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

Re: [SFD-discuss] Question for last year's teams

by Paul Schulz

Hi Melissa, (See below) On 7/25/07, Janet Hawtin <lucychili(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 7/25/07, Melissa Draper <melissa(a)meldraweb.com> wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I'm currently writing an article to promote this year's sfd. However, > > I'd like to be able to include positive impacts that previous events > > have brought about. > > Nice one Melissa. ok > Paul's team at Mawson lakes brought linux folks and air-stream folks together. > This month there were presentations by linuxsa person at air-stream > and an air-stream person at linuxsa. People are able to see the > connections between the kind of participation you can have in a > community network and the kind of participation in free software. > > Paul might have other suggestions. > Dale and crew at the Southern Vales event might have stories too. The SFD event at Mawson Lakes on 2006 was setup and called "Software Freedom Showcase", and was setup to allow various groups to in the community that were doing FLOSS related stuff to have a group meeting and be available to explain to others who might wander in what they did and how they did it. The Mawson Centre is a centre shared between the University of South Australia, the local primary school and the local council. (As a possible suggestion on how to get an idea on what else might be possible, replace 'Mawson Centre' with the name of your local community centre, library, or primary school.) The Mawson Centre contains the local public library, which was useful for getting foot traffic, but the event wasn't relying on this. 'Bill, the Penguin' and a book display of FLOSS related books, were set up during the week prior to the event. This generated quite a bit of interest, particularly Bill, who is a 1.2m inflatable Emperor Penguin, but we weren't relying on this. Rather, the invited groups were able to mingle with each other and find out what they were each doing and generally socialise and 'grok' with fellow FLOSSers. Main groups involved: - Bettong.Org - Free and Open Source Community Projects and Training - Air-Stream - Community Wireless Network also.. - Demonstration of Music and Audio software for Linux - Demonstrations of Linux games - A home build segway As well as this we also included the following groups which provided entertainment over lunch: - Chicago Show Band - Local community band - Swing Dancers - A group that also meets in the Mawson Centre. Outcomes.. where do I start. Air-Stream made some very useful connections with the University of South Australia, to the point that Air-Stream now has the full support of the Mawson Centre board and it's accessability in the venue. This goodwill may be extended to the other campuses in the University. Bettong.Org was able to demonstrate their Ubuntu desktop and training capabilities, which led into a very successfully BarCamp event in March 2007. Due to the SFD event, an invite was also received to an 'I.T. Discovery Day', run by the Mawson Centre early in 2007, to commemorate the launch of 'Delfins Community Website'. Participants of SFD were invited back on the day which was run like a mini-SFD event. There exists an open invitation to be involved in any future such events. Members of Bettong.Org and Air-Stream have continued to work together on a range of other projects including: Mesh Networking (olsrd), Network portal infrustructure, improving the community wireless network. In addition, presentations have been given to LinuxSA by people as a direct result of their participation in SFD. Also, two new Linux User Groups, possible three, have started in Adelaide during the last year. These groups have been supported through contacts made as part of SFD, and one of these has also registered as a SFD team this year as well. (Is this the sort of thing that your after?) Cheers, Paul

July 26, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] Question for last year's teams

by Rik Tindall

Hello Melissa, Melissa Draper wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm currently writing an article to promote this year's sfd. However, > I'd like to be able to include positive impacts that previous events > have brought about. > > So, does anyone have any examples of these positive impacts? > > Please include your name and the name of the team. Thanks. Since we found a more permanent home for our SFD events, in a suburban library ICT teaching centre, we have been able to maintain the positive relationship through monthly Ubuntu / Free Software liveCD-based evening classes. Many new users have seen this series advertised, and come along for CDs, tuition, and installation help. Thus we also gained a regular schedule and base for training our SFD volunteers. From SFD, the profile of FOSS in the community has therefore been doubly lifted. This experience has also identified the need for a creche-like facility on SFD, for the many small children that attend a library with parents or grandparents on any weekend. We will prepare a section of our teaching suite accordingly, as a Penguin Creche, with several games and puzzle packages ready to meet this level of demand implicit in any public outreach event. Hope this helps, and kind regards, Rik Tindall pp SFD Team Christchurch, NZ

July 26, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] Spanish speakers mail list

by Peter Eisinger

Pia, Robert, do excuses for my English, understand me? Because they consult me that it lists do we use? This justified one the existence of the Hispanic list and their permanency year after year. If you agree we will diffuse it so that the SFD grows. Not alone in latam, also in Europe and USA there are many Spanish-speaking. Observations: The list http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/planning-is it remains hidden, and there is not connection at the 2007. In http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/europe The Spanish team is not: http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/Catalonia Waiting prompt answer, I say goodbye affectionately, Peter Eisinger

July 26, 2007

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by Luis Gustavo Lira

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July 25, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] Spanish speakers mail list

by Peter Eisinger

Pia, thank you for your kind response. Robert, I completly agree, this is the most logical and natural way to do it. I will be pleased to administering it. I believe that it is very important to have the list. There are many countries of Hispanic speech and although each country already have a channel of national communication, this list will be good to share ideas and experiences with the growth of the event as our goal. Because as of today, it is frankly incipient the participation of the community Hispanic speaker. If we work hard this year, the next one will be better. Since 2005 the FLISoL is carried out in Latin america (Latin American Festival of Free Sofware), participating hundreds of cities in more than twenty countries. It would be interesting to have two annual events (one in April and another in September) of massive diffusion and international integration. PreguntasLinux.Org has provided successfully support post installfest to the FLISoL, and we are willing to collaborate in the same way with the SFD. Regards Peter Eisinger http://preguntaslinux.org/ Community of Free Software. Forum GNU/Linux/*NIX. Support Installfest. El Sáb 21 Jul 2007 13:00, sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org escribió: > Message: 7 > Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 09:04:51 +0400 > From: "Robert Schumann" <robert(a)softwarefreedomday.org> > Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] Spanish speakers mail list > To: "Open discussions about SFD" <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org> > Message-ID: > <d58237a20707202204r4b911393v1b94327ecf5fc7d3(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > In fact, there is already a Spanish-speakers mailing list operating on the > SFD server: > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/planning-es > > It was established during last year's SFD campaign, but had very low > traffic. When we reorganised mailing lists earlier this year to create > SFD-announce and SFD-discuss, this list was hidden but not deleted (the > previous lists were called team-contacts, planning-en and planning-es). > > One of our projects for the SFD "off season" - after 15 September this year > - was to improve our multilingual capability by examining how which > languages are most in demand among our participants. > > Feel free to continue using the planning-es list, and if you are interested > I would be happy to make you a list administrator. > > Robert. > > On 7/21/07, Pia Waugh <greebo(a)pipka.org> wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > > > <quote who="Peter Eisinger"> > > > > > Whith the intention that the Software Feedom day expands in the > > > > community of > > > > > Spanish speakers the mail list was created. [1] > > > > Fantastic! Please try to remember to cross post anything from either list > > which would be broadly helpful :):) > > > > > It was already talked with some of you, we think that a more fluent > > > comunication will be reached on this way. > > > > We strongly encourage it. Would you like a mailing list set up on the SFD > > website instead so that all the archives are together? Just an option for > > your decision :):) > > > > Cheers, > > Pia > > > > -- > > Linux Australia > > http://linux.org.au/ > > > > > > "What are we doing today brain?" > > "We're taking over the world like we always do." > > - Pinky and the Brain > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > SFD-discuss mailing list > > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss

July 25, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] Question for last year's teams

by Janet Hawtin

On 7/25/07, Melissa Draper <melissa(a)meldraweb.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm currently writing an article to promote this year's sfd. However, > I'd like to be able to include positive impacts that previous events > have brought about. Nice one Melissa. ok Paul's team at Mawson lakes brought linux folks and air-stream folks together. This month there were presentations by linuxsa person at air-stream and an air-stream person at linuxsa. People are able to see the connections between the kind of participation you can have in a community network and the kind of participation in free software. Paul might have other suggestions. Dale and crew at the Southern Vales event might have stories too. Janet

July 25, 2007

Question for last year's teams

by Melissa Draper

Greetings, I'm currently writing an article to promote this year's sfd. However, I'd like to be able to include positive impacts that previous events have brought about. So, does anyone have any examples of these positive impacts? Please include your name and the name of the team. Thanks. -- Sincerely Melissa Draper http://www.meldraweb.com Phone: 0404 595 395 (intl): +61 404 595 395 P.O Box 1412 Lavington, NSW 2641

July 25, 2007

Spanish speakers mail list

by Peter Eisinger

http://mail.sf-day.org/pipermail/planning-es/2007-July/date.html

July 24, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] Spanish speakers mail list

by David Tremblay

Easy... you change your independance day. Just kidding, You can do it few days before or after. maybe not, I think that independance goes with freedom isn't ? Le lundi 23 juillet 2007 à 17:00 -0400, Oscar Valenzuela a écrit : > We have a problem on our country, the sept 18 is our independence day, > and all the people is on vacations or party for that date, way never > ask about the date before?, how could i apport on this issue? > > El lun, 23-07-2007 a las 17:27 -0300, Peter Eisinger escribió: > > > > > > In fact, there is already a Spanish-speakers mailing list operating on the > > > SFD server: > > > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/planning-es > > > > > > It was established during last year's SFD campaign, but had very low > > > traffic. When we reorganised mailing lists earlier this year to create > > > SFD-announce and SFD-discuss, this list was hidden but not deleted (the > > > previous lists were called team-contacts, planning-en and planning-es). > > > > > > One of our projects for the SFD "off season" - after 15 September this year > > > - was to improve our multilingual capability by examining how which > > > languages are most in demand among our participants. > > > > > > Feel free to continue using the planning-es list, and if you are interested > > > I would be happy to make you a list administrator. > > > > > > Robert. > > > > > > On 7/21/07, Pia Waugh <greebo(a)pipka.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi Peter, > > > > > > > > <quote who="Peter Eisinger"> > > > > > > > > > Whith the intention that the Software Feedom day expands in the > > > > community of > > > > > Spanish speakers the mail list was created. [1] > > > > > > > > Fantastic! Please try to remember to cross post anything from either list > > > > which would be broadly helpful :) > > > > > > > > > It was already talked with some of you, we think that a more fluent > > > > > comunication will be reached on this way. > > > > > > > > We strongly encourage it. Would you like a mailing list set up on the SFD > > > > website instead so that all the archives are together? Just an option for > > > > your decision :) > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Pia > > > > > > > > > > Pia, thank you for your kind response. > > > > Robert, I completly agree, this is the most logical and natural way to do it. I > > will be pleased to administering it. > > > > > > I believe that it is very important to have the list. There are many countries > > of Hispanic speech and although each country already have a channel of > > national communication, this list will be good to share ideas and experiences > > with the growth of the event as our goal. > > > > Because as of today, it is frankly incipient the participation of the community > > Hispanic speaker. If we work hard this year, the next one will be better. > > > > Since 2005 the FLISoL is carried out in Latin america (Latin American Festival > > of Free Sofware), participating hundreds of cities in more than twenty > > countries. > > > > It would be interesting to have two annual events (one in April and another in > > September) of massive diffusion and international integration. > > > > PreguntasLinux.Org has provided successfully support post installfest to the > > FLISoL, and we are willing to collaborate in the same way with the SFD. > > > > Regards Peter Eisingerhttp://preguntaslinux.org/ Community of Free Software. > > Forum GNU/Linux/*NIX. Support Installfest.-----Pia, muchas gracias por tu amable > > respuesta. Robert, absolutamente de acuerdo, es lo más lógico y natural. > > Bien, no tengo problema en administrarla, gracias. Creo que es muy importante > > disponer de la lista. Son muchos los paises de habla hispana y si bien en cada > > pais ya disponen de un canal de comunicación nacional, esta lista servirá para > > compartir ideas y experiencias con miras a que el evento crezca. Porque a la > > fecha es francamente incipiente la participación de la comunidad hispano > > parlante. Si trabajamos duro este año, el próximo será mejor. En america > > latina, desde el año 2005 se realiza el FLISoL (Festival Latinoamericano de > > Sofware Libre), participando una centena de ciudades en una veintena de paises. > > Sería interesante tener dos eventos anuales (uno en abril y otro en septiembre) > > de difusión masiva e integración internacional. PreguntasLinux.Org ha > > provisto exitosamente de soporte post installfest al FLISoL, y estamos > > dispuestos a colaborar de la misma manera con el SFD. Saludos, Peter > > Eisinger http://preguntaslinux.org/ Comunidad de Software Libre. Foro > > GNU/Linux/*NIX. Support Installfest. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > SFD-discuss mailing list > > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > > > Saludos Cordiales. > > > Oscar Valenzuela B. > Presidente Ejecutivo > Corporación de Desarrollo Tecnológico Libre > Comunidad Chilena GNU (www.gnuchile.cl) > > -------------------------------------------------- > No envie archivos adjuntos en formato Microsoft Word, un formato > privativo > y secreto, por lo que nosotros no podemos leerlo. Envie el texto puro, > HTML o PDF, entonces todos podrémos leerlo. > > Enviar a la gente documentos en formato Word tiene efectos > perniciosos, > porque esta práctica los insta a utilizar software de Microsoft. En > efecto, Usted se convierte en un sostén del monopolio de Microsoft. > Este > problema específico es un gran obstáculo a la adopción más amplia de > GNU/Linux. ¿Podría, por favor, reconsiderar el uso del formato Word en > la > comunicación con otras personas? > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss

July 24, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] Spanish speakers mail list

by Oscar Valenzuela

We have a problem on our country, the sept 18 is our independence day, and all the people is on vacations or party for that date, way never ask about the date before?, how could i apport on this issue? El lun, 23-07-2007 a las 17:27 -0300, Peter Eisinger escribió: > > > > In fact, there is already a Spanish-speakers mailing list operating on the > > SFD server: > > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/planning-es > > > > It was established during last year's SFD campaign, but had very low > > traffic. When we reorganised mailing lists earlier this year to create > > SFD-announce and SFD-discuss, this list was hidden but not deleted (the > > previous lists were called team-contacts, planning-en and planning-es). > > > > One of our projects for the SFD "off season" - after 15 September this year > > - was to improve our multilingual capability by examining how which > > languages are most in demand among our participants. > > > > Feel free to continue using the planning-es list, and if you are interested > > I would be happy to make you a list administrator. > > > > Robert. > > > > On 7/21/07, Pia Waugh <greebo(a)pipka.org> wrote: > > > > > > Hi Peter, > > > > > > <quote who="Peter Eisinger"> > > > > > > > Whith the intention that the Software Feedom day expands in the > > > community of > > > > Spanish speakers the mail list was created. [1] > > > > > > Fantastic! Please try to remember to cross post anything from either list > > > which would be broadly helpful :) > > > > > > > It was already talked with some of you, we think that a more fluent > > > > comunication will be reached on this way. > > > > > > We strongly encourage it. Would you like a mailing list set up on the SFD > > > website instead so that all the archives are together? Just an option for > > > your decision :) > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Pia > > > > > > Pia, thank you for your kind response. > > Robert, I completly agree, this is the most logical and natural way to do it. I > will be pleased to administering it. > > > I believe that it is very important to have the list. There are many countries > of Hispanic speech and although each country already have a channel of > national communication, this list will be good to share ideas and experiences > with the growth of the event as our goal. > > Because as of today, it is frankly incipient the participation of the community > Hispanic speaker. If we work hard this year, the next one will be better. > > Since 2005 the FLISoL is carried out in Latin america (Latin American Festival > of Free Sofware), participating hundreds of cities in more than twenty > countries. > > It would be interesting to have two annual events (one in April and another in > September) of massive diffusion and international integration. > > PreguntasLinux.Org has provided successfully support post installfest to the > FLISoL, and we are willing to collaborate in the same way with the SFD. > > Regards Peter Eisingerhttp://preguntaslinux.org/ Community of Free Software. > Forum GNU/Linux/*NIX. Support Installfest.-----Pia, muchas gracias por tu amable > respuesta. Robert, absolutamente de acuerdo, es lo más lógico y natural. > Bien, no tengo problema en administrarla, gracias. Creo que es muy importante > disponer de la lista. Son muchos los paises de habla hispana y si bien en cada > pais ya disponen de un canal de comunicación nacional, esta lista servirá para > compartir ideas y experiencias con miras a que el evento crezca. Porque a la > fecha es francamente incipiente la participación de la comunidad hispano > parlante. Si trabajamos duro este año, el próximo será mejor. En america > latina, desde el año 2005 se realiza el FLISoL (Festival Latinoamericano de > Sofware Libre), participando una centena de ciudades en una veintena de paises. > Sería interesante tener dos eventos anuales (uno en abril y otro en septiembre) > de difusión masiva e integración internacional. PreguntasLinux.Org ha > provisto exitosamente de soporte post installfest al FLISoL, y estamos > dispuestos a colaborar de la misma manera con el SFD. Saludos, Peter > Eisinger http://preguntaslinux.org/ Comunidad de Software Libre. Foro > GNU/Linux/*NIX. Support Installfest. > > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > Saludos Cordiales. Oscar Valenzuela B. Presidente Ejecutivo Corporación de Desarrollo Tecnológico Libre Comunidad Chilena GNU (www.gnuchile.cl) -------------------------------------------------- No envie archivos adjuntos en formato Microsoft Word, un formato privativo y secreto, por lo que nosotros no podemos leerlo. Envie el texto puro, HTML o PDF, entonces todos podrémos leerlo. Enviar a la gente documentos en formato Word tiene efectos perniciosos, porque esta práctica los insta a utilizar software de Microsoft. En efecto, Usted se convierte en un sostén del monopolio de Microsoft. Este problema específico es un gran obstáculo a la adopción más amplia de GNU/Linux. ¿Podría, por favor, reconsiderar el uso del formato Word en la comunicación con otras personas?

July 23, 2007