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Design the Software Freedom Day 2025 Mascot with Free Software – Huion Challenge now open!
by LM Oct. 26, 2025

Oct. 26, 2025

Greetings. Do you love creating with Free,Libre, Open Source Software (FLOSS)? Here’s your chance to show the world what digital freedom looks like: help us design the official Software Freedom Day (SFD) 2025 mascot--built entirely with FLOSS tools and released under CC BY-SA 4.0 or CC BY 4.0. Whether you model in Blender or paint in Krita, 2-D or 3-D is welcome. --- What’s in it for you? --- Huion is back with fantastic prizes for the top entries: 1 - Kamvas Pro 16 (4K) pen-display 2 - Kamvas Pro 12 pen-display 3 - 2 × Inspiroy Frego M tablets --- How to take part --- 1. Create your mascot in any FLOSS graphics tool (Krita, GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, MyPaint, ...). 2. Add a short back-story (≤ 1000 characters). 3. Submit both the source file (.kra/.xcf/.svg/.blend…) and a web-ready image (.png/.jpg, 1920 × 1080). 4. Make sure your work is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 or CC BY 4.0. 5. Deadline: 20 October 2025. One entry per person, worldwide. --- Need inspiration? --- Last year Janka (Hungary) soared to first prize with a Krita painting, while Deffy (USA) wowed us with a Blender animation and Yue Xin (Malaysia) lit up the canvas in Krita. Their success shows how powerful - and fun - FLOSS creativity can be! --- Why join? --- * Celebrate software freedom and show what’s possible without proprietary constraints. * Get international exposure and feedback from the FLOSS community. * Win Huion hardware to push your art even further. --- Your mission right now --- Forward this challenge to all your creative friends! More entries mean a richer, more colourful mascot showcase for everyone. Thanks for spreading the word and for championing free software creativity. Happy drawing--and good luck! Free-spirited regards, Jurgen, Jan, Chris, Mostafa, Marcos, Ruwan, Laura Digital Freedom Foundation Board

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Re: 3 weeks and counting
by LM Aug. 30, 2025

Aug. 30, 2025

Sorry about the links and non-text parts in the previous post. That's what I get for copying a post's wording from another post I made instead of going back to the original text. Ignore the links in the previous email. If you want to check out the event map and what's going on where, please see: https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/archive?view=list Also, please feel free to share some of your ideas for planning Software Freedom Day 2025. Hope it's even better than last year.

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3 weeks and counting
by LM Aug. 30, 2025

Aug. 30, 2025

We are 3 weeks away from #SoftwareFreedomDay2025 <https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/softwarefreedomday2025?__eep__=6&__cft__[0…>. There's room on the map for more events: https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/archive?view=list <https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fdigitalfreedoms.org%2Fen%2Fsfd…> They don't have to be large. They can be small. They can in person. They can be virtual. They can be hybrid. They don't have to be on Sept 20th. They can occur on a date that's convenient for you and the attendees. If you don't currently have an event in your area, please consider creating one. You might meet some new friends who also enjoy Free Software. If you are hosting an event in your area, please feel free to post some details about it on our mailing list. It might inspire others to create their own event or give other teams some ideas. Also, let me know if you've posted anything about it on social media. The DFF can boost your posts. The DFF can also share posts about your events on our social media accounts. You can share information about your events or event planning on the DFF blog as well. Is anyone hosting anything virtual this year? If so, we'd like to try to highlight it for people who may not have an event in their area but would still like to participate in some way. Hope you all have a wonderful Software Freedom Day 2025.

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Last call for swag
by Jurgen Gaeremyn Aug. 17, 2025

Aug. 17, 2025

Hey all, 20 hours from now, I will be sending out the swag packs. There are still some left. If you're quickly, you can still get one in your inbox. Greetings, Jurgen

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Website downtime - Software Freedom Day Updates - swag packs
by Jurgen Gaeremyn (Digital Freedoms) Aug. 2, 2025

Aug. 2, 2025

Hey all, I've been hearing sounds from people already prepping for Software Freedom Day - and doing crazy stuff again. Also seeing small teams taking their first steps organizing something something cozy. Both are great! During the last 48 hours, the website has been down due to some technical issues. These are resolved. If you intended to register your event <https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/add-event> for Software Freedom Day — the site is back up now. Also, don't forget to spread the word with artists as they can win a nice Huion Tablet in our artist challenge <https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/sfd-mascot-huion-challenge-2025>. Last year we had 3 entries for 3 prizes — so don't hold back. Everyone can be an artist. Did you see the great swag ideas <https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/software-freedom-day-artwork-and-ex…> Chris created for this year? They all come with SVG-files so you can translate them to your local language too! Ah... and as a small sneak preview — swag is ordered this year for interested teams. The first 25 teams who register their event, can apply for free swag <digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/order-swag> (or volunteer chip in a bit too). Hurry up, 15 events are registered already! And shipping will happen on August 20th so everybody gets their swag in time. Thanks to the Linux Professional Institute (LPI - lpi.org) for sponsoring for the swag.

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