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Archive of the Old Software Freedom Day Wiki
by Thilo Pfennig July 28, 2010

July 28, 2010

Hi folks, I have migrated the old wiki to a newer version and set it up on the new server under this address: http://archive.softwarefreedomday.org/ So this for all those who like to copy some old stuff out of it. Regards, Thilo -- XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Thilo_Pfennig - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tpfennig SFD 2010 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

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Shortcuts Available for wiki page names
by Thilo Pfennig July 26, 2010

July 26, 2010

Hi there, I have "invented" a solution for the very long URLs without cluttering the whole wiki. You can now create a short URL on page "s": - http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/s Simply type in the shortcut like "phantasylug" in the form and press "Create Shortcut" The edit the page after the #REDIRECT and enter the path to which the REDIRECT should work like: #REDIRECT 2010/Antarctica/Dot/PhantasyLug Result should be, that when people enter: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/s/phantasylug , they will get to the page: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/Antarctica/Dot/PhantasyLug I hope some of you may find that useful, especially for your printing pleasure. And I hope it will work as expected. Regards, Thilo the wiki admin -- XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Thilo_Pfennig - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tpfennig SFD 2010 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

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Continents
by Peter Eisinger July 26, 2010

July 26, 2010

Please, add CentralAmerica in the wikipage: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010 Thnx!

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Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD 2010 registration is OPEN!!!
by Frederic Muller - SFI July 26, 2010

July 26, 2010

On 07/20/2010 12:58 PM, Arif Syamsudin wrote: > On 07/20/2010 11:42 AM, Frederic Muller - SFI wrote: >> Dear Arif, >> >> From looking at the website I see the event date seems to be around >> October (can't be sure). I am not exactly sure what you're trying to >> achieve in fact. If you want to participate in SFD you need to >> organize an SFD event on September 18th (or around that date assuming >> you have good reasons to change it). >> >> I see you're already organizing a Linux conference so why would you >> want your event to be considered a SFD event since it's a Linux >> conference? Quite different objectives in my views. >> >> Looking forward to getting your answers. >> >> Fred >> > > dear fred, > > big thank for you quick reply. > > the conference itself only take 2 days (october 23rd and 24th). other > than that, the ilc is consists of various activities that involve open > source softwares. and we're hoping, with that kind of materials, we > can have the event count as a softwarefreedomday event. if the event > is not possible to consider as an sfd event, that would be fine. > > we will try to gather "ammunition" to create an sfd event here in > bogor, indonesia. september 18th right? thank you again for your kind > attention :). > > > best regard, > Dear Arif, Looking at the introduction page on your site I read "/Indonesia Linux Conference/ (ILC) is an annual nationwide series of activities which consist of conferences, seminars, workshops, training, competitions and exhibitions related to the Linux operating system." Now I believe SFD has a very different focus. It's not about Linux, it's about getting people, anybody, aware and understand what Free Software is. In fact telling people with no or little ideas of what Free Software is, that they should use Linux might confuse them: it might be a too big step. On the contrary recommending FOSS alternative to software they're already using on Windows or MAC OS for example, showing them how easy it is to use without losing their other applications and habits will be a much more successful path. People don't change habits with no reason, and they need time. A happy Firefox or OOo user might consider trying Linux after a few months, an unhappy Linux user will never look back to Free Software and give our community a bad name. Also take into consideration that the way you address and attract people to a Linux conference and Software Freedom Day event should be very different. Your audience is different, and the marketing efforts you will put in will be different. My problems here, is not really about the date, but a lot more about the message and effectiveness of getting your Linux event as a recognized SFD event. In my opinion you would do much better by making a smaller scale SFD event in September and using the buzz from every other events to attract non Free Software users interested in both the concept and the options at hand. Please do consider the above with your team. Thank you for your interest and discussing the issue with everyone, I am sure this will help other teams as well in their event preparation. Best regards, Fred SFI

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Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD-discuss Digest, Vol 42, Issue 24
by moataz.sharawy＠gmail.com July 25, 2010

July 25, 2010

Hi All, I see that the forum idea is very well to make the SFD more interact with FOSS users, but what about Professional network to make more interaction and support events to be visible to the people form all the over the world, below is my suggest features which will help all SFD supporters and members to interact together: Below is a contribution offer by my Organization "Ofok NGO<http://www.ofokngo.org>" volunteers team, which we can establish the beta version of this network and open for membership in 4 weeks *Suggest Professional Network features:* *1- Two Profile type* (Individual and Organization) *2- Personal Blogs: *have your very own blog, post entries directly from your profile page, and share those blog posts with friends *4- Working Groups* “Roundtables for SFD teams to increase the awareness about SFD and invite more volunteers” GROUPS allow like-minded members to build their own mini-communities, made up of members who share their same interests. It allows users to… ·Create and join groups ·Create group discussion ·Create Photo Albums, Videos ·Post on group walls ·Group owner can publish news bulletin ·Admin can control group membership and access *Example* *SFD by teams or countries “SFD US, SFD Egypt, SFD China etc…”* *5- Event Management “To promote events by teams or countries”* Members can create and manage events easily. It will display map as required with zero configuration. You can define how many "seats" available for the event, which allows you to limit event participants. ·Intelligent map support. If the event location is a valid address, a Google map will be automatically displayed. there is no configuration needed for the map. ·You can define how many "seats" available for the event, which allow you to limit event participants. ·We make it easy for you to invite your friends and allow other event guest to invite their friends. ·Export the event to iCal format or print it away nicely ·Send email to all event participants, perhaps to remind them about the event dress-code or notify them of last minute changes. * * *6- Interactive Photo & Video Galleries “To share events activities”* • Upload videos directly to your community or embed videos from 3rd party video sharing sites. Video-posting capabilities are even built right into community.... • Share videos, photos, group bulletins and discussions with all the major social bookmarking services as well as social networks. • Create, comment on & share interactive photo galleries with online friends. • Members can "tag" their friends in any of their photos. *7- Private messaging system* *8- Profile Twitter feed and Flickr photo galleries* * * *Other Features* *Polls and surveys* *Open Source Glossary* *Network Guidelines* *iPhone & Mobile Friendly Site* *Social Tools for Interaction “Twitter, Facebook, Youtube channel, LinkedIn” * On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 2:00 PM, <sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org> wrote: > Send SFD-discuss mailing list submissions to > sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > sfd-discuss-owner(a)sf-day.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of SFD-discuss digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Forum (Ivan Shmakov) > 2. Re: Forum (Frederic Muller - SFI) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:32:34 +0700 > From: Ivan Shmakov <ivan(a)main.uusia.org> > Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] Forum > To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org> > Message-ID: <87mxtgul4t.fsf(a)violet.siamics.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > >>>>> Frederic Muller - SFI <fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org> writes: > >>>>> On 07/25/2010 06:03 AM, Cat Scratch wrote: > >>>>> On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 15:42 +0800, Frederic Muller - SFI wrote: > > >>> We've been considering a move to using a forum as our main > >>> discussion platform > > >> I really don't like using web forums. > > [?] > > >> I understand some people do prefer web forums, but I don't think you > >> should disengage those of us who prefer mailing lists. > > > The situation is that today the mailing list(s) is limiting us in the > > way we interact with our audience. > > [?] > > > Modern forum software allow you to RSS feed and get all the latest > > posts well organized (no need to use your web browser - even though I > > am sure we all have one open all day long), you can subscribe to > > threads and receive emails notification, some even allow you to send > > emails to post to the forum. > > ? And I'd like to note that Gmane supports RSS, too. > > [?] > > > I'm uncertain of the benefits of keeping both a mailing list and have > > a forum. The way to ask question becomes unclear and might confuse > > users (maybe it's just a matter of presentation only), however we > > might also go along that road based on the community feedback. > > That's why Gmane may be of interest: it offers a forum- and a > blog-like Web-interface for a mailing list. In particular, the > messages posted via the Web interface are instantly available to > the mailing list subscribers and vice versa [2]. No separation > between the two, and no confusion, either. > > So, why not just to fill the form at [2] and let the community > test the usability? Won't it prove to be worthwhile, the things > could be undone pretty easily. > > [?] > > [1] http://gmane.org/post.php > [2] http://gmane.org/subscribe.php > > -- > FSF associate member #7257 >

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Forum
by Frederic Muller - SFI July 25, 2010

July 25, 2010

Dear all, We've been considering a move to using a forum as our main discussion platform based on the following reasons: - More open and visible - Searchable - Mailing list are usually for developers. Our community is definitely not developers oriented - Better for search engines indexing - More pleasant to read - And you get to add a little icon for yourself ;-) Since you'll be using it, I wanted to get a initial feedback of what (FOSS) software you believe would suit that purpose. We've been looking in PhpBB but are definitely open for anything else that does the job and is Free Software. Thanks. Fred

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SFD 2010 Banners are up
by Pockey Lam July 25, 2010

July 25, 2010

Dear SFD friends, In order to further promote Software Freedom Day 2010, we have designed some SFD 2010 banners with different messages and size in both PNG and SVG formats, please feel free to access them at http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Artwork#Banners You may place these banners on your blogs, community websites, friends' websites, social network, etc. If you want to localize the banners, please download the SVG files from the bottom of the page. You may link it them back to www.softwarefreedomday.org or your own SFD event site if you have any. All the provided banners are released under Creative Commons license, you are free to use, modify and adapt to your own. Thank you for spreading the word to the world! Regards, Pockey SFD Rocks!

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Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD-discuss Digest, Vol 42, Issue 21
by safrida big gradation July 24, 2010

July 24, 2010

<kumbolinuxusers(a)gmail.com>I think this can help for KLU Group < kumbolinuxusers(a)gmail.com> you're problem has been same with me.. :) ..that picture/screenshot maybe help you. thanks... this messages from fred: Message: 2 Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:34:07 +0800 From: Frederic Muller - SFI <fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org> Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] Problem in creating a team wiki page To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org> Message-ID: <4C4A895F.6070208(a)softwarefreedomday.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi! What problem are you having? Did you look at http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CreateYourTeampage ? This page has screen shots which should help. Fred On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 6:00 PM, <sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org> wrote: > Send SFD-discuss mailing list submissions to > sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > sfd-discuss-owner(a)sf-day.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of SFD-discuss digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Difficulties in creating a wiki page for our team - KULUG! > (KLU Group) > 2. Re: Difficulties in creating a wiki page for our team - > KULUG! (Frederic Muller - SFI) > 3. Re: Forum (Alexjan Carraturo) > 4. Re: Difficulties in creating a wiki page for our team - > KULUG! (KLU Group) > 5. Re: Difficulties in creating a wiki page for our team - > KULUG! (Frederic Muller - SFI) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:56:53 -0700 > From: KLU Group <kumbolinuxusers(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [SFD-discuss] Difficulties in creating a wiki page for our > team - KULUG! > To: sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org > Message-ID: > <AANLkTimsrOgYd-AO4HzrnPRhJgeO-jJ8Lr2K7Wq2caRb(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hello! > Wish to share this with you all...that we haven't been able to create > a wiki page for our team - KULUG i.e. Kumbo Linux Users Group, base > Kumbo - Cameroon! > Is there any possibility of help from anyone of us? > Best regards, > Emmanuel F. SEVIDZEM > Team Leader > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:03:25 +0800 > From: Frederic Muller - SFI <fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org> > Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] Difficulties in creating a wiki page for > our team - KULUG! > To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org> > Message-ID: <4C4AAC5D.10702(a)softwarefreedomday.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hi! > > Did you take a look at > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CreateYourTeampage > > Please let us know at which part of that process you're having problem, > and which one. > > Thanks > > Fred > > On 07/24/2010 04:56 PM, KLU Group wrote: > > Hello! > > Wish to share this with you all...that we haven't been able to create > > a wiki page for our team - KULUG i.e. Kumbo Linux Users Group, base > > Kumbo - Cameroon! > > Is there any possibility of help from anyone of us? > > Best regards, > > Emmanuel F. SEVIDZEM > > Team Leader > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > SFD-discuss mailing list > > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:11:16 +0200 > From: Alexjan Carraturo <axjslack(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] Forum > To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTi=HRZm2QsUq3rVvrpb43shEus-9Zc0xk0vz7yZ=(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hello Fred and everyone, > > > > +1 A forum is a good idea, & phpBB is fine choice for the software. > > > > > I don't think so.... actually PHPBB have a lot of security trouble. I > use to have it on my FSUG site, but, after year of spam attack, I have > to change my mind and use a mailing-list. > > > -- > ######################################## > Alexjan Carraturo > admin of > Free Software Users Group Italia > http://www.fsugitalia.org > Fedora Ambassador: Axjslack > openSUSE Ambassador: Axjslack > Free Software Foundation Europe Fellow 1623 > Software Freedom International board member > ######################################## > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 03:04:32 -0700 > From: KLU Group <kumbolinuxusers(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] Difficulties in creating a wiki page for > our team - KULUG! > To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTikr70KDh5inR38381g1k8=AFfkBDrF37YgE+E6z(a)mail.gmail.com<AFfkBDrF37YgE%2BE6z(a)mail.gmail.com> > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > We got this message below, while the page has been created!!! > > The team wiki page you specified, > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/kulug, does not exist. Please > create your team's wiki page first before submitting your > registration. Use the Back button on your browser to return to the > registration form and try again. > > What next...! > > > On 7/24/10, Frederic Muller - SFI <fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org> wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Did you take a look at > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CreateYourTeampage > > > > Please let us know at which part of that process you're having problem, > > and which one. > > > > Thanks > > > > Fred > > > > On 07/24/2010 04:56 PM, KLU Group wrote: > >> Hello! > >> Wish to share this with you all...that we haven't been able to create > >> a wiki page for our team - KULUG i.e. Kumbo Linux Users Group, base > >> Kumbo - Cameroon! > >> Is there any possibility of help from anyone of us? > >> Best regards, > >> Emmanuel F. SEVIDZEM > >> Team Leader > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> SFD-discuss mailing list > >> SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > >> http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > >> > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > SFD-discuss mailing list > > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:20:14 +0800 > From: Frederic Muller - SFI <fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org> > Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] Difficulties in creating a wiki page for > our team - KULUG! > To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org> > Message-ID: <4C4ABE5E.2000201(a)softwarefreedomday.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hi! > > You actually got the message because... the page doesn't exist. Looking > (actually clicking the link you supplied) showed me that you created a > team page here: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/KULUG > > which if you followed the instruction that I supplied, you would know is > the wrong location. From what you wrote earlier your page should be this > one: > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/Africa/Cameroon/Kumbo/KULUG (be > careful the wiki is case sensitive). > > So please go to http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CreateYourTeampage > and follow the steps described as u will need to create Cameroon and > Kumbo as well. > > Thank you. > > Fred > > > On 07/24/2010 06:04 PM, KLU Group wrote: > > We got this message below, while the page has been created!!! > > > > The team wiki page you specified, > > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/kulug, does not exist. Please > > create your team's wiki page first before submitting your > > registration. Use the Back button on your browser to return to the > > registration form and try again. > > > > What next...! > > > > > > On 7/24/10, Frederic Muller - SFI<fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org> wrote: > > > >> Hi! > >> > >> Did you take a look at > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CreateYourTeampage > >> > >> Please let us know at which part of that process you're having problem, > >> and which one. > >> > >> Thanks > >> > >> Fred > >> > >> On 07/24/2010 04:56 PM, KLU Group wrote: > >> > >>> Hello! > >>> Wish to share this with you all...that we haven't been able to create > >>> a wiki page for our team - KULUG i.e. Kumbo Linux Users Group, base > >>> Kumbo - Cameroon! > >>> Is there any possibility of help from anyone of us? > >>> Best regards, > >>> Emmanuel F. SEVIDZEM > >>> Team Leader > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> SFD-discuss mailing list > >>> SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > >>> http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> SFD-discuss mailing list > >> SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > >> http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > SFD-discuss mailing list > > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > > > End of SFD-discuss Digest, Vol 42, Issue 21 > ******************************************* >

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Difficulties in creating a wiki page for our team - KULUG!
by KLU Group July 24, 2010

July 24, 2010

Hello! Wish to share this with you all...that we haven't been able to create a wiki page for our team - KULUG i.e. Kumbo Linux Users Group, base Kumbo - Cameroon! Is there any possibility of help from anyone of us? Best regards, Emmanuel F. SEVIDZEM Team Leader

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Re: [SFD-discuss] Problem in creating a team wiki page
by safrida big gradation July 24, 2010

July 24, 2010

i don't know how to give you're a feed back. i hope so the software freedom day international supporting SAFRIDA 2010 or KSL-BL Indonesia. because limited language in English conversation. Hope you're guys in there give a support. i'm sorry for my English. What there is of you who can speak Indonesia?? bisa tolong bantu saya..saya kurang lancar berbahasa Inggris. Terima Kasih banyak..

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