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Celebrate Software Freedom Day Song
by meric mara July 25, 2011

July 25, 2011

Guys. We just wish to share this song/music that we did in preparation for The SFD Celebration this year. And yes we intend to use tune for our SFD Celebration here in the Philippines (sfdph2011). If at any rate, you find it useful or friendly to listen/use as well, feel free to use it for your SFD Celebration. Here's the Lyrics of the Song. Title: Celebrate Software Freedom Day Let’s go out and celebrate It’s the Software Freedom Day (Chill out/ Cheer out)Yell out and participate It’s the Software Freedom Day Let everyone know there’s a software for(that’s) free Free to use for you and me Free to run and study Modify, make copies Save more money It’s the Software Freedom Day Let’s go out and celebrate It’s the Software Freedom Day (Chill out/ Cheer out) Yell out and participate It’s the Software Freedom Day Throughout the whole world Sharing is a plenty Hackers are smiling, knowledge a’flowing Dance to the beat and feel the heat Free and Open Software is Here to Stay. Software Freedom Day aha (2x) Software Freedom Day. You can find the audio (mp3 and ogg version) at this link below. http://labs.cre8tivetech.com/2011/07/celebrate-software-freedom-day-song/ Thank you Meric

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Fwd: [Design] Site Posting and SFD 2011 Countdown
by Frederic Muller - SFI July 25, 2011

July 25, 2011

Hi! Forwarding this from the marketing team. I think anyone can help with the tasks below as it has been done in the past. Thank you. Fred -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Design] Site Posting and SFD 2011 Countdown Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:59:18 +0800 From: Pockey Lam <pockey(a)softwarefreedomday.org> Reply-To: The SFD art team mailing list <design(a)sf-day.org> To: design(a)sf-day.org, The SFD marketing committee list <marketing(a)sf-day.org> Dear all, We still have around 50 days left to SFD 2011, we need your help to heavily promote Software Freedom Day now! We are recruiting volunteers to help us to promote the SFD 2011 registration, there are a lot of ways to spread the words of SFD: 1) Announcement on your websites 2) Social networks (http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/SocialNetworks) 3) Blogging 4) Contact your press in your region 5) Contact FOSS related communities in your region by mailing list or other means 6) Others, please feel free to share ideas with us Please also help us to promote by placing one of the banners here http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Promote on your websites or blogs. Whenever you talk about marketing SFD, please put your links on http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Marketing/SitePosting so we can keep track! Besides, I have designed the count down we talked about and I am going to make 50 files for Fred to finish the count down feature for communities or team leaders to use on their site. http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Artwork#Count_Down *Please help us to spread the words and bring SFD further to every corner of the world! * Pockey

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random bug in the JavaScript library used to hide the address details
by Frederic Muller - SFI July 25, 2011

July 25, 2011

hi! I have been notified by 2 team leaders that the registration form in certain conditions doesn't display the address fields even when requesting supplies is set to Yes. The bug is confirmed upstream and while we tested the fix, it doesn't seem to be working for us. We have temporary set up an alternate registration form for people affected by the bug here: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/cgi-bin/register_alternate.py Sorry for the inconvenience and happy preparations. Thanks. Fred

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Registration problem - was(Re: SFD marketing meeting Sunday July 24 @ 1400UTC)
by Frederic Muller - SFI July 24, 2011

July 24, 2011

Moving this to discuss. Are you referring to team/event registration? and if so can you give the exact error message? Delivery address is only checked if the "need supplies" field is enabled. On 07/24/2011 09:50 AM, Buddhika Kurera wrote: > I tried to register but it wont allow me to get register. > Asking address but no field to enter it. > What about it? > >

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Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD 2011 registration is LIVE!!!
by Kevin Cole July 24, 2011

July 24, 2011

On Jul 23, 2011 8:07 PM, "Brandon Lum" <lumjjb(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Btw, I tried registering and it's giving me and error for my wiki page (Says it doesn't exist): > > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011/Singapore/Free%20%26%20Open%20Sourc… > > Do you think you can help me with that? Change the %20's back to spaces. I had the same problem earlier today. I don't know how well it will cope with the other punctuation. So try this: Singapore/Free & Open Source Alliance (Singapore)

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SFD 2011 registration is LIVE!!!
by Frederic Muller - SFI July 24, 2011

July 24, 2011

Dear all, This is with a great pleasure (and small delay) that we are announcing registration opening for SFD 2011! In fact some of you have already started to create you wiki pages and participated in the soft opening and registration testing that we started 2 days ago. Most bugs should have been cleared out of the way and I remain available for any problem you may encounter through email or on IRC (#SFD on freenode). Major highlights of the registration rewriting: - I didn't get any help from anyone so it took more time (I am no developer) - UTF-8 support, so all those South-American addresses we used to struggle with because of corrupted letters should be problems of the past - Better SFD Wiki URL check (I'd say 100% reliable now) - Ported to python so I can 'maintain' it now - The form asks for and matches SFD wiki login and email address which will allow you to update map coordinates later (still need to code that update bit) - Fixed Open Street Map marker click offset - Total event count on the global map page - Easy integration with the current web site design, and any design. That will make it easier for others to use it since we said we would release the code (still needs to do some cleanup and documentation writing though) - Saves directly in CSV format making it a lot easier to handle that big file at the end of the registration period. There are still one or two known issues (like the phone number format only gets check on the server side, requiring you to refill the form if you got it wrong - but we're working on it). Hopefully it should make the whole experience better and allow us to fix or improve it based on the feedback we get. A special thanks goes to Charles from Canada who spotted a very annoying address input bug and Jean from Belgium who sent me an extensive report, and all the others who participated. The other news for the year is that we are cash positive again and goodies are in production as we speak. This year we have raised sufficient funds to produce team packs for 200 teams (50% of last year total registered events). I want to particularly thank our sponsors who are making this possible, namely Canonical, Google, Nokia/Qt in China and Linode. We have also attracted more media sponsors this year (from 2 to 5 in total now) where we are running a A4/Letter size ad in the August/September edition for most (some are quarterly magazines). In no specific order those are Linux Magazine (long time partner), Linux Journal (yeah, welcome!), Ubuntu User, Admin Magazine and Smart Developer. And we are still in discussion with 2 or 3 other organizations. This year we also had a lot of back and forth with the Free Software Foundation about the impact of distributing non-free GNU/Linux distributions and pretending 'it is ok'. At the end proprietary software remains proprietary be it an office application or a device driver. Our objective is to educate the world about using high quality free and open source software and that is what we should be doing. This is a long topic and we will get back to it later this summer. Like last year there are about 10 days to goodies deadline (limited to the first 200 teams and Canonical is still providing Ubuntu CDs), so just go create a new team page under http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011 (not continent this year) and fill that form on http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/cgi-bin/register.py Last but not least I want to thank all the new volunteers who have joined the SFD global marketing team and are helping with global tasks. One of the net outcome has been our new SFD logo for 2011 which we will keep moving forward (thank you David, Jeff and Maxus Singapore) and the multimedia DVD which we have finally managed to make (thank you Diego, Marcos, Pockey). All artworks are available on http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Artwork and under a CC-BY license. And happy SFD preparations! Do subscribe to the discuss mailing list[1] if you haven't yet, read SFD Planet [2] read our blog[3] to keep posted (or RSS feed[4] to it). Any question do let us know. The SFI Board ps: do check the SFD 2010 winners for inspiration and thank you to Makerbot and FSF for the prizes. http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/competition/winners-2010 [1]: http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss [2]: http://planet.softwarefreedomday.org (we also have Spanish, Portuguese and German - URLs need to be updated) [3]:http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/blog [3]: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/blog?format=feed&type=rss

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Re: [SFD-discuss] [Marketing] the 3 DVDs from the team pack
by Pockey Lam July 21, 2011

July 21, 2011

hi there, This kind of discussion shouldn't be in the marketing mailing list so I moved this discussion to sfd-discuss mailing list. As Marcos said you don't need to register the event in order to prepare or plan for your event. A lot of teams have already set up their wiki page under http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011/ Please stay tuned while the registration should be open shortly end of this week or early next week. You may not know that the old registration form has a lot of bugs so Fred has been working on a new script. Since he is not a developer and he has very limited help, so let's give him sometime to make us a Free Bug-free script for this year and the years to come. On 07/21/2011 09:17 PM, Marcos Marado wrote: > Hi there, > > On Thursday 21 July 2011 14:14:25 endurance odion wrote: >> Good day >> I am glad to write you once more please I really need to know when >> registration of teams will start > You can do it already. Just head to http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011/ > and follow the link to your country, or, if it is not there, create it using > the form in the bottom of that page. > >> , and also I dont know if it is possible >> to get a covering letter or letter of introduction to enable me and my >> team source for sponsorship to organize the software freedom day this year >> to enable me and my team start organizing on time since the event is less >> than two months from now and we really need to make ours better than what >> we had last year thanks for your time > I don't think we have any "sponsorship request template", but that would be a > great idea. > SFI doesn't provide any letter to any local team to call for sponsorship. However, I have been organizing SFD events since 2007 in China, I believe as an organizer, what you need is to prepare a sponsorship proposal and send it to different companies and organizations that may be interested. The proposal can include: * Organizers introduction * What is SFD * Objectives of the event * When and where * target audiences and expected number * activities and schedule * potential speakers * estimated budget with breakdown * sponsorship options / package / benefits * contact info Hope it helps! All the best to your SFD event! Pockey Lam Director and Secretary Software Freedom International

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RE SFD-discuss Digest, Vol 52, Issue 4
by Bagus Ahmad July 21, 2011

July 21, 2011

I Like the Song ----- Pesan Asli ----- Dari: "sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org" <sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org> Kepada: sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org Cc: Dikirim: Rabu, 20 Juli 2011 19:00 Judul: SFD-discuss Digest, Vol 52, Issue 4 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: Celebrate Software Freedom Day Song (meric mara) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 01:48:53 +0800 (SGT) From: meric mara <meric_m(a)yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] Celebrate Software Freedom Day Song To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org>, "fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org" <fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org> Message-ID: <1311097733.83377.YahooMailNeo(a)web76806.mail.sg1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Dear Fred: We are delighted and glad to hear that you like the song and appreciate the work/effort. Thank you too for sharing with us an important/ relevant article to clarify copyright and non-commercial issues.? Upon reading along and pondering we realize how NC could be restrictive and may also be not towards culture and community building. Let us however be regarded a little time to consider our options more concretely and we promise to revert to you guys on a detailed and more positive note. Thank you very much and more power to all, Meric ________________________________ From: Frederic Muller - SFI <fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org> To: sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 4:35 PM Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] Celebrate Software Freedom Day Song Dear Meric, Thanks a lot for the great song! Definitely a worthy addition to our marketing tools for team organizers. I do have a small problem regarding the license being NC. Organizing a SFD event means that some team will raise funds and maybe even make money (for themselves or the organization they represent). So in that context NC being so vague could conflict with such an event. NC is also a lot more restrictive than GPL Nina Paley has a good blog post related to the issue which you can read here: http://blog.ninapaley.com/2010/09/01/paley-vs-doctorow/ And then some more: http://blog.ninapaley.com/2011/07/04/rantifesto/ http://blog.ninapaley.com/2010/10/20/creative-commons-branding-confusion/ With this in mind it would be really nice if you could re-license the song under a CC-BY-SA or CC-BY Thanks a lot for your consideration and looking forward to reading from you soon. Fred On 07/19/2011 02:16 PM, meric mara wrote: > Hi Pockey: > > Here's the License detail of the song > > Creative Commons License <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/> > Celebrate Software Freedom Day Song by Erwin Galang,Meric Mara and Deng > Silorio > <http://labs.cre8tivetech.com/2011/07/celebrate-software-freedom-day-song/> > is licensed under a Creative Commons > Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License > <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/>. > Based on a work at labs.cre8tivetech.com > <http://labs.cre8tivetech.com/2011/07/celebrate-software-freedom-day-song/>. > > Also, do you mind changing the link to the title of the song per se > ?"Celebrate Software Freedom Day Song" and just link it to > http://labs.cre8tivetech.com/2011/07/celebrate-software-freedom-day-song/ =) > > Thank you > > Meric > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Pockey Lam <pockey(a)softwarefreedomday.org> > *To:* meric mara <meric_m(a)yahoo.com> > *Cc:* Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org> > *Sent:* Tuesday, July 19, 2011 1:09 PM > *Subject:* Re: [SFD-discuss] Celebrate Software Freedom Day Song > > Hi Meric, > > That's really cool! It's indeed a very nice song, have the spirit of > celebrating SFD! The singing is very pro too! Thanks for sharing! > > I have added your link here: > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources#Songs > so all the teams can access it! > > And we will definitely play it in all the SFD events in China and > recommend it to all the other countries! > > By the way, what's the license? :-) > > Cheers, > Pockey > > On 07/19/2011 12:25 PM, meric mara wrote: >> Guys. >> >> We just wish to share this song/music that we did in preparation for >> The SFD Celebration this year. >> And yes we intend to use tune for our SFD Celebration here in the >> Philippines (sfdph2011). If at any rate, you find it useful or >> friendly to listen/use as well, feel free to use it for your SFD >> Celebration. >> >> Here's the Lyrics of the Song. >> Title: Celebrate Software Freedom Day >> >> Let?s go out and celebrate >> It?s the Software Freedom Day >> (Chill out/ Cheer out)Yell out and participate >> It?s the Software Freedom Day >> >> Let everyone know there?s a software for(that?s) free >> Free to use for you and me >> Free to run and study >> Modify, make copies >> Save more money >> It?s the Software Freedom Day >> >> Let?s go out and celebrate >> It?s the Software Freedom Day >> (Chill out/ Cheer out) Yell out and participate >> It?s the Software Freedom Day >> >> Throughout the whole world >> Sharing is a plenty >> Hackers are smiling, knowledge a?flowing >> Dance to the beat and feel the heat >> Free and Open Software is Here to Stay. >> >> Software Freedom Day >> >> aha (2x) >> Software Freedom Day. >> >> You can find the audio (mp3 and ogg version) at this link below. >> >> http://labs.cre8tivetech.com/2011/07/celebrate-software-freedom-day-song/ >> >> Thank you >> >> Meric >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SFD-discuss mailing list >> SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org? <mailto:SFD-discuss@sf-day.org> >> http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss _______________________________________________ SFD-discuss mailing list SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss

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2010 competition results announcement
by Frederic Muller - SFI July 21, 2011

July 21, 2011

Software Freedom Day 2010 Best Event Competition result announcements: Africa, Asia and Australia under the spotlights! Hudson, New Hampshire (May 23, 2011) - Software Freedom International is proud to announce the SFD 2010 best event competition results. Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) with the goal of educating the public about the existence and the benefits of using FOSS in education, in government, at home and in business. The SFD Best Event Competition is an international recognition of the efforts made by individual organizing teams in regards to spreading the importance of Software Freedom and reaching out to the relevant groups of people in their area. Each year three teams are chosen and the awards given to those teams are meant to help them further in their tasks for the years to come. This year, two leading organizations from the Free and Open Source Software movements have joined us to reward those exceptional achievers: the Free Software Foundation, the non-profit organization behind the Free Software movement, and Makerbot, a private company pushing the concept of Free Software to physical media and making an fully open source 3D printer. Among the 40 submissions we have received the three teams that came out as outstanding organizers and promoters of Software Freedom in 2010 are spread over 3 different continents. We would like to name in no specific order: * SFD team Melbourne, Australia * SFD team Yaoundé, Cameroon team * SFD team SPCF-CITE, Angeles City, Philippines As a side note we are very pleased to see winners from different areas this year, especially Africa and would also like to mention some entries which didn't make it in the top 3 but definitely deserve to be mentioned: * CPU & Software Freedom Network team, Manila, Philippines * 8layes team, manila, Philippines * Limestone Coast GLUG, Mount Gambier, Australia * NOSK team, Lalitpur, Nepal The above teams should be an inspiration to all SFD organizers and help you to prepare for SFD 2011 which will happen on Saturday September 17th this year. About SFI - Software Freedom International is the non-profit organization at the origin of Software Freedom Day. SFI handles sponsorship contracts, official team registrations, sending out schwags to teams, the annual Best SFD Event Competition and many other things. For more information please contact: Frederic Muller Software Freedom International President info (at) softwarefreedomday.org or visit our website at www.softwarefreedomday.org

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Re: [SFD-discuss] Celebrate Software Freedom Day Song
by Bagus Ahmad July 20, 2011

July 20, 2011

Hai Meric this song a very nice and so really heroic tone.

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