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Prepare for Document Freedom Day 2024!

by Marcos Marado

Friends, As you might know, Document Freedom Day is a yearly celebration that happens on the wednesday of March - that means that in 2024 we're celebrating it on the **27th of March**! This year we're coordinating the celebrations with a new website and a new map, but the appeal is the same: local teams - anyone interested in celebrating this day in any way they wish to - are invited to sign up their event on this website, adding it to our map and calendar of events. Register your event or see the ones already registered at: https://digitalfreedoms.org/dfd We've gathered a few visual elements you might be interested using to promote your event, or on the event itself: https://tilde.pt/~marado/dfd In Freedom, -- Marcos Marado, DFF

March 15, 2024

SFD registration launched - 20th anniversary!

by Frederic Muller - DFF

Dear all! SFD 2023 registration is now open! As usual registering an SFD event is as simple as 1-2-3: 1. Create a wiki account if you don't already have one 2. Create a wiki page in your area under https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2023/ then country/city/team 3. Go to https://www.softwarefreedomday.org/cgi-bin/register.py and let us know exactly who and where you are. At the end of all this you'll appear on the SFD 2019 Map here with all the other teams https://www.softwarefreedomday.org/map/ and be easy to spot. As some of you may have noticed the current board has resigned and a few community members have taken over. Most of the discussion around it is happening on matrix.org and a lot of changes are on the way. First we'll have a newly designed countdown for the 20th anniversary, and it's beautiful. So thank you for celebrating with us and all the best for you all! Happy SFD! Fred

July 17, 2023

Re: Software Freedom Day 2023

by Frederic Muller - DFF

Dear all, It seems my message didn't go out very well. So I am resending it. Mailing lists have moved to mailman3.com domain and is now: sfd-discuss(a)mailman3.com The current board is also resigning. I'll stay around to help out and ensure SFD runs again this year. If anyone wants to take over please let us know. Thank you. Fred On 05/05/2023 14:16, Jurgen Gaeremyn wrote: > Hello, > > We're planning for Software Freedom Day 2023 in Hackerspace Brussels > (hey... it's our 20th edition, we should celebrate!) We picked the topic > "Freedom in education" > > Is anyone else doing SFD this year? I haven't seen a lot of activity on > the mailinglist. Maybe we could meet in a Matrix channel? I created > #SoftwareFreedomDay:matrix.org where we could coordinate and exchange > ideas) > > Grtz, > Jurgen >

May 30, 2023

Mailing lists address change

by Frederic Muller - DFF

Dear all, We had to move our mailing lists server as Canonical decommissioned it and could no longer provide the service to us. They helped us find a new sponsor in the name of mailman3.com and our main lists are now: sfd-announce(a)mailman3.com sfd-discuss(a)mailman3.com The lists are available from https://lists.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/sfd-announce.mailman3.com/ https://lists.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/sfd-discuss.mailman3.com/ We decided to remove all the other lists as there was no traffic (besides the sponsorship limits from mailman3). The process took a bit of time as we had email communication problems (don't laugh) but all should be working now and everyone has been imported. Thank you for your patience. Fred

March 27, 2023

... and yet again, Happy Software Freedom Day 2022!

by Frederic Muller - DFF

Dear all, The Digital Freedom Foundation is very happy to announce that today is the nineteenth edition of Software Freedom Day! Please take a look at the SFD 2022 map(1) to either find an online event or one in your area, or simply decide you run your own by following the steps below: 1. Create a wiki account if you don't already have one 2. Create a wiki page in your area under this page(2) 3. Go to the registration page to register and let us know exactly who and where you are.(3) This year we've added the event date on the SFD map which you can fine tune by added #DATE: and YYYY-MM-DD at the top of your wiki page to tell us when your event is happening. By default we set it to today, but should you run an event next month don't forget to add this little hidden code in your wiki page. We will probably also add longitude and latitude parameters soon in order to allow to easily update your location should you register early and end up running your event elsewhere. At the time of this writing we have 34 teams listed on the wiki and about 27 events registered. Anyway thank you again for participating in Software Freedom Day this year, we wish you all the best for SFD 2022! 1. https://www.softwarefreedomday.org/map/ 2. https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2022 3. https://www.softwarefreedomday.org/cgi-bin/register.py

Sept. 17, 2022

SFD 2022 registration is finally open!

by Frederic Muller - DFF

Dear all, Another year and another... oops. You can now register your event on the 2022 SFD Map, you'll of course need to have a wiki page for that as usual. But a lot of you did create your event wiki page already. The process is: 1. Create a wiki account if you don't already have one 2. Create a wiki page in your area under http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2022/ then country/city/team 3. Go to https://www.softwarefreedomday.org/cgi-bin/register.py and let us know exactly who and where you are. At the end of all this you'll appear on the SFD 2022 Map here with all the other teams https://www.softwarefreedomday.org/map/ and be easy to spot. This year, due to the late opening we've added the event date. By default it is September 17, 2022 after registration. We're looking at how to get that from a wifi page automatically so you can change that date and give you more time for preparation. We'll put up a guide somewhere soon (today). Last we, as a board (and me personally), have done a terrible job organizing SFD (and other events) over the past few years. We are therefore stepping down and will continue this discussion about the handover on the sfd-discuss mailing list. 2023 will be our 20th anniversary and we sincerely hope we can find a better team to run SFD by then! Thank you for your patience. So all the best and get have a happy Software Freedom Day 2022. Thank you very much again! The Digital Freedom Foundation

Sept. 14, 2022

Happy Software Freedom Day 2021

by Frederic Muller - DFF

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 -------------------------- Digital Freedom Foundation

Sept. 18, 2021

SFD 2021 is around the corner!

by Frederic Muller - DFF

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 -------------------------- Digital Freedom Foundation

Sept. 15, 2021

SFD 2019 registration is open!

by Frederic Muller - DFF

Dear all, We opened SFD registration about 12 hours ago and everything is working. The wiki has been ready since early July and a lot of you have already created your event page. Still please head to registration in order to appear on the SFD map. So as usual registering an SFD event is as simple as 1-2-3: 1. Create a wiki account if you don't already have one 2. Create a wiki page in your area under http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2019/ then country/city/team 3. Go to https://www.softwarefreedomday.org/cgi-bin/register.py and let us know exactly who and where you are. At the end of all this you'll appear on the SFD 2019 Map here with all the other teams https://www.softwarefreedomday.org/map/ and be easy to spot. If you need further information we have an exhaustive guide here at http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/StartGuide for newcomers and for the others who need help, and the SFD-Discuss mailing list is probably the best place to get prompt support ( http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss ). We have also the SFD countdown ready and in 7 languages. You can find further information here: https://www.softwarefreedomday.org/promote/countdown So all the best and get ready for Software Freedom Day 2019. Thank you very much and happy SFD! The Digital Freedom Foundation

Sept. 17, 2019

SFD 2018 registration is open!

by Frederic Muller - DFF

Dear all, This is with great pleasure that we are opening registration for SFD 2018. This year Software Freedom Day is happening on Saturday September 15th everywhere around the world (or almost). While the wiki was ready to create and update your event page we did a soft launch for the registration at the beginning of the month and have had so far 2 registration emails which didn't reach the team leaders. If this happens to you check your SPAM folder and eventually email us on SFD-discuss list. Apart from that everything seems to be running smoothly. On the sponsors side as we have received questions in the sfd-discuss mailing list so we would like to thank Linode and Canonical for providing hosting, mailing list and some technical support for longer than we can remember. On the funding part however we haven't received any money from anyone for the 4th consecutive year due to relocation of our organization and various other issues. We do however want to thank Google for their continuous support and hope we will resume receiving funding very soon. So as usual registering an SFD event is as simple as 1-2-3: 1. Create a wiki account if you don't already have one 2. Create a wiki page in your area under http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2018/ then country/city/team 3. Go to https://www.softwarefreedomday.org/cgi-bin/register.py and let us know exactly who and where you are. At the end of all this you'll appear on the SFD 2018 Map here with all the other teams https://www.softwarefreedomday.org/map/ and be easy to spot. If you need further information we have an exhaustive guide here at http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/StartGuide for newcomers and for the others who need help, and the SFD-Discuss mailing list is probably the best place to get prompt support ( http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss ). We have also the SFD countdown ready and in 7 languages. You can find further information here: https://www.softwarefreedomday.org/promote/countdown So all the best and get ready for Software Freedom Day 2018. Thank you very much and happy SFD! The Digital Freedom Foundation

Sept. 6, 2018