August 2011 - SFD-discuss - lists.mailman3.com

Ubuntu CD Pack Surprise Custom Charges!!!

by karan pratap singh

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

Aug. 30, 2011

SFD Package Received for Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA

by Mark Walker

-----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-----

Aug. 30, 2011

free software & accessibility

by Ivan Shmakov

>>>>> 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)

Aug. 27, 2011

Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD Countdown Galician language added, howto activate it?

by Buddhika Kurera

This is the tenth language we have I think great work all On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Frederic Muller - SFI < fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org> wrote: > > On 08/25/2011 03:52 AM, José Manuel Ciges Regueiro wrote: > > 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) > > > > > > -- > > language activated. As you can see from this page: > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/code > I need to add the language value to the language variable. > > I also manually check that all the files are there with the proper size > before enabling it. > > Thanks a lot! > > Fred > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > -- Regards, *Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera(bckurera)* Fedora Ambassador Sri Lanka Event Liaison - Design Team *Email*: bckurera(a)fedoraproject.org | *IRC*: bckurera * *

Aug. 26, 2011

Re: [SFD-discuss] Pack track number

by Alexjan Carraturo

2011/8/26 Frederic Muller - SFI <fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org>: > As a complimentary information this is not new: every year there are 2 > different delivery companies delivery the SFD team pack and the Ubuntu CDs. > > Fred > Recived this morning SFD Pack, and recived email for Ubuntu CD. Thanks from Italy ... it's all perferct. Alex -- 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 --

Aug. 26, 2011

Re: [SFD-discuss] Pack track number

by Seun Ojedeji

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!*

Aug. 26, 2011

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

by Gladys Regalado

Thanks! Received our pack tracker email. Our CDs are now in Belgium! Yipee! Gladys Manila, Philippines On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Pockey Lam <pockey(a)softwarefreedomday.org>wrote: > On 08/23/2011 09:17 PM, Gladys Regalado wrote: > > Great that pack are starting to arrive! :) How do we know if we were chosen > to receive team packs? > > > Any SFD team registered before August 2nd and were able to provide an address should receive the team packs. > > Pockey > > > > All the best! > > Gladys > --- > > BS Applied Physics > University of the Philippines > > Coordinator > Junior Computer Professionals' Union > > +63927 3008582 > > > > On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Frederic Muller - SFI < > fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org> 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 >> >> 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SFD-discuss mailing list >> SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org >> http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing listSFD-discuss@sf-day.orghttp://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > > >

Aug. 26, 2011

Re: [SFD-discuss] An idea for a SFD Promotion

by Buddhika Kurera

Great work; I ll try to convert them to another editable format. Still waiting more and more again great work On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Marcos Marado <mindboosternoori(a)gmail.com>wrote: > ** > > Hi there, > > Since I don't know where it is supposed for us to upload this videos, I've > just uploaded the Portuguese videos to > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources (see the attachments): ours > are: > > [get<http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources?action=AttachFile&do=get&targe…> | > view<http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources?action=AttachFile&do=view&targ…>] > (2011-08-25 16:30:35, 156.4 KB) [[attachment:Marcos-Portugal.3gp]] > > [get<http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources?action=AttachFile&do=get&targe…> | > view<http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources?action=AttachFile&do=view&targ…>] > (2011-08-25 16:30:56, 219.8 KB) [[attachment:Paula-Portugal.3gp]] > > Sorry for the format: these were filmed using a cellphone, this is the > format it saves into. I didn't do any kind of edition (and don't have the > skills to do so), but feel free to use them with others to do the SFD > Promotional video :-) > > Best regards, > > -- > > Marcos Marado > > ANSOL -- http://ansol.org > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > > -- Regards, *Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera(bckurera)* Fedora Ambassador Sri Lanka Event Liaison - Design Team *Email*: bckurera(a)fedoraproject.org | *IRC*: bckurera * *

Aug. 26, 2011

Re: [SFD-discuss] Pack track number

by Frederic Muller - SFI

As a complimentary information this is not new: every year there are 2 different delivery companies delivery the SFD team pack and the Ubuntu CDs. Fred On 08/26/2011 05:15 AM, Seun Ojedeji wrote: > Thanks for the info Marcos :) > > Happy prep. > > Regards > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Marcos Marado > <mindboosternoori(a)gmail.com <mailto:mindboosternoori@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On Thursday 25 August 2011 20:15:44 Seun Ojedeji wrote: > > @ Pockey...so you mean we should expect 2 deliveries then, one for > the CDs > > from TNT and another one for SFD goodies "courier currently > unknown" anyone > > received both yet? Do share your experience....any from Africa? > > That's true: two packages from different sources and couriers. I got > both, in > Portugal. > > Best regards, > -- > Marcos Marado > ANSOL -- http://ansol.org > > > > /you don't need a hero to succeed on the field....you need a team!/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss

Aug. 26, 2011

Re: [SFD-discuss] Pack track number

by Seun Ojedeji

Thanks for the info Marcos :) Happy prep. Regards On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Marcos Marado <mindboosternoori(a)gmail.com>wrote: > On Thursday 25 August 2011 20:15:44 Seun Ojedeji wrote: > > @ Pockey...so you mean we should expect 2 deliveries then, one for the > CDs > > from TNT and another one for SFD goodies "courier currently unknown" > anyone > > received both yet? Do share your experience....any from Africa? > > That's true: two packages from different sources and couriers. I got both, > in > Portugal. > > Best regards, > -- > Marcos Marado > ANSOL -- http://ansol.org > *you don't need a hero to succeed on the field....you need a team!*

Aug. 25, 2011