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Celebrate SFD at educational institutions.

by Janet Hawtin

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…

May 8, 2007

Registrations are open for SFD 2007!

by Pia Waugh

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

May 6, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] How to register a local team on the homepage

by Robert Schumann

I'd like to apologise to anyone who's encountered problems with pages going missing on the wiki. I can assure you that no prior content has been deleted, and we are continuing this year to build our site using the MoinMoin wiki platform. In previous years we have had a tendency to start each year from scratch, often due to technical problems or complexity of our website platform; we're looking to build a more consistent track record in this respect in the future. We recently moved last year's team pages to the archive so that a clear distinction can be made between current and old team information - we are specifically trying to avoid the confusing situation where a page last edited in 2005 says "Hi! Come to our SFD event at Main Street, Springfield" and visitors to the site can't tell if the information is current(*) or not. So: feel free to copy(**) your page contents back to where they were - we'll not be moving these pages again soon! More details about registration will be posted to the SFD-announce list soon. Robert. (*) Yes, visitors could look at the "Last edited" date on the page, but this creates a poor impression with site visitors. (**) We think it would be better to copy the old contents over (if they're still relevant) rather than move the pages back, as that leaves the 2006 archive intact. Rik Tindall wrote: > Russell John wrote: >> I still didn't understand what you meant... anyhow, never mind. > > I was concerned that the record focus of our collective teamwork had > been lost, which would make it much harder to grow. > > But then this rearrangement happens with the type of website > management that we currently have, each year. And the old material > resurfaces. So the continuity should be fine, with SFD participant > content available to new readers again soon. 'Alarm - off'. > > cheers, & go sfd!, rik > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss

May 6, 2007

Peru is Part of OLPC Project

by Luis Gustavo Lira

Confirmed !!! Today the Minister of Education has been announced a good news: Peru is part of OLPC project !!!!!!! This is official !!!!!!! Luis G. Lira, BSc. Cultura Libre - Peru http://www.culturalibre.info/ __________________________________________________ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! Regístrate ya - http://correo.espanol.yahoo.com/

May 6, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] How to register a local team on the homepage

by Rik Tindall

Russell John wrote: > I still didn't understand what you meant... anyhow, never mind. I was concerned that the record focus of our collective teamwork had been lost, which would make it much harder to grow. But then this rearrangement happens with the type of website management that we currently have, each year. And the old material resurfaces. So the continuity should be fine, with SFD participant content available to new readers again soon. 'Alarm - off'. cheers, & go sfd!, rik

May 5, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] How to register a local team on the homepage

by Russell John

I still didn't understand what you meant... anyhow, never mind. On 5/5/07, Rik Tindall <ask(a)infohelp.co.nz> wrote: > Russell John wrote: > > Zero concept of team building? What do you mean, Rik? > > I mean that we've just this hour referred a new team member to our three > years of team records on the SFD website. Where are they please? > > Others wish to refer to team examples too. > > Thanks for all your hard work, and looking forward to SFD archive access > too. Go well. > > > On 5/5/07, Rik Tindall <ask(a)infohelp.co.nz> wrote: > > > >> Russell John wrote: > >> > Deleting the team pages is a part of the cleaning process if I'm not > >> > wrong. The teams that participated last year might not come back this > >> > year. > >> > > >> > Let's wait for the registration to be open. > >> > > >> > - Russell > >> > >> You've _got_ to be fscking joking! > >> > >> After all the work we put into those records the last three years!!! > >> > >> If so, sack the management. > >> > >> > On 5/5/07, Georg Sluyterman <georg(a)thecrew.dk> wrote: > >> > > >> >> Russell John skrev: > >> >> > Thanks Matt, good to hear from you after a long time. The forum > >> >> > disappeared... if I remember correctly, it was at > >> >> > http://www.sf-day.org/forum/. Where did it go? :o > >> > >> _Zero_ concept of team building. > >> >> > >> >> The forum is not the only thing missing. Alle the team-pages are > >> gone!! > >> >> > >> >> > Georg, good to see that your team page is up! :) > >> >> > > >> >> > >> >> Thanks.. I hope it will come back again (a wirred form of site > >> >> maintenance i hope :-) ) > >> >> > >> >> -- > >> >> Regards > >> >> Georg Sluyterman > >> >> njlug.dk, Aalborg, Denmark > >> >> _______________________________________________ > >> >> SFD-discuss mailing list > >> >> SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > >> >> http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > >> > >> -- > >> Rik, pp Team Christchurch NZ > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >

May 5, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] How to register a local team on the homepage

by Rik Tindall

Russell John wrote: > Zero concept of team building? What do you mean, Rik? I mean that we've just this hour referred a new team member to our three years of team records on the SFD website. Where are they please? Others wish to refer to team examples too. Thanks for all your hard work, and looking forward to SFD archive access too. Go well. > On 5/5/07, Rik Tindall <ask(a)infohelp.co.nz> wrote: > >> Russell John wrote: >> > Deleting the team pages is a part of the cleaning process if I'm not >> > wrong. The teams that participated last year might not come back this >> > year. >> > >> > Let's wait for the registration to be open. >> > >> > - Russell >> >> You've _got_ to be fscking joking! >> >> After all the work we put into those records the last three years!!! >> >> If so, sack the management. >> >> > On 5/5/07, Georg Sluyterman <georg(a)thecrew.dk> wrote: >> > >> >> Russell John skrev: >> >> > Thanks Matt, good to hear from you after a long time. The forum >> >> > disappeared... if I remember correctly, it was at >> >> > http://www.sf-day.org/forum/. Where did it go? :o >> >> _Zero_ concept of team building. >> >> >> >> The forum is not the only thing missing. Alle the team-pages are >> gone!! >> >> >> >> > Georg, good to see that your team page is up! :) >> >> > >> >> >> >> Thanks.. I hope it will come back again (a wirred form of site >> >> maintenance i hope :-) ) >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Regards >> >> Georg Sluyterman >> >> njlug.dk, Aalborg, Denmark >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> SFD-discuss mailing list >> >> SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org >> >> http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >> >> -- >> Rik, pp Team Christchurch NZ

May 5, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] How to register a local team on the homepage

by Russell John

Zero concept of team building? What do you mean, Rik? On 5/5/07, Rik Tindall <ask(a)infohelp.co.nz> wrote: > Russell John wrote: > > Deleting the team pages is a part of the cleaning process if I'm not > > wrong. The teams that participated last year might not come back this > > year. > > > > Let's wait for the registration to be open. > > > > - Russell > > You've _got_ to be fscking joking! > > After all the work we put into those records the last three years!!! > > If so, sack the management. > > > On 5/5/07, Georg Sluyterman <georg(a)thecrew.dk> wrote: > > > >> Russell John skrev: > >> > Thanks Matt, good to hear from you after a long time. The forum > >> > disappeared... if I remember correctly, it was at > >> > http://www.sf-day.org/forum/. Where did it go? :o > > _Zero_ concept of team building. > >> > >> The forum is not the only thing missing. Alle the team-pages are gone!! > >> > >> > Georg, good to see that your team page is up! :) > >> > > >> > >> Thanks.. I hope it will come back again (a wirred form of site > >> maintenance i hope :-) ) > >> > >> -- > >> Regards > >> Georg Sluyterman > >> njlug.dk, Aalborg, Denmark > >> _______________________________________________ > >> SFD-discuss mailing list > >> SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > >> http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > > -- > Rik, pp Team Christchurch NZ > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >

May 5, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] How to register a local team on the homepage

by Rik Tindall

Russell John wrote: > Deleting the team pages is a part of the cleaning process if I'm not > wrong. The teams that participated last year might not come back this > year. > > Let's wait for the registration to be open. > > - Russell You've _got_ to be fscking joking! After all the work we put into those records the last three years!!! If so, sack the management. > On 5/5/07, Georg Sluyterman <georg(a)thecrew.dk> wrote: > >> Russell John skrev: >> > Thanks Matt, good to hear from you after a long time. The forum >> > disappeared... if I remember correctly, it was at >> > http://www.sf-day.org/forum/. Where did it go? :o _Zero_ concept of team building. >> >> The forum is not the only thing missing. Alle the team-pages are gone!! >> >> > Georg, good to see that your team page is up! :) >> > >> >> Thanks.. I hope it will come back again (a wirred form of site >> maintenance i hope :-) ) >> >> -- >> Regards >> Georg Sluyterman >> njlug.dk, Aalborg, Denmark >> _______________________________________________ >> SFD-discuss mailing list >> SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org >> http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss -- Rik, pp Team Christchurch NZ

May 5, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] How to register a local team on the homepage

by Georg Sluyterman

Russell John skrev: > Deleting the team pages is a part of the cleaning process if I'm not > wrong. The teams that participated last year might not come back this > year. > > Let's wait for the registration to be open. > Is it possible to et access to the old pages, so you don't have to write it all over again? I just made one (its not much, but still). Or worse the Copenhagen-team had descriptions of how it went with the last three years events. -- Regards Georg Sluyterman njlug.dk, Aalborg, Denmark

May 5, 2007