September 2013 - SFD-discuss - lists.mailman3.com

Call for Help on SVG Counter
by Alexandro Colorado 27 Aug '16

27 Aug '16

Hello I put a Call for help on the FB group and page of the SFD, would be nice if I can get it reposted as SFD on FB, twitter and Identi.ca. I am sure much more people will pay attention to the call, if it comes from the official SFD account. Here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/jzarecta/posts/10152100110451978 http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown Regards. -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://www.openoffice.org

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OpenDisc is avaiable ?
by Severus 28 Oct '13

28 Oct '13

Hi all ! We're going to celebrate SFD on 21/9, but I found that opendisc's for 2012 SFD. When will we have opendisc for this year ? We have 18 days before SFD's held. Kind regards, Severus -- Be different and always different

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report on SFD in Dallas, Texas
by Steve Rainwater 03 Oct '13

03 Oct '13

We had a good Software Freedom Day event in Dallas, Texas this year. The event was hosted by Dallas Makerspace, a local hackerspace. We did not get an exact count for attendance. Estimates varied from 50 to 75 people. We had representatives from Fedora to demonstrate GNU/Linux and give away Fedora T-shirts and CDs. Representatives from CircuitCo demonstrated the BeagleBoard and Intel Minnow free hardware boards running GNU/Linux. We had lots of swag from SFD, FSF, and Creative Commons. (For some reason the EFF did not respond to our requests this year, so no EFF swag). We grilled hot dogs and hamburgers for our guests. We had talks on Drupal, Blender, Civic Hacking, GNU/Linux security and privacy, Libre Office, and other topics. I took a few photos with my mobile phone: http://flickr.com/photos/steevithak/sets/72157635746080145/ You can read more about the event on our web page: https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/Software_Freedom_Day_2013 -Steve

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Re: [SFD-discuss] [sfd] Thanks
by Bob Jonkman 30 Sep '13

30 Sep '13

Hi Everybodeee! I thought we had a great Kwartzlab Software Freedom Day and GNU 30th Anniversary celebration here in Kitchener. I also think we had around 45 people attending. I'll upload pictures and video to the SFD Kwartzlab Wiki[1] as soon as they're back from the darkroom. Laurel Russwurm took video of the presentations until the memory in the camera gave out (sorry, Joe Almeida!), as well as pictures. She's working on assembling the video fragments into reasonable wholes, and culling the best pictures out of the thousands she took. You can see some of her work in progress[2a], including the "Three Cheers For GNU" photo and video. I took some phonecam shots as well[2b], trying to use the ownCloud "Instant Upload" feature. I now know that "Upload pictures via WiFi only" means you have to connect to the WiFi to upload pictures, otherwise it's not so Instant. If anyone else took pictures or video, feel free to put them on the Wiki yourself, or you can upload them to my ownCloud "Contributions" folder[3] and I can put them on the Wiki for you. It was a great day, and I hope we do it again next year. Maybe we can even participate in Education Freedom Day[4] or Hardware Freedom Day![5] --Bob. [1] http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2013/Canada/Kitchener/Kwartzlab [2a] http://sobac.com/owncloud/public.php?service=files&t=847d16682665730f559fc6… [2b] http://sobac.com/owncloud/public.php?service=files&t=dd29ab3cb843f28f590b5b… [3] Contributions: http://sobac.com/owncloud/public.php?service=files&t=660ca0f85cdb2f52803403… [4] http://www.educationfreedomday.org/ [5] http://www.hfday.org/ -- Bob Jonkman <bjonkman(a)sobac.com> Phone: +1-519-669-0388 SOBAC Microcomputer Services http://sobac.com/sobac/ http://bob.jonkman.ca/blogs/ http://sn.jonkman.ca/bobjonkman/ Software --- Office & Business Automation --- Consulting GnuPG Fngrprnt:04F7 742B 8F54 C40A E115 26C2 B912 89B0 D2CC E5EA On 13-09-28 07:20 PM, Paul Nijjar wrote: > Thanks to everybody for helping make Software Freedom Day this year > possible. It looks like we got a reasonable turnout -- 44 people by > my count. > [...] > - Paul >

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SFD in Cotonou, Benin
by médard Agbayazon 27 Sep '13

27 Sep '13

Hello, Just to notify you that we have done SFD for the first time in Cotonou (Benin) last saturday. It was a great learning opportunity around FOSS. I will soon send you the pictures of the event. Thank you. Médard AGBAYAZON.

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SFD Philippines 2013
by Gladys Regalado 26 Sep '13

26 Sep '13

We celebrated last Saturday at the Far Eastern University with around 700 students. We had a new breakout session this year with Open Hardware, a local research laboratory, (VISSER), brought their Arduinos and Raspberry Pis for demos. This is also the first time we had a Wikipedia editing session. We'll publish our full report soon. For now, here are some photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/103152235@N05/sets/72157635916077155/ And our activities are posted here: http://2013.sfdphilippines.org/ We will have another Software Freedom Day tomorrow at a nearby city, south of the capital: http://olivarezcollegetagaytay.edu.ph/ Thank you very much to everyone at DFD for the team packs! Kudos to all the teams that celebrated another year of software freedom! We're very excited for next year's 10th SFD and the Education Freedom Day! Gladys Computer Professionals' Union Software Freedom Day Philippines * *

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TTCS OSSWIN DVD v1.0, collection of FOSS for Windows available for download
by Dev Anand Teelucksingh 26 Sep '13

26 Sep '13

Dear All, Just to let you know that the TTCS OSSWIN DVD v1.0, a collection of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for Windows put together by the Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society is available for download at http://www.ttcsweb.org/osswin-dvd/ This compilation of nearly 100 FOSS for Windows (XP and higher) has detailed information about each program: what the program does, its key features, useful related websites, view a screenshot, find links to the program's website and to download/install the program from the TTCS OSSWIN DVD from the web browser. The changes to this version adds three new programs, and adds 64 bit versions of programs where available for installation and latest software version updates as of September 21 2013. See the TTCS OSSWIN DVD page at http://www.ttcsweb.org/osswin-dvd/ for more details, including a complete listing of programs included on the DVD, download links and checksum information to verify the download. Kind Regards, Dev Anand Teelucksingh

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Software Freedom Day in Kitchner, Sat, 28 Sep 2013
by Bob Jonkman 26 Sep '13

26 Sep '13

Hi Everyone! In case you don't already know, this Saturday we're celebrating Software Freedom Day one week late at the Kwartzlab Makerspace in Kitchener. We've got presentations scheduled throughout the day, there will be an installfest taking place, we'll have Q&A and discussions in the comfy lounge, and at the end of the day we're streaming the keynote speech by Richard Stallman from the GNU 30th Anniversary celebrations at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. What: Software Freedom Day When: Saturday, 28 September 2013 from 10:00am to 5:00pm Where: Kwartzlab Makerspace, 33 Kent Avenue, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada Map: http://osm.org/go/ZXnwY4DZc?m=&way=199095014 LoCo Event: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-ca/2497/detail SFD Wiki: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2013/Canada/Kitchener/Kwartzlab Sing-a-long: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kTfcfQ3uEo IRC: #sfd or #kwartzlab channels on Freenode Webchat: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=sfd,kwartzlab Hope to see you there! --Bob.

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SFD in Lovcenac, Serbia
by Zeljko Popivoda 24 Sep '13

24 Sep '13

Hi, Software Freedom Day was celebrated in Lovcenac, Serbia. The event was held at the Local Cultural Center and lasted four hours (12:00-16:00). Visitors were able to hear basic information about the FLOSS, to see how GNU/Linux looks and to test how GNU/Linux works on old computers. Also, we shared promotional material: cd's, stickers, flyers... All computers that you will see in the images are made up of parts that are donated by individuals and institutions. Also, much of the promotional materials that were shared to visitors was donated. Thanks to everyone for their donations! We didn't had a lot of visitors and event was seemed more like an informal gathering, which was not so bad. :) We take this opportunity to say thanks to all visitors. Thank you all! Photos from the event http://goo.gl/NYvja Photos of PC's from the event http://goo.gl/8gPdd4 Video from the event http://youtu.be/xJagg6vbTs8 zpop -- http://popivoda.com

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Package arrived yesterday
by Kevin Cole 23 Sep '13

23 Sep '13

For your records, the Washington, DC package arrived yesterday. Thanks. Especially thanks for removing dates from stuff: Since in recent years, the package has arrived after our event, it means the materials from this year can be used next year, because most of it is date-free. (This year, we used last year's package, which also was date-free.) I haven't been paying attention, and only noticed Free Education Day from the flyers sent with this year's package. So, thanks for that info too. I need to look into that further, since that's really where my interest lies: FLOSS / FLOSH in education -- schools, libraries, community centers, etc.

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