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Persian CountDown

by Bersam K

Hi everybody, one of Persian Designer Translated CountDown (little changes), and i uploaded that in wiki, so please add persian to countdown. http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/fa Thanks, -- And Still Nobody Cares *contact me:* https://forms.hush.com/bersam Gmail : Bersam.k [at] gmail hushmail : bersam [at] hushmail Weblog : http://Bersam.wordpress.com GPG Key : 6B6B7E27<http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xCD82BAC86B6B7E…>

Aug. 22, 2011

having the event for SFD in Nagoya,Japan.

by Masafumi Ohta

Hello. We Japanese Team FLOSS Sakurayama planning to host a event for SFD in Nagoya. See the team wiki for more detail http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011/Japan/Nagoya/FLOSSS. if you live in Nagoya and would attend the event register with atnd website to join. http://atnd.org/events/19203 (written in Japanese but you Gaijin-san are always welcome our event!).also you can see our team on facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/flosss/ hope to share the celebration with SFD guys all over the world :) Regards, -masafumi

Aug. 22, 2011

Re: [SFD-discuss] Presentation draft

by Michael Dorrington

On 21/08/11 14:27, Frederic Muller - SFI wrote: > > > On 08/21/2011 09:06 PM, yaromir(a)hotbox.ru wrote: >> OpenSource as an ideology > OpenSource is a development methodology. So if you want to talk about > philosophy you should talk about Free Software. So good to hear that said. > Now I fully agree with you that SFD is not about GNU/Linux but about > Software Freedom, and getting people to know about it and why it is > important. <snip lots of good stuff> I wholeheartedly agree. We will be helping Windows and MacOS users to try out (more) Free Software on their computers. If you get them to use cross platform Free Software then when they do (hopefully) become ready to make the move to a Free Software OS then it will be a lot easier for them and be a natural progression to freedom. I would, from the start, still stress to them the importance of having a fully free software system. Regards, Mike.

Aug. 21, 2011

Re: [SFD-discuss] Team packs starting to arrive

by Michael Dorrington

On 21/08/11 15:28, Frederic Muller - SFI wrote: > Dear all, > > Just wanted to let you know that I have received messages from a few > teams who have received the SFD team packs. Those teams are in: > - Germany > - Sri Lanka > - Singapore > - China We received our pack in Manchester, UK on Friday. > People seem to be rather happy with the stuff... Really good pack this time. T-shirts feel good, the transfers are great (good idea of mine), stickers appreciated, banner is great to get people in, balloons for the event photos :), and disks of free, as in freedom, stuff. Thanks to all the SFI team for getting this sorted. > No sign of any Ubuntu CD pack yet though. Let's hope they do arrive so that warning notice I wrote can go with them. :) Cheers, Mike.

Aug. 21, 2011

Team packs starting to arrive

by Frederic Muller - SFI

Dear all, Just wanted to let you know that I have received messages from a few teams who have received the SFD team packs. Those teams are in: - Germany - Sri Lanka - Singapore - China People seem to be rather happy with the stuff... No sign of any Ubuntu CD pack yet though. Just wanted to let you know, it's time to keep those phone on during day time or watch your home mailbox. Fred

Aug. 21, 2011

Re: [SFD-discuss] Presentation draft

by Frederic Muller - SFI

On 08/21/2011 09:06 PM, yaromir(a)hotbox.ru wrote: > OpenSource as an ideology OpenSource is a development methodology. So if you want to talk about philosophy you should talk about Free Software. Now I fully agree with you that SFD is not about GNU/Linux but about Software Freedom, and getting people to know about it and why it is important. We are currently working on providing a set of several presentations with comments to help SFD teams organizers and speakers with delivering content. I gave a talk early this year about "Why software freedom matters" which covers exactly those points. I am currently reviewing those slides with a few people to make sure nothing is left out. > For SFD organizers this will help to be a bit more assured, that SFD is > about freedom, not about trying Linux. Totally right: local events should encourage anyone regardless of the operating system to try and use Free Software. It is a lot easier to change the browser or email client you use than the whole operating system. This will also keep users of the Windows and OS X operating systems interested. Thank you very much for reinforcing that point. Fred ps: links to slides will be posted when available, but surely it will be linked from that page: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources

Aug. 21, 2011

Sinhala - Sri Lanka countdown is active and running

by Buddhika Kurera

Hello All, Sri Lankan countdown banners are up and active, please use them to promote your event, you can place them on your web site or blog or anyplace. Countdown page : http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/si [FIND THE CODE FOR THE BANNER ON THE WIKI PAGE] Further 6 teams from Sri Lanka can use this and happy to see 6 teams me be another few teams can be pop up at the last minute. http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011/Sri%20Lanka/ Wish you all the best and a happy software freedom day. -- Regards, *Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera* Fedora Ambassador Sri Lanka Event Liaison - Design Team

Aug. 21, 2011

Presentation draft

by yaromir＠hotbox.ru

Hello, everyone. Last year there was a common issue that many speakers on SFD events were talking only about Linux and agitating to try some distribution and were not talking about OpenSource as an ideology: that it encourages people to share, that it is an effective model of code reusage and making standards. This will be good if presentation draft will be made with keynotes covering fundamental benefits of OpenSource to direct speaker in right direction. For speakers this will ease the preparation of talks. So possibly there will be more events held, because, i think, many of the enthusiasts are willing to give a talk, but don't know how to build their talk and are afraid to go to the public because of this. For SFD organizers this will help to be a bit more assured, that SFD is about freedom, not about trying Linux. I wish everyone endurance in SFD preparations. ;) Best regards. yaromir

Aug. 21, 2011

Re: [SFD-discuss] [Marketing] SFD 2011 Stuff reached Germany

by Brandon Lum

Calling out from Singapore, just got the team pack in this morning! Really awesome stuff, love the T-shirts and nice banner! Tons of great things in a small package! Cheers Brandon On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Pockey Lam <pockey(a)softwarefreedomday.org>wrote: > On 08/19/2011 08:21 PM, Edgar "Fast Edi" Hoffmann wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello. > Today the nice package with the celebration-stuff arrived! > > Very nice stickers and (as always) great t-shirts. > > I will promote our SFD-Event tomorrow again on my info-booth in our town. > > Greetings from Offenburg, germany > > > Great you love the goodies! We had a bit more time to work on improving the > team pack. We are pleased to hear compliments! > Maybe you can blog about it! > > I also prepared some instruction to help make your own tshirts with the > tshirt transfer papers: > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/TshirtLabels > > All the best to your preparation! > > Pockey > > > Edgar "Fast Edi" Hoffmann > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAk5OVUoACgkQBqUiwR8olq23TwCgvEpgPu8F7QNlineO3kFFrwkj > DPEAoLNM7CSjVC4QaYHGCgh+1RQyZ/6g > =GsxQ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Marketing mailing listMarketing@sf-day.orghttp://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/marketing > > > > _______________________________________________ > Marketing mailing list > Marketing(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/marketing > >

Aug. 19, 2011

Re: [SFD-discuss] [Marketing] SFD 2011 Stuff reached Germany

by Pockey Lam

On 08/19/2011 08:21 PM, Edgar "Fast Edi" Hoffmann wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello. > Today the nice package with the celebration-stuff arrived! > > Very nice stickers and (as always) great t-shirts. > > I will promote our SFD-Event tomorrow again on my info-booth in our town. > > Greetings from Offenburg, germany Great you love the goodies! We had a bit more time to work on improving the team pack. We are pleased to hear compliments! Maybe you can blog about it! I also prepared some instruction to help make your own tshirts with the tshirt transfer papers: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/TshirtLabels All the best to your preparation! Pockey > > Edgar "Fast Edi" Hoffmann > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAk5OVUoACgkQBqUiwR8olq23TwCgvEpgPu8F7QNlineO3kFFrwkj > DPEAoLNM7CSjVC4QaYHGCgh+1RQyZ/6g > =GsxQ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Marketing mailing list > Marketing(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/marketing >

Aug. 19, 2011