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SFI President speaking at GNOME.Asia Summit in Bangalore
by Frederic Muller - SFI Sept. 4, 2012

Sept. 4, 2012

Dear all, Considering we have had a lot of teams in India in the past years I will be traveling to Bangalore, India and attend the GNOME.Asia Summit 2011 [1]. I intend to talk about why Software Freedom matters, explain a few more things about licensing (based on discussion I have had on IRC with some Indian team leaders), Free Software and Open Source and hopefully run a round table discussion with potential team leaders for 2011. The main motivation has been that for the first time SFI founder, VP and treasurer and I met in 2010 for the 1st time after 3 full years of collaboration, and a lot of things came out of it. I believe getting a chance to sit together and discuss various strategies, event organization and road blocks can be very beneficial for the team leaders who could attend. Looking forward to meeting some of you in person, and hopefully the SFI board will be able to attend other FOSS conferences in the upcoming months in different areas and engage into face to face communication with more team leaders. Thank you very much for your continuous efforts to celebrate software freedom. Kind regards, Frederic Muller SFI President

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Regards
by endurance odion Aug. 18, 2011

Aug. 18, 2011

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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SFD registration opening delayed to next week (June 6 or 7)
by Frederic Muller - SFI May 31, 2011

May 31, 2011

Dear all, I'm having connectivity issues preventing me to finish what needs to be done. Hopefully I'll be back home for the weekend and be able to work on this to launch registration next week. Sorry for the inconvenience. Fred

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Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD-discuss Digest, Vol 50, Issue 7
by Prince Annan Koomson May 31, 2011

May 31, 2011

I will be grateful if the logo can be open so we the Africans can also translate the writing into our native language. On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:00 AM, <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: Logo for SFD 2011 (Efrain Valles) > 2. Re: Logo for SFD 2011 (Brandon Lum) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 08:47:58 -0430 > From: Efrain Valles <effie-jayx(a)ubuntu.com> > Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] Logo for SFD 2011 > To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org> > Message-ID: <BANLkTikk9GaP+Y_gVTsBQKOpqZOSQ62Gww(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hello all, great work on the proposed logo, In latin america we would > like to have access to fonts to be able to write the text in spanish. > Is there a posibility to have the fonts available as well? > > Thanks for your consideration. > > > -- > Efrain Valles > https://launchpad.net/~effie-jayx > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 21:20:57 +0800 > From: Brandon Lum <lumjjb(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] Logo for SFD 2011 > To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org> > Message-ID: <BANLkTikMHZgoeLVChTiHmcBPBwG5ES_Zrg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi Efrain, > > The font used for the logo is ubuntu. There is a link at the bottom of the > page where you can download it, under the link Ubuntu font > file< > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Artwork/ProposedLogoMaxus?action=AttachF… > > > . > > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Artwork/ProposedLogoMaxus > > Cheers > Brandon > > On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Efrain Valles <effie-jayx(a)ubuntu.com > >wrote: > > > Hello all, great work on the proposed logo, In latin america we would > > like to have access to fonts to be able to write the text in spanish. > > Is there a posibility to have the fonts available as well? > > > > Thanks for your consideration. > > > > > > -- > > Efrain Valles > > https://launchpad.net/~effie-jayx > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > SFD-discuss mailing list > > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > > >

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Re: [SFD-discuss] Logo for SFD 2011
by Efrain Valles May 29, 2011

May 29, 2011

Hello all, great work on the proposed logo, In latin america we would like to have access to fonts to be able to write the text in spanish. Is there a posibility to have the fonts available as well? Thanks for your consideration. -- Efrain Valles https://launchpad.net/~effie-jayx

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Logo for SFD 2011
by Buddhika Kurera May 19, 2011

May 19, 2011

Hello Folks, Any updates on logo designing? see you -- Regards, Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera

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Re: [SFD-discuss] Structuring the SFD Wiki for 2011
by Peter Eisinger May 13, 2011

May 13, 2011

> Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 07:29:51 -0400 > From: C David Rigby <c.david.rigby(a)gmail.com> > On Wednesday 11,May,2011 07:45 PM, Frederic Muller - SFI wrote: >> On 05/12/2011 04:20 AM, christopher avila wrote: >>> >>> Hi David/Fred: >>> >>> I'm from Mexico and I think it is much better to call it "Central >>> America", this will be clear for people in my country. >>> These are the 4 regions that most people use when referring to the >>> term"Subdivision of Americas": >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LocationNSAm2.png >>> >>> North America >>> Central America >>> Caribbean >>> South America >>> >>> BR /// Christopher >> >> Ok but you're aware that Mexico is NOT Central America as per this >> definition? >> > > Mexico is in North America. Always has been, always will be! {;-> Sorry, in this point it doesn't interest that country belongs or not to some region. Regions or not regions, this is the questions. Already with Pia one had spoken that it was better to make it short. softwarefreedomday.org is already an url something long + continent/region+country+team It is not good neither for people neither for the bots. a lot of click or redirecciones, neither are good.

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Structuring the SFD Wiki for 2011
by Frederic Muller - SFI May 12, 2011

May 12, 2011

Dear all, I have started to work on the wiki structure for 2011 and considering the issues we had last year with the American continent we are orientating ourselves towards a different split. We will keep the same sub-structure of Continent/Country/City/Team or sometimes Continent/Region/Country/City/Team . This year we will be stricter on the City/Team as we had some city page hijack in 2010 where some team took the whole page and other teams in the same area had issues being listed. Yes for small areas it lengthen the URL but we need to be fair to all teams. We will keep the "URL shortener service" as well (need to be arranged for 2011). The 2011 home page can be found here: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011 No country page has been added yet, and I also need to adapt all the templates which Thilo did last year. Subdivisions chosen is available here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas#Terminology - 3rd one from the top. I still have a few questions before I start copying and adapting stuff from 2010: - Is the chosen split ok? The logic is that we have 3 areas. I discarded the 3 other splits because: * Split 1: the one we used last year and which people complained about * Split 2: so few countries in Central America and then there is one more zone called Caribbean making a total of 4 zones * Split 4: it's a 2 zones split, but not matching what one could think of physical continents. - The entry page for South America is currently in Spanish (same as 2010). Does it make sense? http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011/SouthAmerica - Should we keep the 3rd split which is currently implemented I would suggest to place the 2 countries in green in Middle America but without much background information. What do you guys think? - Maybe someone could resend that email to the planning-es list translated so everyone fully understand what it's all about (and then translate the feedback back too... No hablo español) - Maybe same goes for planning-pt, though I don't think we have a lot of subscribers yet. Thanks and looking forward to constructive feedback. PLEASE DO NOT CREATE TEAM PAGES YET AS STRUCTURE COULD CHANGE! Fred SFI President

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Re: [SFD-discuss] Structuring the SFD Wiki for 2011
by Peter Eisinger May 12, 2011

May 12, 2011

El 11/05/2011 20:53, sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org escribió: > I'm really ok with what the majority decides though it has to match some > widely approved definition so teams and visitors can easily find their city. > > Else we can also remove continents all together but we'll end up with a > long country list (100+) +1 > making navigation/finding your place a bit > cumbersome (especially when web surveys say people don't scroll...). > > Thank you very much for the feedback. > > Fred http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011/Country/Team IMHO, it is the best

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Re: [SFD-discuss] [Marketing] Structuring the SFD Wiki for 2011
by Frederic Muller - SFI May 11, 2011

May 11, 2011

Yes that's another way, which was the less popular options for people from Latin America last year (but preferred to North/South only). As I replied to David let's give it a few days and see what people living in that part of the world prefer. Fred On 05/11/2011 11:33 PM, JM C. Bitanga wrote: > How about combining all the subdivisions simply as The Americas? Such a > classification is being utilized by a popular web analytics software. > > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Frederic Muller - SFI > <fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org <mailto:fred@softwarefreedomday.org>> wrote: > > Dear all, > > I have started to work on the wiki structure for 2011 and considering > the issues we had last year with the American continent we are > orientating ourselves towards a different split. > > We will keep the same sub-structure of Continent/Country/City/Team or > sometimes Continent/Region/Country/City/Team . This year we will be > stricter on the City/Team as we had some city page hijack in 2010 where > some team took the whole page and other teams in the same area had > issues being listed. Yes for small areas it lengthen the URL but we need > to be fair to all teams. > > We will keep the "URL shortener service" as well (need to be arranged > for 2011). > > The 2011 home page can be found here: > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011 > > No country page has been added yet, and I also need to adapt all the > templates which Thilo did last year. Subdivisions chosen is available > here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas#Terminology - 3rd one from > the top. > > I still have a few questions before I start copying and adapting stuff > from 2010: > - Is the chosen split ok? The logic is that we have 3 areas. I discarded > the 3 other splits because: > * Split 1: the one we used last year and which people complained about > * Split 2: so few countries in Central America and then there is one > more zone called Caribbean making a total of 4 zones > * Split 4: it's a 2 zones split, but not matching what one could think > of physical continents. > - The entry page for South America is currently in Spanish (same as > 2010). Does it make sense? > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011/SouthAmerica > - Should we keep the 3rd split which is currently implemented I would > suggest to place the 2 countries in green in Middle America but without > much background information. What do you guys think? > - Maybe someone could resend that email to the planning-es list > translated so everyone fully understand what it's all about (and then > translate the feedback back too... No hablo español) > - Maybe same goes for planning-pt, though I don't think we have a lot of > subscribers yet. > > Thanks and looking forward to constructive feedback. > > PLEASE DO NOT CREATE TEAM PAGES YET AS STRUCTURE COULD CHANGE! > > Fred > SFI President > > _______________________________________________ > Marketing mailing list > Marketing(a)sf-day.org <mailto:Marketing@sf-day.org> > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/marketing > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Marketing mailing list > Marketing(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/marketing

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