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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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CFD help and tips
by Frederic Muller - SFI April 30, 2012

April 30, 2012

Dear all, Another CFD thread on the SFD mailing list, though the purpose is to gather feedback and seek help. While we're getting a rather positive feedback from organization like Creative Commons, the OpenClipart and OpenFont Library and everybody else in general, the number of teams involved in organizing an event is still pretty low. My feeling is that people don't know about CFD yet, and therefore I'd be happy if computer science students (for example) subscribed to this list - we usually have quite a few involved in SFD - could inform their counterparts in the art section of their universities. Similarly I'd be very interested to get feedback on how you think we could boost participation. I know it's the first year and the concept is not clear for everyone. Still I'd be happy to make a few extra efforts if it can help to encourage people to participate. Thanks and hopefully I'll be reading a lot of good advice soon. :) Fred

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Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD-discuss Digest, Vol 59, Issue 4
by lug limbe April 27, 2012

April 27, 2012

good evening its chanceline the president cameroon national youth council limbe II, we have been celebrating the SFD since 2007, so we have one of our organiser mr Ambe michael Secretary General of the cameroon national youth council of Limbe II cameroon. He is interested in organising for the culture freedom day, He is a nice, good, hard working and devoted person, He has already started mobilising people here. you just need to support him, financially, materially and morally , this is his email ambemichael2007(a)yahoo.com and this is his phone number +237 75 16 79 64. Thank you , collaborate with mr Ambe michael. Thanks for reading. On Sun, Apr 22, 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. Fwd: GOOD DAY (julien forgeat) > 2. Re: Fwd: GOOD DAY (Julian H. Stacey) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 22:07:21 +0800 > From: julien forgeat <julienforgeat(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [SFD-discuss] Fwd: GOOD DAY > To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org> > Cc: ambemichael2007(a)yahoo.com > Message-ID: > <CAJXFoeC-Wrekpp_R1Cz1tt7ZWQ0w+nnT1dXOVMdmKaF9VGv=tQ(a)mail.gmail.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > This message was, I believe, intended to be sent to the list. > > Julien > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: ambe michael <ambemichael2007(a)yahoo.com> > Date: Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 9:59 PM > Subject: GOOD DAY > To: "julienforgeat(a)gmail.com" <julienforgeat(a)gmail.com> > > > GOOD? DAY , I AM?? MICHAEL AMBE SECRETARY GENERAL? CAMEROON? NATIONAL > YOUTH COUNCIL? LIMBE II,? WE WILL LIKE TO ORGANISE CULTURE FREE DAY IN > LIMBE AND CAMEROON AS A? HOLD ON THIS? 19? MAY 2012 , AND ALL THE > SUBSEQUENT YEARS, WE HAVE? TALK TO MANY? MUSICIANS , ARTIST , > PHOTOGRAPHERS, PAINTERS? AND RESTAURANTS? OWNERS , ETC? , THEY HAVE > ACCEPTED , WILLING AND HAPPY TO PARTICIPATE, SO WE COUNT ON YOU PEOPLE > VERY? MUCH , WE? NEED YOUR SUPPORT. > > ?????? THANK YOU? . THE?? GOOD? GOD BLESS YOU ALL IN JESUS NAME. > > > ?MICHAEL AMBE > +237? 75 16 79 64 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:08:03 +0200 > From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs(a)berklix.com> > Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] Fwd: GOOD DAY > To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org> > Cc: ambemichael2007(a)yahoo.com > Message-ID: <201204211508.q3LF8343003215(a)fire.js.berklix.net> > > julien forgeat <julienforgeat(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > This message was, I believe, intended to be sent to the list. > > forwarded to the wrong list. The remit of list > sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org is for > is > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > It's for > Software Freedom Day > http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/ > > ambemichael2007(a)yahoo.com, > search archive > http://mail.sf-day.org/pipermail/sfd-discuss/ > for a recent ref in last 2 months to culture day on some other domain. > > Cheers, > Julian > -- > Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich > http://berklix.com > Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, & indent with "> ". > Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, > quoted-printable. > Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/ > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > > > End of SFD-discuss Digest, Vol 59, Issue 4 > ****************************************** > -- Association Linux Friends Limbe (Cameroon) sokolo new road beside ajakajoe 00237 743 514 33

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Fwd: GOOD DAY
by julien forgeat April 23, 2012

April 23, 2012

This message was, I believe, intended to be sent to the list. Julien ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ambe michael <ambemichael2007(a)yahoo.com> Date: Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 9:59 PM Subject: GOOD DAY To: "julienforgeat(a)gmail.com" <julienforgeat(a)gmail.com> GOOD DAY , I AM MICHAEL AMBE SECRETARY GENERAL CAMEROON NATIONAL YOUTH COUNCIL LIMBE II, WE WILL LIKE TO ORGANISE CULTURE FREE DAY IN LIMBE AND CAMEROON AS A HOLD ON THIS 19 MAY 2012 , AND ALL THE SUBSEQUENT YEARS, WE HAVE TALK TO MANY MUSICIANS , ARTIST , PHOTOGRAPHERS, PAINTERS AND RESTAURANTS OWNERS , ETC , THEY HAVE ACCEPTED , WILLING AND HAPPY TO PARTICIPATE, SO WE COUNT ON YOU PEOPLE VERY MUCH , WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT. THANK YOU . THE GOOD GOD BLESS YOU ALL IN JESUS NAME. MICHAEL AMBE +237 75 16 79 64

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Re: [SFD-discuss] Artwork for SFD 2012
by Frederic Muller - SFI April 19, 2012

April 19, 2012

Dear Edgar, The logo will remain unchanged so will the website (despite the obvious required upgrade to J!2.5). We have however made a few minors modifications to the banners and some of the goodies colors/design, which are all accessible here (including source files) : http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Artwork Last year designs are still on the wiki but have been moved to http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011/Artwork Should you need anything else please let me know. Thanks. Fred On 04/18/2012 12:22 AM, Edgar "Fast Edi" Hoffmann wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Hello. > I just have a question regarding the artwork. > Will the design from SFD 2012 be the same as in 2012? > In that case I would begin to produce my flyers, handouts, etc. > and maybe some other stuff that can be used by the teams. > > Greetings from Germany > > Edgar "Fast Edi" Hoffmann > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJPjZjPAAoJEIhzpu5rqQuMgE0QAKxZQB3tW1oWHYw3TR7WBnwt > bA0FhsDhR2P1btRsEmpTcple2t4HJXosSIl16MooerCmpdWw9xGctpEMQy2yR9BH > xI+zOZ+tb3WoSJJoR6c/NvtRQ93dUfXdyeqP+bAFZW9+M+Gwc6/oOI+lmZAi6nA2 > zVkOVFyoiBDRTz0kVpj87FS2dPRD06tCIFvjlyxtHIiKjRvKoV4kRrZVIzJT7WYW > ZAlEb/tKK+j/qfiN3Vt0BTJfjtKp6wQhizC6p/1IQv3nMjDUPChAo4pZauW0Necp > EdJFEIKgBNC7dXhRXK+ryG0ag70R8fAMNLNvQ8WFQjYckPAJ4mrDpLfNDkRuha2i > paPf2LQQcaj0aVm2P5iSTztZrUkZE2bXW29Z/J4bAU8xjoN3Rd6FKrqJSpodveeb > O9vG3+OCToRUYb9wJV3tNbhS4TA706D3fZkNyAPSQhVyA5gmZUSZZXChP9DCeyVr > t6yoSS6jrELhQh78sMdQoK1BNOlHzjTKFT6XIrsUUXFFBd9VRHc0SbYfpkusOT0W > 08iTHJWfmwor2OrCoK1yK/DsV8hJ2MH5dXdzuGxYesmt5vevwQBx59q4jFRL8xwq > xB8SVEJo6/YJ0x3CcOcU6fN4x8LBiS22eVxjQSk+ttHLbgtFsIUfVx0ZB2bnuAGf > z+NSxdwvwkEX+Em1V+R+ > =2B+I > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >

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