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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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Fwd: Stallman video for SFD
by Quiliro Ordóñez 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

This vídeo was recorded by Richard Stallman for Software Freedom day. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ben Sturmfels Date: 2010/9/14 Subject: Re: Stallman video for SFD To: Quiliro Ordóñez Cc: rms, Jeanne Rasata [...] Good quality for web viewing (480x270, 28 MB) http://www.softwarefreedom.com.au/resources/stallman-software-freedom-day.o… Lower quality (480x270, 13MB) http://www.softwarefreedom.com.au/resources/stallman-software-freedom-day-l… Ben -- Saludos/Greetings Quiliro Ordóñez 593(2)340 1517 / 593(9)821 8696 Even The Troops Are Waking Up <http://tinyogg.com/watch/My8SB/> ACTA – Un acuerdo que puede garantizar la crucificción de internet<http://quiliro.wordpress.com> GNU should mean "GNU's not Ubuntu!<http://quidam.cc/03-03-2010/gnu-should-mean-gnus-not-ubuntu> "Lo único que se necesita para que triunfe el mal es que los hombres de bien no hagan nada." Sergei Bondarchuk Estas son opiniones personales y no representan la posición de organización alguna.

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Welcome to LibreOffice and the Document Foundation
by Frederic Muller - SFI 29 Sep '10

29 Sep '10

Hi all, For those of you interested in cross platform Office suite OOo has just been forked and we now have a foundation (http://www.documentfoundation.org ) to manage the 'Linux' Office Suite called LibreOffice. The FAQ page should answer your questions: http://www.documentfoundation.org/faq/ Fred

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Tagging and planet matters
by Frederic Muller - SFI 25 Sep '10

25 Sep '10

Dear all, While you're all going through the most intense SFD moments of the year we would like to inform you that we have: 1. created a new blog feed based on blog content around Software Freedom Day and readable here: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/sfd/blogs.html . 2. added Flickr photos based on tagging here and there on the site 3. updated the planet rules in order to get a better focus on Software Freedom. New rules are available here: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/blog/142-happy-tagging and will be applied in the coming days. We hope these new measures will make the overall content on SFD website more attractive and stimulating. Please send us your new blog feeds on the discussion mailing list with a hackergotchi or a photo of yourself (we'll happily Gimp you!). Thanks a lot and Happy SFD! Fred

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press clipping
by Frederic Muller - SFI 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

Dear all, I've starting to collect press coverage from various events at http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/press . Sometime it is hard for me to add non-English speaking countries as I am not always sure what it's talking about, nor which site is 'worthy of interest'. So please if you know about any press coverage about your own event, add it to the page in the proper section. Thanks a lot. Fred

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Re: [SFD-discuss] [Info] [SFD-announce] Feedback requested
by Frederic Muller - SFI 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

OK. So add a picture in your wiki page you need to: 1. log in 2. go to your wiki page (can be done either way 2 and 1 first works as well - it's just that a lot of issues come from people not being logged in.) 3. Look on the right end side of the menu bar: there is an "Actions" menu. click on it. 4. Select Attach File from the list 5. You can now upload a file (image or presentation or...) 6. Click on the Edit menu now and insert your image where you want in your page using the code [[attachment:file.ext]] where file.ext is the file name you just uploaded. 8. save (you can preview first to make sure). For further wiki editing you can find all the syntax here: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/HelpOnMoinWikiSyntax Let me know if you need anything else. Fred On 09/20/2010 09:20 PM, Frank Tilugulilwa wrote: > Hi Fred , > > I am struggling on how to update content in our homepage i.e pictures etc > > - > Frank Tilugulilwa > Tz > > > On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 12:47 +0800, Frederic Muller - SFI wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> We've posted a blog post at >> http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/blog/139-6-years-of-sfd-maps which >> looks at the evolution of the numbers of SFD teams over the years. There >> are some important points addressed in the post and we would like to >> hear from you on the subject. >> >> you can either comment directly at the bottom of the article or reply on >> sfd-discuss list. >> >> I know you're all busy with the preparations, looking at my web counter >> I see I have 20h and 10min left to SFD (the counter is local now, and >> calculating SFD at Sept. 18th 9am). So you don't have to reply right >> now, but within a week would be nice. >> >> Thanks a lot and Happy SFD! >> >> Fred >> SFI Board >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SFD-announce mailing list >> SFD-announce(a)sf-day.org <mailto:SFD-announce@sf-day.org> >> http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-announce > > > > _________________ University Computing Centre - 'Professionalism, > Customer Care and Technological foresight' > > > > _______________________________________________ > Info mailing list > Info(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/info

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Where are the simplest easiest to understand instructive materials for neophytes moving to GNU/Linux ?...
by don warner saklad 19 Sep '10

19 Sep '10

Instructive info with the easiest of learning curves. Where are the simplest easiest to understand instructive materials for neophytes moving to GNU/Linux. Especially weblinks cautious about the use of jargon or explain carefully any jargon used ! For example avoiding the jargon term distros, jargon not used by consumers generally. Meaningful advocating. Advocating is a lot easier and meaningful if it includes how do I setup GNU/Linux now?...

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a) Shoulder surfing videos. b) Bringing grandparents up to speed.
by don warner saklad 19 Sep '10

19 Sep '10

Thank you folks! I'm grateful for your interest. a) Shoulder surfing How about some shoulder surfing videos?... you go to youtube, trying to run that other format is problematical, and at youtube you watch people's screens as they do various things with a GNU/Linux setup. b) Grandparents How about instructive information for grandparents?... who may not have yet developed good coordination even moving a cursor around or need a reminder how to turn on the machine.

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SFD: Kolkata Report
by A. Mani 19 Sep '10

19 Sep '10

We had a seminar on 'FOSS in Education' on the day apart from general popularization of Linux on Software Freedom Day. A report and the slides of the presentations can be found at http://www.ilug-cal.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=166&Item… Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc

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A Great Day at SFD 2010
by Mark Walker 18 Sep '10

18 Sep '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thought I'd pass along that the Fredericksburg Linux Users Group (FredLUG) had a very productive day promoting FOSS. We had two tables in the 600 block of Caroline Street in old town Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA from 0900 to about 1545 (UTC−04). We talked with numerous people who'd never heard of Linux, provided them a comparison chart of proprietary applications and their FOSS counterparts, passed out OpenDisc DVDs with a list of several of the apps on it, as well as Fedora and Ubuntu live DVDs. There was a Linux laptop running a looped OpenOffice.org presentation telling of the advantages of FOSS, and a Mac PowerBook G4 running Yellow Dog Linux playing Creative Commons music in Rhythm Box; one visitor asked to turn up the volume so he could hear the music better. Several people said they'd stop by our follow-up InstallFest next Saturday, September 25th, to get Linux installed on their computers. It was a festive event and our whole group had a great time knowing this was taking place all over the world. A great day all around. Best to all, from Fredericksburg, Mark - -- Mark Caldwell Walker Contact info at marwalk.tel GnuPG public key AA482E46 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyVQBQACgkQfCKHDapILkbPqgCgq5hKtVEncjnhXq7rk0WKvcDA OCcAoNWgxCWu8Fix8bdz5d6bPLR2Izto =4vOO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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