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Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD 2010 registration is OPEN!!!

by shirish शिरीष

Addition in-line :- 2010/7/23 shirish शिरीष <shirishag75(a)gmail.com>: > Hi all, > Made the registration and everything anew at > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/Asia/India/Pune/SFDPune . Its > just a plug as of right now, when I get more time will do it better. > Its something to do in the meantime. I also added the city and the > details so people from the city can just add the team directly. > > Now what's the procedure for getting the goodies this time around ? > Shouldn't there have been a place where I could send my address in the > form itself. Disregard the last line. I do get an error while trying to fill the same in the registeration . http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/register.html If there are errors or mistakes during registeration it should highlight them. It doesn't do that right now. It says I filled the whole thing and still it says http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/Pune/SFDPune does that need to be verified or something/ some permissions issue perhaps ? Please look into the same. > > All for now. Btw like the new theme on the wiki. Its definitely an > improvement as is the changeover to OSM . Like it. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17

July 23, 2010

Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD 2010 registration is OPEN!!!

by shirish शिरीष

Hi all, Made the registration and everything anew at http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/Asia/India/Pune/SFDPune . Its just a plug as of right now, when I get more time will do it better. Its something to do in the meantime. I also added the city and the details so people from the city can just add the team directly. Now what's the procedure for getting the goodies this time around ? Shouldn't there have been a place where I could send my address in the form itself. All for now. Btw like the new theme on the wiki. Its definitely an improvement as is the changeover to OSM . Like it. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17

July 23, 2010

Re: [SFD-discuss] Problem in creating a team wiki page

by Frederic Muller - SFI

Dear Misheck, We have just updated the guide on how to create and register your SFD team. Please have a look at http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CreateYourTeampage and let us know if following those steps doesn't work. Thank you. Fred On 07/23/2010 04:28 PM, misheck mutuzana wrote: > Dear Fred, > Iam writing from Zambia . My name is Misheck Mutuzana Team Leader for > 2010/Africa/Zambia/Copperbelt Software Freedom Day. Iam also > encountering the same problem that my colleague from Ethiopia is > having. Each time i try to register my team for Software Freedom Day > i always get a message telling me that: " The team wiki page you > specified, > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/Africa/Zambia/Copperbelt > <http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/Africa/Ethiopia/Mekelle>, does > not exist. Please create your team's wiki page first before submitting > your registration. > > Iam worried that we won't get materials for Software Freedom Day on > time if i do not register. > > Regards > Misheck Mutuzana > Email: mutuzana(a)yahoo.com, mutuzana(a)gmail.com > <mailto:mutuzana@yahoo.com,%20mutuzana@gmail.com> > Skype: misheckmutuzana > +260 955-418926 /966-418926/977-418926 > > > --- On *Thu, 7/22/10, sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org > /<sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org>/* wrote: > > > From: sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org <sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org> > Subject: SFD-discuss Digest, Vol 42, Issue 16 > To: sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org > Date: Thursday, July 22, 2010, 3:58 PM > > Send SFD-discuss mailing list submissions to > sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org </mc/compose?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 > </mc/compose?to=sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org> > > You can reach the person managing the list at > sfd-discuss-owner(a)sf-day.org > </mc/compose?to=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: SFD 2010 registration is OPEN!!! (Asmelash Teka) > 2. Re: SFD 2010 registration is OPEN!!! (Frederic Muller - SFI) > 3. Re: Continents (Peter Eisinger) > 4. Re: Artwork (Edgar Hoffmann) > 5. Re: Continents (Thilo Pfennig) > 6. Re: Artwork (Frederic Muller - SFI) > 7. Re: Artwork (Thilo Pfennig) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:40:36 -0700 > From: Asmelash Teka <asmelashtk(a)gmail.com > </mc/compose?to=asmelashtk(a)gmail.com>> > Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD 2010 registration is OPEN!!! > To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org > </mc/compose?to=sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org>> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTinQ-4_6-BZEY00WYQVkRdv69rgbyHXZUdKFrC3O(a)mail.gmail.com > </mc/compose?to=AANLkTinQ-4_6-BZEY00WYQVkRdv69rgbyHXZUdKFrC3O(a)mail.gmail.com>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Dear Fred, > > I'm from Mekelle Ethiopia. I tried and couldn't create a team page. > All I get is the message " The team wiki page you specified, > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/Africa/Ethiopia/Mekelle, 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. > " > Sorry for not beinig able to solve it myself. I tried enough not > to try more. > > peace, > > Asmelash > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:02:49 +0800 > From: Frederic Muller - SFI <fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org > </mc/compose?to=fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org>> > Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD 2010 registration is OPEN!!! > To: Asmelash Teka <asmelashtk(a)gmail.com > </mc/compose?to=asmelashtk(a)gmail.com>> > Cc: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org > </mc/compose?to=sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org>> > Message-ID: <4C4879B9.2060906(a)softwarefreedomday.org > </mc/compose?to=4C4879B9.2060906(a)softwarefreedomday.org>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dear Asmelash, > > No worries. Let us guide you through the necessary steps: > 1. You need to create a wiki account at > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/FrontPage?action=newaccount > 2. Login > 3. Now from the wiki front page > (http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/ ) > you follow the link that says "SFD 2010 > <http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010> - This is the central > page to > find or add a team worldwide! " Direct link is: > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010 > 4. From there you go to your continent which is Africa: > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/Africa > 5. Look for Ethiopia and... it doesn't exist yet! > 6. Create you country: at the bottom of this page there is a text box > where you simply type Ethiopia and it will create the page for you. > 7. Now you're in edit mode for your country. You might want to > replace > "SFD @PAGE@" by "SFD 2010 Ethiopia" and eventually add a > description of > your country. One source that comes to my mind is wikipedia, just > copy > the introduction and that will be a good start. > 8. Save the page. Do not forget to answer the question just below the > save button! > 9. You are now on your country page asking you to create a new > City or > Region. Same process, enter what suit best your event location, do > the > text change and add a bit of description. I guess you will chose > Mek'ele > here. > 10. Save. Remember the question under the save button! > 11. You're now on your City page. You can create your Team page. Save > thing, there is a text box at the bottom of the page where you can > just > type in the Team name and validate: it will automatically create your > team page. > 12. Edit your page with all the details needed. > 13. Go back to you city page and replace Team1 with your team name > and > add a link to your team page (which should be > /2010/Africa/Ethiopia/Mek'ele/YourTeamName (YourTeamName is your real > team name). Save again. > > You're done. Now in the registration form you will just have to enter > Africa/Ethiopia/Mek'ele/YourTeamName and it will work. > > The process is a bit long because you're the first team in Ethiopia. > However by following those steps you ensure people looking at the > team > list http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CategoryTeam or at the Region > list http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CategoryRegion will find your > city and your team. Also please do not remove the CategoryTeam tag > from > your team list: it is that which makes the listing automatic. > > I hope this was clear enough. Let us know if you're still having > issues. > > Thanks. > > Fred > > On 07/23/2010 12:40 AM, Asmelash Teka wrote: > > Dear Fred, > > > > I'm from Mekelle Ethiopia. I tried and couldn't create a team page. > > All I get is the message " The team wiki page you specified, > > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/Africa/Ethiopia/Mekelle, > 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. > > " > > Sorry for not beinig able to solve it myself. I tried enough not > to try more. > > > > peace, > > > > Asmelash > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > SFD-discuss mailing list > > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org </mc/compose?to=SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org> > > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > > > > >

July 23, 2010

Re: [SFD-discuss] Problem in creating a team wiki page

by misheck mutuzana

Dear Fred, Iam writing from Zambia . My name is Misheck Mutuzana Team Leader for 2010/Africa/Zambia/Copperbelt Software Freedom Day. Iam also encountering the same problem that my colleague from Ethiopia is having. Each time i try to register my team for Software Freedom Day i always get a message telling me that: " The team wiki page you specified, http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/Africa/Zambia/Copperbelt, does not exist. Please create your team's wiki page first before submitting your registration. Iam worried that we won't get materials for Software Freedom Day on time if i do not register. Regards Misheck MutuzanaEmail: mutuzana(a)yahoo.com, mutuzana(a)gmail.comSkype: misheckmutuzana +260 955-418926 /966-418926/977-418926 --- On Thu, 7/22/10, sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org <sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org> wrote: From: sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org <sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org> Subject: SFD-discuss Digest, Vol 42, Issue 16 To: sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org Date: Thursday, July 22, 2010, 3:58 PM 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: SFD 2010 registration is OPEN!!! (Asmelash Teka) 2. Re: SFD 2010 registration is OPEN!!! (Frederic Muller - SFI) 3. Re: Continents (Peter Eisinger) 4. Re: Artwork (Edgar Hoffmann) 5. Re: Continents (Thilo Pfennig) 6. Re: Artwork (Frederic Muller - SFI) 7. Re: Artwork (Thilo Pfennig) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:40:36 -0700 From: Asmelash Teka <asmelashtk(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD 2010 registration is OPEN!!! To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org> Message-ID: <AANLkTinQ-4_6-BZEY00WYQVkRdv69rgbyHXZUdKFrC3O(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Dear Fred, I'm from Mekelle Ethiopia. I tried and couldn't create a team page. All I get is the message " The team wiki page you specified, http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/Africa/Ethiopia/Mekelle, 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. " Sorry for not beinig able to solve it myself. I tried enough not to try more. peace, Asmelash ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:02:49 +0800 From: Frederic Muller - SFI <fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org> Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD 2010 registration is OPEN!!! To: Asmelash Teka <asmelashtk(a)gmail.com> Cc: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org> Message-ID: <4C4879B9.2060906(a)softwarefreedomday.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear Asmelash, No worries. Let us guide you through the necessary steps: 1. You need to create a wiki account at http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/FrontPage?action=newaccount 2. Login 3. Now from the wiki front page (http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/ ) you follow the link that says "SFD 2010 <http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010> - This is the central page to find or add a team worldwide! " Direct link is: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010 4. From there you go to your continent which is Africa: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/Africa 5. Look for Ethiopia and... it doesn't exist yet! 6. Create you country: at the bottom of this page there is a text box where you simply type Ethiopia and it will create the page for you. 7. Now you're in edit mode for your country. You might want to replace "SFD @PAGE@" by "SFD 2010 Ethiopia" and eventually add a description of your country. One source that comes to my mind is wikipedia, just copy the introduction and that will be a good start. 8. Save the page. Do not forget to answer the question just below the save button! 9. You are now on your country page asking you to create a new City or Region. Same process, enter what suit best your event location, do the text change and add a bit of description. I guess you will chose Mek'ele here. 10. Save. Remember the question under the save button! 11. You're now on your City page. You can create your Team page. Save thing, there is a text box at the bottom of the page where you can just type in the Team name and validate: it will automatically create your team page. 12. Edit your page with all the details needed. 13. Go back to you city page and replace Team1 with your team name and add a link to your team page (which should be /2010/Africa/Ethiopia/Mek'ele/YourTeamName (YourTeamName is your real team name). Save again. You're done. Now in the registration form you will just have to enter Africa/Ethiopia/Mek'ele/YourTeamName and it will work. The process is a bit long because you're the first team in Ethiopia. However by following those steps you ensure people looking at the team list http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CategoryTeam or at the Region list http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CategoryRegion will find your city and your team. Also please do not remove the CategoryTeam tag from your team list: it is that which makes the listing automatic. I hope this was clear enough. Let us know if you're still having issues. Thanks. Fred On 07/23/2010 12:40 AM, Asmelash Teka wrote: > Dear Fred, > > I'm from Mekelle Ethiopia. I tried and couldn't create a team page. > All I get is the message " The team wiki page you specified, > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/Africa/Ethiopia/Mekelle, 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. > " > Sorry for not beinig able to solve it myself. I tried enough not to try more. > > peace, > > Asmelash > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > >

July 23, 2010

Re: [SFD-discuss] Continents

by Peter Eisinger

El 23/07/2010 4:49, Thilo Pfennig escribió: > Am 23.07.2010 02:59, schrieb Peter Eisinger: > >> The problem is exactly for the users of the region that we are speaking. >> Not alone they are excluded, it will also hinder them to be. So much for >> people of the the organizing teams, like to the public of SFD. We speak >> of people of the countries of: >> >> >> Costa Rica >> El Salvador >> Guatemala >> Honduras >> Nicaragua >> Panamá > > Peter, > > nobody is excluded. > > Here is Panama: > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/NorthAmerica/Panama > Guatemala: > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/SouthAmerica/Guatemala > > Every team and every country is welcome. If by the above definition some > are North America and others are South America, this does not mean the > can not participate in the same event, which is the SFD, dont you think? > > Its the people and not the continents, who organize the events. And > every team gets our support, even if it would be in Antarctica or a > space station. > > Regards, > Thilo > Thilo, I understand that this year there is a lot of work. Alone we hope for the 2011 we can have America like 1 single continent. Thank you for so good work in the wiki. Regards, Peter

July 23, 2010

Re: [SFD-discuss] Continents

by Thilo Pfennig

Am 23.07.2010 02:59, schrieb Peter Eisinger: > The problem is exactly for the users of the region that we are speaking. > Not alone they are excluded, it will also hinder them to be. So much for > people of the the organizing teams, like to the public of SFD. We speak > of people of the countries of: > > > Costa Rica > El Salvador > Guatemala > Honduras > Nicaragua > Panamá Peter, nobody is excluded. Here is Panama: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/NorthAmerica/Panama Guatemala: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/SouthAmerica/Guatemala Every team and every country is welcome. If by the above definition some are North America and others are South America, this does not mean the can not participate in the same event, which is the SFD, dont you think? Its the people and not the continents, who organize the events. And every team gets our support, even if it would be in Antarctica or a space station. Regards, Thilo -- XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Thilo_Pfennig - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tpfennig SFD 2010 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

July 23, 2010

A few updates (marketing and registration)

by Frederic Muller - SFI

Dear all, In the email: 1. Registration count update 2. Marketing efforts and tracking 3. Migration to Open Street Map in progress 4. Discussions available on mailing list and IRC channel 1. Registration count update I just wanted to let you know what has been happening so far. With a last kick start for registration and a whole new site for SFD we've hit a few technical bumps but have mainly solved most of them. Within the first 24 hours we received over 100 registration. We are now at about 160 teams, however we mistakenly removed a good 10 teams from China as they appeared (to someone from the team) as spam. Our apologies, we're going through the logs and will try to re-add them avoiding the need to re-register. 2. Marketing efforts and tracking We are now in the phase of spreading the word out as our objective from 2010 is to reach 1000 teams worldwide, a 200 increase from last year. We believe this is achievable but need your help. We have set up a page to track our current submissions to various news sites, community sites, blogs and such. You can find it here: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Marketing/SitePosting Please help us to complete the page so we don't do double submissions. Also help us to spread the word out. 3. Migration to Open Street Map in progress Last but not least, as promoters of Software Freedom it is important for us to use Free Software. Since 2008 we had been looking for help to migrate our map to Open Street Map and have finally found someone to work on this. It is currently in the development stage but you can have a preview here: http://www.rigacci.org/2010/map2.shtml (those are sample data and doesn't get updated at all) We want to extend a big thank you to Niccolo for his support. Hopefully we should all be able to use OSM very soon. 4. Discussions available on mailing list and IRC channel Those are the news for now. Should you have any question please do not hesitate to subscribe to sfd-discuss (or es-planning for Spanish speakers) if not yet done, and let us know. We are also regularly on our SFD IRC channel on freenode (#sfd). The mailing list page is here: http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo Thank you for your support and happy SFD preparation. Fred

July 23, 2010

Re: [SFD-discuss] Continents

by Peter Eisinger

El 23/07/2010 1:26, Frederic Muller - SFI escribió: > Dear Peter, > > The debate has little meaning compared to SFD. All the other points in > your email are out of the topic of SFD. I see that lately in this list, like to cut the messages to adjust them to their thought. It has changed the SFI, not alone the wiki. I don't see him case to continue. Good luck

July 23, 2010

Re: [SFD-discuss] Continents

by Frederic Muller - SFI

On 07/23/2010 08:59 AM, Peter Eisinger wrote: > Now, thanks to the carried out diffusion work. Besides FLISOL (Festival > Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre) that is carried out in > +250 cities, we are also celebrating SFD. > > I believe necessary to respect them. I trust you. > Dear Peter, The debate has little meaning compared to SFD. All the other points in your email are out of the topic of SFD. Central America is not a continent and so this only choice would be between The Americas (see it's plural) and the existing division. Besides this has nothing to do with respect. Please remain from being to dramatic. We're following the most common and accepted definition, and bringing notion of disrespect is OUT OF LINE. II therefore find it difficult to have a (non heated) discussion in this condition. Thank you to respect us as well and not claim such things. Frederic Muller SFI President

July 23, 2010

Re: [SFD-discuss] Continents

by Peter Eisinger

El 22/07/2010 16:51, Thilo Pfennig escribió: > Am 22.07.2010 19:49, schrieb Peter Eisinger: > > Hi Peter, > >> CentralAmerica a while ago that it was included in the wiki of SFD. >> >> Its population's +95% speaks Spanish. [1] [2] >> >> For all Latin America, the American continent is divided in 3 >> subcontinents [2] [3]: >> >> America of the North >> America of the South >> Central America >> > > > The continents are just for a general orientation - we might have even > chosen to just list countries alphabetically. You are the first in this > year who seems to have a problem with that official continent list. Liebe Thilo, Ich wohne in Argentinien, Südamerika. The problem was detected in the list of Hispanic planning. Not it is something new: <http://www.google.com/search?q=http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/centrala…> => +1800 results. > Even if we would consider including it, we would have to move all > countries from one continent to the other. The best thing is 1 continent: America. But if he is complicated .. It is easier and quicker, rename 2010/NorthAmerica/ to 2010/CentralandNorthAmerica NorthAmerica has today, single 10 wikipages. Ok? > And then we would have to > consider the opposition of other users. The problem is exactly for the users of the region that we are speaking. Not alone they are excluded, it will also hinder them to be. So much for people of the the organizing teams, like to the public of SFD. We speak of people of the countries of: Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Panamá People that was already participating of SFD. SFD Nicaragua 2007 Team, it was one of the winners of the competition SFD 2007. Before the 2007 there were single 2 teams in the world of Hispanic speech participating of SFD. Now, thanks to the carried out diffusion work. Besides FLISOL (Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre) that is carried out in +250 cities, we are also celebrating SFD. I believe necessary to respect them. I trust you. Thank you for their attention. Regards, p_eter > And if I read this: > > ""Central America" may mean different things to different people in the > world according to the context..." > > ... I do not think it would be a good idea to play that card, especially > not at this point of preparations. Central America just seems to be a > blurry term - and we would have to discuss in length which definition we > would take. > > And in the end its all about making great local events in our regions, > isn't it so? > > Regards, > > Thilo > -- http://PreguntasLinux.Org Comunidad de Software Libre Foro GNU/Linux/FOSS/*NIX Support Installfest FLISoL SFD http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/global/preguntaslinux http://flisol.info

July 23, 2010