Dear all,
With a bit of delay, the *Digital Freedom Foundation* is very happy to
announce that registration of the twelfth edition of Software Freedom
Day <http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/> just opened. While the wiki has
been ready for some times and a few teams started to create pages
registration was another story. In fact our infrastructure needs updates
and we still haven't found way to do that easily.
Now as far as Free Software is concerned while we see more projects
adopting Free Software licenses we also feel end-users still struggle
with their proprietary operating systems. At the same time both hardware
and software seems a lot more integrated and in some fields it seems
that you can just print something with your Free 3D printers, order some
kind of Free Hardware controllers online, flash them, hack them and get
a complete and finish product running (or flying, or...). We're involved
here with people who had no special interest in Free Software or
Hardware and discovered it through pursuing their hobbies, and they just
love it!
On the sponsorship side we have unfortunately lost Canonical financially
but they are still providing the mailing list infrastructure (snif
snif.. they were our first sponsors). Google and Linode are still
supporting us luckily and we are exploring new ventures (though nothing
confirmed at this stage).
So as usual registration
<http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/cgi-bin/register.py> happens after
you have created your event page on the wiki
<http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/>. We have an exaustive guide here
<http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/StartGuide> for newcomers and for
the others who need help, the SFD-Discuss mailing
<http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss> is probably the best
place to get prompt support. As usual we will come back with more
details things to do or worth mentioning to bring inspiration and
motivation to the celebration on the sfd-discuss mailing list.
So get ready to celebrate and happy preparations to all!
The Digital Freedom Foundation
