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FOSS and open source software has broken into the imaging industry
by xolani Ndlovu Aug. 28, 2007

Aug. 28, 2007

hie all i was reading my monthly Biophotonics newsletter i was impressed to read that open source software has broken into the imaging industry . congratulations free people... -- member of OpenSourceBulawayo free software as in freedom -- member of OpenSourceBulawayo free software as in freedom

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Software Freedom Day 2007 Competition!
by Pia Waugh Aug. 25, 2007

Aug. 25, 2007

Hi all, We are very pleased to announce that there is another competition for SFD this year. The two prize categories are: 1) The best SFD event for 2007 2) The best OLPC contribution or plan for contribution The two prizes are, you guessed it, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) computer systems generously donated by Google! The due date for your entries is the 30th September, so make sure you get started on planning your entries. In particular make sure your SFD events are fantastic and that you take plenty of photos and such :) Details of the competition are below including rules and such. http://softwarefreedomday.org/Competition2007 Good luck everyone with your planning. It looks like it'll be a fantastic and truly global event this year! :) Cheers, Pia -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

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Apologies and update for teams
by Pia Waugh Aug. 25, 2007

Aug. 25, 2007

Hi all, Firstly thank you to you all for your patience and understanding while we had some technical issues. For those that didn't know, the Software Freedom Day website was down for almost 4 days, and it has taken till now for various reasons to get the mailing lists back up. Details below on what happened: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2007-August/001506.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2007-August/001510.html I am glad to say that though the initial work of Canonical sysadmins, and then through the tireless work of several of the Software Freedom International board members, we now have the website, mailing lists and registration back up and running! All other Software Freedom Day preparations were unaffected by the server issues. All teams that registered prior to the 30th July have already had much of their free team schwag posted, and will be receiving 3 seperate packages: 1) SFD tshirts (already shipped to most teams) 2) SFD stickers and balloons (being shipped in the next 2 days) 3) Ubuntu and The Open CD packs (already shipped) Please note that due to some issues in production, we are only able to ship 5 of The Open CDs to each team this year (not including additional CDs purchased), however we will ensure more are available next year. Please feel free to replicate the CDs being sent and to distribute any other FOSS that is locally relevant and beneficial to your events. We are pleased to say there are already 283 registered teams celebrating Software Freedom Day this year, and we expect plenty more to register in the coming weeks to be included as official events. Hopefully we'll hit at the very least the 300 mark, so please let any teams you know that haven't registered to get their socks on! Please ensure your event pages are up to date because over the coming weeks people will be looking for your events and wanting to see at the very least what you'll be doing, when and where so they can visit your events! Good luck with your SFD planning, and thank you all for helping take software freedom to the world! Through all our efforts we can really help ensure a more open, sustainable and trustworthy digital future! Cheers, Pia -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

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SFD in Tunisia on 9th
by Derguech Wassim Aug. 25, 2007

Aug. 25, 2007

Hi all, Due to the month of Ramadan which is a religious month, we planned to celebrate SFD'07 on 9th of september in stead of 15th! You can see our local website on www.sfdtunisia.org Regards, wassim -- Derguech Wassim -DERWAS- ENSI www.dfsa.org.tn dfsa.freehostia.com www.sfdtunisia.org MSN: dfsa_derwas(a)hotmail.com Yahoo: dfsa_derwas(a)yahoo.fr GSM: (+33) 06 15 87 67 24

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Re: [SFD-discuss] Registrations for SFD goodies closed
by Peter Eisinger Aug. 6, 2007

Aug. 6, 2007

> Hi Peter, > > <quote who="Peter Eisinger"> > > > Congratulations! > > Thank you! > > > Where we should register? > > Reception address. > > Quantity of CD. > > > > Do doubts exist, could it confirm? > > You can still register to be an official SFD participant, however the > deadline for free SFD goodies has already passed, so I'm afraid we can't > assist you with this for this years event. Hi Pia, I have it very clear. I was even diffusing it in many LUGs. Many will register soon, without afflicting them to be left without gifts. Others wanted to know as requesting extra t-shirts. The confusion happened with a team leader that registered to the edge of the date (day 30): he no longer found the form for gifts (address, CDs). The leader in question already communicates with you. Closed topic. Thank you. Regards Peter

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What disk to burn
by David Thomas Aug. 5, 2007

Aug. 5, 2007

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Software Freedom Day logo
by Pia Waugh Aug. 5, 2007

Aug. 5, 2007

Hey all, just letting you know there is a high res version of the SFD logo available on the logos page. Also there are a bunch of other logo work there, including a download for the SFD font if anyone wants it: http://softwarefreedomday.org/Artwork/2007/Logo Cheers, Pia -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

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SFD OOo Impress Template
by Cat Scratch Aug. 4, 2007

Aug. 4, 2007

Hi everyone... I made an impress template for OOo and uploaded to artwork page under templates. http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/Artwork And can we try to add more languages to this? http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/MultiLingualSFD -- http://linux.conf.au/ linux.conf.au Donna Benjamin MEL8OURNE2008 Conference Director 28Jan - 02Feb donna(a)mel8ourne.org

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Re: [SFD-discuss] Registrations for SFD goodies closed
by Peter Eisinger Aug. 4, 2007

Aug. 4, 2007

> We have had an unprecendented response from new SFD teams all around the > world this year. Almost double the amount of teams have registered Congratulations! Where we should register? Reception address. Quantity of CD. Do doubts exist, could it confirm?

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SFD supported by Linux Magazine!
by Pia Waugh Aug. 4, 2007

Aug. 4, 2007

Hi all, Linux Magazine are coming on as event media partners. Yay! They've already added the event to their events page and we'll have an A4 size ad in this months Linux Magazine. http://www.linux-magazine.com/Readers/Events Cheers, Pia -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

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