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Goodies for SFD 2012
by stephen wanjau 17 Aug '12

17 Aug '12

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 16 Aug '12

16 Aug '12

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 16 Aug '12

16 Aug '12

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 10 Aug '12

10 Aug '12

[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 10 Aug '12

10 Aug '12

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 10 Aug '12

10 Aug '12

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 05 Aug '12

05 Aug '12

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 03 Aug '12

03 Aug '12

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 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

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 01 Aug '12

01 Aug '12

*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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