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[SFD-TC] 2006 Sponsorship request registrations open!
by Matt Oquist June 22, 2006

June 22, 2006

At long last, we're ready to accept requests for sponsored materials in 2006. Stop by http://softwarefreedomday.org/registration after you've got an event plan, and request CDs and T-shirts for your SFD celebration. From the posting on softwarefreedomday.org: Plan your event and register to request sponsored CDs and T-shirts for your team. Sponsorship requests must be received before July 19th. You must re-register even if you've registered in 2004 or 2005. We cannot assume that registrations from years past are valid or unchanged, so please plan your events and register your teams as soon as possible to ensure that we have a chance to allocate SFD materials for you! Let's get things moving for 2006! Regards, Matt Oquist 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/

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Re: [SFD-TC] SFD mailing list changes
by Matt Oquist June 5, 2006

June 5, 2006

----- Forwarded message from MJ Ray ----- From: MJ Ray <> Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 19:16:41 +0100 To: moquist(a)softwarefreedomday.org Subject: Re: [SFD-TC] SFD mailing list changes >> We intended this list to be low-traffic, but there are things worth >> discussing, and it was a natural medium to carry on such discussions. >> So now we have a "planning-en" list (English) and a "planning-es" list >> (Spanish), and you are encouraged to join them and carry on >> SFD-related discussions as you wish: >> http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/planning-en > Will team-contacts be forwarded to planning-en? No, and thank you for raising the issue. We haven't yet finalized the requirements for teams receiving sponsored materials, but having at least one team member subscribed to the team-contacts list will very likely be a requirement for those teams. >> This list, team-contacts, has now become a one-way list. We will use >> it for announcements, but all replies must come to the sender >> @softwarefreedomday.org. Any other messages to the list itself will be >> rejected. >Please stop setting the reply-to then. Done. I hadn't actually changed the team-contacts list configuration before I sent the previous email, but the changes are complete now (I think). If you see any loose ends, please let let me/us know. Regards, 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/

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[SFD-TC] SFD mailing list changes
by Matt Oquist June 5, 2006

June 5, 2006

Dear SFD Teams, After some discussion, we've decided to create some new SFD mailing lists intended to carry the sort of discussion that has been happening already on this "team-contacts" list. We intended this list to be low-traffic, but there are things worth discussing, and it was a natural medium to carry on such discussions. So now we have a "planning-en" list (English) and a "planning-es" list (Spanish), and you are encouraged to join them and carry on SFD-related discussions as you wish: http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/planning-en http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/planning-es Lists intended for other languages can be created; please contact info-at-softwarefreedomday.org if you have a request. This list, team-contacts, has now become a one-way list. We will use it for announcements, but all replies must come to the sender @softwarefreedomday.org. Any other messages to the list itself will be rejected. As always, please feel free to contact Software Freedom International at info-at-softwarefreedomday.org with any comments, questions, complaints, etc. We will shortly be announcing the beginning of the application period for getting sponsored CDs and T-shirts for your SFD teams, so stay tuned. We'll be posting on http://softwarefreedomday.org and to this list as soon as that's underway. Regards, Matt Oquist 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/

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[SFD-TC] FSD in Burundi
by NKURUNZIZA Jean Paul June 5, 2006

June 5, 2006

Hello all, Thanks a lot for the information about FSD 2006. Here in Burundi, we are going to prepare something to celebrate the event as we did last year. Sincerely -- NKURUNZIZA Jean Paul Secrétaire Général et Responsable Administratif du PAJE de l'association BYTC B.P 7031 BUJUMBURA BURUNDI Tél: 00257 21 96 45 Tél Mob : 00257 60 49 46 Fax : 00257 212485 E.Mail : nkurunziza(a)bytc.bi ou jnkurunz(a)hotmail.com Site web : http://www.bytc.bi

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[SFD-TC] Hola a todos...
by andress calderon June 5, 2006

June 5, 2006

Hola, un saludo a todos desde Colombia. Esta es solo una prueba para ver si logre enviar un mensaje correctamente a la Lista. Que viva el Software Libre!!!

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[SFD-TC] GUL Universidad de Nariño/ParqueSoft (Pasto - Nariño - Colombia) reportandose...
by andress calderon June 3, 2006

June 3, 2006

Hola a todos... El anterior año fue nuestro primer festejo oficial del dia internacional de software libre y este año no nos vamos a quedar quietos. desde ya iniciamos contactos para conseguir espacios y ponencias para ofrecer el 16 de septiembre. Quisieramos que todas las universidades de nuestra ciudad se integraran en un solo evento y tener participacion de todas. Aun no entiendo bien como manejar la pagina wiki cualquier ayuda sera bienvenida ya que esta seria nuestro medio de comunicacion con los interesados en participar.... un saludo a todos y ANIMO!!!

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[SFD-TC] Kia ora from New Zealand
by Joel Wiramu Pauling June 3, 2006

June 3, 2006

Hi SFD participants, I represent Interface (The Victoria University of Wellington Computer Club). Last year we held events in and around campus as well as acted as a distribution point for the Wellington region for delivery of materials (CD/T-shirts etc). We co-ordinated with members of the Wellington Linux Users group www.wellylug.org.nz and also the New Zealand Open Source Society. As well as our activities on Campus the LUG held an installfest after the day. And we used the day to promote the installfest. We had some sponsorship from Local Business which was co-ordinated through a member of the New Zealand Open Source society - http://www.nzoss.org.nz Our campus activities were very successfull and so were our activities downtown on the day itself. This year we hope to have more participation from the wider community, and be more organised. Holding seminars/presentations and workshops is something I personally would like to held facilitate. To this effect we have setup a mailing list for anyone interested in participating in Wellington region activities. You can find details of last years events and also join the mailing list at: We also have some artwork and pamphlets which we produced which is linked from the page. http://interface.org.nz/wiki?SFD06 I notice that there is no ordering page up yet, any ETA as to when this will be done? Kind regards and I look forward to working with people as the event gets closer. Joel W Pauling joel.pauling(a)vuw.ac.nz

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[SFD-TC] Chile/ Tecnocimiento/ hello world :)
by Mauricio Hernandez June 2, 2006

June 2, 2006

Hi all there. Last year, in Chile, coordination ended up more disperse than expected, however, Chilean people carried out some activities, esp. in the southern areas of Chile. This year, SFD should have better results, at least in Latinamerica due to the fact that more people are already aware of FLOSS concepts. Also, this year, there is an interesting Agenda regarding FLOSS events in diff. countries of Latinamerica. It is very nice to hear that ParqueSoft (Colombia) is interested in supporting SFD inititative. AFAIK, 2 people from ParqueSoft (I know they do some interesting stuff but dont know them in FLOSS areas yet, only propietary stuff) are coming to one of the events we are organizing in Chile, Feria de Educacion y Tecnologia Libre 2006 (FET Chile 2006), ion June 20th and 21st. I know it is perhaps too anticipated, but it may be a good chance to promote SFD material among participants of the FET Chile 2006. If so, which material would you suggest? -- Cordialmente, Mauricio Hernandez Z. www.tecnocimiento.cl == IRC == server: irc.freenode.net channel: #edubuntu, #edubuntu-es nick: mhz ======= "Hell is repeating someone else's mistakes" (JPS) [Mail escrito sin caracteres especiales o acentos para evitar conflictos de lectura entre sistemas] [En smilar contexto, evitemos enviar archivos .doc, .ppt o .xls. Intentemos enviar solo formatos libres y mas livianos, como lo son .txt, .html, .pdf, .odt, etc.]

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[SFD-TC] REF: Zambia Celebrations
by Teddy June 2, 2006

June 2, 2006

Hello, Just wanted inform this list that Zambia will part of the celebrations in September under the Open Source Zambia http://www.opensource.org.zm. We have made registration on the main website and we look forward to changing software perceiption in Zambia on this day! Kind regards Teddy L. ________________________________________________ Message sent using Parliament Mail 2.7.2

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[SFD-TC] Welcome to SFD 2006!
by Matt Oquist May 30, 2006

May 30, 2006

Hi everyone, It's time to get started on team plans for celebrating Software Freedom Day 2006, and this mailing list will be the primary means by which the SFD organizers make announcements to you, the SFD team leaders. DATE: SFD '06 will officially be held on Saturday, September 16th. WEB: The SFD website is still at http://softwarefreedomday.org, even though this mailing list is at sf-day.org. (sf-day.org will soon be updated to point to the website.) In 2006 we can once again offer a limited amount of sponsored materials to prepared teams who apply for it; these sponsored materials will be SFD CDs (TheOpenCD + Ubuntu Live) for distribution to the public and a more limited number of t-shirts for SFD team members. We are not yet taking applications for sponsored materials, but we will post an announcement on softwarefreedomday.org and to this list when the sponsorship application period begins. Note: We will say more about this later, but the best way to obtain these sponsored materials for your team's celebration is by carefully planning an effective event. Get started now by finding a location and planning the nature of your event -- check out the StartGuide for more help: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/StartGuide Welcome to SFD 2006, and we hope you all have a great time and effectively educate the public about Software Freedom! As always, please email info -at- softwarefreedomday.org with any questions or comments. Regards, 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/

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