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Re: [SFD-discuss] Competition entries almost due!

by Pia Waugh

Hi Leo, <quote who="Leo Gomez"> > Great news!! > BTW, the wiki still says 30 September. Thanks for the heads up, fixed! :) Cheers, Pia -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

Sept. 30, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] Competition entries almost due!

by Leo Gomez

Hi Pia, Great news!! BTW, the wiki still says 30 September. Cheers, 2007/9/29, Pia Waugh <pia(a)softwarefreedomday.org>: > > 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/ > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >

Sept. 29, 2007

Competition entries almost due!

by Pia Waugh

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/

Sept. 29, 2007

Celebration SFD'07 in Guinea

by camara

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.

Sept. 26, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] wesnoth tournament

by Judy Okite

Phew! And thnx. Kind Regards, On 9/25/07, Noven Purnell-Webb <noven(a)magedata.net> wrote: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:49:59 Judy Okite wrote: > > Hi Novene, when U talk about giving a windows copy,do U give them with > > the licence? Why do that on a SFD event? Kind Regards, > > > > I meant a windows copy of Battle for Wesnoth. It is on the Open CD. A part of > me definitely *wanted* to hold back and insist they run Linux to play the > game, but that would have been against the spirit of the day and would have > backfired. I'd rather people use FOSS under windoze than not use it at all. > > BTW Paul, thanks for the tip on Thousand Parsec. I am going to be playing *so* > many games this weekend..... > > - Noven > >> On 9/24/07, Paul Schulz <pschulz01(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi all.. (another option) > > > > > >On 9/25/07, Bruce Kingsbury <zcat(a)wired.net.nz> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 20:07 +0930, Noven Purnell-Webb wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > When people talk about 'games' on Linux, I find they usually mean > > > > FPS-games. Like temulous, nexuiz, enemy territory. > > > > > > > > There are also a few racing games. VDrift looks like it would be pretty > > > > good with a racing wheel. I haven't managed to play at all well with > > > > just the keyboard. > > > > > > > > I also recommend Wesnoth. And lincity-ng is pretty good. The kids > > > > really love Supertux, Pingus, planetpenguin racer, Frets On Fire. And > > > > when I get a dance mat I'm fairly sure they'll go mad about Stepmania. > > > > > >Thousand Parsec - http://www.thousandparsec.net > > > Turn based space conquest game. > > > > > > > ______________________________ _________________ > > > > 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 > > > > > ______________________________ _________________ > > > SFD-discuss mailing list > > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists /listinfo/sfd-discuss > >-- > --- > > MageData: extreme technomancy < > >______________________________ _________________ > >SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists /listinfo/sfd-discuss > >

Sept. 25, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] wesnoth tournament

by Noven Purnell-Webb

> > You had more people participating in your event than you think Noven. > Your webcast was heard by the Mt Gambier crew and was very groovy. > Janet You guys listened in? Rock on!! On that note the streaming host we were trialling that day has thrown a few hurdles in our way... nothing insurmountable but I'm on the lookout for other potentially good Icecast streaming hosts. Google gives me results but does anyone out there have personal experience with a stream host they could recommend? - Noven -- --- > MageData: extreme technomancy <

Sept. 25, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] wesnoth tournament

by Noven Purnell-Webb

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:49:59 Judy Okite wrote: > Hi Novene, when U talk about giving a windows copy,do U give them with > the licence? Why do that on a SFD event? Kind Regards, > I meant a windows copy of Battle for Wesnoth. It is on the Open CD. A part of me definitely *wanted* to hold back and insist they run Linux to play the game, but that would have been against the spirit of the day and would have backfired. I'd rather people use FOSS under windoze than not use it at all. BTW Paul, thanks for the tip on Thousand Parsec. I am going to be playing *so* many games this weekend..... - Noven > On 9/24/07, Paul Schulz <pschulz01(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all.. (another option) > > > >On 9/25/07, Bruce Kingsbury <zcat(a)wired.net.nz> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 20:07 +0930, Noven Purnell-Webb wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > > > When people talk about 'games' on Linux, I find they usually mean > > > FPS-games. Like temulous, nexuiz, enemy territory. > > > > > > There are also a few racing games. VDrift looks like it would be pretty > > > good with a racing wheel. I haven't managed to play at all well with > > > just the keyboard. > > > > > > I also recommend Wesnoth. And lincity-ng is pretty good. The kids > > > really love Supertux, Pingus, planetpenguin racer, Frets On Fire. And > > > when I get a dance mat I'm fairly sure they'll go mad about Stepmania. > > > >Thousand Parsec - http://www.thousandparsec.net > > Turn based space conquest game. > > > > > ______________________________ _________________ > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss -- --- > MageData: extreme technomancy <

Sept. 25, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] wesnoth tournament

by Judy Okite

Hi Novene, when U talk about giving a windows copy,do U give them with the licence? Why do that on a SFD event? Kind Regards, On 9/24/07, Paul Schulz <pschulz01(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all.. (another option) > >On 9/25/07, Bruce Kingsbury <zcat(a)wired.net.nz> wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 20:07 +0930, Noven Purnell-Webb wrote: > > > 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. > > > > When people talk about 'games' on Linux, I find they usually mean > > FPS-games. Like temulous, nexuiz, enemy territory. > > > > There are also a few racing games. VDrift looks like it would be pretty > > good with a racing wheel. I haven't managed to play at all well with > > just the keyboard. > > > > I also recommend Wesnoth. And lincity-ng is pretty good. The kids really > > love Supertux, Pingus, planetpenguin racer, Frets On Fire. And when I > > get a dance mat I'm fairly sure they'll go mad about Stepmania. > >Thousand Parsec - http://www.thousandparsec.net > Turn based space conquest game. > >> > > ______________________________ _________________ > > 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 > >

Sept. 25, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] wesnoth tournament

by Paul Schulz

Hi all.. (another option) On 9/25/07, Bruce Kingsbury <zcat(a)wired.net.nz> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 20:07 +0930, Noven Purnell-Webb wrote: > > 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. > > When people talk about 'games' on Linux, I find they usually mean > FPS-games. Like temulous, nexuiz, enemy territory. > > There are also a few racing games. VDrift looks like it would be pretty > good with a racing wheel. I haven't managed to play at all well with > just the keyboard. > > I also recommend Wesnoth. And lincity-ng is pretty good. The kids really > love Supertux, Pingus, planetpenguin racer, Frets On Fire. And when I > get a dance mat I'm fairly sure they'll go mad about Stepmania. Thousand Parsec - http://www.thousandparsec.net Turn based space conquest game. > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >

Sept. 24, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] wesnoth tournament

by Bruce Kingsbury

On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 20:07 +0930, Noven Purnell-Webb wrote: > 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. When people talk about 'games' on Linux, I find they usually mean FPS-games. Like temulous, nexuiz, enemy territory. There are also a few racing games. VDrift looks like it would be pretty good with a racing wheel. I haven't managed to play at all well with just the keyboard. I also recommend Wesnoth. And lincity-ng is pretty good. The kids really love Supertux, Pingus, planetpenguin racer, Frets On Fire. And when I get a dance mat I'm fairly sure they'll go mad about Stepmania.

Sept. 24, 2007