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Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD 2011 registration is LIVE!!!

by Brandon Lum

Problem solved! I replaced the HTML encoded characters and it worked like a charm. Also, just saw the email on tonight's meeting. Tks. Brandon On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Brandon Lum <lumjjb(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Fedric, > > Good to hear that registration is up and things are going well. I've been > busy with my work lately and haven't had time to come on for the meetings. I > have more time now though, so I would like to join in again - is there one > tonight? > > 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? > > Thanks. > > Brandon > > > On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Mostafa Moradian <iiemanager(a)gmail.com>wrote: > >> Thank you for the information. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SFD-discuss mailing list >> SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org >> http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >> > >

July 24, 2011

Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD 2011 registration is LIVE!!!

by Brandon Lum

Hi Fedric, Good to hear that registration is up and things are going well. I've been busy with my work lately and haven't had time to come on for the meetings. I have more time now though, so I would like to join in again - is there one tonight? 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? Thanks. Brandon On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Mostafa Moradian <iiemanager(a)gmail.com>wrote: > Thank you for the information. > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >

July 24, 2011

Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD 2011 registration is LIVE!!!

by Mostafa Moradian

Thank you for the information.

July 23, 2011

Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD 2011 registration is LIVE!!!

by Frederic Muller - SFI

Hi! Well a good start would be to read http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/StartGuide and then you will learn a lot about how to organize your SFD event, what to do what not to do. And once you have thought about organizing your event (if you're up to it - it's not necessarily for everyone) probably you should register as per the instructions in the above guide. And then you will discover how to request the goodies. Good luck with the reading and the event preparations! Happy SFD Fred On 07/24/2011 02:24 AM, Mostafa Moradian wrote: > Hello, > > It is awesome to see that finally the registration is live for SFD > 2011. I want to know how we can request the goodies from SFD. > > Thanks, > Mostafa Moradian. > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >

July 23, 2011

Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD 2011 registration is LIVE!!!

by Mostafa Moradian

Hello, It is awesome to see that finally the registration is live for SFD 2011. I want to know how we can request the goodies from SFD. Thanks, Mostafa Moradian.

July 23, 2011

SFD 2011 registration is LIVE!!!

by Frederic Muller - SFI

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

July 23, 2011

Re: [SFD-discuss] About the SFD Pack

by Rodrigo Rodriguez

2011/7/21 Pockey Lam <pockey(a)softwarefreedomday.org> > ** > Hi Rodrigo, > > On 07/22/2011 10:53 AM, Rodrigo Rodriguez wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm Rodrigo, from Nicaragua SFD Team. > > I would like to know when the SFD team pack will be ready and who I must > ask for it. > > > The goodies are in production now! Please stay tuned, the registration > should be open in the coming days. Once it's open, we will send announcement > through this emailing list. > > Thanks for the quick answer. Well, yes, I'm referring the goodies, so I'm registering in the other lists to stay tuned. Thanks... > > We're preparing an event very interesting and we want to make a nice > presentation... :) > > > Cool! All the best to your preparation! Please blog about it and share us > the links! > > Pockey > > > Regards, > > -- > Rodrigo Isaac Rodríguez Borge* > Nòmada: el artista de la multitud > * > Linux user # 471524 | Ubuntu user # 23047 > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Nomada > > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing listSFD-discuss@sf-day.orghttp://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > > > -- Rodrigo Isaac Rodríguez Borge* Nòmada: el artista de la multitud * Linux user # 471524 | Ubuntu user # 23047 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Nomada

July 22, 2011

Re: [SFD-discuss] About the SFD Pack

by Frederic Muller - SFI

Hi! if you're referring to the goodies we send each year, the registration form should be up before the weekend, and production is in process(we will blog about it very soon too). If you are referring to some slides then maybe you need to clarify a bit more. Thanks. Fred On 07/22/2011 10:53 AM, Rodrigo Rodriguez wrote: > Hello, > > I'm Rodrigo, from Nicaragua SFD Team. > > I would like to know when the SFD team pack will be ready and who I must > ask for it. > > We're preparing an event very interesting and we want to make a nice > presentation... :) > > Regards, > > -- > Rodrigo Isaac Rodríguez Borge* > Nòmada: el artista de la multitud > * > Linux user # 471524 | Ubuntu user # 23047 > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Nomada > > > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss

July 22, 2011

Re: [SFD-discuss] About the SFD Pack

by Pockey Lam

Hi Rodrigo, On 07/22/2011 10:53 AM, Rodrigo Rodriguez wrote: > Hello, > > I'm Rodrigo, from Nicaragua SFD Team. > > I would like to know when the SFD team pack will be ready and who I > must ask for it. The goodies are in production now! Please stay tuned, the registration should be open in the coming days. Once it's open, we will send announcement through this emailing list. > > We're preparing an event very interesting and we want to make a nice > presentation... :) Cool! All the best to your preparation! Please blog about it and share us the links! Pockey > > Regards, > > -- > Rodrigo Isaac Rodríguez Borge* > Nòmada: el artista de la multitud > * > Linux user # 471524 | Ubuntu user # 23047 > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Nomada > > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss

July 22, 2011

About the SFD Pack

by Rodrigo Rodriguez

Hello, I'm Rodrigo, from Nicaragua SFD Team. I would like to know when the SFD team pack will be ready and who I must ask for it. We're preparing an event very interesting and we want to make a nice presentation... :) Regards, -- Rodrigo Isaac Rodríguez Borge* Nòmada: el artista de la multitud * Linux user # 471524 | Ubuntu user # 23047 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Nomada

July 22, 2011