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call for LPI training of trainers in East and Southern Africa
by Evans Ikua 16 Sep '10

16 Sep '10

Dear all, Wanted: Future trainers on FOSS Certification - (LPI certified Linux Administration) in East and Southern Africa! Application deadline for the 1st Regional Training of Trainers in Nairobi, Kenya, is September 22nd, 2010 (Course dates: 1st- 12th November 2010) The application deadline for the 2ndRegional Training of Trainers in Johannesburg, South Africa is November 15th, 2010 (Course dates: 14th- 25th February 2010) * Do you want to expand or kickstart the business of providing Linux Administration training? * Do you have experience in training others on Linux and, and/or are you part of a training institution? * Are you interested in building a successful business in Free/Open Source Software (FOSS), and in helping others to do the same? Then respond by September 22nd 2010 to become part of an exciting training programme on ?FOSS Certification? based on the Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) Level 1 Please visit the following link to get the full detailed requirements of this call and access the application forms and procedures. _http://www.ict-innovation.fossfa.net/blog/_[user-raw]/wanted-training-part… The ict@innovation programme, a partnership between FOSSFA and InWEnt, is looking for African experts and institutions wanting to become qualified trainers on the subject of Linux system administration. Trainers have the opportunity of incorporating FOSS Certification training into their institution's curriculum and/or developing FOSS Certification training as a new revenue stream. You have the opportunity to: * Thoroughly deepen your Linux administration skills * Become a trainer capable of offering training on the Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPI) * Certify your Linux skills with the LPI Certification * Establish FOSS Certification as a revenue stream and incorporate LPIC training in your institution? curriculum * Join a global network of expert Linux systems administrators and benefit from ongoing mentorship * Gain access to up to date Linux system administration training materials that you can use to enhance your training delivery The detailed course outline for LPIC-1 can be found at this link: http://www.lpi.org Sent on behalf of the management team of ict@innovation, George Nyambuya (ict@innovation / FOSSFA / InWEnt) and Petra Hagemann (InWEnt) - For all inquires and answers to this mail, please use the following address: ikua(a)fossfa.net - Please feel free to further distribute this information to persons / institutions which might be interested in the call. - In case you have received this information through different channels: sorry for cross-posting. Best regards, Evans Ikua FOSS Certification Manager, ICT@Innovation, FOSSFA/inWent,

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Best SFD 2009 Event Competition Winner
by Frederic Muller - SFI 16 Sep '10

16 Sep '10

Dear all, It is with great pleasure (and a bit of delay) that we're announcing the results of the Best 2009 SFD Event Competition. Many thanks to all the participants, organizers and sponsors for being here with us each year on SFD date since 2004 and making it happen. We saw some excellent examples of how to take software freedom to local communities, and we were inspired, as you all will be to see some of the outcomes and reports. Definitely a great read while you're still in the last stage of your preparations before the big day. Now to the prizes: the three outstanding teams will receive a Tux-Droid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux_Droid) and a trophy. The highly commended entries will receive a certificate for their excellent submissions. We want to extend a warm congratulations in particular to the three winners (in no particular order): * Bluepoint Linux User Elite * FOSS Nepal * 8Layertech and the three highly commended entries: * KN FOSS * TTCS Web * Emakulam Please do read more about the entries along with their reports in our competition 2009 results page here: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/competition/winners-2009 You will also have noticed that the 2010 Best Event Competition has been announced together with the prizes for this year. The rules will be finalized by the end of the month, but don't expect any drastic change: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/competition We hope you're all as much excited as us to see Makerbot Industries (a 3D open source printer) joining the rank of our supporters, and that will stimulate you to better document your event. Remember that the recommend hashtag is #softwarefreedomday and all the best for Saturday (or any other day if you had to find a better day)! Thank you all. SFI Board

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Remove files
by Paulo Henrique Santana 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

Hi, I need to remove some files from wiki, but I don't have permission to remove ou rewrite. http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/SouthAmerica/Brazil/Curitiba/GUD-BR… cartaz-sfd-curiitiba-A4.pdf cartaz-sfd-curiitiba-A4.zip cartaz-sfd-curitiba-A4.pdf cartaz-sfd-curitiba-A4.zip Thanks, -- Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana http://www.phls.com.br Tel. (41) 9638-1897 GNU/Linux user: 228719 GPG ID: 0443C450 .

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Announcing TTCS FSWIN CD - Free Software for Windows CD available for download
by Dev Anand Teelucksingh 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (TTCS) announces the availability of the TTCS FSWIN CD (http://ttcsweb.org/fswin-cd) a collection of Free Software for Windows, for download. Free Software is software that meets the Free Software Foundation's (FSF) definition : http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html ; The impetus for the TTCS FSWIN CD came from a request from someone from Free Software Foundation Europe (FSF Europe) (http://www.fsfe.org/) currently co-organising Software Freedom Day 2010 (SFD) and was looking for a Free Software for windows CD for SFD teams to use and distribute to the public. While the TTCS has a TTCS OSSWIN CD, a collection of Free and Open Source Software for Windows (http://www.ttcsweb.org/osswin-cd/) ; not all open source software meets the Free Software definition. A list of software licenses that meets the FSF's definition of Free Software and those that do not can be found at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html Hence the creation of the TTCS FSWIN CD since nearly all of the software on the TTCS OSSWIN CD matched the FSF's definition of Free Software. What was done : - All of the licenses for all 92 programs on the TTCS OSSWIN CD were examined. A short list of programs that didn't meet the FSF definition of Free Software was determined. - For those programs, Free Software equivalents were located, documented and added to the TTCS FSWIN CD webpages. - All of the program descriptions for the TTCS OSSWIN CD was updated to mention Free Software instead of just Open Source and used to provide the web based documentation for the TTCS FSWIN CD. - webpages and program were assembled together to finalise an ISO of the TTCS FSWIN CD. Short sentences on what was done, but *lots* of hours involved :-) The result is the TTCS FSWIN CD - Free Software for Windows is available for download thanks to a mirror provided by the FSF Europe. Details about the TTCS FSWIN CD, including the download mirror can be found at http://www.ttcsweb.org/fswin-cd/ . Date created : September 8th, 2010 File name : ttcs_fswin_cd_v1.00.iso File size : 693 MB (727,220,224 bytes) MD5 checksum : 3a38ef06e56a87199122a425bac020a4 / 3a38ef06 e56a8719 9122a425 bac020a4 The TTCS will continue to maintain the TTCS OSSWIN CD, in addition to the TTCS FSWIN CD. With our experience of developing multiple versions of CDs, we are looking to develop a TTCS OSSWIN DVD and a TTCS OSSMAC CD and/or DVD in the near future. Regards, Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society at http://ttcsweb.org/ ; http://fb.me/ttcsweb ; http://twitter.com/ttcs "networking local computer users!"

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Still no updates on the Spanish section
by Alexandro Colorado 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

Hi a couple of days ago I sent an email alerting of the non-localized status of the Spanish site in Drupal. Still there has been no updates. Is there something we can do to update it? -- *Alexandro Colorado* *OpenOffice.org* Español http://es.openoffice.org

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this is a test
by Alexandro Colorado 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

ping -- *Alexandro Colorado* *OpenOffice.org* Español http://es.openoffice.org

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9 days to go
by Frederic Muller - SFI 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

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New SFD website launched!
by Frederic Muller - SFI 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

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Red Hat speakers
by Frederic Muller - SFI 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

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Any chance on adding OpenOffice.org to the sponsor list
by Alexandro Colorado 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

I very much would like to have the OpenOffice.org listed as supporters. Here is a badge to the current measures of your other sponsors from your site. http://alexandro.biz/OOoES_0.png http://alexandro.biz/OOoES_0.svg -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español http://es.openoffice.org

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