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Unscheduled leaflets handout in Bracknell UK
by alan c 17 Sep '11

17 Sep '11

Just to say that although the event has not been registered, I will be able to do a leaflet handout in the town centre in Bracknell UK 11am to 2pm. -- alan cocks Ubuntu user

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GNOME Women Outreach Program flyer
by Frederic Muller - SFI 17 Sep '11

17 Sep '11

Hi! You might probably know that I have a weak spot for GNOME and wanted to let team leaders know that Marina together with Máirín from the GNOME WOP have made available a few flyers to advertise the program: so if you have women interested in contributing to Free Software and more particularly GNOME (it doesn't have to be technical) and while getting paid, it is probably something to talk about. The flyer is available at this page (and more): https://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen/OutreachProgram2011/SpreadTheWord#Flyer The application deadline is October 31 so definitely well within our schedule. Thanks. Fred

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Inspirational photos from our early SFD event
by Anders Hellström 16 Sep '11

16 Sep '11

Hi! Nearly a week ago Uppsala Linux User Group organized our first SFD event. To coincide with the large event (100k+ visitors overall) Uppsala Culture Night[1] we decided to hold it a whole week early, on september the 10th. We had a tent down town where people could watch the blender project movies, try out different Linux distributions and of course get a (K)Ubuntu disk to try out at home. Photos from our event can be found here on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.200642563334644.49199.15709293435… I hope all of you have as good a time today/tomorrow during your SFD events as we did during ours last week! Best regards, Anders Hellström Chairman of the board Uppsala Linux User Group [1] http://kulturnattenuppsala.se/uppsala-culture-night/

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SFD is today!
by Frederic Muller - SFI 16 Sep '11

16 Sep '11

Dear all! Forgetting we have up to 26 hours difference between 2 end points on the same planet and that a few teams have already celebrated SFD or will until almost end of October, SFD is here! While we are sure everyone is super busy with the last minute preparations we would like to draw your attention on the excellent community participation this year in making SFD a success. We have received many contributions of all kinds and we would like to thank and highlight those as they can be used to enhance your event. First for those still looking for a topic to present we have finally managed to upload our slides on "Why software freedom matters". Lots of notes have been added to the slides in order to let almost anyone make the presentation. It's however good to think about the topic before hand and be prepared for questions. Slides available at http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources#Software_Freedom I suppose you are also aware that we've had 2 great songs contributed from 2 different teams from the Philippines, both licensed under CC-BY-SA. One of the 2 even has a KTV version should you think of making singing games. Either way those will be great to add color to your event and definitely some great atmosphere! Songs and details, credits, lyrics available from http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources#Songs And since we're covering atmosphere, music and giveaways we would like to remind teams distributing non-free GNU/Linux distributions that we are providing a notice to be included with those CDs to let people know about the hidden non-free software they will be getting on the spot or later. Users need to understand what is included in the software you may be distributing. While we totally understand that some people already have bought their hardware and may just be discovering software freedom (thus needing proprietary drivers for example) it is our duty to let them know they can chose to buy hardware that is fully supported by free software on their next purchase, or be careful about the type of software they chose to install in the future. The notice has been pre-formatted to be easily printed and is available is English, Spanish and Portuguese thanks to our translators. Link to the English notice page is http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources/CdNotice . You can easily navigate to the other versions from there. Another excellent suggestion from our sfd-discuss mailing list has been to hang out on the #sfd irc channel on freenode to show the global nature of SFD. We have a web interface from the website or you can point your audience to specific free IRC clients that will run on their platform. Should the English channel be over populated with non-English discussions feel free to create language specific channels such as #sfd-es, #sfd-ru or #sfd-jp. Last but not least do not forget to document your events, take photos, blog or share the news on social networks. The official tag for SFD is #softwarefreedomday. The great news is that this year SFD Competition has attracted great sponsors again: first we are happy and proud to have the Free Software Foundation provide Richard Stallman books signed by himself. And then Lemote, the Chinese computer manufacturer of fully free hardware (BIOS including) will be supplying 1 Yeeloong per winning team so you can fiddle with MIPS CPU and fully free software machines! So thank you to all, it has really been a fun ride until now and we truly believe that this year celebration is going to be exceptional! Happy SFD to all! on behalf of Software Freedom International

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SFD Panama 2011
by Diego Tejera 16 Sep '11

16 Sep '11

Hello Guys, We received the last package today, I just want to say thank you for the awesome gifts and the awesome work the whole team is doing! I hope all have a Happy SFD!! Regards, Diego Tejera Ubuntu Loco Contact Panama http://www.floss-pa.org/

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Another "Free" Song
by rick 16 Sep '11

16 Sep '11

Hi Guys, Another song on Software Freedom can be found here, http://2011.sfdphilippines.org/free-song-software-freedom-karl-ramirez This song is about software freedom and the freedom to create, in general. You can freely use this not only during SFD celebrations just give due credit to the artist. Below is the text of the song. +++ When what they make you want is not what you need And then they bind your life to an order they fuel with greed And so with whatever you do they force you to work in their system But you know it never is too late to realize you're a victim Be free Today lets make that stand Come and do this with me hand in hand And be free Its the freedom to create Free to share and educate A mind to nurture and liberate When what they make you want is not what you need And then they bind your life to an order they fuel with greed And so with whatever you do they force you to work in their system But you know it never is too late to realize you're a victim Be free Today lets make that stand Come and do this with me hand in hand And be free Its the freedom to create Free to share and educate A mind to nurture so don't hesitate To be free Today lets make that stand Come and do this with me hand in hand And be free Its the freedom to create Free to share and educate A mind to nurture and liberate

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translation issue
by Marcos Marado 16 Sep '11

16 Sep '11

Hi there, "Celebrate SFD 2011 on Saturday, September 17th" is still being translated to "Celebra o SFD 2011 no Sábado, 17 de Septembro" in Portuguese, instead of the correct "Celebra o SFD 2011 no Sábado, 17 de Setembro" ... Can someone fix it please? Thanks, -- Marcos Marado ANSOL - http://ansol.org

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IRC SFD event hang out and talks on the day of SFD
by Michael Dorrington 16 Sep '11

16 Sep '11

What about having a general hang out and even talks on IRC on the day of SFD? It would show attendees the worldwide nature of the event and Software Freedom. And having IRC "talks"/workshops would be a great way to tap into the Free Software expertise from around the world. Regards, Mike.

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Re: [SFD-discuss] [Info] Doubts about non-free linux distributions flyer
by Frederic Muller - SFI 16 Sep '11

16 Sep '11

Hi! The notice is not mandatory, we are just asking teams to add it but they should run their event the way they deem appropriate. I think Michael wrote a very good post on where Debian stands. Mike post is here: http://mail.sf-day.org/pipermail/sfd-discuss/2011-September/002068.html Ubuntu falls in the same category (or similar) as Fedora or openSUSE. I really don't think those distributions should be "marked and isolated" but when you preach for software freedom it is important to let people know when you are giving them some hidden non-free bits, or software that will encourage them to install non-free bits. Users need to understand what is happening with the software they are using (and which you may be distributing). I hope this clarifies the issue. Do not hesitate to ask more question if you have any. Posting on sfd-discuss is encouraged. Fred ps: and the form is only half broken. :-/ On 09/16/2011 06:05 AM, Francisco Palm wrote: > Some people are saying in several social networks like identi.ca or > twitter that the notifice for non-free Linux distributions(*) is > mandatory. It is important a clarification in this regard. Starting > with the fact that is not explicitly stated which are those non-free > Linux distributions. > > I believe this leads to controversy and discomfort in an event that > should unite all those who promote free software. > > Ubuntu or Debian are non-free Linux Distributions? must be marked and isolated? > > (*) http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources/CdNotice > > Pd: SFD contact form is broken > > Francisco Palm > > -- > -------------------------------------- > fpalm(a)mapologo.org.ve > francisco.palm(a)gmail.com > > cel: +58 +424 4228252 > tel: +58 +274 6352001 > > ---- > Debemos ser libres, no para hacer lo que nos plazca, sino libres para > comprender muy profundamente nuestros propios instintos e impulsos. K > > _______________________________________________ > Info mailing list > Info(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/info >

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[Planning-es] GNU operating system for old machines
by Quiliro Ordóñez 15 Sep '11

15 Sep '11

An extremely light distribution that is being tested to be approved as the tenth free software GNU distro by the Free Software Foundation <https://www.fsf.org/about/> which is recommended for machines with 64MB RAM or more is Connochaetos <http://www.connochaetos.org/wiki/>. It comes in its version for 486 CPUs or better <http://sourceforge.net/projects/connochaetos/files/connos-0.9.0.iso/download>. It can be valuable to demonstrate that it is possible to have a modern GNU operating system with with nothing but free (as in freedom) software. If you are a little more knowledgeable on the subject, you can install Parabola <https://parabolagnulinux.org/>. It is a distro of the GNU operating system which is totally configurable because it installs nothing that you have not commanded to be installed. (Not even the graphic user interface.) It is a distro that comes with packages almost as new as if you were to compile them yourself from the developers' latest source code. So, if you like to hack, use it and advocate it for its philosophical as well as technical freedom! If you are going to install it on SFD, practice beforehand so you do not have probles on Saturday. If you want a free distro that works with at least 512MB on RAM and has an interface similar to Windowz, use Trisquel <http://devel.trisquel.info/dagda/iso/>. It comes for 64 bits <http://devel.trisquel.info/dagda/iso/trisquel_5.0_amd64.iso> and 32 bits <http://devel.trisquel.info/dagda/iso/trisquel_5.0_i686.iso>. Try Triskel for 32 bits <http://devel.trisquel.info/dagda/iso/old/triskel_5.0-20110911_i686.iso> or for 64 bits <http://devel.trisquel.info/dagda/iso/old/triskel_5.0-20110911_amd64.iso> if you want a really nice interface (KDE). Distribute free (as in freedom) software <https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html> and caution <http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources/CdNotice> others about software that is non-free. ¡Be free! <http://fsfla.org/svnwiki/selibre/index.en.html> and you will notice that the future of society will be better when you start on your own stuff. Software Freedom Day is about freedom. So make your best to help people know that it is the freedom that matters by using only free software. Keep on hacking <https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Hacker_%28programmer_subcult…>...society! -- Quiliro Ordóñez 09 821 8696 02 340 1517 "...por la libertad, así como por la honra, se puede y debe aventurar la vida." Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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