March 2012 - SFD-discuss - lists.mailman3.com

SFI President speaking at GNOME.Asia Summit in Bangalore
by Frederic Muller - SFI Sept. 4, 2012

Sept. 4, 2012

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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Illegal Map of India on the DFI website
by Manmohan Brahma May 21, 2012

May 21, 2012

Hi Webmaster / Webadmin DFI. I was just looking through the SFD Website. http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/map/index.php?year=2011 Suddenly I noticed that the border marking of India are different as per your map. To me it seems to be a serious offence and request you to change the website as per original google maps. Map as per SFD website. Map as per http://maps.google.co.in/ With thanks and regards, Manmohan Brahma India

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Celebrate Free Culture with us on May 19th 2012
by Frederic Muller - SFI May 11, 2012

May 11, 2012

Dear all, It is with great pleasure that we are announcing a new celebration in the lines of Software Freedom Day focusing on Free Culture. Over the years SFD gradually promoted Free Culture next to Software Freedom and we believe it is now time to have a specific event for Free Culture. Why is that so you may ask? We feel for starter that the audience and participants are quite a different audience from the people interested in software. In fact artists from the Free Culture movement often use proprietary software for plenty of reasons and wouldn't feel compelled to participate in SFD (or event know about it). Then the format should probably be different. While SFD tries to showcase Free Software and explains all the great things you could do with it, a day to celebrate Free Culture should definitely showcase Free Culture work, that is: - exhibitions - concerts - movie projections - surely more What we have envisioned is a day where all the Free Culture artists around the world could walk in the street and play, act or showcase their work and explain to people what Free Culture is and why they have chosen to contribute to the movement. Of course there could also be some amount of discussions and debates, but we should definitely stay away from long presentations and make it a real festival where the general public would come and simply enjoy the show while learning about those artists. The side idea is also to give free culture artists one international day where they can unite and make themselves heard all together. We are seeing way too many attacks on culture these days with copyright extensions and abuse of consumer rights of fair use, or lobbyists trying to lock away public funded work for example. So 2012 will be the first year and we will start contacting various Free Culture supporting organizations to get their support. In the meantime we have launched the Culture Freedom Day website at http://www.culturefreedomday.org and hopefully should have the registration and the wiki up and running fairly soon. So if you have any connections with Free Culture Artists, Art schools or universities, art galleries, pubs that organize live music, restaurant which do photo/painting exhibitions maybe you should talk to them to see how they feel about organizing a CFD event. Discussion about CFD will be happening on the CFD forum at http://www.culturefreedomday.org/forum and we also have an IRC channel on Freenode @ #cfday for the geeks among us. So thank you all to spread the word, 'identi.cate', twit, blog and tell your family and friends! ----------- Digital Freedom International (newly renamed to encompass our new activities) PS: and SFD will still happen on September 15th 2012!

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We want to translate the website
by 三秒緯 March 28, 2012

March 28, 2012

Hello, we are a team of free software project "ezgo" in taiwan, we want to translate this website into Traditional Chinese, so that people in Taiwan or China can easliy understand what the frontpage is saying. We would love to know how to do this, and beside translate the website that already exist, we also want to keep updating the new article into Traditional Chinese. So, if anyone can teach us how to do it, it will be very great! Thank you! -- 徐志緯 Ubuntu-TW 行政管理員行政院研考會「自由軟體網路學習應用及推廣」計畫第3期之討論區負責人自由軟體公民團體運動國家型典藏推廣計劃研究助理 Plurk：http://www.plurk.com/aa33002 Facebook：http://www.facebook.com/aa33002

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CAPTCHA sequence always wrong.
by 三秒緯 March 28, 2012

March 28, 2012

Hello everyone: When I try to contact the SFD team using the page right here: http://softwarefreedomday.org/en/contact-us I found that I can't type the CAPTCHA sequence right, no metter what CAPTCHA sequence is.(I have tried to change the CAPTCHA but still not working.) Dont' know is that a exist bug of website or It just my problem? -- 徐志緯 Ubuntu-TW 行政管理員行政院研考會「自由軟體網路學習應用及推廣」計畫第3期之討論區負責人自由軟體公民團體運動國家型典藏推廣計劃研究助理 Plurk：http://www.plurk.com/aa33002 Facebook：http://www.facebook.com/aa33002

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Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD-discuss Digest, Vol 58, Issue 2
by lug limbe March 9, 2012

March 9, 2012

hi http://sokolo.cronopios.org/sfd20121.php this is report for software freedom day in cameroon Limbe thanks chanceline On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 1:00 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. Ubuntu driver for canon pixma mp258 (???????.??.????????) > 2. Re: Ubuntu driver for canon pixma mp258 (Frederic Muller - SFI) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 10:05:20 +0530 > From: ???????.??.???????? <prasobhgsreedhar(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [SFD-discuss] Ubuntu driver for canon pixma mp258 > To: sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org > Message-ID: > <CAH6Hftgyy9UWYhf2q=cuiyFhN_f2-hOAW2OGYc9HhXN1yG=v5Q(a)mail.gmail.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > friends, > please send me the driver for canon pixma mp258 printer. > > -- > > *PRASOBH GS* > *+919496436961 > *** <http://swathanthra.wordpress.com/>**** >

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Ubuntu driver for canon pixma mp258
by പ്രശോഭ്.ജി.ശ്രീധര്‍ March 9, 2012

March 9, 2012

friends, please send me the driver for canon pixma mp258 printer. -- *PRASOBH GS* *+919496436961 *** <http://swathanthra.wordpress.com/>****

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March 6, 2012

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