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

Positive and constructive discussions plus a thank you
by Pia Waugh 20 Sep '07

20 Sep '07

Hi all, Firstly I just want to say that it would be great if everyone could please try to keep the tone on this mailing list very positive and constructive. We all come together in the spirit of software freedom to achieve something pretty damn special, and to that end we need to all recognise in each other an ally in the fight for software freedom, while being respectful of our differences in opinion. Secondly we will be pulling together the statistics of this years event and doing a bit press release about it in the coming days. If teams could please a) fill in the team report if you haven't already done so http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/event_report.html b) post here (on sfd-discuss) any quotes or particular points of interest about your day that may be included in the press release :) c) link any press coverage you had to the press page here http://softwarefreedomday.org/press Thank you all. It was truly the biggest and best event yet and we have you all to thank for putting you time, passion and energy into helping make the world a better place through software freedom. Some stats so far! - Over 330 teams - Over 90 countries - Over 70,000 unique visitors to the website, of which the Software Freedom page was one of the most read! http://softwarefreedomday.org/SoftwareFreedom - Thousands of photos, blog posts and press. Cheers, Pia -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

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Re: [SFD-discuss] [SFD-announce] Software Freedom Day: time to rock!
by Cristóbal Palmer 16 Sep '07

16 Sep '07

On 9/14/07, Robert Schumann <robert(a)softwarefreedomday.org> wrote: > data for your event: > * (approximately) how many members of the public were reached through your > event If we'd known further in advance, the staff of the venue we used would have been willing and able to have the people at the door use a ticker to keep track of attendance. My guess from walking around would be in the hundreds, perhaps over a thousand. Here are some pictures of sfd2007 to enjoy. :) http://www.flickr.com/photos/tarheelcoxn/sets/72157602037237827/ -- Cristóbal M. Palmer celebrating 15 years of sunsite/metalab/ibiblio: http://tinyurl.com/2o8hj4

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United Nations and Software Freedom Day
by Pia Waugh 16 Sep '07

16 Sep '07

Hi all, The Software Freedom International Board will be aiming for United Nations recognition of Software Freedom Day as a day of international importance for 2008. We wanted to let you all know so that you can try extra hard to keep track of the numbers and successes you have over Software Freedom Day, as it will all contribute to our case in helping the world understand the importance of Software Freedom. If anyone would like to help us with this quest, please let us know, or even reply to this post with your thoughts. We feel strongly that Software Freedom underpins our basic human rights in a highly digital world, and so want to help the UN understand and promote software freedom as a way to maintain our human rights: http://softwarefreedomday.org/SoftwareFreedom There are already United Nations projects that are strongly supportive of FOSS such as IOSN (http://www.iosn.net/) UNESCO (http://www.unesco.org/cgi-bin/webworld/portal_freesoftware/cgi/page.cgi?d=1) and more, but SFD is as yet not a "Special Day" on their website (http://www.un.org/events/) nor is Software Freedom spoken about officially, something to work towards :) Thank you all for your participation and in taking Software Freedom to your communities! Cheers, Pia -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

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PDfs or source files for SFD FSF handouts ?
by Fabian Rodriguez 15 Sep '07

15 Sep '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi, The promotion material package contained Tshirts, handouts of the FSF, buleltins, etc. Does anyone have a PDF of the handouts they could send me separately by email ? I don't have them with me right now and would nee to photocopy some tonight. Thanks in advance and sorry for this unconvenient request :( Cheers, Fabian Rodriguez Montreal, QC, Canada http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/teams/northamerica/Quebec -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: PGP/Mime available upon request Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG6tzwfUcTXFrypNURA5rcAKDMENCqV3UaGE97o0dfFa+klwJUIgCg0lky k00A+1d38ACGrqN1tW8+sUw= =hxH3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Software Freedom Song
by Nguyen Dinh Nam 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

To celebrate the Software Freedom Day, I drafted a Software Freedom Song. I am too busy to prepare FPT activities for Software Freedom Day Hanoi 2007 (I'm the director of FPT Open Solutions), so the lyrics is not so smooth yet. Please listen to the midi and comment. It'll be greate if someone can add the vocal, because my vocal is too bad, I don't want to spoil. The "source code": Today is the freedom day World, unite together Promote the spirit of freedom Tomorow, we'll have the free software We'll be free to collarborate The world'll be full of free sofware Chorus: Share the software, Share the source code, Share the knowledge, Share the ideas

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Promotion of SFD on Digg/Slashdot
by Mark Hinkle 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

Hello, I was wondering if there was an organized effort to promote SFD on Digg and Slashdot. It seems that they would be two likely places to promote awareness of the event. I did searches to see if Software Freedom Day had been submitted and that it pointed to SoftwareFreedomDay.org rather than a news site or someone's blog. I found the following two posts: http://digg.com/linux_unix/15_September_is_Software_Freedom_Day http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=286933 Maybe it would be worthwhile to post the links on SFD website. Just a thought. Regards, Mark Hinkle Open Source Groover Zenoss Core - Open Source Systems Management http://www.encoreopus.com

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Free Software OSX CD
by Matthew Davidson 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

Hi, Just had an enquiry from a Mac user about whether we would be platform agnostic at our event on Saturday. It hadn't occurred to me to see if there was an OpenCD equivalent for OSX. I found one here: http://www.freesmug.org/fscd/ May be useful for teams expecting some Mac users (we have an Apple reseller in our town). Matthew. -- Alma Technology - The future is free and open http://www.almatech.net.au ... (02) 6658 1607 ... 0419 242 316 -- http://computerclub.cex.com.au http://www.clublinux.org.au -- Soyez réalistes, demandez l'impossible!

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Earthdance, 15 Sept
by Rik Tindall 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

Here's a nice coincidence for 15Sept07: http://www.earthdance.org The locale tracking is worth a lot, for comparing to SFD's. Hope preparation is going well for y'all. Enjoy! ~ Rik pp SoftwareFreedomDay.org Team Christchurch

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S5 slideshow template
by Matthew Davidson 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

I've just added a SFD-customised version of Eric Meyer's S5 HTML/CSS/JavaScript slideshow system to the Artwork page. http://softwarefreedomday.org/Artwork?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=S5-SF… It's a bit kludgy, but if, like me, you've left it till the last couple of days to prepare any presentations, you may find it useful. Not guaranteed to work in anything but Firefox. In fact not really guaranteed to work there, either, but that's where your chances are best. Matthew. -- Alma Technology - The future is free and open http://www.almatech.net.au ... (02) 6658 1607 ... 0419 242 316 -- http://computerclub.cex.com.au http://www.clublinux.org.au -- Soyez réalistes, demandez l'impossible!

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SVG SFD Promotion Flyers - Malaysia
by Khairil Yusof 11 Sep '07

11 Sep '07

It tries to cover all the freedoms not just software, but also open content and standards. Preview of it here: http://foss.org.my/Members/kaeru/foss-my-flyer.png/view Source files to localise it with your own banners and location. http://foss.org.my/projects/events/sfd/sfd2007/sfd-2007-flyer.zip

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