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[Planning-en] Re: Planning-en Digest, Vol 4, Issue 13
by Girish Shukla Sept. 16, 2006

Sept. 16, 2006

On 9/15/06, Rik Tindall <ask(a)infohelp.co.nz> wrote: > Day is dawning.. > > Hello / kia ora, from Aotearoa / New Zealand. > > Home of the Hoiho - the Little Blue Penguin :-) > > enjoy, folks - yay! > > -- > Rik Hello from Indore, India. Have a great software freedom day. Best Wishes, ~ GiRiSh __________________________ *Free Software-Free World* **Open Source-Open Minds** -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ _____________________________________________________________ ======================= Get an Email id now and be proud of your very apna Jabalpur where-ever you are.

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Re: [Planning-en] good morning Software Freedom!
by Morris, Simon Sept. 16, 2006

Sept. 16, 2006

Goooooood morning (From Milan although I'm supposed to be in London :-) ) ~sm -----Original Message----- From: planning-en-bounces(a)sf-day.org <planning-en-bounces(a)sf-day.org> To: Discussions about planning for SFD (english) <planning-en(a)sf-day.org> Sent: Fri Sep 15 23:54:53 2006 Subject: Re: [Planning-en] good morning Software Freedom! ... and what a wonderful day it is too! On 9/15/06, Rik Tindall <ask(a)infohelp.co.nz> wrote: > Day is dawning.. > > Hello / kia ora, from Aotearoa / New Zealand. > > Home of the Hoiho - the Little Blue Penguin :-) > > enjoy, folks - yay! > > -- > Rik > > _______________________________________________ > Planning-en mailing list > Planning-en(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/planning-en > _______________________________________________ Planning-en mailing list Planning-en(a)sf-day.org http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/planning-en

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[Planning-en] good morning Software Freedom!
by Rik Tindall Sept. 15, 2006

Sept. 15, 2006

Day is dawning.. Hello / kia ora, from Aotearoa / New Zealand. Home of the Hoiho - the Little Blue Penguin :-) enjoy, folks - yay! -- Rik

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[Planning-en] Cape Town
by Warren Windvogel Sept. 15, 2006

Sept. 15, 2006

Can anyone inform me about any events happening in and around Cape Town, South Africa Thanks Warren All Email originating from UWC is covered by disclaimer http://www.uwc.ac.za/portal/uwc2006/content/mail_disclaimer/index.htm

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[Planning-en] Canberra SFD Event BringList
by David Symons Sept. 15, 2006

Sept. 15, 2006

Hi all, This is the list of items we took to our SFD event which was held last Saturday. Thought it might be useful as a cross-check for your own event. http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/oceania/au/canberra/2006/BringList All the best! Cheers, Dave. -- David Symons Canberra, Australia http://www.liberatedcomputing.net/

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[Planning-en] SFD Celebration - Rajaram Computers, Mahadanapuram, India.
by ramkumar＠rajaramsystems.com Sept. 13, 2006

Sept. 13, 2006

SFD Celebration - Rajaram Computers, Mahadanapuram, India. Our Training Programme is successfully going in the following schools. 1. Government High School, Mettu Mahadanapuram. 2. Government High School, Thithampalayam. 3. Sri. M.V. Muthukrishna Iyer Industrial Training Institute, Mahadanapuram. 4. Government Higher Seconday School, Krishnaroyapuram. We have printer around 2000 Pamphlet and started distributing in near railway station, bus stand, colleges and schools. We have planned to distribute certificate to the students who have participated in the Computer Awarness Camp on September 16. The Staffs of Rajaram Computers & Sri. M.V. Muthukrishna Iyer ITI are working on SFD Celebration. Regds, L.Ramkumar.

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[Planning-en] Preparations in London
by Simon Morris Sept. 12, 2006

Sept. 12, 2006

Hello all, Just to let you all know how things are going in London... http://gllug.org.uk/index.php?/archives/23-Software-Freedom-Day.html http://lists.gllug.org.uk/pipermail/gllug/2006-September/062468.html The plan is: * Meeting in Regents Park at midday * Walking from Regents Park to Westminster University along one of the major shopping streets (Tottenham Court Road). Along the way we are going to spread love, hugs and the good word about Free Software (as well as leaflets and Ubuntu CDs) * A technical meeting at Westminster University with 4 speakers. We are lucky enough to have one speaker from Canonical, one from Red Hat and 2 volunteers from the LUG itself * We have a function room booked in a nearby pub for celebrations afterwards. It's going to be awesome - I'm really looking forward to it. ~sm

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[Planning-en] SFD preparations in Indore India
by Girish Shukla Sept. 12, 2006

Sept. 12, 2006

Hi all, It is very encouraging to recieve updates from all the teams spread across the globe. Preparations for the first SFD event are going on here at LUG-Indore. The website for event has been put up at: http://www.sfdindore.tk We also recieved our set of two T-shirts but could not find any balloons! It is all right, as we have much of promotional material already in place. Looking forward to your encouragement and hope we all have a great SF-Day. -GiRiSh, SFD2006, LUG-Indore [www.sfdindore.tk] __________________________ *Free Software-Free World* **Open Source-Open Minds** -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ _____________________________________________________________ ======================= Get an Email id now and be proud of your very apna Jabalpur where-ever you are.

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[Planning-en] Some posters
by Janet Hawtin Sept. 11, 2006

Sept. 11, 2006

I've got a couple of new posters at http://lucychili.net/sfd/copyright.pdf http://lucychili.net/sfd/freedom.pdf And both together smaller: http://lucychili.net/sfd/A5freedom.pdf The SVGs are also there The copyright one does have a url at the bottom for feedback to the Australian Attorney General on our draft copyright act. Otherwise both designs are generic and could be used anywhere. Feel free to rewangle as required. Janet ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Janet Hawtin" <lucychili(a)gmail.com> To: sfd(a)linux.org.au, sfd-sa(a)googlegroups.com, planning-en-request(a)sf-day.org Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 23:57:55 +0930 Subject: Some Posters Hi folks I've got a couple of new posters at http://lucychili.net/sfd/copyright.pdf http://lucychili.net/sfd/freedom.pdf And both together smaller: http://lucychili.net/sfd/A5freedom.pdf The SVGs are also there The copyright one does have a url at the bottom for feedback to the Australian Attorney General on our draft copyright act. Otherwise both designs are generic and could be used anywhere. Feel free to rewangle as required. Janet

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[Planning-en] Media Release: Multi Cultural Technology
by Cat Scratch Sept. 11, 2006

Sept. 11, 2006

Attention: Chief of Staff cos(a)sbs.com.au --------------------------------------------------------- Free and Open Source Software for Multi-Lingual Learning. The Dutch class at the Victorian School of Languages is celebrating Software Freedom Day on Saturday 16th September after embracing Free Software for language education. What is Software Freedom Day? Saturday 16 September 2006 http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/ Software Freedom Day is a global, grassroots effort to tell people about the virtues and availability of Free and Open Source Software. Pia Waugh, president of Software Freedom International said "SFD is an international day, born three years ago, to help the average person to understand how software transparency is important in our lives." She explained that with the increasing importance of technology in our voting systems, leisure activities and workplaces, basic human freedoms can only be as free as the technology they rely on. Free and Open Source Software is widely available from the internet, or on CDs and DVDs. It can be installed on as many computers as necessary without having to pay a licence fee for each one. Anyone can share it with friends, make copies and even change it to help make it better. For example, Ubuntu and Fedora Linux are fully fledged operating systems. It is available for PC or Macintosh hardware and includes the OpenOffice.org wordprocessor, spreadsheet, and graphics computer programs. OpenOffice.org is available in over 50 different languages. http://www.openoffice.org/ Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is developed and supported by a worldwide community of people. Some of these people get paid to work on free software and others do it in their spare time. Groups of FOSS users from all over the world are involved in organising events to celebrate Software Freedom Day. When asked to help translate the first 3 lines of this article, the community responded in the following languages: Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Nepali, Russian, Spanish, Slovak, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. To see the translations go to http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/MultiLingualSFD The Dutch class at the Box Hill centre of the Victorian School of Languages will also be celebrating Software Freedom Day on Saturday September 16. Students will use an Open Source audio editing program called Audacity to record, listen to, and edit the sound of themselves speaking and interviewing each other in preparation for their final VCE oral exams. Ilja Doulis, teacher of the VSL's Dutch class said "This year's students have been studying the experiences of Dutch post-war emigrants now living in Melbourne, and recently went to the Princess Beatrix village in Montrose to conduct interviews. We'll use Audacity to record and edit questions and answers about this topic to help prepare for the final exam". http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ The Victorian School of Languages (VSL http://www.vsl.vic.edu.au/) is a government school focused on providing language education programs to students in Years 1 to 12 who do not have access to the study of those languages at their day-to-day schools. The VSL delivers the language program through face-to-face teaching in language centres across the state and also through a distance education program. The VSL runs courses for school students in the following languages: Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Auslan (Australian sign language), Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin), Croatian, Dutch, Filipino (Tagalog), French, German, Greek (Modern and Classical), Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Maltese, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Pushto, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Tamil, Tigrinya, Turkish, Urdu and Vietnamese. Whilst the Dutch class activities at the VSL are NOT open to the public there is a Software Freedom Day Bazaar being held at the Melbourne Town Hall in the City. Doors are open from 11am until 5pm. Free and Open Source Software professionals and enthusiasts will be there to explain, demonstrate and distribute CDs of Free and Open Source Software. Admission is of course, Free. For more details see the website http://www.sfd06.org/melb/ or contact Donna Benjamin - donna(a)cc.com.au 0418 310 414 or Ilja Doulis ilja(a)dutchclass.net -- Donna Benjamin Conference Director linux.conf.au 2008 http://www.mel8ourne.org Board Member Open Source Industry Australia http://www.osia.net.au Executive Director Creative Contingencies http://www.cc.com.au

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