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SFD2007 in Bitola/Macedonia
by Aleksandar Balalovski 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

Hello, due to the fact that the SFD in our city is on 21st of September each year (fixed), we merged the two dates, and we celebrated SFD on 22nd of September, the last weekend. It was fun! We appreciate the help that Software freedom international gave to Lugola, (the GLUG that celebrated the event in Bitola/Macedonia) and we are happy to see how many teams got organized for 15th of September to celebrate this year in the world. Our silly proposal :) would be that the next year more balloons are sent to the teams, because they make great effect on the celebration aura in the city where SFD is being celebrated, young people want balloons, babies want balloons, mothers and fathers want balloons for their children, and thus, everyone wants balloon, and people actually READ what is on the balloon :) Whatsoever, the balloons are not crucial for the message of the event, hence we had hundreds of CDs of GNU/Linux distributions, prepared a pamphlet named "Make the Move" as helping guide for migrating towards GNU/Linux and some other gifts we gave to the people in our area. Images from the event can be seen on Flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/lugola/tags/sfd2007 Have a nice time. -- Aleksandar Balalovski (keyID: FD341782) http://blog.gemidjy.info http://wiki.lugola.net - your future! gemidjy(a)lugola.net Coordinator of the Lugola (www.lugola.net)

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SFD Competition for 2007 - currently being finalised
by Pia Waugh 20 Oct '07

20 Oct '07

Hi all, The date for competition entries to be submitted has passed and we are currently undergoing a full review of all proposals. Thank you to everyone who put in such amazing competition entries! If you submitted a proposal, you should have received an email in the past few days acknowledging your proposal. If you submitted a proposal and did not receive an acknowledgement, please contact me as soon as possible so we can be sure to include your proposal. Cheers, Pia and the SFI team -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

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Re: [SFD-discuss] FLOSS educational programmes (Steve Olive)
by Gadhula Rumbidzayi 17 Oct '07

17 Oct '07

I am totally in support of floss educational programmes and I believe that OO will be the ideal starting point as it is about basic computer literacy and not exceptionally technical aspects. I also think it is very relevant particularly to schools in Zimbabwe. I used to teach at a school where the computers had been donated and came with all the software installed. The school had no connectivity to the internet and therefore we could not activate the M$ Office. If we had knowledge and access to the FLOSS alternative, our situation wouldn't have been desperate I have also managed to install Ubuntu on some few PCs that are used by students at my place of work. The students still use them for Internet access (Firefox) and they edit the documents they download using FLOSS alternative. This was not a planned implementation (like yours), it was a necessity due to hardware limitations and they have never complained. Generally students are eager to learn and gain skills without the skills being specific to a particular brand and FLOSS IS A GIFT to them. Xolani I am totally in support of your project and can you keep the list posted on the developments? I would like to see this take-off and if I can help just let me know and I will be happy to assist. I am sure this will be a success. When do you think this project will be ready for take-off?

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FLOSS educational programmes
by xolani Ndlovu 15 Oct '07

15 Oct '07

hie eveyone are there any educational programmes that teach computing short courses using FLOSS products ,programmes like ICDL and others?if not, OpenSourceBulawayo and others are going to be working on a parallel or alternative educational programme to ICDL that will teach short computer courses using FLOSS products only since ICDL and other short cources in ZIMBABWE are only taught using Microsoft products only.As we were discussing on how we can get companies and institutions to use Floss we realized that companies send their employees to do ICDL so that they can use computers at their work places. so with programmes like these compinies can switch and get their people to do the programmes.

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what comes first
by xolani Ndlovu 15 Oct '07

15 Oct '07

well then what comes first the industry adopting FLOSS or people/students being taught how to use FLOSS .I believe the teaching and training comes first then then the industry can switch to floss and one cannot justify using pirated software (its a crime) most companies in Zimbabwe we have approached are willing to switch but caught in the predicament of FLOSS literacy.schools are ready to teach floss along side windows. -- member of OpenSourceBulawayo free software as in freedom

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Competition entries
by Pia Waugh 08 Oct '07

08 Oct '07

Hi all, Many thanks to all the wonderful people who put entries into the SFD 2007 competition. We shall get back to all of you in the coming fortnight as we work our way through the entries. Again, thank you all for a fantastic Software Freedom Day 2007, and if you haven't already, please fill out our report form so we can count numbers and such for this year: http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/event_report.html Cheers, Pia -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

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SFD 2007 in Trinidad
by Dev Teelucksingh 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (TTCS ; http://ttcsweb.org/) held a Software Freedom Day event on September 15th, 2007 in Trinidad. An 18 minute video of our Software Freedom Day 2007 event is available for download in OGG, and XviD formats : * ttcs_sfd2007.ogg (75MB) http://files.filefront.com/ttcs+sfd2007ogg/;8667215;/fileinfo.html * ttcs_sfd2007.avi (40MB) http://files.filefront.com/ttcs+sfd2007avi/;8666821;/fileinfo.html Flickr set of photos : http://www.flickr.com/photos/ttcs/sets/72157602189102284/ Dev T TTCS ; http://ttcsweb.org/

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Gnome + SFD celebration
by Peter Eisinger 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

Boston MA, USA -- August 15, 2007 -- A one month, world-wide celebration of GNOME's tenth anniversary begins this week, culminating in mid-September with Software Freedom Day [1] Mailing lists: UP! ;) [1] http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/gnome10years.html Cheers, Peter http://PreguntasLinux.Org/ Comunidad de Software Libre Foro GNU/Linux/FOSS/*NIX Support Installfest FLISoL SFD

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