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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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Starting new Open-Source Software distro for Windows
by Alexey Eromenko 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

Hi all ! I have started new Open-Source distro for Windows, based on TheOpenCD, copying it's look and feel. Original TheOpenCD and it's fork, theopendisc, are both inactive. It is time for something new. The new project, named Qumble, already has BETA1 and forum ready. link: http://qumble.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2 Could you help me test it and advertise it (help spread the word) ? --- P.S. http://softwarefreedomday.org/ ---> "Contact US" is broken. I have tried like 10 times, but always failed in the "captcha" visual recognition stage. Please check it out. (or disable this test) Best Wishes, -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov", 31.08.2011.

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official SFD2011 DVDs are available via torrent for testing
by Jiří Navrátil 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

and later for sharing with everyone. Could you kindly test it and seed as long as possible? (without rating limitation) I will also appreciate, if you can diff resulted DVD against the original ones you own. Details and torrent file is on http://www.navratil.cz/SFD2011/ After testing and with seeding of many of us, we can put the torrent file on official web and share with everyone. Thank you for participation. Best regards, Jiri -- Jiri Navratil, http://www.navratil.cz, +420 777 224 245

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Ubuntu CD Pack Surprise Custom Charges!!!
by karan pratap singh 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

Hi all I met a guy from TNT courier service today, he came to my home demanding approximately 45 USD for Custom charges that were put on the value of the Ubuntu CDs pack I was supposed to get as a part of my SFD package.....I had ordered the max possible quantity of CDs that was possible while registration, and the CDs weigh about 6.7 KiloGrams....My friend in another state of India, also organizing SFD, received 60 CDs but did not get charged any custom fee! Are these charges even meant to be paid by us? Now, will SFD people reimburse me for this amount? Since we are college students and a bit tight with the budget, moreover we have already spent most of our money on booking a good venue for our SFD celebrations. The TNT guy said that if I do not pay him, then say goodbye to packages! -- regards, Karan Pratap Singh PULUG, Chandigarh, India

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SFD in Odessa (Ukraine)
by Дмитрий Сподарец 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

Hi all, My name is Dmitry Spodarets. I am the organizer of 2011 FOSS Sea – The 4thAnnual International Free Software Developer & User Conference that will take place on September 16-18 in Odessa, Ukraine. The agenda will include a mini FOSS project show, and we have an idea of installing a Software Freedom Day presentation desk there. Unfortunately, we were a bit late to apply for the SFD pack, so we will highly appreciate if anyone can help us to get the goodies, either by sending them to us or by making a financial contribution so that we can produce the staff locally. We will be also very grateful if you place the info about our Conference on your websites. The event’s website is http://www.foss-sea.org.ua, but its English page is available at http://expopromoter.com/events/130502/iv_mezhdunarodnoy_konferentsii_foss_s… Speakers and FOSS projects (including in science & research) are welcome to join the event, as well as companies that have any FOSS-based solutions. P.S. Will be happy to meet/talk to organizers of FOSS conferences from other countries to share experience :) -- Sincerely, Dmitry Spodarets *icq:* 259980; *jabber:* m31(a)jabber.od.ua; *skype:* m31-rootua; * tel:* +38(063)735-35-26, +38(048)735-35-26, +38(050)391-28-70; * e-mail:* m31(a)root-ua.com; LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/spodarets>; twitter <https://twitter.com/m31_rootua>; FB<http://www.facebook.com/spodarets>; VK <http://vk.com/spodarets>; Google+<https://plus.google.com/102706876917088562000> ;

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SFD Package Received for Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA
by Mark Walker 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 An orange package from Breda, Netherlands arrived today. Total contents are as follows: 8 copies of Ubuntu 11.04 i386 CD 2 copies of Kubuntu 11.04 i386 CD We'll distribute these at FredLUG's participation in SFD 2011: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011/USA/VA/Fredericksburg/FredLUG Mark - -- Mark Caldwell Walker Contact info at marwalk.tel GnuPG public key AA482E46 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk5cSpcACgkQfCKHDapILkaRUACfbLkl4zMLqHoFLu3+ClVd867Q zbYAnjDKy7t9jninKRPrCk1nw0FCYYea =L2nr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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free software & accessibility
by Ivan Shmakov 27 Aug '11

27 Aug '11

>>>>> Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.productions(a)gmail.com> writes: [Cross-posting to both sfd-discuss@ and planning-ru@.] […] > GNU/Linux provides superior alternatives to JAWS - the only reason > more sight impaired people don't ditch MS is because they don't hear > about it - and because they get stupid advice (you need to learn > things - learning shouldn't be necessary). I wonder, could the upcoming Software Freedom Day be a kind of opportunity to spread the word of Free Software to them? Our team would probably have joined the deal, but, unfortunately, we don't apparently have anything to offer to the sight impaired at our disposal (no embossers, no Braille terminals, and I don't even know if the speech synthesizers provided with Debian support Russian.) [To the Russian teams: or do we have anything of this sort, actually?] […] -- FSF associate member #7257 Coming soon: Software Freedom Day http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/ planning-ru (ru), sfd-discuss (en)

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SFD Countdown Galician language added, howto activate it?
by José Manuel Ciges Regueiro 26 Aug '11

26 Aug '11

Hello, I have just added the description page <http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/gl> with the source code (.tar.gz with the SVG files) and PNG images for having the SFD Countdown banner in galician language. Could you please activate it? When I try the following HTML it still does not work: <a href="http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/es/"><img src="http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/countdown/banner1-UTC+1-gl.png" border="0" width="190" height="200" alt="Celebra con nos o SFD este 17 de setembro"></a> Greetings from Galicia (Spain) -- Ciges

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Pack track number
by Alexjan Carraturo 26 Aug '11

26 Aug '11

I was wondering if it was possible to have the number of parcels sent traking SFD (I'm not referring to the Ubuntu CD). If the case had already been stated, I apologize for not having properly read the information you have provided I thank you in advance cordially Alexjan Carraturo -- Alexjan Carraturo -- Free Software User Group Italia administrator (http://www.fsugitalia.org) Fedora/OpenSUSE Ambassador member of FSFE Italian Team Twitter/Facebook/Identica: axjslack Blog: http://axjslack.wordpress.com --

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Re: [SFD-discuss] Pack track number
by Seun Ojedeji 26 Aug '11

26 Aug '11

I have received it too....though the tracking number included in the mail reports "not found" On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Marcelo Araldi <marcelo.araldi(a)yahoo.com.br > wrote: > i've receveid it too! > I believe it is the pack :) > > *Marcelo Araldi > me encontre na web! <http://about.me/marceloaraldi>* > * > * > > > > 2011/8/25 christopher avila <avila.christopher(a)gmail.com> > >> Hi Community: >> >> I've just received an email from "EngSupport.AHE(a)tnt.com"<EngSupport.AHE(a)tnt.com>regarding shipment sent to me by PROMESE NETHERLANDS B.V. >> Do you know if this is related to the SFD pack? >> >> thanks! >> >> KR///Mario Christopher >> >> >> On 24/08/2011 01:58 a.m., Pockey Lam wrote: >> >> On 08/24/2011 02:36 PM, Alexjan Carraturo wrote: >> >> I was wondering if it was possible to have the number of parcels sent >> traking SFD (I'm not referring to the Ubuntu CD). >> >> If the case had already been stated, I apologize for not having >> properly read the information you have provided >> >> >> The process of shipment tracking is rather complicated this year as we >> used a combination of different couriers in order to save cost. That means >> it involved more than one system / website to track the parcel depending on >> the countries. >> >> I would suggest let's be patient and wait until 10 September if any team >> still haven't received their team packs on 10 September, please drop me an >> email at pockey(at)softwarefreedomday(dot)org , I will be happy to provide >> help accordingly. I hope you understand. >> >> Pockey >> >> I thank you in advance >> cordially >> >> Alexjan Carraturo >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SFD-discuss mailing listSFD-discuss@sf-day.orghttp://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 > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Seun Ojedeji, System Analyst/Network Administrator University of Nigeria, Nsukka (Enugu Campus) web: http://www.unn.edu.ng Mobile: +2348035233535 Skype: seun.ojedeji alt email: seun.ojedeji(a)gmail.com* *you don't need a hero to succeed on the field....you need a team!*

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