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

Re: [SFD-discuss] Change event coordinates?

by Pia Waugh

Hi Georg, <quote who="gk(a)fsfe.org"> > When I registered our team, we did not know where exactly our event will take > place, so I set the coordinates in this Google Maps applet to the center of > our city. > > Now that we know the exact location I would like to correct this. How do I do > that, or whom do I have to contact? > > Thanks in advance! In future we'll make this modifiable for teams. It was a bit of an experiment and we're pretty happy with the results (feedback please! :) so we'll work on making it more userfriendly next year. In the meantime, please send any queries about the map to our rego guru, the mighty Robert Schumann who has done a lot of work on the map, the rego system and the up and coming team feedback system. Cheers, Pia -- OLPC Australia http://olpc.org.au/ Linux Australia http://linux.org.au/ Open Source Industry Australia http://osia.net.au/ Software Freedom Day http://softwarefreedomday.org/ "Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye." - Bill Hicks

Sept. 12, 2008

Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD08 shirts for sale!

by Pia Waugh

Hi Matthew, <quote who="Matthew Davidson"> > Pia Waugh wrote: > > please purchase your sfd08 shirts here: > > > > http://sfd.openfreeway.org/ > > I don't see anything about sizes. Is it "one size fits all", and if so > does the definition of "all" accommodate the classic IT worker physique? No, you just need to let us know your size and we'll send that to you. No female sizes this year :( Just add your size to your order comments. Cheers, Pia -- OLPC Australia http://olpc.org.au/ Linux Australia http://linux.org.au/ Open Source Industry Australia http://osia.net.au/ Software Freedom Day http://softwarefreedomday.org/ "Cowards die many times before their deaths." - Shakespeare

Sept. 12, 2008

New resources, planet and other exciting SFD news

by Pia Waugh

Hi all, Just a few tidbits for everyone's general interest: * We now have a load of new resources up on the front page of SFD for teams http://softwarefreedomday.org/ * We've launched the SFD planet and are rapidly having new rss feeds sent to us. Please send us your blog/news feeds that are relevant to software freedom asap! http://planet.softwarefreedomday.org/ * We've hit the 500 teams mark! Granted there are a few replications, but we have hit our target with a week to go! So much freedom! * We are launching a reporting form for teams to fill in by the end of the week, which is also where they will submit their competition entries. We currently have 3 pairs of OLPC XOs as prizes but more prizes may arise :) Competition details here: http://softwarefreedomday.org/Competition2008 The website statistics are booming! Loads of people are coming to check out the site and the team pages. The top 10 countries visiting SFD are: 1 United States 2 Brazil 3 Greece 4 India 5 Australia 6 Colombia 7 Nicaragua 8 Argentina 9 China 10 Philippines And loads of teams are busily updating pages, and putting out their own press releases: http://softwarefreedomday.org/Media So, please get your last minute press releases, blog posts and other shout-outs going! Thanks everyone! Cheers, Pia -- OLPC Australia http://olpc.org.au/ Linux Australia http://linux.org.au/ Open Source Industry Australia http://osia.net.au/ Software Freedom Day http://softwarefreedomday.org/ "The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet." - William Gibson

Sept. 12, 2008

Re: [SFD-discuss] Planet SFD - send us your blogs/newsfeeds!

by Pia Waugh

<quote who="Thilo Pfennig"> > http://sfdsh.wordpress.com/ > SFD in Kiel an Schleswig-Holstein(SH), Germany Great, do you have a hackergotchi (gravatar)? Thanks! Cheers, Pia -- OLPC Australia http://olpc.org.au/ Linux Australia http://linux.org.au/ Open Source Industry Australia http://osia.net.au/ Software Freedom Day http://softwarefreedomday.org/ Jeff: Whatchootalkin'boutwillis? Pia: What's Willis?

Sept. 12, 2008

Re: [SFD-discuss] Planet SFD - send us your blogs/newsfeeds!

by Thilo Pfennig

Pia Waugh schrieb: > Hi all, > > we've set up a planet (blog/news aggregator) for the Software Freedom Day > website. Please send us your blogs and rss/atom feeds so we can add you to > the planet if you are blogging about SFD, software freedom, open standards > and other related topics to our community :) > > http://planet.softwarefreedomday.org/ > http://sfdsh.wordpress.com/ SFD in Kiel an Schleswig-Holstein(SH), Germany -- Thilo Pfennig - PfennigSolutions IT-Beratung- Wiki-Systeme Sandkrug 28 - 24143 Kiel (Germany) http://www.pfennigsolutions.de/ XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Thilo_Pfennig - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tpfennig

Sept. 12, 2008

Planet SFD - send us your blogs/newsfeeds!

by Pia Waugh

Hi all, we've set up a planet (blog/news aggregator) for the Software Freedom Day website. Please send us your blogs and rss/atom feeds so we can add you to the planet if you are blogging about SFD, software freedom, open standards and other related topics to our community :) http://planet.softwarefreedomday.org/ Currently we only have 3 of the SFI board members, but there are several great posts from Fred about the packaging and sending of goodies to teams, so check it out! Cheers, Pia -- OLPC Australia http://olpc.org.au/ Linux Australia http://linux.org.au/ Open Source Industry Australia http://osia.net.au/ Software Freedom Day http://softwarefreedomday.org/ "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." - J. R. R. Tolkien

Sept. 11, 2008

Ubuntu LoCo, OLPC, and electronics hackers join for SFD

by Kevin Cole

Greetings from Brain-Washington, DC. Pia suggested I forward my message on to this list, and so, without further ado: This will be the Ubuntu DC LoCo's fourth year doing SFD (albeit not exactly on the right day), and the third at the Takoma Park Folk Festival. In addition to being the team contact for the Ubuntu DC LoCo, I'm also involved with the OLPC Learning Club DC, and HacDC -- a hardware/electronics hacking group with many Free Software advocates. I invited them to join us at the Takoma Park Folk Festival. So, this year, there will be three tech tables instead of just one. Together we're adding "Folk Tech-ery" ("Folk Geek-ery"?) to the "Folk Music" and "Folk Art" of the festival. ;-) References: 00. http://tpff.org/ 01. http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/ 10. http://olpclearningclub.org/ 11. http://hacdc.org/ -- Ubuntu Linux DC LoCo Washington, DC http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/

Sept. 11, 2008

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

by shirish

Hi all, Put up a detailed blog post about whatever we did on http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/celeberating-sfd-on-intern… Comments, suggestions, wisecracks, flames, trolls etc. all are invited in the comment section on the blog page ;) Looking forward to hear about other groups and what they come up with. One of the ideas would be perhaps to use GNU/Linux gaming as a theme, that should be cool ;) -- 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. 11, 2008

Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD Downloads & Resources page

by Larry Cafiero

Great idea, Pia (why didn't I think of that?). Larry On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Pia Waugh <greebo(a)pipka.org> wrote: > Hi Larry, > > <quote who="Larry Cafiero"> > >> Is there a place where I can download the CD of the FOSS programs for >> Windows users? I think we only got two in our packet and we may need >> more, and I can burn them if there's a place where I can get tat them. > > The reason we sent a couple to each team was so you could avoid having to > download it :) You can use the disk image. If you want to download it fresh > you can get it from: > > http://www.theopendisc.com/ > > Use the CDs we've sent to save time and bandwidth :) > > Cheers, > Pia > > -- > OLPC Australia http://olpc.org.au/ > Linux Australia http://linux.org.au/ > Open Source Industry Australia http://osia.net.au/ > Software Freedom Day http://softwarefreedomday.org/ > > "Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third > eye." - Bill Hicks > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >

Sept. 11, 2008

Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD Downloads & Resources page

by Pia Waugh

Hi Larry, <quote who="Larry Cafiero"> > Is there a place where I can download the CD of the FOSS programs for > Windows users? I think we only got two in our packet and we may need > more, and I can burn them if there's a place where I can get tat them. The reason we sent a couple to each team was so you could avoid having to download it :) You can use the disk image. If you want to download it fresh you can get it from: http://www.theopendisc.com/ Use the CDs we've sent to save time and bandwidth :) Cheers, Pia -- OLPC Australia http://olpc.org.au/ Linux Australia http://linux.org.au/ Open Source Industry Australia http://osia.net.au/ Software Freedom Day http://softwarefreedomday.org/ "Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye." - Bill Hicks

Sept. 11, 2008