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Hello from Macedonia
by Aleksandar Balalovski 09 May '07

09 May '07

Hello, this is the coordinator of the GNU/Linux user group of Bitola/Macedonia, Aleksandar Balalovski. We are registered as team to celebrate this year World SFD as event merged to the SFD of our city which is 21 September. We hope to get all the necessary support and requirements to make it successful and relevant event. Laterz -- Aleksandar Balalovski http://blog.gemidjy.info gemidjy(a)lugola.net Coordinator of the Lugola (www.lugola.net)

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"Remind me" broken on wiki
by Alan Pope 09 May '07

09 May '07

Hi, I just went to the SFD wiki and used the "remind me of my password" thing which sent me a mail containing my user ID but an SHA encrypted version of my password. Surely it should send me my password in the clear? I actually remembered my password so was able to logon, but other users may not be so lucky. Cheers, Al.

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Registrations are open for SFD 2007!
by Pia Waugh 08 May '07

08 May '07

Hi all! Registrations are open for Software Freedom Day 2007! Welcome to the planning and preparation for Software Freedom Day 2007. We have more resources, documentation and goodies for you, and we look forward to sharing the biggest and best SFD ever with you all! == Registration == The SFD2007 team registration is now open! You'll need to register before the schwag deadline (31 July) to receive shirts, balloons and stickers to help your event look spectacular. Teams that register after the schwag deadline will still be included as official events, but will not receive any goodies. Each team (registered before the schwag deadline) will receive two SFD2007 shirts for free. We will have extra shirts for sale soon, however if your team has special needs or is in a developing nation, please send us a special extra tshirts request to info [at] sf-day.org and we will consider more shirts for your team on a case by case basis. There are limited numbers of shirts, balloons and stickers, and we will try to make sure teams are as well equipped as possible. Teams can find information from the Start Guide including artwork, marketing information, generic press releases, tips and tricks for running an event and much more - http://softwarefreedomday.org/StartGuide Many thanks to Robert Schumann who tirelessy worked on the registration page! == Website == Firstly, please note that in order to keep the website sane, we have migrated all 2006 team pages to an archive page. You are completely welcome to copy and paste from your archived pages to a new page, but you'll need to create a new team page prior to your team registration. We've got a new look and feel. Many thanks to Phil Harper who created the look and feel and Judy Wilson who updated loads of information. == Team Communications == We are currently not running a forum, and encourage you all to post to the sfd-discuss mailing list for questions, ideas, team announcements and more. Join the sfd-discuss mailing list at http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss. All team leaders that register will be automatically added to the sfd-announce mailing list if they are not already on it. If enough people request the forum functionality back again we may enable it. Ensure your SFD team page is up to date so that people can find and attend your event. If you choose to have a SFD team page separate from the SFD website, please ensure you link to it so everyone can find events through the SFD website. Make sure you link any press coverage of your event and press releases to http://softwarefreedomday.org/press. == Competition == We will certainly be running a competition again this year, however will be announcing the competition within the month. Please check out last years competition for some ideas as this years competition will be very similar. http://softwarefreedomday.org/competition. == Questions? == Please post questions to the sfd-discuss mailing list so all teams can learn from and support each other. For specific or private enquiries, please email info [at] sf-day [dot] org. Cheers, Pia Waugh President Software Freedom International -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/ "There is no darkness but ignorance." - William Shakespeare

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Celebrate SFD at educational institutions.
by Janet Hawtin 08 May '07

08 May '07

Hi folks Got a bit of a start on promoting SFD for Australian education organisations. Hope it helps Janet http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2007/edition-13/soapbox-open-source-fo…

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How to register a local team on the homepage
by Georg Sluyterman 06 May '07

06 May '07

Hi I am all confused... How do i register a new team, and make a Wiki-page on the homepage? I have signed up as a user on the homepage, but i just can't figure out how i am suppose to do the rest. I assume that the personal-page is not usable as a team-page. -- Regards Georg Sluyterman njlug.dk, Aalborg, Denmark

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