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SFD team packs 2012 have been shipped
by Pockey Lam Sept. 14, 2012

Sept. 14, 2012

Dear all, As you may know that all the SFD team packs have been shipped. Each team pack includes tshirts, balloons, stickers, a banner, DVDs and t-shirt labels. There is a how-to for the t-shirt labels, please refer to http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/TshirtLabels You may also apply these labels to any cloth e.g. table cloth. We have done our best to send the same pack to all teams and hopefully you should get them on time for your event. However each year we always have delayed or lost packages, which are really out of our control. On the bright side, since the goodies are not year specific you can always use them later in the year or for SFD 2013 if you get them late. All the best to your SFD preparation! Regards, Pockey

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Editing event map
by সাজেদুর রহিম জোয়ারদ ার Sept. 4, 2012

Sept. 4, 2012

Hi Everybody We, FOSS Bangladesh are planning to celebrate SFD-2012 more than one place, this year. With our huge volunteer support we are planning to a spread out this event. We had already registered and our event in Dhaka is on the event map. Now we want to add/edit more event and places on the map. Editing of the event map is must as because the event places outside Dhaka is not fixed yet. What will be the procedure to edit the event map and add/edit more event places? With regards -- রিং/ring +8801671411437 মহাসচিব/General Secretary ফাউন্ডেশন ফর ওপেন সোর্স সলিউশনস বাংলাদেশ/Foundation for Open Source Solutions Bangladesh.

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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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Package team received
by Konfrare Albert Aug. 30, 2012

Aug. 30, 2012

Hi! I just received the package team today. Everything is alright. Thanks a lot! -- *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 - Goodies and stuff
by Pranav Kant Aug. 25, 2012

Aug. 25, 2012

We are celebrating SFD for the first time and came to know about this a little late. I just wanted to know if we register now, would there be any goodies or stuff sent to us to help us assist our SFD better. Regards, GLUG-NITH http://glug.nith.ac.in

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Countdown in Serbian and Russian
by Frederic Muller - DFI Aug. 24, 2012

Aug. 24, 2012

Hello all I would like to thank Zeljko and Eugene for respectively provide the Serbian (both Cyrillic and Latin) and Russian version of the SFD countdown. Be aware though that the banner size for the Russian countdown is slightly different: 159x89 instead of 160x90. I let you all go to the wiki countdown page to get the proper code for your language of choice: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown You'll note we have reached 15 different language versions so far this year. Yeah! Happy SFD preparation to all! Fred

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Writeup on shirt
by Seun Ojedeji Aug. 24, 2012

Aug. 24, 2012

Hello, We are considering printing shirts for our sfd. Looking at the sample for this year <http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Artwork>; Does anyone know what the content at the back is? i mean the writeup at the back of the shirt. Regards -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Seun Ojedeji, Federal University Oye-Ekiti web: http://www.fuoye.edu.ng Mobile: +2348035233535 **alt email: <http://goog_1872880453>seun.ojedeji(a)fuoye.edu.ng*

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Software Freedom Day Quiz
by Thyagu Aug. 22, 2012

Aug. 22, 2012

Hello there, Last year I compiled a set of 40 question on Free and Open Source Softwares for Software freedom day quiz. The compilation is available at http://pastebin.com/xqdJ3YJh regards, Thyagarajan Shanmugham

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FUOYE SFD 2012 – Invitation to Participate
by Seun Ojedeji Aug. 21, 2012

Aug. 21, 2012

Hello Kindly find below for your information and distribution. Also our flyer is hereby attached. <apologies for cross posting> *SFD 2012 – Invitation to Participate* *Information** **and** **Communication** **Technology** **Centre of The Federal University Oye Ekiti is organizing Software Freedom Day (SFD) in** * *conjunction** **with** **Computer** **Science** **Department.* The goal in this celebration is to educate the public about the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, government, home, business and everywhere. *The** **event** **is** **expected** **to** **attract** **software** ** programmer** **and** **enthusiast** **across** **the** **country.** **The** **event** is scheduled to hold from **10th** **to** **15th** **of** ** September.** **Below** **is** **the** **summary** **of** **the** **event.* *[Preconference** **Program]* *10Th** **to** **14th** **of** **September** **2012-** Pre**-conference** ** program:* - *Tutorial** **sessions** **/** **workshops* *There** **will** **be** **concurrent** **training** **session** **during** **this** **period.** **At** **present** **we** **have** **confirmation** ** for** **the** **following** **training/workshop:* - *Network** **Management** **and** **Monitoring** **Using** **FOSS* - *How to make money using FOSS - FOSS Business Model by ICT@innovation/GIZ Germany* - *Linux** **Essentials** **by** **Linux** **Professional** **Institute** * *(this** **includes** **an** **optional** **Certification** **Exam)* * * *15th** **of** **September** **is** **the** **SFD** **day** **and** **the conference** **will** **include** **the** **following:* - *Presentations (Call for paper submission is currently on going)* - *Exhibitions* - *Open** **discussions* - Social* **activities* *We do hope some of your staff and students in relevant department will attend and participate at this event. * *More information is on our website ** http://fuoye.edu.ng/discover-fuoye/eventsconferences/sfd-2012* Thank You -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Seun Ojedeji, Federal University Oye-Ekiti web: http://www.fuoye.edu.ng Mobile: +2348035233535 **alt email: <http://goog_1872880453>seun.ojedeji(a)fuoye.edu.ng*

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Pictures-banners for our Facebook and Google Plus profiles
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) Aug. 21, 2012

Aug. 21, 2012

Hello, Since I'm not into graphics, can someone create a banner to add it to our facebook and Google Plus profiles? Those banners have different size as I understand. Check my facebook and plus profiles to understand what I mean. The banner can have something like "I celebrate SFD". How do you think about that idea? Have a lot of fun. Stathis -- http://about.me/iosifidis http://iosifidis.co.cc or http://eiosifidis.tk http://blogs.gnome.org/eiosifidis http://eiosifidis.wordpress.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/eiosifidis Google+: http://bit.ly/IU5p3I Connect: https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/profile/diamond_gr Ένα γραμμάριο δράσης αξίζει ένα τόνο θεωρίας

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Goodies for SFD 2012
by stephen wanjau Aug. 17, 2012

Aug. 17, 2012

Hello Nice people! I am organizing to celebrate SFD day at my campus here in Kenya and I put up a request to receive some goodies subject to availability. Anyone privy to the progress regarding this? The event page on Wiki is at [1] below and it featuring among the top 200 at [2]. Any information regarding the goodies is highly welcome and appreciated. regards, Stephen 1. http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2012/Kenya/Juja/JLUG 2. http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CategoryTeam2012 -- "If Wikipedia is good enough for the Archivist of the United States, maybe it should be good enough for you." - US Archivist ,David Ferriero. "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge." Help us make it a reality! Donate to Wikimedia <https://donate.wikimedia.org/>

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SFD countdown
by Seun Ojedeji Aug. 16, 2012

Aug. 16, 2012

Just looking at the SFD site, i noticed the countdown are different. While that on top is reading 33days , the other(which is used by the community) s reading 34days. http://softwarefreedomday.org/en/blog/194-100-teams-registered- Cheers! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Seun Ojedeji, Federal University Oye-Ekiti web: http://www.fuoye.edu.ng Mobile: +2348035233535 **alt email: <http://goog_1872880453>seun.ojedeji(a)fuoye.edu.ng*

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Re: [SFD-discuss] Pictures-banners for our Facebook and Google Plus profiles
by Frederic Muller - DFI Aug. 16, 2012

Aug. 16, 2012

Hi! Seems I never got this email as well (found it while looking at the SFD site). We already have a collection of promotional banners available at: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Promote with all the source files available attached to the page making it easy to localize. You may also find those 2 pages of interest: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Marketing http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Artwork Fred On 08/13/2012 07:27 AM, Stathis Iosifidis wrote: > Hello, > > Since I'm not into graphics, can someone create a banner to add it to > our facebook and Google Plus profiles? > Those banners have different size as I understand. Check my facebook > and > plus profiles to understand what I mean. > The banner can have something like "I celebrate SFD". > > How do you think about that idea? > Have a lot of fun. > Stathis

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the name of the game
by Ivan Shmakov Aug. 10, 2012

Aug. 10, 2012

[There were a few points raised, or hinted at, in planning-ru@, which I think may demand a wider audience. Below comes the first one.] It was observed that the Software Freedom Day is more than just occasionally called “Free Software Day” in Russian — a difference that's a bit hard to notice given that it's only a matter of suffix (or, rather, ending) there: “День /свободы/ программного обеспечения” (Software Freedom) vs. “День /свободного/ программного обеспечения” (Free Software.) It doesn't help that the “Free Software” variant of the name is used by certain teams (more or less consistently) since at least 2007 [1] (though “Software Freedom” appears since 2004 [2].) [1] http://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/2135552 [2] http://www.linux.org.ru/news/sco/642283#comment-642440 The proponents of the “Free Software” variant argue that “software freedom” is as much a nonsensical notion as “software slavery” is. It's said that it's the /user/ freedom that's at stake; and as it's Free Software that frees the user, the Day should be called after it. It should be mentioned that French and Ukrainian Wikipedia articles for SFD are seemingly titled after “Free Software”, too (though I'm by no means fluent in these languages): http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journée_du_logiciel_libre http://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/День_Вільного_ПЗ Any comments? TIA. -- FSF associate member #7257 http://sf-day.org/

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What's this year's swag?
by Kevin Cole Aug. 10, 2012

Aug. 10, 2012

Hi, I regret (a) not being more active on mailing lists, and (b) only JUST getting around to registering for this year's SFD, three days ago. So, I've missed the swag deadline, I think. (An old message said July 15 was the deadline, but the site said August 7.) In any case, I figure "first come, first serve" will have eliminated me. But, out of idle curiosity, what's the swag box contain this year? --

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free software-themed materials
by Ivan Shmakov Aug. 10, 2012

Aug. 10, 2012

In planning-ru@, an effort was started to design “Join us on SFD” flyers, with a note on a “featured” software on the reverse. A number of prominent free software packages was suggested (including, e. g., Emacs, Firefox, FlightGear, GNU Octave, VLC, etc.), and the text for such notes was quickly scraped off (sometimes subject to translation into Russian) from the respective Wikipedia articles and projects' own Web pages. Unfortunately, there was a catch: contrary to Wikipedia, the Web pages maintained as part of free software projects aren't necessarily free by themselves. Now, we have a couple of such examples at hand. I've asked in the respective mailing list for one (and waiting for an answer), and will probably ask for another, too. Meanwhile, what are the other ideas for promotional materials mentioning particular free software? Are there prominent free posters or videos (dedicated to prominent free software) we can show at SFD (translating if necessary)? TIA. -- FSF associate member #7257 http://sf-day.org/

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Misplaced location on the map -reg
by Gauthamraj Ela Aug. 5, 2012

Aug. 5, 2012

Hi all , I registered with a team http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2012/India/Erode/MozErode , during registration I accidentally placed the location pointer somewhere and completed the registration process. Now , I can't even found my pointer is there anyway to change the location pointer after registration sorry to trouble you all :(

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Spanish countdown
by Rodrigo Rodríguez Aug. 3, 2012

Aug. 3, 2012

Hello, I just uploaded the needed files for the spanish Countdown [0]. I can't remove the files already there, from 2011. I also edited the frontpage [1] adding spanish to the language availables. I'm only requesting for review the files and the script, which I made them by inertia. :P Cheers, [0] http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/es [1] http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown -- Rodrigo Rodríguez http://mundonomada.info __ Prohibido prohibir. La libertad empieza con una prohibición.

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Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD logos
by Frederic Muller - DFI Aug. 2, 2012

Aug. 2, 2012

You do know we have a mailing list for those kind of questions, don't you? If not, you should subscribe to it right now! Link is directly accessible from the website in Participate - Promote SFD and leads to http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Promote Happy preparations. Fred On 07/29/2012 02:09 AM, Seun Ojedeji wrote: > Hi Fred, > > could you direct me to the logos of last year,I need those that has"we > are organizing SFD" written on it. > > Thanks > > OJ > sent from google nexus >

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SFD 2012 in Nigeria– Invitation to Participate
by Seun Ojedeji Aug. 1, 2012

Aug. 1, 2012

*Kindly share the information below:* * * *SFD 2012 – Invitation to Participate* *Information** **and** **Communication** **Technology** **Centre of The Federal University Oye Ekiti is organizing Software Freedom Day (SFD) in** * *conjunction** **with** **Computer** **Science** **Department.* The goal in this celebration is to educate the public about the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, government, home, business and everywhere. *The** **event** **is** **expected** **to** **attract** **software** ** programmer** **and** **enthusiast** **across** **the** **country.** **The** **event** is scheduled to hold from **10th** **to** **15th** **of** ** September.** **Below** **is** **the** **summary** **of** **the** **event.* *[Preconference** **Program]* *10Th** **to** **14th** **of** **September** **2012-** Pre**-conference** ** program:* - *Tutorial** **sessions** **/** **workshops* *There** **will** **be** **concurrent** **training** **session** **during** **this** **period.** **At** **present** **we** **have** **confirmation** ** for** **the** **following** **training/workshop:* - *Network** **Management** **and** **Monitoring** **Using** **FOSS* - *FOSS Business Model by ICT@innovation/GIZ Germany* - *Linux** **Essentials** **by** **Linux** **Professional** **Institute** * *(this** **includes** **an** **optional** **Certification** **Exam)* * * *15th** **of** **September** **is** **the** **SFD** **day** **and** **the conference** **will** **include** **the** **following:* - *Presentations (Call for paper submission is currently on going)* - *Exhibitions* - *Open** **discussions* - Social* **activities* *We do hope some of your staff and students in relevant department will attend and participate at this event. * *More information is on our website **http://fuoye.edu.ng** * *Kindly take note that the pre-conference training workshop has limited number of participation and selection will be based on first come first serve!* *We look forward to welcoming you at Federal University Oye-Ekiti* *Thanks.* *Yours faithfully* -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Seun Ojedeji, Federal University Oye-Ekiti web: http://www.fuoye.edu.ng Mobile: +2348035233535 **alt email: <http://goog_1872880453>seun.ojedeji(a)fuoye.edu.ng*

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