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Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD 2020

by Julian H. Stacey

Ref http://mail.sf-day.org/pipermail/sfd-discuss/2020-August/003266.html Rik Tindall wrote: > Please enable the SFD framework for those that can, as usual, hold > events. Good move. > i.e. in New Zealand and some Australian states. Ready to ramp up > activity. Localities vary by geography & time (eg part of city of Leicester UK, & Melbourne Australia & parts of USA all tightened on Corona after loosening) Only locals can decide. Good luck. Maren Hachmann <maren(a)goos-habermann.de> > the rest will meet up via > BigBlueButton, and we're also planning for a YouTube stream I made notes on virtual meeting softwares here http://www.berklix.org/meet/ Lot of links. More welcome. But I wrote it more with a view to smallish interactive meetings than large broadcast conferences. PS A friend (BCC'd) researched BigBlueButton & others for an expo. rather than for meetings, & thought BigBlue might be better than Jitsi for that, but she ran out of time, If she has notes I could link to or include them at eg. http://www.berklix.org/meet/#jitsi http://www.berklix.org/meet/#bigbluebutton Cheers -- Julian Stacey, Consultant Sys. Engineer, BSD Linux http://berklix.com/jhs/ Crash Brexit Dec. 2020 aids speculators & Russia. http://berklix.uk/brexit/ Russia report, many formats: http://www.berklix.org/russia/

Aug. 10, 2020

Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD 2020

by Maren Hachmann

Hi everyone, in Kiel, we're planning for an online event (combined with Kielux). Some of our speakers will join us in person, the rest will meet up via BigBlueButton, and we're also planning for a YouTube stream. The largest Linux conferences that we have in Germany have been dropped without replacement this year, so we hope to fill in the gap a bit, as good as we can. We'll try to start SFD as usual, too, by meeting up for breakfast. (If you want to be a speaker, you're invited to join us :) ) Maren (Kielux-Co-Coordinator) https://kielux.de Am 10.08.20 um 00:39 schrieb Rik Tindall: > Hi Fred and all, > > Please enable the SFD framework for those that can, as usual, hold events. > > i.e. in New Zealand and some Australian states. Ready to ramp up activity. > > Thanks and regards > > Rik Tindall > > pp SFD Team Christchurch > http://www.infohelp.co.nz/sfd20.html > https://www.facebook.com/TeamChristchurchSFD/ > > On 2020-08-10 06:57, Julian H. Stacey wrote: >>> If we're going to the "the usual thing", then we could also make it >>> official, update the website, >>> open the registration pages and so on, and possibly be explicit that >>> these events can either >>> be offline or online. >> >> Some (many?) countries it's illegal &/or too dangerous to do the >> Usual, eg Munich Germany cancelled many events including: >> http://oktoberfest.de/en & http://vcfe.org/E/ >> Even the voracious Olympics were forced to skip. >> >> https://www.softwarefreedomday.org/map/ lists 2019 with 59 events. >> The only global SFD "usual" could be a usual common date, with I guess >> many or mostly virtuals, & a few physicals with lower attendance. >> >> In Britain & Germany (& I assume most of North hemisphere), people >> are exploding out of Corona lock down & work from home buildings, >> & lack of fly away holidays, to local fresh air at beaches, lakes, >> mountains, parks, to cram a summer's outings (& traffic jams & >> people congestion) in to just 2 remaining months of August & September. >> >> Trying to tempt people inside buildungs to computer lectures, stands, >> mains supplied equipment, projectors & slide shows etc, would be >> futile IMO, unless a month before there was guaranteed rain with a month >> to advertise & recruit exhibitors & attenders. >> Maybe next century super computers might predict a month ahead ;-) >> >> Till then, though I was one of the main organisers of SFD >> for Munich in 2010 & 2011 http://www.berklix.org/sfd/ >> & have wondered if I should again some time, I definately won't in 2020, >> it's off to the park, till it rains. >> >> Cheers > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss

Aug. 9, 2020

Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD 2020

by Rik Tindall

Hi Fred and all, Please enable the SFD framework for those that can, as usual, hold events. i.e. in New Zealand and some Australian states. Ready to ramp up activity. Thanks and regards Rik Tindall pp SFD Team Christchurch http://www.infohelp.co.nz/sfd20.html https://www.facebook.com/TeamChristchurchSFD/ On 2020-08-10 06:57, Julian H. Stacey wrote: >> If we're going to the "the usual thing", then we could also make it >> official, update the website, >> open the registration pages and so on, and possibly be explicit that >> these events can either >> be offline or online. > > Some (many?) countries it's illegal &/or too dangerous to do the > Usual, eg Munich Germany cancelled many events including: > http://oktoberfest.de/en & http://vcfe.org/E/ > Even the voracious Olympics were forced to skip. > > https://www.softwarefreedomday.org/map/ lists 2019 with 59 events. > The only global SFD "usual" could be a usual common date, with I guess > many or mostly virtuals, & a few physicals with lower attendance. > > In Britain & Germany (& I assume most of North hemisphere), people > are exploding out of Corona lock down & work from home buildings, > & lack of fly away holidays, to local fresh air at beaches, lakes, > mountains, parks, to cram a summer's outings (& traffic jams & > people congestion) in to just 2 remaining months of August & September. > > Trying to tempt people inside buildungs to computer lectures, stands, > mains supplied equipment, projectors & slide shows etc, would be > futile IMO, unless a month before there was guaranteed rain with a > month > to advertise & recruit exhibitors & attenders. > Maybe next century super computers might predict a month ahead ;-) > > Till then, though I was one of the main organisers of SFD > for Munich in 2010 & 2011 http://www.berklix.org/sfd/ > & have wondered if I should again some time, I definately won't in > 2020, > it's off to the park, till it rains. > > Cheers

Aug. 9, 2020

Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD 2020

by Julian H. Stacey

> If we're going to the "the usual thing", then we could also make it > official, update the website, > open the registration pages and so on, and possibly be explicit that > these events can either > be offline or online. Some (many?) countries it's illegal &/or too dangerous to do the Usual, eg Munich Germany cancelled many events including: http://oktoberfest.de/en & http://vcfe.org/E/ Even the voracious Olympics were forced to skip. https://www.softwarefreedomday.org/map/ lists 2019 with 59 events. The only global SFD "usual" could be a usual common date, with I guess many or mostly virtuals, & a few physicals with lower attendance. In Britain & Germany (& I assume most of North hemisphere), people are exploding out of Corona lock down & work from home buildings, & lack of fly away holidays, to local fresh air at beaches, lakes, mountains, parks, to cram a summer's outings (& traffic jams & people congestion) in to just 2 remaining months of August & September. Trying to tempt people inside buildungs to computer lectures, stands, mains supplied equipment, projectors & slide shows etc, would be futile IMO, unless a month before there was guaranteed rain with a month to advertise & recruit exhibitors & attenders. Maybe next century super computers might predict a month ahead ;-) Till then, though I was one of the main organisers of SFD for Munich in 2010 & 2011 http://www.berklix.org/sfd/ & have wondered if I should again some time, I definately won't in 2020, it's off to the park, till it rains. Cheers -- Julian Stacey, Consultant Sys. Engineer, BSD Linux http://berklix.com/jhs/ Crash Brexit Dec. 2020 aids speculators & Russia. http://berklix.uk/brexit/ Russia report, many formats: http://www.berklix.org/russia/

Aug. 9, 2020

Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD 2020

by Marcos Marado

Hi there, On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 9:06 AM Frederic Muller - DFF <fred(a)digitalfreedomfoundation.org> wrote: [...] > So we have 5 months to prepare. Software choice is one issue, event > organization (and interaction) is another. I'll skip software choices > for now. Planning (at least on this mailing list) stalled, we are now one month away from the date. > Being a grass root event we probably need to let each team decide what > they want to present (topic - time - language). That could mean more > than 1 streaming channel necessary if we offer the streaming capabilities. At this point, I'd prefer starting by having a definitive statement about how SFD 2020 is going to be: several "local events" (online or offline), as usual, or one global event (which can of course have regional tracks and so on, if there's enough presenters, etc.)? [...] > What do you (as in everybody on the list) say? Mostly that time is running out :-) If we're going to do a global online event, it is time for us to say so, find someone interested in setting up and maintaing the technical side of things (hopefully several people in different time zones), someone (hopefully several people in different time zones) to coordinate the agenda side of things, and issue a call for presentations/sessions ASAP. If we're going to the "the usual thing", then we could also make it official, update the website, open the registration pages and so on, and possibly be explicit that these events can either be offline or online. Best regards, -- Marcos Marado

Aug. 9, 2020