Hi all,
Firstly
thank you to you all for your patience and understanding while we had
some technical issues. For those that didn't know, the Software Freedom
Day website was down for almost 4 days, and it has taken till now for
various reasons to get the mailing lists back up. Details below on what
happened:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2007-August/001506.html
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2007-August/001510.html
I am glad to say that though the initial work of Canonical
sysadmins, and then through the tireless work of several of the
Software Freedom International board members, we now have the website,
mailing lists and registration back up and running!
All other Software Freedom Day preparations were unaffected by
the server issues. All teams that registered prior to the 30th July
have already had much of their free team schwag posted, and will be
receiving 3 seperate packages:
1) SFD tshirts (already shipped to most teams)
2) SFD stickers and balloons (being shipped in the next 2 days)
3) Ubuntu and The Open CD packs (already shipped)
Please
note that due to some issues in production, we are only able to ship 5
of The Open CDs to each team this year (not including additional CDs
purchased), however we will ensure more are available next year. Please
feel free to replicate the CDs being sent and to distribute any other
FOSS that is locally relevant and beneficial to your events.
We are pleased to say there are already 283 registered teams
celebrating Software Freedom Day this year, and we expect plenty more
to register in the coming weeks to be included as official events.
Hopefully we'll hit at the very least the 300 mark, so please let any
teams you know that haven't registered to get their socks on!
Please ensure your event pages are up to date because over the
coming weeks people will be looking for your events and wanting to see
at the very least what you'll be doing, when and where so they can
visit your events!
Good luck with your SFD planning, and thank you all for
helping take software freedom to the world! Through all our efforts we
can really help ensure a more open, sustainable and trustworthy digital
future!
Cheers,
Robert
(on behalf of Pia and the rest of Software Freedom International)