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

SFD08 shirts for sale!

by Pia Waugh

Hi all, please purchase your sfd08 shirts here: http://sfd.openfreeway.org/ Sales only open for another few days so get in soon! All proceeds go to supporting teams around the world with goodies for their events. Cheers, Pia -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

Sept. 7, 2008

Re: [SFD-discuss] Celebrated SFD today to coincide with Teacher's Day

by Przemysław Kulczycki

shirish pisze: > Hi all, > We decided to celebrate SFD today to co-incide with Teacher's Day 2 teams in Poland (Wrocław and Kraków) have decided to postpone their SFD celebrations to 4th and 11th of october, because in september most university students are either on vacation, or having their 2nd chance exams. -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki <<>> Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael[na]jabster.pl | tlen: azrael29a # ### www: http://reksio.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~azrael/ ###

Sept. 7, 2008

high-res sponsors logos

by Przemysław Kulczycki

Hi! We in Poland/Kraków team would like to include global SFD sponsors on our posters and leaflets. Where can we get their logos in high-res or vector format? -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki <<>> Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael[na]jabster.pl | tlen: azrael29a # ### www: http://reksio.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~azrael/ ###

Sept. 6, 2008

Re: [SFD-discuss] Celebrated SFD today to coincide with Teacher's Day

by shirish

Hi Peter, I dunno what you mean we have put up a short plug about ourselves at http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/teams/asia/India/pune/wikiocean The blog post of the event should be up tonight or till tomorrow Good luck all :) -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal This email is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17

Sept. 6, 2008

Re: [SFD-discuss] Celebrated SFD today to coincide with Teacher's Day

by Peter Ruwoldt

Nice relationship between the two events. Where on the map is your team? Peter 2008/9/6 shirish <shirishag75(a)gmail.com> > Hi all, > We decided to celebrate SFD today to co-incide with Teacher's Day > .While one reason was that both the events talk so much about freedom and > sharing, few others which were related to managing things (in short couldn't > help it) It was a small low-profile event with about 50-60 odd people > attending and having a good time. > I would be putting up a detailed blog post on the same with pictures and > everything in couple of days. > > Best of luck with your preparations and hope to know more what other people > are upto :) > > That's it for now from me. > -- > Regards, > Shirish Agarwal > This email is licensed under > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ > > 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > > -- Free and Open education for all Peter Ruwoldt Grant High School Hosking Avenue MOUNT GAMBIER SA 5290 P. 08 87263128 F. 08 87250173 ruwoldtp(a)granths.sa.edu.au http://ruwoldtp.googlepages.com/

Sept. 5, 2008

Celebrated SFD today to coincide with Teacher's Day

by shirish

Hi all, We decided to celebrate SFD today to co-incide with Teacher's Day .While one reason was that both the events talk so much about freedom and sharing, few others which were related to managing things (in short couldn't help it) It was a small low-profile event with about 50-60 odd people attending and having a good time. I would be putting up a detailed blog post on the same with pictures and everything in couple of days. Best of luck with your preparations and hope to know more what other people are upto :) That's it for now from me. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal This email is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17

Sept. 5, 2008

Re: [SFD-discuss] Press release

by David Tremblay

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Pia Waugh <pia(a)softwarefreedomday.org>wrote: > Hi all, > > Software Freedom International will be doing a press release early next > week > about SFD 2008 (as will several of our sponsors). I wanted to give the > community a chance to: > > a) post to the list any amazing preparations, or expectations for the > event. > Any big names participating, or Government announcements? > > b) give everyone a chance to update their event pages before we get some > press. We already are seeing a much greater build up of website interest > this year than last year, and it looks like we may hit 500 teams this year, > with over 400 already registered and many more expected! > > c) do your own press releases. We are almost 2 weeks out, so get out to the > local radio, newspapers, and other media for the final build up of interest > and participation! > > Thanks all and happy planning! > > Cheers, > Pia > > Well here in Quebec, we're quite late in preparing however we will collect signatures and fund in support of the cause of FACIL (http://facil.qc.ca/en) who's actually sueing the Quebec Government for not going in "open public bidding" in software procurement http://blog.ngowiki.net/2008/08/29/quebec-government-sued-for-buying-micros… -- David Tremblay IT analyst mob: 418-208-3631 jabber: ict4ngo skype : ict4ngo Blog : http://blog.ngowiki.net resume : http://blog.ngowiki.net/resume

Sept. 5, 2008

Re: [SFD-discuss] Press release

by rick

Hi Pia, The following are from CP-Union-lead Philippine Team for SFD 2008. (I think we have three separate teams celebrating on different venues). SFD Team Philippines Members: Computer Professionals' Union, Txtpower.Org, Philippine PHP Users Group, Bayan Muna, UnPLUG, Imus Internet Cafe Association, Asia Source Pilipinas http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/asiaandmiddleeast/Philippines/SFD2008 a. On the 17th of Sept - we are scheduled for a dialogue with legislators of the philippine congress. b. on the 20th of Sept - Rep. Teddy Casino of Bayan Muna Party list is joining us on SFD to express support and push for the FOSS Bill passage in the House of Representatives. c. We are expecting more than 1,000 students from Univ of makati alone. d. The morning session of SFD will be streaming on the web. A local TV channel (NBN TV) with web streaming capability committed to put the event online. e. The web streaming will allow at least 2 satellite provincial events to join the main event in Makati City. f. Our bandwidth is sponsored by Globe Telecoms (one of the 3 telco in the country) e. for our build-up, CP-Union is launching tomorrow the Software Freedom Tour in one of the university in the capital. It will be a series of visits to campuses. So far, we already have 3 campuses to visit. g. Below are links to PRs and news coverage already. g.1 http://www.cp-union.com/content/software-freedom-tour-celebration-kicks-tra… g.2 http://www.cp-union.com/content/one-nation-unity-software-freedom-celebrati… g.3 http://technology.inquirer.net/infotech/infotech/view/20080905-158897/Group… this all for now from the Philippine team led by the Computer Professionals Union Rick www.cp-union.com On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 6:21 AM, Pia Waugh <pia(a)softwarefreedomday.org>wrote: > Hi all, > > Software Freedom International will be doing a press release early next > week > about SFD 2008 (as will several of our sponsors). I wanted to give the > community a chance to: > > a) post to the list any amazing preparations, or expectations for the > event. > Any big names participating, or Government announcements? > > b) give everyone a chance to update their event pages before we get some > press. We already are seeing a much greater build up of website interest > this year than last year, and it looks like we may hit 500 teams this year, > with over 400 already registered and many more expected! > > c) do your own press releases. We are almost 2 weeks out, so get out to the > local radio, newspapers, and other media for the final build up of interest > and participation! > > Thanks all and happy planning! > > 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 > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- GPG Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xB57550EF Url: tek4dpipol.blogspot.com advocacy: www.cp-union.org Others: http://rbjrph.multiply.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Nobody knows who will win this fight, because the outcome depends on you and the readers. Will you fight for freedom? Will you reject Windows and MacOS and other non-free software, and switch to GNU/Linux? Or will you be too lazy to resist? R. Stallman

Sept. 5, 2008

Software Freedom Tour Celebration Kicks Off with Training Marathon

by rick

September 5, 2008 *PRESS RELEASE *Reference: *Mr. Rick Bahague **CPU/SFD2008 coordinator 09178840096 rick[at]cp-union[dot]com <rick(a)cp-union.com>* *Software Freedom Tour Celebration Kicks Off with Training Marathon** *Computer Professionals Union holds open source sessions at the University of Makati More than a thousand students of the University of Makati will participate on Saturday, September 6 in a training marathon on free and open source software (FOSS) as part of the Software Freedom Tour of the Computer Professionals Union or CPU. Rick Bahague of the CPU and coordinator of Software Freedom Day 2008 in the Philippines said that this event is only the start of a month long celebration leading up to a coordinated celebration of Software Freedom Day (SFD) on September 20, 2008. Running from 7:30 am in the morning up to 7:30 pm in the evening, more than 1500 students will have introductory lessons on alternatives to proprietary software. Divided into four sessions, the students will have introductions on OpenOffice Productivity Suite, Ubuntu GNU/Linux desktops and content management software (CMS) for websites. The FOSS marathon will be a non-technical forum introducing students to FOSS tools and philosophy. "These software are examples of high quality free open source software that are available to run in your computer for office and home use", said Bahague. He added that free and open source software is the affordable software alternative especially for a third world country like the Philippines. Support for the Open Source bill filed by Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casino in Congress will be solicited through an SMS support sign-up that will be launched during the event. The Software Freedom Tour 2008 includes exhibits and school events in Metro Manila and other provinces. More details can be found at www.cp-union.com. Software Freedom Day is a yearly celebration of Software Freedom and why it is important; our purpose is public education about these important issues. Information about the Software Freedom Day 2008 event in the Philippines can be found at http://www.sfdphil.org. Regional events will be held in Baguio, Angeles City, Bicol, Cebu and in Isabela City. The event is expected to bring in more than 2000 advocates and enthusiasts all over the country in line with this year's call of "One Nation: Unity for Software Freedom". SFD 2008 Team is composed of the Computer Professionals' Union, Philippine PHP Users Group (PHPUGPH), IT Society - University of Makati, TXTPower.org, Bayan Muna, Internet Café Association of Imus, UNDP-IOSN, and UnPLUG. The CPU has been active not only on Free and Open Source Advocacy but also on ICT-related concerns that impact the grassroots. CPU developed and maintained one of the first web based human rights documentation systems in the world and provided consultations and implementation of more than 20 Drupal sites for different NGOs under their Project People's Web.###

Sept. 5, 2008

question for italian team - domanda per i team italiani

by Alexjan Carraturo

Anyone in Italy have recived the SFD pack? If yes when? And what did you find in? Traslation Qualche team italiano ha ricevuto il pacco SFD? Se si quando? E cosa ci avete trovato dentro? -- #################################### Alexjan Carraturo admin of Free Software Users Group Italia http://www.fsugitalia.org ####################################

Sept. 5, 2008