SFI

Dear all, In the email: 1. Registration count update 2. Marketing efforts and tracking 3. Migration to Open Street Map in progress 4. Discussions available on mailing list and IRC channel 1. Registration count update I just wanted to let you know what has been happening so far. With a last kick start for registration and a whole new site for SFD we've hit a few technical bumps but have mainly solved most of them. Within the first 24 hours we received over 100 registration. We are now at about 160 teams, however we mistakenly removed a good 10 teams from China as they appeared (to someone from the team) as spam. Our apologies, we're going through the logs and will try to re-add them avoiding the need to re-register. 2. Marketing efforts and tracking We are now in the phase of spreading the word out as our objective from 2010 is to reach 1000 teams worldwide, a 200 increase from last year. We believe this is achievable but need your help. We have set up a page to track our current submissions to various news sites, community sites, blogs and such. You can find it here: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Marketing/SitePosting Please help us to complete the page so we don't do double submissions. Also help us to spread the word out. 3. Migration to Open Street Map in progress Last but not least, as promoters of Software Freedom it is important for us to use Free Software. Since 2008 we had been looking for help to migrate our map to Open Street Map and have finally found someone to work on this. It is currently in the development stage but you can have a preview here: http://www.rigacci.org/2010/map2.shtml (those are sample data and doesn't get updated at all) We want to extend a big thank you to Niccolo for his support. Hopefully we should all be able to use OSM very soon. 4. Discussions available on mailing list and IRC channel Those are the news for now. Should you have any question please do not hesitate to subscribe to sfd-discuss (or es-planning for Spanish speakers) if not yet done, and let us know. We are also regularly on our SFD IRC channel on freenode (#sfd). The mailing list page is here: http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo Thank you for your support and happy SFD preparation. Fred

July 23, 2010

Registration confirmation back online

by Frederic Muller - SFI

Dear all, Some of you might have received a second confirmation email, some of you might have seen our maintenance page for registration confirmation: yes we had a small glitch in the registration but all is back to normal now. So please feel free to click on the link in the email and validate your registration. Again sorry for the inconveniences and thank you for your patience. Have a great Software Freedom Day preparation. Note that we also have a SFD IRC channel on freednode at #sfd . Else the sfd-discuss mailing list or the Spannish planning mailing list are good ways to talk with other SFD community members and ask for tips and advices List mailman about planning SFD for spanish speakers http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/planning-es Thanks to Peter for reminding us. Regards, Fred Software Freedom International

July 19, 2010

SFD 2010 registration is OPEN!!!

by Frederic Muller

Dear all, This is with a lot of struggles that we have finally managed to open the SFD 2010 registration <http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/register.html>! As you can see there is still a lot of ongoing work on the site, and this includes a New Wiki <http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org> where you can create your team page <http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CreateYourTeampage>, a new home page <http://maddog.softwarefreedomday.org/cms-sfd/> for all the information about Software Freedom International and other generic and important stuff and much more to come. I want to particularly thank *Thilo*, *JM*, *Matt* and *Robert* for helping out as well as our web infrastructure sponsors, that is Canonical <http://www.canonical.com> and Linode <http://www.linode.com> for providing our little corner on the web. Due to the delay there will only be 10 days to get free CDs this year, so don't slack! And happy SFD preparations! Oh and by the way, the direct link to registering your team is here http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/register.html after creating your team page <http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CreateYourTeampage> of course. Any question please let us know. The SFI Board

July 19, 2010

Some news about SFD?

by Emiliano Gonzalez

Hi: We want to register our team for this SFD 2010. There are some news about when we'll can do that?? TXS!

July 14, 2010

Hello

by Nury Farelo Velasquez

Hello everyone My name is Nury Farelo, and I'm a systems engeniering student fron Bucaramanga, Colombia. I want to ask to the SFD Team, how can i have some goodies for this day in my city. I'm member of CUSOL-UIS, that is the comunity that organizes this activity every year in my city. I'll apreciate al the information that you can provide. Have a nice Day -- Nury Farelo Velásquez Est. Ingenieria Sistemas UIS Linux User # 480005 Comunidad Universitaria de Software Libre CUSOL-UIS http://www.linux.com.co/cusol http://www.nuryfv.tk

July 9, 2010