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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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Re: [SFD-discuss] Arabic translation for Countdown banner
by Yomna Gamal June 27, 2012

June 27, 2012

Done :) ************************** Yomna Gamal, 4th Year, IT Dept.

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Arabic translation for Countdown banner
by Yomna Gamal June 27, 2012

June 27, 2012

I just added the Arabic translation for countdown banner: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/ar can you add it to the script Thanks. ************************** Yomna Gamal, 4th Year, IT Dept.

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Countdown in Portuguese!
by Frederic Muller - DFI June 27, 2012

June 27, 2012

Hi again! As the title says it all I would like to thank Paulo Santana for doing the Portuguese version of the SFD countdown this year. So if you're in Lisbon, Portugal (UTC+0) the countdown code will be: <a href="http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/pt/"><img src="http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/countdown/banner1-UTC+0-pt.png" border="0" width="160" height="90" alt="Celebra o SFD 2012 no Sábado, 15 de Setembro!"></a> And if you're in Brasilia, Brasil (UTC-3) the countdown code will be: <a href="http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/pt/"><img src="http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/countdown/banner1-UTC-3-pt.png" border="0" width="160" height="90" alt="Comemore o SFD 2012 no Sábado, 15 de Setembro!"></a> Happy SFD to all! Fred

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Free Distro Disk - was( Re: Preparing for schwags)
by Frederic Muller - DFI June 25, 2012

June 25, 2012

I'm moving this sub-topic to the sfd-discuss list On 06/23/2012 08:32 AM, Marcos Marado wrote: >> While all the artworks are ready we >> > need to update the ISO files for the SFD DVDs. On this front I would be >> > happy to know if you felt that shipping GNU/Linux distro ISO file was >> > something useful? > I bet it was for some teams, but for ours... well, we had enough > giveaway stuff anyway So was the free distro disc useful to anyone? Is this something we should keep for people who have bandwidth issue or not? Please give us your feedback as it will help to decide if we keep it or not. Thanks. Fred

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sfd countdown scripting
by Frederic Muller - DFI June 23, 2012

June 23, 2012

hi all! I do remember someone provided a script to automatically generate the xx necessary png out of the svg source file. I didn't pay much attention to it last year as I already did the language I knew and there was a slight bug in rendering. Now doing it for a second year I realize that all the translations need to be redone because the text is 'inside' those PNG files. It would be a lot more efficient to translate once and be able to regenerate those png regardless of the design. So could someone either point me to that script I can't seem to find, or the script author himself so we could try to work out a more efficient solution? Thanks again. Fred

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Osmarender layer in the map event
by Konfrare Albert June 22, 2012

June 22, 2012

The Osmarender layer in the map event is not working. It would have to be removed or changed. http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/map/index.php?year=2012 Salut! -- *KONFRARE ALBERT* La Konfraria de la Vila del Pingüí de La Palma WEB: http://www.konfraria.org TWITTER: http://twitter.com/La_Konfraria FACEBOOK: http://ca-es.facebook.com/people/Konfraria-Vila-Del-Pingui/100001918952076

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SFD Countdown in Simplified Chinese
by Frederic Muller - DFI June 22, 2012

June 22, 2012

Dear all, 大家好！ I guess the greetngs already got all the Chinese audience attention so I can continue in plain English ! ;-) The SFD countdown is now available in one more language which is Simplified Chinese as the email title says it all. It makes now 5 languages in total (Catalan, English, French, German and Simp. Chinese). Full details here: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/zh_CN Continued happy preparations to all. Fred

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SFD Countdown now available in German too
by Frederic Muller - DFI June 18, 2012

June 18, 2012

Dear all, I'll spare you the dual language email this time as my German is non-existant (even though I did study at school...). Thanks to Edgar Hoffmann the SFD countdown also work in German as of right now! Thank you very much for the help. Full details here: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/de Happy preparations to all. Fred

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SFD 2012 registration is now LIVE!
by Frederic Muller - SFI June 17, 2012

June 17, 2012

Dear all, It is with a great pleasure that we are opening registration for SFD 2012. In fact some of you have already started to create your wiki pages and even registered. As usual we will be available for support through email on sfd-discuss or on IRC (#SFD on freenode). There will be a few changes this year as Canonical will no longer be providing Ubuntu CDs to teams. Canonical however remains a sponsor of the event, they are just terminating the ship-it program to SFD teams. We are in discussion with other distributions to see if we can get something similar running but our hopes are not very high because of the logistic and costs involved. We will keep you informed if anything happens on that front. So we are currently planning to produce team packs for 200 teams based on the funds raised. The packs will be delivered to teams that registered on or before July 15th on a first come first served basis. Simply create your team page underhttp://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2012 (/country/city for most) and complete the form onhttp://www.softwarefreedomday.org/cgi-bin/register.py. All information and links are of course available from SFD website. As usual artworks are available underhttp://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Artwork and CC-BY licensed. Feel free to use, enhanced and eventually localize them. I want to particularly thank our sponsors who are making this possible, namely Canonical, Google, and Linode for the time being. Should your organization be interested to sponsor DFI to be able to send more goodies please get in touch with us. Note that there is a deadline to be listed on the magazine ads we run with our media sponsors, Linux Magazine, Ubuntu user, Admin, Smart developer and Linux Journal, which is around mid July. Also be reminded that there are still 2 weeks to submit a proposal to co-host your SFD event with us. We have been thinking that doing it one or two weeks after the official SFD date could make sense and enable to fly in some contributors from our global community. Full announcement can be found onhttp://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/SfdSummit . SFD countdown is available much earlier this year, so please do use it. We currently have 2 languages available (English and Catalan) but hopefully more will come very soon. Checkhttp://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown for instructions. Do subscribe to the discuss mailing list[1] if you haven't yet, read SFD Planet[2], read our blog[3] and tweets[5] to keep posted (or RSS feed[4] to them), and don't forget to submit your own BLOG to be added to the SFD planet if you participate in SFD this year (and blog about FOSS...). So let's get started and happy SFD preparations! The DFI Board ps: do check the SFD 2011 winners for inspiration and thanks again to Lemote and FSF for the prizes. http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/competition/winners-2011 [1]:http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss [2]:http://planet.softwarefreedomday.org (language specific planets available through the language switcher) [3]:http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/blog [4]:http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/blog?format=feed&type=rss [5]:http://identi.ca/dfi/

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