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Re: [SFD-TC] Tshirts, balloons and CDs - status update

by Pia Waugh

Hi Robyn, <quote who="Robyn M"> > Can we designate the size of the 2 t-shirts that are coming with our > packs? Great questions. Yes everyone can designate those sizes and let me know asap and I'll supply them on a best case basis. Sizes available are: Womens M and L Mens M, L, XL, XXL and XXXL Also, you can buy extra tshirts at http://sfd0.sauceopen.com/portal/ and if teams want to order them they can order shirts at $15 each (Australian dollars) which will be shipped with your team packs (and clearly labelled). This is discounted from the website listing of $20 per shirt. Teams in developing nations can get a higher discount rate (email us to get the discount code), and teams that can't use paypal or can't afford the discount rate can get a few extra by special request to info(a)sf-day.org. We only have 500 tshirts for everyone (though we can order more if we need to) so please consider other teams, and if everyone gets their orders in within the week, then we have time to order more shirts if we need them. Cheers, Pia -- Linux Australia http://linux.org.au/ "Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye." - Bill Hicks

Aug. 12, 2006

[SFD-TC] Tshirts, balloons and CDs - status update

by Pia Waugh

Hi all, just a quick status update on everything. We have ordered and picked up the tshirts to be shipped. All teams will be receiving 2 free tshirts and can order extra tshirts at $20 (Australian dollars and includes shipping) from http://tinyurl.com/h3kgl and we recommend ordering them as teams so we can include extra tshirts in the same shipment as your cds and such. You can see what the tshirts are going to look like on the website above :) If any teams cannot order through paypal or are from developing nations we can sort out some extra tshirts by special request sent to info(a)sf-day.org and we'll see what we can do. Each team will be receiving CDs as requested and some balloons for their event. We will be shipping everything within the fortnight to get to you all in good time for the 16th, so make sure your tshirt orders by then and that we have any change of addresses or anything by then. I recommend you print up posters and pamphlets to hand out locally so you can ensure the right languages and local information. There is artwork, posters and flyers available at http://softwarefreedomday.org/Artwork so check that out and choose what is best for your events :) Also, make sure you all plan to have fun. Ensure that your volunteers have a great time, and that the mood is light and fun. The happier your volunteers are, the more successful your event will be. We have 5 weeks to go everyone! :) I heartily recommend you all make sure your event page on the wiki is up to date, and then do a big local announcement about "one month to go" on the 16th August. That will hopefully build interest for your event and get your local communities interested in coming along. Cheers, Pia -- Linux Australia http://linux.org.au/ Software Freedom Day http://softwarefreedomday.org/ "Women hold up half the sky." - Mao Tse Tung

Aug. 12, 2006

[SFD-TC] SFD '06 Supplies

by Matt Oquist

SUPPLIES Pia Waugh, the [new!] president of SFI, has just put in the order for the SFD '06 t-shirts. 136 of your teams are registered to receive SFD supplies for your celebrations in 2006; this is up from 90 in 2005. This year, we're sending each team TWO FREE SHIRTS, and additional shirts can be purchased for AUD$20 at the Software Freedom Day store: http://tinyurl.com/h3kgl AUD$20 is currently approximately 11.93 Euros or USD$15.50, and this price includes global shipping from Australia...and Paypal fees that we incur :(. All proceeds will be used for purchasing and shipping the free shirts and other SFD supplies for SFD teams around the world. A discounted price is available to teams in developing nations; email info(a)softwarefreedomday.org for further information. The orders for CDs and balloons will be submitted this week, so we're getting closer to pushing these supplies out to all of you! SFD'06 MAP In the meantime, as we've already mentioned a time or two :), please add yourself to the SFD map so we can see where all your teams are located: http://softwarefreedomday.org/map/2006 LATE TEAM REGISTRATIONS And if your team doesn't show up in the list of registered teams, email info(a)softwarefreedomday.org right away to sign up; we can't promise to get any supplies to you, but we'll do our best: http://softwarefreedomday.org/registration SFD'06 COMPETITIONS - WIN A SERVER! Lastly, don't forget about the *awesome* prizes we have for the winners of the SFD'06 competitions! We have 5 servers from IBM and several shirts signed by cool FOSS leaders from around the globe. See http://softwarefreedomday.org/Competition2006#preview for competition details, and note that some of your entries ("best event publicity", for example) should be well underway already... Cheers, Matt -- --------------------------------------------------------- SoftwareFreedomDay.org : Celebrating Free and Open Source Software in Your Community info AT softwarefreedomday.org http://softwarefreedomday.org/ SFD Sponsors: http://canonical.com http://www.dkuug.dk http://ibm.com

Aug. 3, 2006

[SFD-TC] SFD '06 Team Registrations

by Robert Schumann

The teams that registered before the 19 July deadline are listed on the SFD website at http://softwarefreedomday.org/registration We are still taking registrations for teams that would like to be part of the action, although sponsored treasures may not be possible. It would be great if you could find your latitude/longitude and add your team to the map http://softwarefreedomday.org/map/2006 So it's time to get into gear making plans for SFD! We'd love to hear from you on the planning mailing lists http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/planning-en (English) http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/planning-es (Spanish) or on the forum at http://forum.sf-day.org/ It would be great to see some streaming webcam coverage of your Software Freedom Day! Robert.

Aug. 2, 2006

[SFD-TC] Processing Supplies Requests, Selling T-Shirts, Contests

by Matt Oquist

Supplies Requests Many of you are probably wondering what's going on with your requests for supplies -- well, we're working on them right now. We've already taken a preliminary look at all of them, and we're currently doing a second pass. We will contact you once the allocations are final and we're ready to ship. Selling T-Shirts We're hoping to start selling t-shirts within the next few days, and we'll send out more information about that soon. Don't worry about asking *now* for your team to receive free shirts; we'll explain more about how this will work as we get ready to start sales. In summary, however, the t-shirt sales will be optional and all proceeds will go directly to supply other SFD teams. Details forthcoming! Contests In the meantime, make sure you've secured the venue for your event and that you're executing a publicity plan. Remember that we have some cool prizes to award to the team with the best SFD event publicity, the team with the best SFD documentary, and the team with the best overall event. NOW is the time to be planning and working to make great entries in the contests! We'll be publishing further details (rules, guidelines) about the contests in coming days, so stay tuned. Regards, Matt Oquist -- --------------------------------------------------------- SoftwareFreedomDay.org : Celebrating Free and Open Source Software in Your Community info AT softwarefreedomday.org http://softwarefreedomday.org/ SFD Sponsors: http://canonical.com http://www.dkuug.dk http://ibm.com

July 26, 2006

[SFD-TC] Get on the 2006 Map!

by Matt Oquist

Thanks to some help and encouragement from Pia, we've just gotten our 2006 map up and running, and it's looking very fresh and in need of lots of SFD team dots! Go to http://softwarefreedomday.org/map/2006 to see the map and add your team. NOTE: You must add your team to the 2006 map even if you were on the 2005 map; it only takes a couple minutes to copy your 2005 entry to 2006 if that's all you need to do. There is a link to the 2005 map on the maps page. TO ADD YOUR TEAM: 1. Find your latitude and longitude (some tools for this are provided on the map page) 2. Log in to the SFD website 3. Go to http://softwarefreedomday.org/map/2006 4. Click "Edit" 5. Add your team at the end of the list at the bottom of the page, with the format LAT LONG NICK There are instructions on the map page, as well, and you can also see all the other examples. Let's see where all your teams are! Regards, Matt Oquist and the board of Software Freedom International -- --------------------------------------------------------- SoftwareFreedomDay.org : Celebrating Free and Open Source Software in Your Community info AT softwarefreedomday.org http://softwarefreedomday.org/ SFD Sponsors: http://canonical.com http://www.dkuug.dk http://ibm.com

July 24, 2006

Re: [SFD-TC] Re: New forum

by Pia Waugh

Hi all, <quote who="Matt Oquist"> > > What people like myself who have never been involved in SFD, and would like > > to get information about how things ran in previous years? We don't want to > > do things that are ineffective or "wrong". If I could browse through old > > forums / wiki pages / whatever then I could get a head-start. > > > > I'd much rather learn from other peoples mistakes than my own. Also, you can always look at the other team pages. We are slowly trying to backdate all the team reports onto the http://softwarefreedomday.org/TeamReports page which is why I urge everyone to ensure after this event (and all future ones) you write a short report and link it to this page :) Volunteers willing to help backdate that page would be most welcome!! Cheers, Pia -- Linux Australia http://linux.org.au/

July 13, 2006

Re: [SFD-TC] Re: New forum

by Robert Schumann

On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 13:37 -0400, Matt Oquist wrote: > Alan Pope wrote: [Tue Jul 11 2006, 04:35:02AM EDT] > > What people like myself who have never been involved in SFD, and would like > > to get information about how things ran in previous years? We don't want to > > do things that are ineffective or "wrong". If I could browse through old > > forums / wiki pages / whatever then I could get a head-start. > > > > I'd much rather learn from other peoples mistakes than my own. Hear hear, learning from other people's experience is a core FOSS value! A wiki page would be a good place to put this - the forums, being threaded and perhaps a bit confusing, might not be the ideal location for such information. Take a look at http://softwarefreedomday.org/lessons Currently there are a few lessons from 2004 (nudge to experienced SFDers: please post your 2005 experiences/reminiscences for people to learn from!) so you can get some info there. Robert.

July 11, 2006

[SFD-TC] Re: New forum

by Matt Oquist

You have an excellent point, and we hope the new (hopefully stable) forums will provide an archive of team experiences. We've taken some of the most important bits of feedback from the past and built them into the StartGuide and the general guidelines, though. The most general guideline is to pick a particular audience and craft an event to reach that audience, through interaction, dialogue, *and* CD distribution -- that's the best beginning to a successful event. Cheers, Matt Alan Pope wrote: [Tue Jul 11 2006, 04:35:02AM EDT] > On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 02:32:38AM -0400, Matt Oquist wrote: > > But seriously, I don't think that the website changes are *that* big > > a deal, because SFD is still such a once-a-year thing that most people > > aren't going to remember last year's site, anyway. > > > > What people like myself who have never been involved in SFD, and would like > to get information about how things ran in previous years? We don't want to > do things that are ineffective or "wrong". If I could browse through old > forums / wiki pages / whatever then I could get a head-start. > > I'd much rather learn from other peoples mistakes than my own. > > Cheers, > Al. -- --------------------------------------------------------- SoftwareFreedomDay.org : Celebrating Free and Open Source Software in Your Community info AT softwarefreedomday.org http://softwarefreedomday.org/ SFD Sponsors: http://canonical.com http://www.dkuug.dk http://ibm.com

July 11, 2006

[SFD-TC] Re: New forum

by Matt Oquist

This is a reply to an email from Rik Tindall, who is one of three volunteers who has recently been involved in dealing with the SPAM in our forums by installing fresh forums and starting over (maybe not the ideal solution, but definitely the most effective). I originally wrote this just to Rik, Russell, and Robert, but I've realized that this may be beneficial for everyone. ------------------------- > We have lost SFD's greatest asset, I reckon - its forum history - every > year so far. Is this because we keep re-skinning phpbb? What better > software/options can people please suggest? Same reason(s) we re-do www.sfd every year. It's only done in people's volunteer time, so instead of very careful migration we just throw together a new site and charge full-steam ahead. This is usually correlated with an improvement in the hosting that is available to us, so a new server is usually involved as well. Also, nobody (i.e., Henrik, Phil, or myself) has really bought into a particular tool for more than a year. :) 2004: Geeklog 2005: Mambo 2006: Moin At least the names keep getting shorter. > Same for www.sfd - it changes radically every year to what purpose? Can > we get a default framework together so that just a few jpegs with > logo-dates are all that needs updating each new year? A picture of > stability, continuity, and all-year service is supremely important to > the saleability of FOSS. Sounds great. Let's stick with Moin, then. :) But seriously, I don't think that the website changes are *that* big a deal, because SFD is still such a once-a-year thing that most people aren't going to remember last year's site, anyway. The loss of the forums is more important; hopefully the new forums, with more SPAM-prevention measures in place and more attentive moderation, will be around for years to come. I see the SFD community as our biggest asset; the list of team leaders from the previous year is an extremely valuable collection of contact info for people who care; they are people who might recruit other team leaders even if they don't have the time to lead their own team this year. SFD would really be nothing at all without the worldwide community of team leaders. So in conclusion, cheers, and I'll see you in the spiffy new forums. :) --matt -- --------------------------------------------------------- SoftwareFreedomDay.org : Celebrating Free and Open Source Software in Your Community info AT softwarefreedomday.org http://softwarefreedomday.org/ SFD Sponsors: http://canonical.com http://www.dkuug.dk http://ibm.com

July 11, 2006