Dear all!
We want to wish you a happy Software Freedom Day 2021 and hope
everything will go as planned!
We stepped in the Christchurch event in New Zealand earlier today and
were very impressed with their Jitsi set up, using the Jitsi free public
offering.
We are still seeing teams registering as we're writing this email so
2021 should be a good sign of what we can do individually during times
like this. And celebration can definitely postponed should you not have
had the time or the opportunity to organize for today!
Hopefully we are going to strengthen up our team very very soon and
provide better support for the other upcoming celebrations.
In the meantime you can check all the current events on our SFD map at
https://www.softwarefreedomday.org/map/index.php?year=2021 and browse
the wiki at https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2021 should you not find
any team in your area.
One of the good sides of this year is that most events are virtual, and
like us, you can probably find one within your time zone and in your
language.
SFD remains one of the events with the most represented languages and
places in the world and we should be proud of that!
Thank you all for your continuous participation and happy SFD!
Fred
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Digital Freedom Foundation
Dear all,
After a year of silence we're officially celebrating Software Freedom
Day again. Covid had and is still having a big impact on our decisions
to promote meetings, as for most of us, online events mean servers
running free software and having enough bandwidth to make it happen.
Nevertheless this year we did open registration end of June and had some
discussions on the usual discussion list.
So SFD is this Saturday, 18th September 2021. A few teams had to
celebrate it earlier (and registered) and we are sure a few teams will
celebrate it later.
Registration is the same as usual:
1. Create an account on our wiki (if you don't already have one)
2. Create a wiki page under 2021/country/city/team as usual
3. Register your team at
https://www.softwarefreedomday.org/cgi-bin/register.py
We have the same guides to organize events at
https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/StartGuide and have added an extra
page for online events here
https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/VideoConferencing
Hopefully you'll stay safe as much as possible and follow local
guidelines. You can also join current planned events online or decide to
organize your own.
We wish you a lot of fun, learning and discovering during that time, and
for the rest of the year.
For those in the USA (or close enough time zone) there is also a
National Civic Hacking Day at Code for America.
Thank you for your support over the years and happy Software Freedom Day
2021!
Fred
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Digital Freedom Foundation
