September 2006 - SFD-discuss - lists.mailman3.com

Re: [Planning-en] SFD 2006: Feedback please!

by Janet Hawtin

Cool sent one in. It would be good if the form worked without needing to put 0 in the distiributions you didnt send out =). It took me a while to figure our that in needed something in every field. Cheers Janet

Sept. 21, 2006

[Planning-en] SFD 2006: Feedback please!

by Matt Oquist

(I apologize for the cross-posting, but everyone is welcome to submit feedback, not just team leaders.) The feedback form: http://softwarefreedomday.org/feedback Now that 16 September has passed and we've all had a few days to recover, it's time to start looking forward to SFD 2007, and the best way to start that is by looking back at SFD 2006 and learning from this experience. We want to know what works and what doesn't work, and how we can all improve. There are some obvious things SFI intends to change; we need to smooth out the registrations and supplies shipping process. But we need to hear your great ideas in order to make SFD 2007 the biggest, best SFD ever! Please go to http://softwarefreedomday.org/feedback at your earliest convenience and take a couple minutes to let us know about your SFD 2006 experience. 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 http://ibm.com

Sept. 21, 2006

[Planning-en] Report from Lima - Peru

by Luis Gustavo Lira

The event was held in Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru and was attended by 60 people. The event showcased the projects of LinuxChix, Asterisk and FreeCulture.org LinuxChix (Peruvian Chapter) LinuxChix is a community for women who like Linux, and for women and men who want to support women in computing. http://www.linuxchixperu.org/ Asterisk (Peruvian Users Group) Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux, BSD and MacOSX and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more. Asterisk does voice over IP in many protocols, and can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment using relatively inexpensive hardware. http://www.asterisk-peru.org FreeCulture.org (Peruvian Chapter) FreeCulture.org is a diverse, non-partisan group of students and young people who are working to get their peers involved in the free culture movement. http://www.freeculture.org Some statistics: Duration: 2:30pm -4:30pm Speakers: 2 from Asterisk, 4 from LinuxChix, 1 from FreeCulture.org People: 60 visitors Material Distributed: Ubuntu CDs, Creative Commons DVDs, Wired CDs, CC stickers, Ubuntu stickers, CC pins. Pictures of the event will be available soon Our Blog: http://blog.pucp.edu.pe/culturalibre __________________________________________________ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! Regístrate ya - http://correo.espanol.yahoo.com/

Sept. 17, 2006

[Planning-en] Report from Mawson Lakes, Adelaide, Australia

by Paul Schulz

Report on Software Freedom Showcase held at Mawson Lakes, Adelaide, Australia Paul Schulz (paul(a)mawsonlakes.org) ---------------------------------- The event was held in the Mawson Centre, adjacent to the Mawson Lakes Campus of the University of South Australia and also contains the local public library. A display of Free and Open Source Software books had been set up, and our large (inflatable) Emperor penguin, Bill did an excellent job promoting out event. (Pictures of the event will be available soon.) The event showcased the activites of two distinct groups, Bettong.Org and Air-Stream. The event was organised by members of LinuxSA, with assistance from the Mawson Centre itself. Bettong.Org (bettong.org) Amoung other things, Bettong.Org provides Free and Open Source training. They provided PC's running Ubuntu, and had the all important job of explaining and demonstrating what Linux and Free and Open Source Software is all about. Air-Stream (air-stream.org) Air-Stream is building a community wireless network in Adelaide, South Australia. They provided the networking for the day, and illustrated why open accessible communication is also important for building communities. These groups were setup in separate rooms, with visitors able to wander between the two. In addition, several other individuals brought along computers and equipment, demonstrating how they use Free and Open Source software themselve. These included: - An installation PC - used to explain how installations worked; - A gaming PC with a demonstation of 3D gamin under Linux - An electronic music studio - Linux and applications running on an iPod We may have had possibly 50 visitor come through on the day, with many of them staying and trying out Ubuntu on one of the PC's setup. Lunchtime entertainment was provided by 'Swing Dancers SA' and the 'Chigaco Showband'. A BBQ was also put on by the Chicago Showband. Some statistics: Duration: 10am - 4pm With an hour each for setting up, and the packing it in. People: 20 organisers, helpers and participants 50 or so visitors, with the main groups being - parents/grandparents with children - overseas student from local university Other: CD's given away - 70 ish Sausages consumed - 100 Time swing dancers danced - 1 hour Music pieces played by the band - 12 The day wouldn't have happened without our sponsor The Mawson Centre and our supporters: - The Software Freedom Day organising team (you guys rock!) - Ubuntu - CD's, stickers - Bettong.Org - Air-Stream and all of our helpers. A very big thankyou to all of them. ---- Please contact me is you would like more information - paul(a)mawsonlakes.org or see (the now out of date) website - sfs.mawsonlakes.org

Sept. 17, 2006

Re: [Planning-en] Report from London

by Simon Morris

On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 21:15 +0100, Rik Tindall wrote: > Morris, Simon wrote: > <snips - way to go London! - looking forward to rejoining you one day> Apparently we gave away 150 Ubuntu CDs!! Thats awesome - the guys did a great job. So sad that John Levin died today - kind of a relevant date. ~sm

Sept. 16, 2006

[Planning-en] Media release: Software Freedom Day 4

by Rik Tindall

"NZ takes global software project lead" Education innovation addresses IT skills shortage. Media release: Software Freedom Day 4, Team Christchurch. 17th September 2006. The fourth annual Software Freedom Day has arrived a year early, for one IT educator team. The global celebration of computing independence is growing steadily, with 180 teams from over 70 countries taking part in 2006. Australia has claimed the title for the most teams in one country, at 15, after a big contribution to the year-old Software Freedom International organisation. New Zealand had seven teams registered, but the Christchurch team, uniquely, is extending SFD 3 into its second day. The significance of the milestone was explained by the SFD Christchurch team leader, Rik Tindall. “Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) is the main component on which the Internet runs. As such it is hidden, along with its importance, from general public view. But a far deeper technical insight has great priority for every modern society - perhaps the greatest. For example, both Labour and National's websites are run on FOSS, and Green Party policy is very much tending to promote it. Nandor Tanczos reportedly joined the Auckland SFD event. It is now a matter of joining the dots for the rest of the country,” Tindall says. “The facilitation skill-set FOSS delivers is unique.” “We live in an addicted society, overburdened by health and policing costs as a result. The place to start breaking addiction is our own computer screens. FOSS multiplies information choice. The core difference from deploying FOSS is changing the concept of computers from consumer appliance to communications tool. By empowering the user, visual capture by commercial product is broken. Healing of mind, body, and spirit can thereafter begin. This isn't an abstract cause, because if politicians, educators, journalists, and the rest of society's leaders were wishing to retain what respect they have from the young generation, they would be acting upon this today. Christchurch SFD team has invited the general public and news media to participate in a live demonstration of computing liberation, at its fourth Software Freedom Day,” reports Tindall. FOSS will be used and explained for a further SFDay, at the South Learning Centre, South Christchurch Library, 66 Colombo Street, Beckenham, from 12pm to 4pm, Sunday 17 September 2006. Training centres on the Ubuntu GNU/Linux operating system distribution, and software running consistent with that. A secure, virus-free work environment is created, increasing productivity. From this stable platform is offered an alternate course, for how computer users' number one bane will be solved – that of spam junkmail. “At the moment we are locked into a treadmill by which our productive output is being eroded daily, through unsolicited advertising broadcasts to our Inboxes,” Tindall advises. “Computer monoculture is to blame. Expect in the near future to see proprietary software offering a filtering solution at the operating system level, that monitors every email communication and adds a small charge for each legitimate item to the user. Free and Open-Source Software is the better direction because it substitutes the spam platform itself, in infinite meaningful ways,” Tindall concludes. “The way forward is to show how each individual can grow with computing, once their minds – and their desktops - are set free from commercial servitude. The nature of work has been changed forever by the ICT revolution. But it is up to each of us to now ensure that this change becomes an improvement.” Ends WHAT: Software Freedom Day - international Free and Open-Source Software festival. WHEN: 12pm to 4pm, Sunday 17 September 2006 WHERE: South Learning Centre, South Christchurch Library, 66 Colombo Street, Beckenham, Christchurch. CONTACT: Rik Tindall sfd(a)infohelp.co.nz Ph 03-332-1069 or 027-406-0077 EVENT: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/gallery/2006/Christchurch regards, -- Rik Tindall, InfoHelp Services <http://www.infohelp.co.nz> on virus-free Ubuntu GNU/Linux 6.06 freeOS, 2.6.15-26-686 kernel, GNOME 2.14.3 desktop OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 suite, Mozilla.org Firefox 1.5.0.5 web browser and Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 email, gEdit 2.14.4 web editor, gFTP 2.0.18 fileXfer

Sept. 16, 2006

[Planning-en] SFD concludes (for today) in Nashua, NH, USA

by Matt Oquist

We had a steady stream of people coming through the Nashua Public Library, and we distributed ~40 Ubuntu CDs, along with informational flyers. We still have a couple more openings to pursue, at a local college and a local computer store; those events will happen in coming weeks. --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 http://ibm.com

Sept. 16, 2006

[Planning-en] Report from Dubbo

by Andrew Swinn

Howdy all, Well I must say we had an excellent Software Freedom Day. Our day was spent at one of our local shoppings malls with a display that I had been organising during the week. It basically consisted of 4 computers setup with Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Xubuntu and Damn Small Linux, a projector hooked up to the Ubuntu machine running the Blender Siggraph Demoreels and the occasional other video we had. There was also a noticeboard that had various information leaflets for people to read. We had a little bit of press help promoting the event earlier in the week. One of our local free newspapers, the Dubbo Photo News, published a small article on Thursday. Our local prominent AM radio station, 2DU, did and interview with myself earlier in the week which had some good results as a number of people mentioned hearing it. The Dubbo Photo News photographer visited us on Saturday to take a heap of photos and get some information and they will be running it as a major article in next weeks paper. The day started with about 200 Ubuntu CDs, and I also had a heap of blank CDs which I was using to burn copies of the Open Source Free CD for people. I think we gave away around half the Ubuntu CDs and about 20 odd OSFCDs. There was lots of passing interest in our display and there were a large number of computer professionals that were very interested, a few system admins, an IT teacher/admin from a local high school, and others. Over the entire day there was not one negative comment regarding open source or Linux, everyone was most positive and there were certainly lots of average people quite interested as well. Our club (Dubbo and District Computer Club) got a good lot of promotion and we are expecting to get a few new faces at our next meeting which we have lined up as a workshop to do a bit of a Linux installfest and to teach the basics of the Linux CLI. I shall be putting together a page of photos at some stage tonight. I hope everyone else had a day as successful as ours was. Cheers, Andrew Swinn Dubbo Team

Sept. 16, 2006

Re: [Planning-en] Report from London

by Rik Tindall

Morris, Simon wrote: <snips - way to go London! - looking forward to rejoining you one day> > > You know.... If I had planned it properly I could have attended both the > Milan and London celebrations... Would that have been a first? Attending > celebrations in 2 countrys? It could well be :-) > Photos and blog reports to follow. > > Have a good one > > ~sm So here's our 'limit-pusher' too: "The world's first 2-day SFD", preparing now for Day 2 - ongoing!.. Watch our progress here: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/gallery/2006/Christchurch Expect a new media release soon. Our team report will take another 36 hours, at least. Go hard SFD Team-World! Great to be meeting and working with you all. pp SFD Christchurch NZ, -- Rik Tindall, InfoHelp Services <http://www.infohelp.co.nz> on virus-free Ubuntu GNU/Linux 6.06 freeOS, 2.6.15-26-686 kernel, GNOME 2.14.3 desktop OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 suite, Mozilla.org Firefox 1.5.0.5 web browser and Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 email, gEdit 2.14.4 web editor, gFTP 2.0.18 fileXfer

Sept. 16, 2006

[Planning-en] Re: Planning-en Digest, Vol 4, Issue 13

by Girish Shukla

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.

Sept. 16, 2006