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Re: [SFD-discuss] Two regional teams from one the same region
by Shehab 26 Jun '07

26 Jun '07

Thanks all for your advice. Shehab ----- Original Message ---- From: Russell John <russell(a)linux.org.bd> To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 11:28:04 PM Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] Two regional teams from one the same region Dear Shehab, It's great to know that you want to be a part of SFD '08. Now that you've shown your interest (thanks!), you've got two options: 1) Joining our team: We're the same team that organised SFD '05 and '06, and we're ready to rock again. If you're an individual or an organisation interested in celebrating SFD, then please get in touch with us at <sfd AT linux.org.bd>. Someone will get in touch with you with further details. We're a very large Linux Users Group and our members are scattered all over the country. No matter where you're located, and we can get together to organise an event. 2) Form your own team: If you want to organise an event independently, you can go ahead. In that case, we'll not be covering your event details on our press release, and we won't be able to send you our publications, t-shirts, and other promotional materials. However, we can provide you guidelines and supports that you might need. Best regards, Russell SFD Bangladesh Team On 25/06/07, Shehab <shehab_sust(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Thanks for your quick answer. For example, there is already a regional team > for the country, Bangladesh > (http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/asia/bangladesh?action=show&redirect=te…) > Is it possible to create a new regional team for Bangladesh or join the team > as a partner? > > Shehab > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Douglas A. Whitfield <whitdoug(a)email.unc.edu> > To: shehab_sust(a)yahoo.com > Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 10:29:51 AM > Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] Two regional teams from one the same region > > You could potentially be more specific. For instance, so places in the US > are going by a city and others are going by a state. > > But, to answer your question, I'm pretty sure the answer is yes. > > > Douglas A. Whitfield > > Carolina Open Source Initiative Co-President > http://www.ibiblio.org/cosi > Cell: 919-360-0306 > AIM: DouglasAWh > > http://www.softwarefreedomday.org > UNC SFD Sponsors: OpenDNS, Siena Tech, Cerient > UNC SFD Participants: Dell > > > Shehab wrote: > > Hi, > > Is it possible to register as a second regional team from the same region? > > Thanks in advance. > > Shehab > > ________________________________ > Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel > and lay it on us. ________________________________ > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > > > > ________________________________ > Get your own web address. > Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business. > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > > _______________________________________________ SFD-discuss mailing list SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss ____________________________________________________________________________________ Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=monopolyherenow

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Re: [SFD-discuss] Two regional teams from one the same region
by Shehab 25 Jun '07

25 Jun '07

Hi, Thanks for your quick answer. For example, there is already a regional team for the country, Bangladesh (http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/asia/bangladesh?action=show&redirect=te…) Is it possible to create a new regional team for Bangladesh or join the team as a partner? Shehab ----- Original Message ---- From: Douglas A. Whitfield <whitdoug(a)email.unc.edu> To: shehab_sust(a)yahoo.com Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 10:29:51 AM Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] Two regional teams from one the same region You could potentially be more specific. For instance, so places in the US are going by a city and others are going by a state. But, to answer your question, I'm pretty sure the answer is yes. Douglas A. Whitfield Carolina Open Source Initiative Co-President http://www.ibiblio.org/cosi Cell: 919-360-0306 AIM: DouglasAWh http://www.softwarefreedomday.org UNC SFD Sponsors: OpenDNS, Siena Tech, Cerient UNC SFD Participants: Dell Shehab wrote: Hi, Is it possible to register as a second regional team from the same region? Thanks in advance. Shehab Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. _______________________________________________ SFD-discuss mailing list SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss ____________________________________________________________________________________ Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting

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Re: [SFD-discuss] Two regional teams from one the same region
by Shehab 25 Jun '07

25 Jun '07

Thanks for your advice. Shehab ----- Original Message ---- From: Pia Waugh <greebo(a)pipka.org> To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 11:55:12 AM Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] Two regional teams from one the same region Hi Shehab, <quote who="Shehab"> > Thanks for your quick answer. For example, there is already a regional > team for the country, Bangladesh > (http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/asia/bangladesh?action=show&redirect=te…) > Is it possible to create a new regional team for Bangladesh or join the > team as a partner? Great question! My first recommendation is to contact the team directly using the details on their page. If you still want to run your own event because you have a different audience or are in a different area, go for it! We had about 15 teams in Australia last year. We are a big spread out country so it makes sense to have more local events than a big regional event. Cheers, Pia -- Linux Australia http://linux.org.au/ "The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet." - William Gibson _______________________________________________ SFD-discuss mailing list SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss ____________________________________________________________________________________ Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7

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Two regional teams from one the same region
by Shehab 25 Jun '07

25 Jun '07

Hi, Is it possible to register as a second regional team from the same region? Thanks in advance. Shehab ____________________________________________________________________________________ Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/

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Logo status?
by Melissa Draper 22 Jun '07

22 Jun '07

Greetings, What is the status on the logo for this year (the one like on the tshirt preview on the wiki)? If so, are there source images somewhere for those of us working on getting promotional stuff such as posters and fliers organised? TIA -- Sincerely Melissa Draper http://www.meldraweb.com Phone: 0404 595 395 (intl): +61 404 595 395 P.O Box 1412 Lavington, NSW 2641

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SFD Geek Exchange Program?
by Matthew Davidson 22 Jun '07

22 Jun '07

Hi All, We're seriously getting down to planning the Coffs Harbour (NSW Australia) event for this year, and given this is our third year of running a casual seminar-type event, trying to work out how to add some novelty. Lord knows everybody's sick of the sight of me. It occurred to me that it would be nice to encourage some people from further afield to come up (or down) to Coffs to give presentations on whatever cool things they're doing with free software. In fact, beyond my own selfish need for new speakers at our own event, there may be quite a few people around the world willing to travel a bit to spread the word beyond their usual circle on whatever they're doing. I'm thinking that it would be generally useful if people based in major metropolitan areas offered their services to teams in more regional areas, even if it's just the next town up the road. But before I started cross-posting to half a dozen LUG lists offering sofa space*, I wanted to check whether this might be considered poor etiquette or just a bad idea. Perhaps it could be considered inter-team poaching? Matthew. * Incidentally, I have two of the most comfortable sofas known to mankind, and live half a block away from a rather splendid pub. -- Alma Technology - The future is free and open http://www.almatech.net.au ... (02) 6658 1607 ... 0419 242 316 -- http://computerclub.cex.com.au http://www.clublinux.org.au -- "He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me." - Thomas Jefferson http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s12.html

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Thanet SFD (UK)
by Matthew Macdonald-Wallace 20 Jun '07

20 Jun '07

Hi all, All of a sudden I might have a venue and people to exhibit at SFD 2007 in Thanet in Kent. This means I need more CDs, preferably at no cost to myself as I don't have any money at the moment! Who do I speak to? I'd probably be after about 100 CDs in total, so it's not a huge amount. Cheers, Matt. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace Group Co-Ordinator Thanet Linux User Group http://www.thanet.lug.org.uk/ matthew(a)truthisfreedom.org.uk GPG KEY: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xFEA1BC16

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Re: SFD-discuss Digest, Vol 8, Issue 13
by xolani Ndlovu 20 Jun '07

20 Jun '07

hie there is seminar at bulawayo polytechnic and i was invited to deliver speech On 17/06/07, sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org <sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org> wrote: > > Send SFD-discuss mailing list submissions to > sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > sfd-discuss-owner(a)sf-day.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of SFD-discuss digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: help (Pia Waugh) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 21:32:52 +1000 > From: Pia Waugh <greebo(a)pipka.org> > Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] help > To: xolani Ndlovu <xolanimart(a)gmail.com> > Cc: sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org > Message-ID: <20070617113252.GU17509(a)waugh.id.au> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Hi Xolani, > > <quote who="xolani Ndlovu"> > > > hie everyone my name is xolani i am in Bulawayo i have been following > the > > opensource movement for the past > > three years heavily reading open source literature so i teamed up with a > > friend to start an open source movement in Bulawayo (OPEN SOURCE > > Bulawayo) its dead in Bulawayo so anyone who can help us > please > > do we are still at school so resources are problem please help > > It is great to here you are excited about FLOSS! To start a new community > I > highly recommend using Software Freedom Day as a launch event o get people > interested and get the group going. Plan with your friend to run some sort > of public event, perhaps at a University or school, and try to get lots of > young people to come along. Make sure you register as a team so we can > send > you some tshirts, CDs and other goodies to help make your event look > fantastic! > > For more ideas on running an event, check out the Start Guide at: > http://softwarefreedomday.org/StartGuide > > And for more ideas about starting a new community, check out: > http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Linux_PR/newlug.html > http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html > > Hope that helps, good luck in spreading software freedom to Bulawayo! > > Cheers, > Pia > > -- > Linux Australia > http://linux.org.au/ > > "Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains." - Jean Jacques > Rosseau > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > > > End of SFD-discuss Digest, Vol 8, Issue 13 > ****************************************** >

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help
by xolani Ndlovu 18 Jun '07

18 Jun '07

hie everyone my name is xolani i am in Bulawayo i have been following the opensource movement for the past three years heavily reading open source literature so i teamed up with a friend to start an open source movement in Bulawayo (OPEN SOURCE Bulawayo) its dead in Bulawayo so anyone who can help us please do we are still at school so resources are problem please help xolani On 11/06/07, sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org <sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org> wrote: > > Send SFD-discuss mailing list submissions to > sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > sfd-discuss-owner(a)sf-day.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of SFD-discuss digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: hello and t-shirt cost (Robert Schumann) > 2. CDs to be dispatched to SFD teams (Robert Schumann) > 3. Re: CDs to be dispatched to SFD teams (Matthew Macdonald-Wallace) > 4. Re: CDs to be dispatched to SFD teams (Melissa Draper) > 5. RE: CDs to be dispatched to SFD teams (Douglas A. Whitfield) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:52:37 +0100 > From: "Robert Schumann" <robert(a)softwarefreedomday.org> > Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] hello and t-shirt cost > To: "Open discussions about SFD" <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org> > Message-ID: > <d58237a20706110152y7f33d592u7f56c6f3a079c822(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi Douglas, > > The sfd-announce list is generally pretty low-traffic, particularly when > we're more than three months from SFD. Traffic will probably start to pick > up soon, though.... > > Regarding T-shirts, we're aiming to have the sales website up within about > two weeks. Speaking entirely non-authoritatively, so don't quote me, I > believe the T-shirt price may be around US$12. The small profit we make on > selling the shirts goes to help us send supplies to all the teams around > the > world. > > Anyway, it's great to have you signed up and we hope you organise some > great > SFD events in North Carolina. Feel free to stay in touch with us and with > other teams from around the globe via this mailing list. > > Robert. > > On 10/06/07, Douglas A. Whitfield <whitdoug(a)email.unc.edu> wrote: > > > > All, > > > > I just signed up for this list today since no messages have come out of > > the sfd-announce since I joined it about a month ago. My group's site > > is http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/teams/northamerica/ChapelHill. We > > are looking to purchase about $100 of the t-shirts if the price is > > right. I know the page says the shirts are being worked on, but do we > > have an estimated cost? > > > > This group is a new group begun this spring, so this obviously our first > > SFD. None of us had actually even heard of SFD until May 8th! We hope > > we can get similar events started at other local universities (Duke and > > NC State) as well as some other places we have ties (NCSSM and > > Gardner-Webb University). Any questions, comments or concerns are very > > welcome! > > > > Thank you, > > -- > > Douglas A. Whitfield > > > > UNC SILS MSIS Class of '08 > > Cell: 919-360-0306 > > AIM: DouglasAWh > > > > Carolina Open Source Initiative Co-President > > Carolina-opensource(a)listserv.unc.edu > > http://www.softwarefreedomday.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > > SFD-discuss mailing list > > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > > >

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CDs to be dispatched to SFD teams
by Robert Schumann 14 Jun '07

14 Jun '07

The organisers of Software Freedom Day have been discussing making some changes to the supplies we will be making available to SFD teams this year. Last year we helped Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, send shipments of Ubuntu CDs to teams, and teams once again have the opportunity to request Ubuntu CDs when they register this year. We have also been intending this year to ship copies of The Open CD ( http://theopencd.org/) which was supplied to teams in 2005 - and when teams register this year, they are offered the opportunity to specify how many of The Open CD they would like to receive. However, for various reasons we would like to avoid shipping The Open CD this year. The major reason is cost: although the cost per team might only be US$10 or US$15, when you have hundreds of teams registered that becomes a lot of money. Software Freedom International (the organisation behind SFD) has very limited funds and we believe this is not an effective use of those funds. What we are proposing instead is to send teams 1. One CD or DVD containing open source documentaries, interviews, music and any other open resources we can get hold of 2. A single copy of The Open CD, which can be replicated by teams if they wish to distribute this software 3. ...as well as the usual T-shirts and a few other little items! Another part of the reason for this proposed change is to make available to teams (including teams in parts of the world where internet connectivity is not great) a set of resources that can be used to convey the message of software freedom (for example, interviews with some leaders in the FLOSS world). These resources could then also be used to put together your own documentary or shown at other software freedom events you may plan ( e.g. for a campus fair at your college, or an IT exhibition). Before making this change, we wanted to hear feedback from you, the team leaders and FLOSS enthusiasts from around the world. So please do get in touch with us to let us know what you think (about this change, and about our proposed team supplies) and ask any questions you may have. You can either chat with other SFD participants on the SFD-discuss mailing list (you need to be a member: join at http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss) or you can send your comments/questions direct to the SFI board at info(a)sf-day.org. We are specifically interested in 1. suggestions for resources to be put on the CD/DVD (which must be under an open license). 2. whether your team would have a problem using a DVD and you'd prefer a CD. Looking forward to hearing from you, Robert. PS - Three months left to go before SFD! How are your preparations going?

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