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SFI President speaking at GNOME.Asia Summit in Bangalore
by Frederic Muller - SFI 04 Sep '12

04 Sep '12

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 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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Hi, SFD organization!
by Damián Muraña 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

Hello, my name is Damian Muraña, and I registered on the list in order to help and be helped in organizing the SFD. I'm from Rio Branco, Uruguay, and I represent the groups 'Cultura Libre Digital' [0] and 'Río Branco Libre' [1] who are organizing the event in the same city [2], more specifically in a nearby spa. I registered in the lists that it considers appropriate, and here communicate our intention to organize the event, and more than intent, and we have something in advance. According to the guide start next thing is to create a page on the wiki, right? Regards, PS: Sorry if my English isn't very good. [0] http://www.cld.org.uy [1] http://sites.google.com/site/riobrancolibre/ [2] http://www.softwarefreedomday.cld.org.uy/ -- Damián Muraña Linux Registered User #460383 http://www.geekdiotizados.com.uy

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International Conference in Lima
by Luis Gustavo Lira 05 Jun '11

05 Jun '11

Hi, The International FabLab Conference organized by MIT's Center for Bits & Atoms will be in Lima (Peru) this year (August 15-20). Our hackerspace "Yachachiq" want to organize an International HackerSpace Conference after the FabLab Conference (August 22 -26) in Lima and Cusco. Please fill the following form we need some information for planning and organize the conference. https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGZINnpkZnI1MX…

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