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SFI President speaking at GNOME.Asia Summit in Bangalore

by Frederic Muller - SFI

Dear all, Considering we have had a lot of teams in India in the past years I will be traveling to Bangalore, India and attend the GNOME.Asia Summit 2011 [1]. I intend to talk about why Software Freedom matters, explain a few more things about licensing (based on discussion I have had on IRC with some Indian team leaders), Free Software and Open Source and hopefully run a round table discussion with potential team leaders for 2011. The main motivation has been that for the first time SFI founder, VP and treasurer and I met in 2010 for the 1st time after 3 full years of collaboration, and a lot of things came out of it. I believe getting a chance to sit together and discuss various strategies, event organization and road blocks can be very beneficial for the team leaders who could attend. Looking forward to meeting some of you in person, and hopefully the SFI board will be able to attend other FOSS conferences in the upcoming months in different areas and engage into face to face communication with more team leaders. Thank you very much for your continuous efforts to celebrate software freedom. Kind regards, Frederic Muller SFI President

March 12, 2011

SFD Team Leader Survey

by Frederic Muller - SFI

Dear team leaders, We've publish a survey especially for team leaders at http://survey.softwarefreedomday.org/index.php?sid=69824 in order to gather feedbacks and comments, and with the objectives of improving the support we're currently providing to local teams. The survey will take you 5-8 minutes to fill based on your proficiency in English (and your Internet connection ;-) ) and help us a great deal! So please, if you have ever lead a SFD event since 2004 (whether officially or not) do take those 5-8 minutes to complete the questionnaire. Help us spread the word and make sure that as many team leaders as possible spend the time to let us know how they feel. Your feedback is very valuable. Thank you. Fred SFI Board

Nov. 3, 2010

Extension of SFD 2010 competition deadline

by Frederic Muller - SFI

Dear all, Considering the emails we've received over the past few hours we're officially extending the competition deadline to November 7th, 2010 1200 UTC. We'll update the website and post something on our blog in the coming two days. Please take note. Fred SFI Board

Oct. 31, 2010

Last day for submitting competition report

by Frederic Muller - SFI

Dear all, Just a short notice to remind you that all reports to participate in the competition must be submitted the latest today October 31st. The submission URL is here: http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/event_report.html and you need to use JavaScript for the form to work. Let us know if you have any issue. Thanks a lot. Fred SFI Board

Oct. 31, 2010

Event report submission form is online

by Frederic Muller - SFI

Dear team leaders, We've put the form online for you to participate and submit your event report. We'll select (as every year) 3 of the best submission and you'll get a chance to win both a Makerbot and Richard Stallman's signed Essais. Note that the rules have slightly been modified from last year and are available here: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/competition The form itself is available here: http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/event_report.html As some of the teams are still celebrating SFD until middle of the month, the deadline for the submissions is October 2010 31st at 12h00 UTC. So good luck to all, a HUGE thank you to all our sponsors and more specifically for the competition Richard Stallman and Bre Pettis from Makerbot, without whom we wouldn't be able to distribute those 2 great gifts to the winning entries. Best to all of you! Frederic Muller SFI President

Oct. 1, 2010

Feedback requested

by Frederic Muller - SFI

Dear all, We've posted a blog post at http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/blog/139-6-years-of-sfd-maps which looks at the evolution of the numbers of SFD teams over the years. There are some important points addressed in the post and we would like to hear from you on the subject. you can either comment directly at the bottom of the article or reply on sfd-discuss list. I know you're all busy with the preparations, looking at my web counter I see I have 20h and 10min left to SFD (the counter is local now, and calculating SFD at Sept. 18th 9am). So you don't have to reply right now, but within a week would be nice. Thanks a lot and Happy SFD! Fred SFI Board

Sept. 17, 2010

Best SFD 2009 Event Competition Winner

by Frederic Muller - SFI

Dear all, It is with great pleasure (and a bit of delay) that we're announcing the results of the Best 2009 SFD Event Competition. Many thanks to all the participants, organizers and sponsors for being here with us each year on SFD date since 2004 and making it happen. We saw some excellent examples of how to take software freedom to local communities, and we were inspired, as you all will be to see some of the outcomes and reports. Definitely a great read while you're still in the last stage of your preparations before the big day. Now to the prizes: the three outstanding teams will receive a Tux-Droid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux_Droid) and a trophy. The highly commended entries will receive a certificate for their excellent submissions. We want to extend a warm congratulations in particular to the three winners (in no particular order): * Bluepoint Linux User Elite * FOSS Nepal * 8Layertech and the three highly commended entries: * KN FOSS * TTCS Web * Emakulam Please do read more about the entries along with their reports in our competition 2009 results page here: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/competition/winners-2009 You will also have noticed that the 2010 Best Event Competition has been announced together with the prizes for this year. The rules will be finalized by the end of the month, but don't expect any drastic change: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/competition We hope you're all as much excited as us to see Makerbot Industries (a 3D open source printer) joining the rank of our supporters, and that will stimulate you to better document your event. Remember that the recommend hashtag is #softwarefreedomday and all the best for Saturday (or any other day if you had to find a better day)! Thank you all. SFI Board

Sept. 16, 2010

New SFD website launched!

by Frederic Muller - SFI

Sept. 14, 2010

Wiki team pages

by Frederic Muller - SFI

Sept. 11, 2010

A few updates (marketing and registration)

by Frederic Muller - SFI

Dear all, In the email: 1. Registration count update 2. Marketing efforts and tracking 3. Migration to Open Street Map in progress 4. Discussions available on mailing list and IRC channel 1. Registration count update I just wanted to let you know what has been happening so far. With a last kick start for registration and a whole new site for SFD we've hit a few technical bumps but have mainly solved most of them. Within the first 24 hours we received over 100 registration. We are now at about 160 teams, however we mistakenly removed a good 10 teams from China as they appeared (to someone from the team) as spam. Our apologies, we're going through the logs and will try to re-add them avoiding the need to re-register. 2. Marketing efforts and tracking We are now in the phase of spreading the word out as our objective from 2010 is to reach 1000 teams worldwide, a 200 increase from last year. We believe this is achievable but need your help. We have set up a page to track our current submissions to various news sites, community sites, blogs and such. You can find it here: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Marketing/SitePosting Please help us to complete the page so we don't do double submissions. Also help us to spread the word out. 3. Migration to Open Street Map in progress Last but not least, as promoters of Software Freedom it is important for us to use Free Software. Since 2008 we had been looking for help to migrate our map to Open Street Map and have finally found someone to work on this. It is currently in the development stage but you can have a preview here: http://www.rigacci.org/2010/map2.shtml (those are sample data and doesn't get updated at all) We want to extend a big thank you to Niccolo for his support. Hopefully we should all be able to use OSM very soon. 4. Discussions available on mailing list and IRC channel Those are the news for now. Should you have any question please do not hesitate to subscribe to sfd-discuss (or es-planning for Spanish speakers) if not yet done, and let us know. We are also regularly on our SFD IRC channel on freenode (#sfd). The mailing list page is here: http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo Thank you for your support and happy SFD preparation. Fred

July 23, 2010