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

SFD Balloons

by Russell John

I received the SFD balloons and stickers today, and my 5 year old cousin posed for me with a balloon in her hand: http://flickr.com/photos/russelljohn/1336826850/ Feel free to use it on the SFD website or anywhere you want to... it's CC licensed. Thanks, Russell SFD Bangladesh Team

Sept. 6, 2007

Help on the Navigation page in the Team/Africa page

by KING Farrel

Hello, I kindly asking for help on how to create a link for /sierraleone in the Navigation page. camara <bacamara(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hello Yesterday I got the cd-roms of Ubuntu and OpenCD, thank you very mush. I also inform you that the activities of this day unfolding from the 10 to 15 September. Cordially _______________________________________________ SFD-discuss mailing list SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss --------------------------------- For ideas on reducing your carbon footprint visit Yahoo! For Good this month.

Sept. 6, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] Hanoi SFD2007 in media

by Pia Waugh

Hi David, <quote who="David Tremblay"> > Not that we want to compete in anyway but maybe some emulation is be good. > > http://thoibaoviet.com/live/FrontPage06/Khoa-hoc-cong-nghe/News-page?conten… > > Oh yea, and we just got started Nice work, I've added the link to our press page: http://softwarefreedomday.org/press Please make sure you all add any media coverage links to the press page :) Cheers, Pia -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

Sept. 5, 2007

The Open CD image - update

by Pia Waugh

Hi all, Thanks all for bringing the issue of the faulty Thunderbird application on the SFD The Open CD image to our attention, there is a fixed iso available at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=51874. Of course if you've already downloaded the previous version the only change is the inclusion of a working copy of thunderbird so if you don't want to download the whole thing again then replacing /programs/thunderbird/setup.exe with http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge… will work just as well. If you are going to amend the ISO yourself please ensure that you have up to date and trustworthy antivirus software installed. The Thunderbird application is the only one with an error, and our apologies for this oversight. It was overlooked in the madness to get it to you all in time for printing. Please let people you hand the CDs to know about the issue, and feel free to download the updated ISO which has this issue fixed. Happy SFD planning! Only 10 days to go! And remember to check out this years competitions at http://softwarefreedomday.org/Competition2007. There are two OLPCs for the two winners :) Cheers, Pia -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

Sept. 5, 2007

Hanoi SFD2007 in media

by David Tremblay

Not that we want to compete in anyway but maybe some emulation is be good. http://thoibaoviet.com/live/FrontPage06/Khoa-hoc-cong-nghe/News-page?conten… Oh yea, and we just got started -- David Tremblay <david(a)ngowiki.net> IT analyst

Sept. 5, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] The Open CD SFD 2007 edition (TBird)

by Judy Wilson

alan c wrote: > I have just noticed that the > TheOpenCD_SFD2007_Edition > seems to contain an install for Thunderbird which reports as 'corrupt' > file. I already have a significant number of copies so I will simply > be mentioning to those accepting a CD, unless anyone has other > suggestions please? The OpenCD that we downloaded from SourceForge has the same corrupted file. We were making copies of that. Thanks for the heads up. One possibility, have Thunderbird available to put on a flash drive if they have one. Maybe it will be corrected? We're checking. And yes, of course mention it. Also available for download from Mozilla. Judy in Belize

Sept. 5, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] The Open CD SFD 2007 edition (TBird)

by David Thomas

alan c wrote: > I have just noticed that the > TheOpenCD_SFD2007_Edition > seems to contain an install for Thunderbird which reports as 'corrupt' > file. I already have a significant number of copies so I will simply > be mentioning to those accepting a CD, unless anyone has other > suggestions please? > Oh man, I just made 120 copies

Sept. 4, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD-discuss Digest, Vol 9, Issue 20

by Pia Waugh

Hi all, <quote who="Steve Olive"> > IMHO, whilst everyone holding the event on the same day would be nice, > the world doesn't fit into nice boxes so the actual Software Freedom Day > 2007 event is more important than the date. Absolutely. As close as people can get to running the event on the same day is great, however if it is culturally, religiously, or just plain more convenient and relevant locally to run SFD on another day, please do so. Just make sure you have the day clearly on your SFD team page so people that find your team through the website can come to your event on the right day :) Cheers, Pia -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

Sept. 4, 2007

The Open CD SFD 2007 edition (TBird)

by alan c

I have just noticed that the TheOpenCD_SFD2007_Edition seems to contain an install for Thunderbird which reports as 'corrupt' file. I already have a significant number of copies so I will simply be mentioning to those accepting a CD, unless anyone has other suggestions please? -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391

Sept. 4, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD-discuss Digest, Vol 9, Issue 20

by Steve Olive

On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 11:59 +0200, Gadhula Rumbidzayi wrote: > Hello all you guys > > We are trying to move forward our SFD celebrations to 29 September instead > of the official date of 15 September. Do you think there could be a problem > with that? > > Most of our members (LCZ) won't be able to make the 15 September date and we > have agreed that the 29th will be more convenient. > This isn't official, but we had to change the event date in Bathurst, Australia to 22/9/2007 due to access restrictions and I have seen other events listed on the mailing list and web site starting about 10/9/2007 and others changing the date due to local conditions or events. IMHO, whilst everyone holding the event on the same day would be nice, the world doesn't fit into nice boxes so the actual Software Freedom Day 2007 event is more important than the date. If I'm wrong please correct me! Steve Software Freedom Day Instigator Bathurst, NSW, Australia

Sept. 4, 2007