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SFD2007 in Bitola/Macedonia
by Aleksandar Balalovski 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

Hello, due to the fact that the SFD in our city is on 21st of September each year (fixed), we merged the two dates, and we celebrated SFD on 22nd of September, the last weekend. It was fun! We appreciate the help that Software freedom international gave to Lugola, (the GLUG that celebrated the event in Bitola/Macedonia) and we are happy to see how many teams got organized for 15th of September to celebrate this year in the world. Our silly proposal :) would be that the next year more balloons are sent to the teams, because they make great effect on the celebration aura in the city where SFD is being celebrated, young people want balloons, babies want balloons, mothers and fathers want balloons for their children, and thus, everyone wants balloon, and people actually READ what is on the balloon :) Whatsoever, the balloons are not crucial for the message of the event, hence we had hundreds of CDs of GNU/Linux distributions, prepared a pamphlet named "Make the Move" as helping guide for migrating towards GNU/Linux and some other gifts we gave to the people in our area. Images from the event can be seen on Flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/lugola/tags/sfd2007 Have a nice time. -- Aleksandar Balalovski (keyID: FD341782) http://blog.gemidjy.info http://wiki.lugola.net - your future! gemidjy(a)lugola.net Coordinator of the Lugola (www.lugola.net)

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Gnome + SFD celebration
by Peter Eisinger 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

Boston MA, USA -- August 15, 2007 -- A one month, world-wide celebration of GNOME's tenth anniversary begins this week, culminating in mid-September with Software Freedom Day [1] Mailing lists: UP! ;) [1] http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/gnome10years.html Cheers, Peter http://PreguntasLinux.Org/ Comunidad de Software Libre Foro GNU/Linux/FOSS/*NIX Support Installfest FLISoL SFD

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Competition entries almost due!
by Pia Waugh 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

Hi all, Just a quick reminder that your competition entries are almost due. We are extending the deadline for entries for one week, so your entries are now due by the 7th October. Details on the competition are below. Good luck everyone! http://softwarefreedomday.org/Competition2007 Cheers, Pia -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

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Celebration SFD'07 in Guinea
by camara 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

Hi all, I inform you that the team SFD-Guinea organized in prelude of Software Freedom Day a series of formations activities, informations activities, of sensitizing and promotion activities under the free software topic. This day was celebrated under the topic "free Software, a solution of reduction of the numerical fracture in Guinea" and was placed under the presidency of its Excellence Mister the Minister for the communication and new information technologies. A - Formations Activities : 1. of September 10-14: Workshop of initiation to the computer science and the operating system GNU/Linux for the pupils, students and graduates, a number of participation 220 divided into three groups and two levels 2.Atelier of initiation in GNU/Linux and OpenOffice.org for the secretary of the public office and deprived, a number of participant: 38. 3. Workshop ADEN (Support with desenclavement numerical) for the managers of the cybercafés, numbers participants 52. This workshop was deferred fault of financial means B- Information and sensitizing activities : 1. Animation of two radio transmissions for information and sensitizing 2. Four publi report in the television C - Activities of promotion 1. the installs partys were organized from the 10 to September 15 2. more than 150 CD-ROOM of Ubuntu and 100 of OpenCD were distributed. One received the request to engrave of more than 180 CD-Room de Ubuntu and OpenCD. In addition, one received the request of more than 100 new membres to our association. Actually, we work on the report and we would like to take part in the price of the best organization of SFD2007 but the expiry is very short. the photos will be soon available on line Thank.

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wesnoth tournament
by Noven Purnell-Webb 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

I look at the photos from all the wonderful SFD events around the globe and I am proud to have been a small part of it. However I was feeling a bit bummed about our low turnout in comparison to other places - we had 14 people. Then my wife pointed out that as Copley has a permament population of 102 people we actually got 13.725% of the population - that seems like a very respectable figure :) One of the biggest reasons I hear from people against switching to Linux is the lack of games, so we had a networked Battle for Wesnoth tournament - which the gamers *loved*. The impact was somewhat diminished when I could give them a windows copy to take home, but meh, it's still FOSS. Anyway my idea is that next year we have an international BfW tournament. Anyone out there feel they could take on the might of the Copley Crew? We can talk details when we start gearing up for next year, just thought I'd float the idea while I'm thinking about it in case I forget and someone else remembers - and to give would-be challengers time to practice :p - Noven -- --- > MageData: extreme technomancy <

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Hi, SFDay Pasto 2007 success
by andress calderon 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

more 300 people, talks, Burn Open CD's, Share Ubuntu CD's and a great Linux Games Tournament you can see... http://www.flickr.com/photos/14154308@N08/sets/72157602135102200/ Happy Software Freedom Day!!! Hasta el proximo año -- ANDRES O. CALDERON R. kKoDDa Group / Estrategia PIC ParqueSoft Pasto "Free Software Lives - Free Software Rules"

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SFD celebration in Nepal
by Subir Pradhanang 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

Hi Pia and all, On 9/20/07, Pia Waugh <pia(a)softwarefreedomday.org> wrote: > b) post here (on sfd-discuss) any quotes or particular points of > interest about your day that may be included in the press release :) We had a grand SFD celebration in Kathmandu, Nepal with the slogan 'Linux for Desktops, let's make iT FOSSible'. It was jointly organized by High Level Commission for IT (HLCIT - www.hlcit.gov.np), the apex government body for IT in Nepal and FOSS Nepal Community (www.fossnepal.org): http://www.tuxolta.com/wiki/index.php?title=Software_Freedom_Day_2007 The talking point of our event was the prototype of Freedom Toaster. We demonstrated the Freedom Toaster with the use of mouse instead of touchscreen (which is planned to be done later with enough funds) due to budget constraint. More than 80 CD's were toasted with the demonstrated Freedom Toaster. Although we've already filled up the report form, we will have more detailed report for the competition with all the photos, descriptions and media coverage in the days to come. Cheers, Subir

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Coffs Harbour team report
by Matthew Davidson 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

For masochists and insomniacs: http://www.clublinux.org.au/sfd/2007/report Matthew. -- Alma Technology - The future is free and open http://www.almatech.net.au ... (02) 6658 1607 -- http://computerclub.cex.com.au http://www.clublinux.org.au -- Soyez réalistes, demandez l'impossible!

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Software Freedom Day 2007 Competition - entries close 30th September
by Pia Waugh 22 Sep '07

22 Sep '07

Hi all, Firstly, thank you to everyone that has filled in our report form! We have about 100 replies already, and if everyone else could pleae fill in the form (even if you have posted your report by email) then that would be great! It'll help us in promoting SFD and also in getting UN recognition for the day. This is just a friendly reminder about the competition for Software Freedom Day 2007. There are two categories of prizes: 1) The best SFD event for 2007 (2 prizes) 2) The best OLPC contribution or plan for contribution (1 prize) The three prizes are, you guessed it, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) computer systems generously donated by Google and OLPC! The due date for your entries is the 30th September, so make sure you get your entries in on time. All details about the competition, how to submit your entry and more are on the competition webpage: http://softwarefreedomday.org/Competition2007 Good luck to everyone with your entries! Cheers, Pia -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

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Flickr and other tags
by Pia Waugh 20 Sep '07

20 Sep '07

Hi all, please tag all photos, blog posts, del.icio.us or other content for this year as sfd2007 That way we can all find each others content! :) Cheers, Pia -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

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