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[Planning-en] Winners of SFD '06 competition
by Robert Schumann Oct. 28, 2006

Oct. 28, 2006

Software Freedom International is proud to announce the winners of the 2006 Software Freedom Day competition - well done to all of them! == Teams == The winners of the team categories receive a high performance IBM server, thanks to the generous sponsorship of SFD '06 by [http://www.ibm.com IBM]. IBM continues to play a vital role both in cutting edge open source products and services, as well as supporting efforts such as Software Freedom Day, and it was a pleasure to have their support this year. BEST SFD EVENT PUBLICITY Digital Free Software Association (Tunisia) BEST PLAN FOR FOSS DEPLOYMENT PROJECT ON A NEW SERVER UnPLUG (Philippines) and Cultura Libre (Peru) BEST SFD EVENT LinuxChix (Zimbabwe) Due to the complexities of the documentary category, the results of this category has been delayed. == Individuals == The winners of the individual categories each receive an SFD '06 T-shirt signed by leading open source personalities including Alan Cox, Aaron Seigo, Jeff Waugh, Lawrence Lessig, Mark Shuttleworth, Andrew Tridgell, Rusty Russell, and Jon "maddog" Hall. BEST EVENT PHOTO Vibek Raj Maury (Nepal) and Bruce 'zcat' Kingsbury (New Zealand) BEST LOCALISED VERSION OF THE OFFICIAL SFD LOGO Judy Wilson (Belize) HIGHEST RANKING GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL AT SFD EVENT Nchimunya Kabunda (Zambia) Thank you to all those who participated in Software Freedom Day and submitted entries to the competition - the judges had a tough time selecting the winning entries! More information (including the winning photos) is available at http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/Competition2006/Winners Robert.

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[Planning-en] Regarding Competition.
by ramkumar＠rajaramsystems.com Oct. 9, 2006

Oct. 9, 2006

Hai, Can you list down the SFD Celebration who have applied for competition. >From SFD Mahadanapuram, India we have send mails but we donot know whether reached you are not. SFI can update the list of competitors in the website. Regds, L.Ramkumar

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[Planning-en] SFD 06 Report - Ethiopia
by Hayat Oct. 7, 2006

Oct. 7, 2006

Hi all, Sorry this is kind of late; but I say it's better to do it than not do it at all. You can find our report on http://www.lucynix.wordpress.com . Take a few moments to leave us comments. Hayat Lucynix Facilitator

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[Planning-en] competition entry
by Luis Gustavo Lira Oct. 2, 2006

Oct. 2, 2006

I get this reply? ====================================================== Your mail to 'Comp' with the subject competition entry Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. The reason it is being held: Message body is too big: 154427 bytes with a limit of 40 KB Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive notification of the moderator's decision. If you would like to cancel this posting, please visit the following URL: __________________________________________________ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! Regístrate ya - http://correo.espanol.yahoo.com/

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[Planning-en] Re: Planning-en Digest, Vol 4, Issue 17
by Max Murdock Sept. 22, 2006

Sept. 22, 2006

On 21/09/06, planning-en-request(a)sf-day.org <planning-en-request(a)sf-day.org> wrote: > We want to know what works and what doesn't work, and how we can all improve. > > There are some obvious things SFI intends to change; we need to smooth out the registrations and supplies shipping process. But we need to hear your great ideas in order to make SFD 2007 the biggest, best SFD ever! > > Please go to http://softwarefreedomday.org/feedback at your earliest convenience and take a couple minutes to let us know about your SFD 2006 experience. I can only say we had a rainy day all saturday (our installation was _destroyed_ by heavy rain two days before) and since our event was at open air, we were forced to cancel it... :(( Hope for better luck next year... cYa -- Fabrizio Felici Registered Linux User #398394 Registered Linux Machines #300244 #300245 GROlug - http://www.grolug.org/ Di' di NO al TC-Palladium!! http://www.no1984.org/

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[Planning-en] Montrose PA USA Software Freedom Day 2006 Quick Report
by William Davies Sept. 21, 2006

Sept. 21, 2006

Two items that stand out in my mind are: 1. I expected visitors to pick up literature and a CD, take a quick look at the demos and then leave. Surprisingly almost everyone stayed until the announced quitting time, asking questions and wanting to know more about Open Source Software. 2. There was not much interest in starting a Linux User Group but there was considerable interest in starting an Open Source Software discussion group to meet regularly to discuss Open Source. We did start a mailing list and the team leaders are discussing follow-up events. http://www.gbztechnology.com/sfd2006/ http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/teams/america/USA/Montrose William Davies

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[Planning-en] SFD 2006: Feedback please!
by Matt Oquist Sept. 21, 2006

Sept. 21, 2006

(I apologize for the cross-posting, but everyone is welcome to submit feedback, not just team leaders.) The feedback form: http://softwarefreedomday.org/feedback Now that 16 September has passed and we've all had a few days to recover, it's time to start looking forward to SFD 2007, and the best way to start that is by looking back at SFD 2006 and learning from this experience. We want to know what works and what doesn't work, and how we can all improve. There are some obvious things SFI intends to change; we need to smooth out the registrations and supplies shipping process. But we need to hear your great ideas in order to make SFD 2007 the biggest, best SFD ever! Please go to http://softwarefreedomday.org/feedback at your earliest convenience and take a couple minutes to let us know about your SFD 2006 experience. Regards, Matt -- --------------------------------------------------------- SoftwareFreedomDay.org : Celebrating Free and Open Source Software in Your Community info AT softwarefreedomday.org http://softwarefreedomday.org/ SFD Sponsors: http://canonical.com http://www.dkuug.dk http://ibm.com

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[Planning-en] Report from Lima - Peru
by Luis Gustavo Lira Sept. 17, 2006

Sept. 17, 2006

The event was held in Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru and was attended by 60 people. The event showcased the projects of LinuxChix, Asterisk and FreeCulture.org LinuxChix (Peruvian Chapter) LinuxChix is a community for women who like Linux, and for women and men who want to support women in computing. http://www.linuxchixperu.org/ Asterisk (Peruvian Users Group) Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux, BSD and MacOSX and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more. Asterisk does voice over IP in many protocols, and can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment using relatively inexpensive hardware. http://www.asterisk-peru.org FreeCulture.org (Peruvian Chapter) FreeCulture.org is a diverse, non-partisan group of students and young people who are working to get their peers involved in the free culture movement. http://www.freeculture.org Some statistics: Duration: 2:30pm -4:30pm Speakers: 2 from Asterisk, 4 from LinuxChix, 1 from FreeCulture.org People: 60 visitors Material Distributed: Ubuntu CDs, Creative Commons DVDs, Wired CDs, CC stickers, Ubuntu stickers, CC pins. Pictures of the event will be available soon Our Blog: http://blog.pucp.edu.pe/culturalibre __________________________________________________ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! Regístrate ya - http://correo.espanol.yahoo.com/

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[Planning-en] Report from Mawson Lakes, Adelaide, Australia
by Paul Schulz Sept. 17, 2006

Sept. 17, 2006

Report on Software Freedom Showcase held at Mawson Lakes, Adelaide, Australia Paul Schulz (paul(a)mawsonlakes.org) ---------------------------------- The event was held in the Mawson Centre, adjacent to the Mawson Lakes Campus of the University of South Australia and also contains the local public library. A display of Free and Open Source Software books had been set up, and our large (inflatable) Emperor penguin, Bill did an excellent job promoting out event. (Pictures of the event will be available soon.) The event showcased the activites of two distinct groups, Bettong.Org and Air-Stream. The event was organised by members of LinuxSA, with assistance from the Mawson Centre itself. Bettong.Org (bettong.org) Amoung other things, Bettong.Org provides Free and Open Source training. They provided PC's running Ubuntu, and had the all important job of explaining and demonstrating what Linux and Free and Open Source Software is all about. Air-Stream (air-stream.org) Air-Stream is building a community wireless network in Adelaide, South Australia. They provided the networking for the day, and illustrated why open accessible communication is also important for building communities. These groups were setup in separate rooms, with visitors able to wander between the two. In addition, several other individuals brought along computers and equipment, demonstrating how they use Free and Open Source software themselve. These included: - An installation PC - used to explain how installations worked; - A gaming PC with a demonstation of 3D gamin under Linux - An electronic music studio - Linux and applications running on an iPod We may have had possibly 50 visitor come through on the day, with many of them staying and trying out Ubuntu on one of the PC's setup. Lunchtime entertainment was provided by 'Swing Dancers SA' and the 'Chigaco Showband'. A BBQ was also put on by the Chicago Showband. Some statistics: Duration: 10am - 4pm With an hour each for setting up, and the packing it in. People: 20 organisers, helpers and participants 50 or so visitors, with the main groups being - parents/grandparents with children - overseas student from local university Other: CD's given away - 70 ish Sausages consumed - 100 Time swing dancers danced - 1 hour Music pieces played by the band - 12 The day wouldn't have happened without our sponsor The Mawson Centre and our supporters: - The Software Freedom Day organising team (you guys rock!) - Ubuntu - CD's, stickers - Bettong.Org - Air-Stream and all of our helpers. A very big thankyou to all of them. ---- Please contact me is you would like more information - paul(a)mawsonlakes.org or see (the now out of date) website - sfs.mawsonlakes.org

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[Planning-en] Report from London
by Morris, Simon Sept. 16, 2006

Sept. 16, 2006

Hello, This is a report by proxy for the London SFD celebrations. I organised the event but was called abroad by work earlier this week so I was lucky to have some very capable friends in the Greater London LUG to take it over. The "advocacy walk" from Regents Park to Tottenham Court Road was attended by 20 people who distributed around 300 leaflets and I'm not sure how many Ubuntu CDs. The meeting in Westminster University was attended by 59 people and had speakers from Ubuntu, Red Hat and GLLUG. The meeting has apparently just finished and moved to the pub. You know.... If I had planned it properly I could have attended both the Milan and London celebrations... Would that have been a first? Attending celebrations in 2 countrys? Photos and blog reports to follow. Have a good one ~sm

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