Hi all,
my apologies, we have a very short delay in announcing the SFD competition
winners. It will be done over the weekend, so stay tuned! :)
Cheers,
Pia
Software Freedom International
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.infohttp://wiki.lugola.net - your future!
gemidjy(a)lugola.net
Coordinator of the Lugola (www.lugola.net)
Hi all,
We are very pleased to announce the results of the SFD Competition 2007!
Many thanks to all the entrants, we saw some excellent examples of how to
take software freedom to local communities, and we were inspired, as you
all will be to see some of the outcomes and reports.
http://softwarefreedomday.org/Competition2007/Winners
We have three winners, who will each receive an OLPC (One Laptop Per Child)
computer. All winners, highly commended and entries of note will also
receive a certificate for their excellent submissions.
I want to extend a warm congratulations in particular to the three winners
(in no particular order):
- FOSS Nepal Community
- SFD Nicaragua 2007 Team
- Beijing Software Freedom Day (China)
And the two highly commended entries:
- Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society
- SFD Tunisia
Read more about the entries along with their reports at the website above.
Cheers,
Pia
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Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/
It's been indicated to me that I never put out a report on Software Freedom
Day in Sydney. Well, better late than never :)
Advocates of free software celebrated at the University of New South Wales on
16 September for the fourth annual Software Freedom Day. Members of SLUG,
Ubuntu-AU and the general FOSS community collaborated to spread the message
of free software to the general public.
Interest and buzz was generated in the days leading-up to the event through a
poster campaign across the campus. At the UNSW Computer Fair, we piqued the
curiosity of many computer users with our displays, screencasts and spiels.
Those who were enthusiastic migrated to our room in the nearby Law Building,
where we could explain and demonstrate in greater detail. Not only did we
have many expressions of interest from newcomers in free software and the
free software community, we also succeeded in bringing those who already use
FOSS into participation in the local community.
Regrettably, I was not able to take any decent photographs of the event. If
anyone has pictures, I'd be grateful if they could be sent to me.
I would like to give a big word of thanks to everyone who helped on the day:
Andreas Fischer
Brendan Puckeridge
David McQuire
James Dumay
Jim Tsao
John Ferlito
Ken Wilson
Lindsay Holmwood
Matt Moor
Peter Baker
Pia Waugh
Rodger Dean
Silvia Pfeiffer
Anyone else who I may have forgotten (if I have, sorry!)
In addition, I would like to thank those who provided resources in support of
our efforts:
Computer Fairs Australia (tables at the computer fair)
David Vaile, Abi Paramaguru and Alana Maurushat at the UNSW Cyberspace
Law and Policy Centre (room in the Law Building)
John Schilit (IBM and Robocode materials)
Solutions First (Unwired modem)
Ubuntu Screencasts Team (screencasts and subtitles)
Canonical (Ubuntu CDs)
The worldwide free software community :)
The Web version of this report is available at
http://yama.blogsome.com/2007/11/09/software-freedom-day-2007-sydney-report/
--
"Freedom is the right of all sentient beings." - Optimus Prime
Hi all,
So far we've had 110 teams fill in the online report, and have stated
they've reached 22,229 people and handed out 8,970 Ubuntu CDs.
Could everyone else (the other 220 teams!) please fill in the web form if
you haven't already! Some people sent reports to the list but didn't fill in
the webform.
This information will be used to help garner support for the event, and to
help get UN recognition for the day, so please participate!
http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/event_report.html
Thanks everyone.
Cheers,
Pia
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Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/
