January 2008 - SFD-discuss - lists.mailman3.com

Short delay in announcing winners for SFD competition
by Pia Waugh 19 Apr '08

19 Apr '08

Hi all, my apologies, we have a very short delay in announcing the SFD competition winners. It will be done over the weekend, so stay tuned! :) Cheers, Pia Software Freedom International

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Planning for SFD 2008 - Your ideas and input!
by Pia Waugh 16 Feb '08

16 Feb '08

Hi all, The Software Freedom International team is starting planning for SFD 2008 with bigger and grander ideas! Software Freedom Day has almost doubled every year, and considering we had over 330 teams in 2007, this is an enormous goal for us all! Software Freedom Day really has become a regular yearly unifying force for taking software freedom and FOSS to the general population, and everyone one of you are contributing to that success. Thank you! Please make sure throughout the year you share your ideas and stories with the sfd-discuss mailing list so others can know about and learn from your successes. We will be releasing a report soon about the success of 2007 based on the hundreds of reports we received from teams. Thank you everyone! This report will help with media interest in SFD and also hopefully more support. As we are going through initial planning and in particular new ideas and brainstorming for 2008, I thought it would be great to invite responses from you guys, the Software Freedom Day community :) What would you like to see different in 2008? How could we better help you organise awesome events? How can we help you with marketing and such? We are a small team with limited resources and every year we do the best we can with what we have. Every year our support base and sponsorship is growing so some things we may be able to do this year, some things may be able to be planned towards in the coming years. Again, thank you all, and happy planning for SFD 2008! Cheers, Pia President Software Freedom International -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

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Multilingual website
by Eugene Fedin 16 Feb '08

16 Feb '08

>Could everyone who would be interested in helping achieve this please let us know (on this list is fine, and state the language(s) you can help with so people can see what is and isn't covered). I can help with Russian. Best regards, Eugene. _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/

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FREE and OPEN SOURCEBULAWAYO exhibit at the 2008 ZITF
by xolani Ndlovu 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

HIE everyone FREE AND OPEN SOURCE BULAWAYO(FOSB) is preparing for one of its major events for 2008 before SFD2008 that is EXHIBITING AT THE ZIMBABWE INTERNATIONAL TRADE FAIR AN ANNUAL EVENT HELD IN BULAWAYO THE HOME OF FOSB .FOSB WOULD TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY MAKE MASSIVE PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS AND SELL THE FLOSS POLICY TO THE PEOPLE.WE WOULD APPRECIATE ANY HELP/SUPPORT FROM ANYONE IN THE FLOSS SOCIETY THAT(ANY KIND OF HELP/SUPPORT) .

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Presenting the XO laptop
by Leandro Gomez 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Hi all, As one of the winners of this year contest, the SFD Nicaragua Team got a brand new XO laptop [1] (thank you guys!!!). The local Ubuntu community held a Barcamp for the occasion on December 29 where the community had an opportunity to test drive this amazing tool. You can find some photos in [2]. This month, on January 30 we'll be organizing the official presentation of the XO laptop in Nicaragua [3] with the Minister of Education and other top level governmental officers as special guests. I'll keep you updated on this. Cheers, [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/ [2] http://picasaweb.google.com/linuxtour/BarcampUbuntu2007 [3] http://www.linuxtour.org/index.php5?title=Pr%C3%B3ximos_Eventos

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Fwd: Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Course
by Janet Hawtin 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Another course. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Romana Challans <timelady(a)gmail.com> Date: Jan 16, 2008 7:11 PM Subject: Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Course To: LinuxSA <linuxsa(a)linuxsa.org.au> http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2033 ¨In the latest Ubuntu weekly newsletter the Ubuntu folks announced the release of the Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Course. The modular course should take two days to complete all 10 of the lessons offered, but it is possible to cover topics and lessons independently of each other, learning whatever is of interest. Coming in two versions, both downloadable as PDFs, there is a student guide and an instructor guide. The instructor guide comes with instructor notes and answers to the exercise questions together while the student guide has no instructor notes and the answers are provided separately. The ten sections of the course include: introducing Ubuntu; exploring the Ubuntu desktop; using the Internet; using OpenOffice applications; Ubuntu and games; customising the desktop and applications; making the most of images and photos; playing music and videos; ubuntu help and support; and partitioning and booting.¨ -- -o) Romana Challans /\ \ Nothing - well, thats something. _\_V http://timelady.com/blog/ -- LinuxSA WWW: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/ IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net To unsubscribe or change your options: http://www.netcraft.com.au/mailman/listinfo/linuxsa

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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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Was: FLOSS educational programmes
by Pia Waugh 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

Hi all, I was perusing through sfd-discuss and re-found this and I wanted to renew the discussion. <quote who="Steve Olive"> > It is up to us, the Open Source and Free Software Communities, to > encourage the use of qualifications that do not focus on a particular > brand of software. I also believe that these qualifications should not > be prohibitively priced, preventing students, who are often unemployed, > from taking the tests. They are better served spending the money on > computers and other hardware for use at home so they can better their > skills and find employment. > > Is this something the Software Freedom Day should look into? Registering > or certifying skills with software promoted on Software Freedom Day. Steve, what exactly do you have in mind here? We could certainly add something to the registration process or there is also the possibility of aligning with certifications and encouraging teams to do certification workshops and exams as part of their Software Freedom Day celebrations which would both draw attention to certifications and also get more qualified FOSS practitioners into the workforce every year. What do you think? Cheers, Pia -- Linux Australia http://linux.org.au/ "If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done." - Scott Adams

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