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Regards
by endurance odion 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

Greetings to all, Me and my team here in University of Benin Nigeria are trying to set up a Linux User Group. I would say its not easy and thanks to Canonical who gave us 10 CDs on Ubuntu 9.04 last year which we are gladly making use of and I must say that the operating system is great and most people we preach it to loved it. We are still on the learning phase of Linux and we love to do great things and we believe that by hosting a freedom software day here we do a lot more talking for us, my team and I are working hard for our website and if there is any help any one can render we will be grateful for the assistance.We're also looking for volunteers to help us get direct site were we could download UBUNTU packages and update for off line mode installation that will help a lot because Internet access is one of our limiting factors here and that is why most persons here shy away from UBUNTU Thanks for your time and the great work you guys are all doing I will like to have assistance in the form of advice, download links, pdf materials, books, etc that can help us, please do contact us. Please be rest assured that my team and I will be very grateful for any assistance that you have to offer. That will be all for now and we hope you're starting to get ready for this year SFD. Thank you all. Warm regards, Odion Endurance

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Extension of SFD 2010 competition deadline
by Frederic Muller - SFI 31 Oct '10

31 Oct '10

Dear all, Considering the emails we've received over the past few hours we're officially extending the competition deadline to November 7th, 2010 1200 UTC. We'll update the website and post something on our blog in the coming two days. Please take note. Fred SFI Board

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Re: [SFD-discuss] [SFD-announce] Last day for submitting competition report
by Frederic Muller - SFI 31 Oct '10

31 Oct '10

Dear Robert, You have been told about it before. Let me quote this for you: 1. SFD Site front page, competition article title: "Submit your report before 31st Oct 2010!" 2. Competition rules page, just before the rules list: "The competition will be judged by the Software Freedom International board as usual. The deadline for submitting entries is 31st October 2010 at 1200UTC." 3. Announce email posted to SFD-Discuss and SFD-Announce, right after the submission link: "As some of the teams are still celebrating SFD until middle of the month, the deadline for the submissions is October 2010 31st at 12h00 UTC." Now that this is clarified I will also quote the 3 bullet from the General Rules, on the rules page section: "Teams that require more time to prepare their entries may be granted an extension at the discretion of the competition organisers. Applications for a deadline extension should be sent to info[at]softwarefreedomday[dot]org." We do understand that preparing the report is a huge task (been there, done that) and will definitely grant you another week by extending the competition deadline to October 7th 1200UTC. Is this something you can work with? Are other teams facing the same issue, and is 1 extra week for submitting the competition report ok with everyone? Thanks and don't hesitate to get back to us. Kind regards, Fred SFI Board On 10/31/2010 12:55 PM, Robert Farrar wrote: > Hello Fred, > > This date of the 31st of October, being the final date for reporting, > this is the first time I have found out about this. > > Why have we not been told about this before ? > > I need at least another week to put this together, not 12 hours. > > Thanks, > > Robert Farrar > team Limestone Coast, Australia > > On 31/10/2010 2:53 PM, Frederic Muller - SFI wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> Just a short notice to remind you that all reports to participate in the >> competition must be submitted the latest today October 31st. >> >> The submission URL is here: >> http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/event_report.html >> >> and you need to use JavaScript for the form to work. >> >> Let us know if you have any issue. >> >> Thanks a lot. >> >> Fred >> SFI Board >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SFD-announce mailing list >> SFD-announce(a)sf-day.org >> http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-announce >> >> . >> >

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Last day for submitting competition report
by Frederic Muller - SFI 31 Oct '10

31 Oct '10

Dear all, Just a short notice to remind you that all reports to participate in the competition must be submitted the latest today October 31st. The submission URL is here: http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/event_report.html and you need to use JavaScript for the form to work. Let us know if you have any issue. Thanks a lot. Fred SFI Board

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Thanks SFI !!
by Irene Orense-Balaoing 11 Oct '10

11 Oct '10

Hi, Bluepoint Linux Users Elite is honored to be named as one of the best SFD 2009 teams: http://softwarefreedomday.org/en/competition/winners-2009 In behalf of our partners and the rest of the team, thank you very much for this recognition! Best regards, Irene -- Irene Orense-Balaoing SFD09 Team Leader Bluepoint Linux Users Elite http://sfd.bluepoint.com.ph/

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photo stream/mashups options?
by Frederic Muller - SFI 08 Oct '10

08 Oct '10

Dear all, As you've seen we have are already streaming Flickr's photo based on tags on several pages of the sfd website. Looking through either posts on our blog or the new sfd blogosphere page (an aggregated google search of several keywords arong SFD) a lot of you host there own photos. I was wondering if there was any 'public api' that would work with popular FOSS photo galleries projects that you may be using. I'd prefer to recommend using a FOSS solution rather than Flickr when people ask me how to get their photos appear on our site. Thanks. Fred

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Event report submission form is online
by Frederic Muller - SFI 01 Oct '10

01 Oct '10

Dear team leaders, We've put the form online for you to participate and submit your event report. We'll select (as every year) 3 of the best submission and you'll get a chance to win both a Makerbot and Richard Stallman's signed Essais. Note that the rules have slightly been modified from last year and are available here: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/competition The form itself is available here: http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/event_report.html As some of the teams are still celebrating SFD until middle of the month, the deadline for the submissions is October 2010 31st at 12h00 UTC. So good luck to all, a HUGE thank you to all our sponsors and more specifically for the competition Richard Stallman and Bre Pettis from Makerbot, without whom we wouldn't be able to distribute those 2 great gifts to the winning entries. Best to all of you! Frederic Muller SFI President

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