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Re: [SFD-discuss] Team packs starting to arrive
by Bagus Ahmad 23 Aug '11

23 Aug '11

________________________________ Hello everyone the goodies has arrived in my country ( Malang - East Java - Indonesia ) thank's For SFI this goodies are very awesome. Regard Bagus A.M

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having the event for SFD in Nagoya,Japan.
by Masafumi Ohta 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

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

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4 weeks to go
by Frederic Muller - SFI 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

Dear all, we have now about 4 weeks left to SFD and I wanted to update everyone on all the great things which are happening this year. We have been working hard on SFD promotion to provide easy ways to advertise and attract people to your events. On top of the badges we showcased about 2 weeks ago we now have a multi-lingual countdown counter supporting all time zones. Currently nine languages are supported (English, German, Portuguese, French, Khmer, Sinhalese, Persian, Chinese simplified and traditional). It is very easy to add a new language should you need it and even documented. Link to countdown usage page: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/participate/countdown Link to translation howto: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/ Link to promotion badges: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Promote Since we are talking about promotion we would like to thank our media partners as we have a few new ones this year, and we have kept the old ones too. In no specific order those publications will advertise for SFD this month or the next: Linux Magazine, Linux Journal, Ubuntu Users, Admin magazine and Smart Developer. It is also important to thank our corporate sponsors who have followed us for quite a few years now and with whom we wouldn't be able to send those team packs or have our website up and running: Canonical, Google, Qt/Nokia and Linode. And then we have the people from other Free and Open Source projects joining the ranks of organizations celebrating SFD such as the FSF, the FSFE and newly stepping in this year, FreeBSD and Joomla! We sincerely hope this list will grow longer as everyone sees us working together on providing speakers, joining communities and providing more content to help raise the quality of all SFD events. So considering the press coverage and all the promotional efforts we're working on you should expect visitors to start looking for information and events in your area. It is very important to update your team wiki page providing at least an idea about: - Your event location - How to contact you or your group - Date and time of your event - Any more information such as schedule, registration info if any, etc will of course be very helpful to convince people to drop by. Another important point to highlight is that we are promoting Software Freedom regardless of the operating system being used and that means this freedom should be promoted on all fronts included on Free OSes. In order to help you out when distributing non-free GNU/Linux distributions and make this information process easy we have written a notice to be inserted into such CD/DVDs. The purpose is to let people know to be careful with what they are installing (or buying) even when using GNU/Linux. The notice (together with an odf document to print 4 per sheet) can be found here: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources/CdNotice We strongly ask for team organizers to use this notice when distributing non-free GNU/Linux distributions (translations available in pt and es). Also to help you with planning we have set up a few important pages where you can find logos, slides, videos, templates, all source files of whatever you can find on the wiki and plenty of more links. Head to http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Marketing to find a list of those. We will continue working on providing more slides and ideas in the coming weeks. Another helping factor this year is that we have finally started to translate our main website (the www one - we started with the wiki guides last year). All this work has been done by the SFD community and is progressing slowly. Hopefully we will get more done as we get closer to SFD. The planets have also been upgraded and it is now very easy to switch from one available language to another (note that not all languages have planet, default is English). And since we are talking about translations we would also like to point out that we have launched 2 new mailing lists this year to complete the existing Spanish one: one in Portuguese and one in Russian. Obviously if you're speaking one of those 3 languages it's probably worth subscribing and saying hi there! We will continue to speak English though (haven't found the language learning pill yet) and provide updates in that language. Mailing list info page is here: http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo Should you have any question either pop up on our irc channels (#sfd for English or #sfd-es for Spanish) or mail us back. Thank you all and happy SFD preparations! SFI Board

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Presentation draft
by yaromir＠hotbox.ru 21 Aug '11

21 Aug '11

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

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Sinhala - Sri Lanka countdown is active and running
by Buddhika Kurera 21 Aug '11

21 Aug '11

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

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Re: [SFD-discuss] [Marketing] SFD 2011 Stuff reached Germany
by Pockey Lam 19 Aug '11

19 Aug '11

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 >

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Consider joining Diaspora
by Fabián Rodríguez 19 Aug '11

19 Aug '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone In preparation for Software Freedom Day I am trying to reach as many people as possible but at the same time consolidating and reducing my reliance on non-free / SaaS-only social networks. Among the many questions we anticipate when people discover Free Software, I expect to be ask what exists to replace Facebook / G+ / etc. Although JoinDiaspora.com is described as alpha, it works well for most of my needs now. Combined with identi.ca and http://www.brdcst.it it lets me reach as many people as I want with minimum effort and without loosing control of my data. JoinDiaspora.com *alpha* can only be joined if you have an invite from someone already on it, the current invitation on the site is for beta only. So if someone wants to join, just ask me off-list, make sure you specify your email (even if you're posting from it) and I'll send an invite. Then you can follow the #SFD tag there: https://joindiaspora.com/tags/SFD ...and most importantly, invite more people to help testing/improve Diaspora. I am aware there has been some controversy on how Diaspora started and how it is developped. I personally think trying these tools even though they may fail or not go through achieving their full potential is valuable, if only ot learn from mistakes and problems - and if it works for me, I can live with the criticism. Any and all suggestions welcome, and if you already are on joindiaspora.com, I am magicfab(a)joindiaspora.com there: https://joindiaspora.com/u/magicfab Cheers, - -- Fabian Rodriguez http://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:MagicFab http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011/Canada/Montreal Help us invite other Canadian people hold an event on SFD: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CanadaInvitations -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: PGP/Mime available upon request Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk5OTy8ACgkQfUcTXFrypNVHtgCgpS3wSBdnSNtIfS7CapqkZHqJ kmEAoOi9ABdhXepQgEjHGvLP8Pb6WPzp =huKM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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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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Custom Letter for CDs and DVDs
by Pockey Lam 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

Dear all, As you may know that all registered teams before August 2nd this year should receive CDs and goodies before early September [1]. Fore those who need a letter from SFI to explain the purpose of the CDs and DVDs in the packages to your custom officer(s), please download the letter from the wiki [2]. [1] http://softwarefreedomday.org/en/blog/165-sfd2011-schwag-sent <http://softwarefreedomday.org/en/blog/165-sfd2011-schwag-sent> [2] http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources/CustomLetter All the best to your preparation! Pockey

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Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD-discuss Digest, Vol 53, Issue 18
by Jaysel Noma Ramos 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 8:00 PM, <sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org> wrote: > 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: SFD Countdown soft launch (Frederic Muller - SFI) > 2. Sridhar Gutam has added you as a contact on Mendeley (Mendeley) > 3. Re: SFD Countdown soft launch (Frederic Muller - SFI) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:17:58 +0800 > From: Frederic Muller - SFI <fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org> > Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD Countdown soft launch > To: sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org > Message-ID: <4E4CA086.2060200(a)softwarefreedomday.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On 08/18/2011 12:55 PM, Jaysel Noma Ramos wrote: > > can we have the tagalog or filipino version to?? > > Yes, you can definitely make one! > > As explained source files are here: > > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/en?action=AttachFile&do=get&ta… > > You need to generate about 32 PNG files from those svg files, at > 190x200pixels size and upload them to a folder under CountDown which > will have your language code. > > Once this is done, drop us an email (also please, do reply to post and > not digests!). > > Thank you. > > Fred > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:18:13 +0000 (UTC) > From: "Mendeley" <no-reply(a)mendeley.com> > Subject: [SFD-discuss] Sridhar Gutam has added you as a contact on > Mendeley > To: sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org > Message-ID: <20110818081813.C70254E606B(a)http2.gs2.chonp.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hello, > > Sridhar Gutam has been using Mendeley to organize and share their research > papers and would like to invite you to try it out. Please follow the link > below to sign up: > > http://www.mendeley.com/r/invited-d329b47de4-2/ >

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