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[SFD-TC] SFD CDs, T-shirts, and Balloons

by Matt Oquist

We never have managed to communicate this clearly (IMO), so I'm sending this extra note to try to make sure you all know that #################################### You must go to the website and register your teams if you plan to receive and use SFD CDs, t-shirts, and/or balloons for your SFD celebrations. #################################### Here's the registration page: http://softwarefreedomday.org/registration #################################### You must register again in 2006 even if you've registered for SFD in 2004 or 2005. The registration deadline is Wednesday, July 19th, so sign up soon! #################################### On a slighly unrelated note, we've had some SPAM problems in the forums and we're in the process of cleaning that entire situation up; you'll be hearing more about that soon. 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 10, 2006

Re: [SFD-TC] SFD Teeshirts

by Pia Waugh

Hi Fouad, <quote who="Fouad Riaz Bajwa"> > We have a problem with procuring merchandize over the Internet and neither > have international credit cards, any suggestions? Money wires possible and > is there a discounted rate for developing world countries like ours? Of course. Anyone who has trouble procuring tshirts by the online mechanism, please contact us and we'll work it out with you manually. Also, for countries where the cost of the tshirts are too expensive, of course we will do our best to reduce the cost so it is affordable. We want to make sure everyone has a great Software Freedom Day and has as good an impact locally as possible. Cheers, Pia -- Linux Australia http://linux.org.au/ "The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet." - William Gibson

July 9, 2006

[SFD-TC] Software Freedom Day competition!

by Pia Waugh

Hi all, Software Freedom Day is proud to announce a fantastic competition to get those creative juices going! With Software Freedom Day only a few months away, on September 16th, we have some excellent prizes to help inspire you to create the best Software Freedom Day ever! Get along to http://softwarefreedomday.org to register your team and start planning your event. You can register for free schwag to give away on the day, and we will soon have additional SFD tshirts for sale as well. There is a Start Guide on the website that will help you with ideas and planning. The competition has two categories. One for individuals and one for teams. Individuals have a chance to win a specially signed tshirt and teams can win an awesome IBM System p5 server. The competition will be judged by the LUG Radio team (http://lugradio.org) and the Software Freedom International board. A signed tshirt is awarded to the best individual submissions for the following categories: * best event photo * best localised version of the offical SFD logo. Some inspiration and examples are at http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Artwork/Logo * best global version of the offical SFD logo * best SFD blog coverage * highest ranking Government offical at SFD event (photo required) - Government official submissions determined to be at equal levels (e.g., two country presidents) will be put into a hat and a winner will be drawn. The prize goes to the community individual who organised the official, not the official personally. An IBM System p5 base level POWER5+ server will be awarded to the best team submissions for each of the following categories: * best SFD event publicity * best SFD documentary * best plan for FOSS deployment project on new server for community benefit * second best plan for FOSS deployment project on new server for community benefit * best SFD event The community benefit prizes are for finding great ways to benefit a community with the servers. We would expect you to implement your plan when you get the servers and send photos and a short write-up about it :) Think about ways you can help your community achieve Software Freedom! Please submit all entries to comp(a)sf-day.org The tshirts are specially signed by some rocking FOSS stars that continue to inspire us all to new heights. As much as we'd love to have every FOSS star we can think of sign the shirts, we have approached a few that cover some major projects and contributions to FOSS. See a full list of the tshirt signers at http://softwarefreedomday.org/sfi/TshirtSigners We welcome IBM as the sponsor of the major competition prizes, the POWER5 servers. It is wonderful to have IBM on board supporting Software Freedom Day 2006. They have generously offered System p5 servers as prizes for a number of categories of competitions. "IBM is proud to be a sponsor of Software Freedom Day and its efforts to raise awareness of Open Technologies to developers and users around the world.", says IBM Linux Community Program Manager, Robert MacFarlan. IBM has long been an advocate, sponsor and contributor to the Linux developer community and Open Technology development. Continuing this tradition of support, IBM has also contributed a number of POWER5 and IBM PPC970 servers to Universities world-wide for the purpose of Linux and Open Source project development by the community. These servers are hosted by the Universities and freely available with a simple registration for use. They include a number of POWER5 Servers and also an Apple Power Mac G5 for those interested in doing Altivec or other PPC970 optimizations. These are shared environments, so users have to abide by each site's acceptable use policies. These systems provide a great chance to become familiar with the technology that you have a chance of winning in this competition. Oregon State University Open Source Labs - SLES on POWER5 and Gentoo on Apple Power Mac G5. http://powerdev.osuosl.org SourceForge.net compile farm - SLES on POWER5 http://sourceforge.net/docs/compile_farm#cf_overview University of Augsburg - Debian on POWER5 http://tuxppc.rz.uni-augsburg.de/ Australian National University - SLES on POWER5 http://clug.anu.edu.au/ Linux on Power @ Peking University - SLES on POWER5 http://ppclinux.pku.edu.cn/ University de Campinas - RedHat, Debian, and Slackware partitions on POWER5 http://power.ic.unicamp.br (Available mid-July) -- Software Freedom Day http://softwarefreedomday.org

July 9, 2006

Re: [SFD-TC] SFD Teeshirts

by Pia Waugh

Hi Arc, <quote who="Arc Riley"> > Being one of the more expensive promotional items, and something > volunteers are likely to keep afterwards, how about allowing teams to > collect money for these teeshirts before the event and send it to SFD to > cover the cost of producing additional shirts? We are looking to produce extra t-shirts at any rate, and there will be extra ones for sale soon. We have a website to sell the shirts from that has been set up for us. We'll take it live then so you can easily buy extra tshirts for all your volunteers. Cheers, Pia -- Linux Australia http://linux.org.au/

July 9, 2006

[SFD-TC] Team Reports

by Pia Waugh

Hi all, it is awesome to hear about all the great stuff that so many teams are planning for SFD06. I have only been on the board this year, and am very excited to be helping out. I ran an event in Sydney, Australia last year and I also helped coordinate a national approach in Australia, so we ended up with 15 teams nationally participating :) Anyway, I did want to ask everyone to do a couple of things for this year to ensure that the world can appreciate your efforts and to help SFD grow. 1) Please keep the wiki up to date with your team events so that people can see your team, participate and find the event when it's on. It is also then a good link to put on your web sites, posters and emails :) 2) We have a page for Team Reports (http://softwarefreedomday.org/TeamReports) and we are starting the process of getting all the old reports linked here. Please either link old reports you've done, or once you've completed events create a page here for your team. People interested in participating look at previous team reports and at the moment they are hard to find :) If everyone can take a minute or two to link to or write reports from previous events (even just a paragraph or two and a picture) that would be fantastic! 3) Anyone that wants to update information or contribute press releases, guides, posters, or anything else, they are all very much welcome!! Many thanks, and lets make this the best Software Freedom Day yet! Cheers, Pia -- Linux Australia http://linux.org.au/ "There is no darkness but ignorance." - William Shakespeare

June 25, 2006

[SFD-TC] 2006 Sponsorship request registrations open!

by Matt Oquist

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/

June 22, 2006

Re: [SFD-TC] SFD mailing list changes

by Matt Oquist

----- 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/

June 5, 2006

[SFD-TC] SFD mailing list changes

by Matt Oquist

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/

June 5, 2006

[SFD-TC] FSD in Burundi

by NKURUNZIZA Jean Paul

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

June 5, 2006

Re: [SFD-TC] Hola a todos...

by Alvaro AJO

ok i´m igree, and i hope your patience be extend thank for all -- Gnu Power

June 5, 2006