June 2007 - SFD-discuss - lists.mailman3.com

Logo status?

by Melissa Draper

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

June 22, 2007

Thanet SFD (UK)

by Matthew Macdonald-Wallace

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

June 20, 2007

Re: SFD-discuss Digest, Vol 8, Issue 13

by xolani Ndlovu

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 > ****************************************** >

June 20, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] help

by David Tremblay

Hi Xolani, Don't assume that it is dead, its only dormant waiting for you to wake it up. First I would contact people from http://zwlug.sourceforge.net/ and make call for an organization meeting for the SF-day.. Find africasource participants (http://tacticaltech.org/africasource) they could direct you to interesting contacts. Plan the meeting ahead, at least 3 weeks, send email to everyone you know, ask them to forward it. Repeat the message often. Contact universities, those are often the best place to start to meet GNU/linux users... Hope it helps Le dimanche 17 juin 2007 à 21:32 +1000, Pia Waugh a écrit : > 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 >

June 18, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] help

by Pia Waugh

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

June 17, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] Re: [SFD-announce] CDs to be dispatched to SFD teams

by Pia Waugh

Hi Rik, <quote who="Rik Tindall"> > Since Ubuntu 6.06 , iirc, the openCD has been integrated into the distro > disk (try looking at it on a Win-desktop). 6.10 & 7.04 are the same - > great work Henrik, Mark, & team! > > Assuming the SFD CDs will be 7.04, why any need for separate openCDs at all? The Ubuntu boot CDs have a very cut down version of the Open CD which has only a couple of apps, whereas the full open cd has loads of apps. Ubuntu got bigger :) I think having the seperate CDs can be useful for this reason. Cheers, Pia -- Linux Australia http://linux.org.au/

June 14, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] Re: [SFD-announce] CDs to be dispatched to SFD teams

by Rik Tindall

Janet Hawtin wrote: > I dont know how the SFI is funded. > I do know some folks in AU are thinking of doing a run of openCDs for > other purposes. > Just for curiosity's sake how many openCDs are needed for an SFD run? Since Ubuntu 6.06 , iirc, the openCD has been integrated into the distro disk (try looking at it on a Win-desktop). 6.10 & 7.04 are the same - great work Henrik, Mark, & team! Assuming the SFD CDs will be 7.04, why any need for separate openCDs at all? -- Rik, Christchurch NZ

June 14, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD Geek Exchange Program?

by chasqui＠somoslibres.org

Yes Judy, in fact we are doing it all the way. I put most of my money into TUX toy that we give to the children year around. We sell one in Canada for 20$ we get the money move around to produce more TuX that are already paid for by people who got them in Canada. (you pay 20$ you get a tux and a child in peru gets anotherone) This way we have single mothers making tux 10$ is the cost something "overpaid" yet the point is to have children something to eat. (many of them are on the streets) ..."extra tux for a child" plus T-shits however the program is called "amealperu" and up to this moment we had no logo of UBUNTU. (ooops) It is amazing how it works, Child will talk about the Penguin, gnu/linux, even richar stallman, without of having a computer. They walk with them, sleep with them and so on learning about tuxland and idea. It would go much better in Canada if we could have some electronic system (visa card). In my country my passport is confiscated over 10 years, (canada puts many brakes on my work) I can't get the identity and all that relates to the banks and "shopping cards". I have to 'jump" the borders. (H) 4$ we can get the T-shirt for and we are looking into it for ubuntu logo and have it 'amealperu & ubuntu" kind of thing. If anybody have a suggestion, I take it. http://www.malko.com/images/banners/tux006b.jpg http://www.malko.com/images/rotatorio/MALKO501.jpg we have children's campaign (adults too) "tux presidente" that have to do much about internal affairs that in short are this: http://softwarelibre.org.pe/pipermail/sl_softwarelibre.org.pe/2007-June/000… ...we wish to have the "tux presidente' works good we send groups of children to City Halls and other institutions http://www.malko.com/images/rotatorio/MALKO2521.jpg http://www.malko.com/images/rotatorio/MALKO2550.jpg to talk about not waisting our tax money into windows license (one university pays 36000$, they look into ubuntu now) put gnu/LINUX and return some to the people by better other services. Building it this way we see that the kids talk about it at home and families, schools and so on, it is effective. Plus we have kids walking with them and many geeks ask 'where did you get this Tux?" and conversation develops. Maybe just maybe if I had the passport would be even easier. (if anybody interested: http://malko.com/quiputext/001parl2.htm ) the point is that to have something 'standard' would be cool. if we get them (T-shirts) from ubuntu or not it does not matter that much ...they have done already a lot for our society. it was just the idea I have shared before not to make only "big fat size" but to look into "children" one more thing before I stop writing if anybody wishes to send images for that "rotary / random image place" on the website it is excellent opportunity to let all our children in Peru know that there is "more of us around the world" please send some. we wish to have many ubuntu friends around the world. Pictures from the events we welcome too we didn't get any last year. Once I 'jump' the borders I will stay some months in Peru we could disply them and so on. People see more people around the world in the same "ubuntu' they seems to take it more into hearts. My Greetings to Belize from Canada http://www.malko.com/images/rotatorio/DSCF5899b.JPG and the team in Peru http://www.malko.com/images/rotatorio/MALKO616.jpg Malko > chasqui(a)somoslibres.org wrote: >> In remote areas, from experience that I have, I see >> that T-shirts are not as affective for the adults >> as it would be for the children. Perhaps because of the regional poverty >> children would use more the T-shirts than the adults and they seems to >> me >> an effective advertising. If we could have >> child's design (size) with some heart that would say "I love ubuntu" >> ...I >> think would be cool. >> Parents look at "what children have on the T-shirt" too. > > Malko, have you thought about having t-shirts made locally? We are doing > that in Belize, and they won't be EXACTLY like the ones SFD is sending > out, but they WILL be lime green with the SFD07 logo on them. You could > make some for kids with what you wanted on them, like "I love Ubuntu!" > Having ours made locally will save on shipping, etc and we can have them > "printed" as we need them. And they are going to cost us $6.50 US each. > We think that's OK. People are willing to buy their own. Just an idea. > > Judy in Belize >

June 13, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD Geek Exchange Program?

by Judy Wilson

chasqui(a)somoslibres.org wrote: > In remote areas, from experience that I have, I see > that T-shirts are not as affective for the adults > as it would be for the children. Perhaps because of the regional poverty > children would use more the T-shirts than the adults and they seems to me > an effective advertising. If we could have > child's design (size) with some heart that would say "I love ubuntu" ...I > think would be cool. > Parents look at "what children have on the T-shirt" too. Malko, have you thought about having t-shirts made locally? We are doing that in Belize, and they won't be EXACTLY like the ones SFD is sending out, but they WILL be lime green with the SFD07 logo on them. You could make some for kids with what you wanted on them, like "I love Ubuntu!" Having ours made locally will save on shipping, etc and we can have them "printed" as we need them. And they are going to cost us $6.50 US each. We think that's OK. People are willing to buy their own. Just an idea. Judy in Belize

June 13, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD Geek Exchange Program?

by chasqui＠somoslibres.org

greetings, this is my first post on this list. last year, for the event, I went from Canada to Tacna (Peru) and it was good. this year I am on my way to Peru too yet we are not sure which city will we do. It is under discussion in our groups if we should do a big city as Lima this time, ...something smaller perhaps, or even are under consideration remote areas as small municipalities in amazons that during the last weeks we see increased interest in ubuntu from them. ...we welcome anybody to Peru :) In remote areas, from experience that I have, I see that T-shirts are not as affective for the adults as it would be for the children. Perhaps because of the regional poverty children would use more the T-shirts than the adults and they seems to me an effective advertising. If we could have child's design (size) with some heart that would say "I love ubuntu" ...I think would be cool. Parents look at "what children have on the T-shirt" too. Cheers Malko > On 6/13/07, Matthew Davidson <mjd(a)almatech.net.au> wrote: > >> 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. > > Kim and I are heading to Mt Gambier in SE SA so its a thought we've > been having over here too. There might be some folks in other regional > areas that might like to see Coffs in the Spring. You're welcome in SE > SA if you'd like a change of scenery yourself. > > Cheers > > Janet > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >

June 13, 2007