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