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CDs to be dispatched to SFD teams
by Robert Schumann June 14, 2007

June 14, 2007

The organisers of Software Freedom Day have been discussing making some changes to the supplies we will be making available to SFD teams this year. Last year we helped Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, send shipments of Ubuntu CDs to teams, and teams once again have the opportunity to request Ubuntu CDs when they register this year. We have also been intending this year to ship copies of The Open CD ( http://theopencd.org/) which was supplied to teams in 2005 - and when teams register this year, they are offered the opportunity to specify how many of The Open CD they would like to receive. However, for various reasons we would like to avoid shipping The Open CD this year. The major reason is cost: although the cost per team might only be US$10 or US$15, when you have hundreds of teams registered that becomes a lot of money. Software Freedom International (the organisation behind SFD) has very limited funds and we believe this is not an effective use of those funds. What we are proposing instead is to send teams 1. One CD or DVD containing open source documentaries, interviews, music and any other open resources we can get hold of 2. A single copy of The Open CD, which can be replicated by teams if they wish to distribute this software 3. ...as well as the usual T-shirts and a few other little items! Another part of the reason for this proposed change is to make available to teams (including teams in parts of the world where internet connectivity is not great) a set of resources that can be used to convey the message of software freedom (for example, interviews with some leaders in the FLOSS world). These resources could then also be used to put together your own documentary or shown at other software freedom events you may plan ( e.g. for a campus fair at your college, or an IT exhibition). Before making this change, we wanted to hear feedback from you, the team leaders and FLOSS enthusiasts from around the world. So please do get in touch with us to let us know what you think (about this change, and about our proposed team supplies) and ask any questions you may have. You can either chat with other SFD participants on the SFD-discuss mailing list (you need to be a member: join at http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss) or you can send your comments/questions direct to the SFI board at info(a)sf-day.org. We are specifically interested in 1. suggestions for resources to be put on the CD/DVD (which must be under an open license). 2. whether your team would have a problem using a DVD and you'd prefer a CD. Looking forward to hearing from you, Robert. PS - Three months left to go before SFD! How are your preparations going?

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Re: [SFD-announce] CDs to be dispatched to SFD teams
by Robert Schumann June 12, 2007

June 12, 2007

To be clear, the suggestion is that the CD we send doesn't contain any software: it will likely contain only music and video footage. Thanks everybody for your suggestions - keep them coming. It is very helpful for us to get an idea of what teams are looking for from us. Robert. On 11/06/07, Fabian Rodriguez <magicfab(a)member.fsf.org> wrote: > > Robert Schumann wrote: > > The organisers of Software Freedom Day have been discussing making > > some changes to the supplies we will be making available to SFD teams > > this year. > > > > [...] > > However, for various reasons we would like to avoid shipping The Open > > CD this year. [...] > Personally, I tend to agree with whatever you would be able to send. We > can arrange for The OpenCD distribution locally, if absolutely necessary. > > What we are proposing instead is to send teams > > 1. One CD or DVD containing open source documentaries, interviews, > > music and any other open resources we can get hold of > > 2. A single copy of The Open CD, which can be replicated by teams if > > they wish to distribute this software > > 3. ...as well as the usual T-shirts and a few other little items! > > > > [...] > > 1. suggestions for resources to be put on the CD/DVD (which must be > > under an open license). > I'd like to suggest adding the Code breakers documentary to the mix, in > Ogg Theora format: > http://www.apdip.net/news/fossdoc > > We have produced an english transcript available as .SRT subtitle and a > spanish translation of it. Other translations are being coordinated if > anyone's interested: > http://tinyurl.com/2lppw9 > > > > 2. whether your team would have a problem using a DVD and you'd prefer > > a CD. > In this part of the world (Quebec, Canada), many people are now used to > DVDs, and most recent machines come wityh DVD readers. However CDs work > for everyone. So I would say if you send a master DVD we could > accomodate for reproduction of it. > > Cheers, > > Fabian Rodriguez, SFD contact at FACIL > http://facil.qc.ca/FabianRodriguez >

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Any SFD enthusiasts in Buenos Aires?
by Robert Schumann June 11, 2007

June 11, 2007

I'm going to be in Buenos Aires this weekend and was wondering if I could persuade any local software freedom supporters on this list to let me buy them a drink. As a board member of Software Freedom International I'm involved with the behind-the-scenes organisation for SFD, which means I can tell you all you ever wanted to know about where we get our T-shirts and what our plans for the future are, and how SFD all got started. I can also take your feedback to our board meetings. If you're in or near Buenos Aires on Saturday, feel free to respond either to directly to me or via this mailing list. And if you know of other FLOSS supporters in BA, you're welcome to pass on this email to them. Looking forward to meeting you! Robert.

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hello and t-shirt cost
by Douglas A. Whitfield June 11, 2007

June 11, 2007

All, I just signed up for this list today since no messages have come out of the sfd-announce since I joined it about a month ago. My group's site is http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/teams/northamerica/ChapelHill. We are looking to purchase about $100 of the t-shirts if the price is right. I know the page says the shirts are being worked on, but do we have an estimated cost? This group is a new group begun this spring, so this obviously our first SFD. None of us had actually even heard of SFD until May 8th! We hope we can get similar events started at other local universities (Duke and NC State) as well as some other places we have ties (NCSSM and Gardner-Webb University). Any questions, comments or concerns are very welcome! Thank you, -- Douglas A. Whitfield UNC SILS MSIS Class of '08 Cell: 919-360-0306 AIM: DouglasAWh Carolina Open Source Initiative Co-President Carolina-opensource(a)listserv.unc.edu http://www.softwarefreedomday.org

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Pleading and grovelling
by Matthew Davidson June 8, 2007

June 8, 2007

Hi, When registering my team I foolishly declined to request any Ubuntu Feisty CDs as I had already ordered sufficient for SFD from Canonical. Of course my special request for a bulk quantity was declined by Canonical, and now I'm left with fewer CDs than I would expect to distribute in an average month, never mind SFD. I know it's dangerously late, but does anybody know at whose feet I should prostrate myself to get an emergency stock? Matthew Davidson Coffs Harbour NSW Australia Team -- Alma Technology - The future is free and open http://www.almatech.net.au ... (02) 6658 1607 ... 0419 242 316 -- http://computerclub.cex.com.au http://clublinux.almatech.net.au -- "He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me." - Thomas Jefferson http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s12.html

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Re: Pleading and grovelling
by Nathaniel Jayme June 4, 2007

June 4, 2007

I hope our request will be granted as well. We also look forward for possible partners and sponsors to the event. http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/teams/asiaandmiddleeast/Philippines/Dabaw… More power to all. Sincerely, Nathaniel B. Jayme ____________________________________________________________________________________ Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting

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Hello from Macedonia
by Aleksandar Balalovski May 9, 2007

May 9, 2007

Hello, this is the coordinator of the GNU/Linux user group of Bitola/Macedonia, Aleksandar Balalovski. We are registered as team to celebrate this year World SFD as event merged to the SFD of our city which is 21 September. We hope to get all the necessary support and requirements to make it successful and relevant event. Laterz -- Aleksandar Balalovski http://blog.gemidjy.info gemidjy(a)lugola.net Coordinator of the Lugola (www.lugola.net)

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"Remind me" broken on wiki
by Alan Pope May 9, 2007

May 9, 2007

Hi, I just went to the SFD wiki and used the "remind me of my password" thing which sent me a mail containing my user ID but an SHA encrypted version of my password. Surely it should send me my password in the clear? I actually remembered my password so was able to logon, but other users may not be so lucky. Cheers, Al.

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Registrations are open for SFD 2007!
by Pia Waugh May 8, 2007

May 8, 2007

Hi all! Registrations are open for Software Freedom Day 2007! Welcome to the planning and preparation for Software Freedom Day 2007. We have more resources, documentation and goodies for you, and we look forward to sharing the biggest and best SFD ever with you all! == Registration == The SFD2007 team registration is now open! You'll need to register before the schwag deadline (31 July) to receive shirts, balloons and stickers to help your event look spectacular. Teams that register after the schwag deadline will still be included as official events, but will not receive any goodies. Each team (registered before the schwag deadline) will receive two SFD2007 shirts for free. We will have extra shirts for sale soon, however if your team has special needs or is in a developing nation, please send us a special extra tshirts request to info [at] sf-day.org and we will consider more shirts for your team on a case by case basis. There are limited numbers of shirts, balloons and stickers, and we will try to make sure teams are as well equipped as possible. Teams can find information from the Start Guide including artwork, marketing information, generic press releases, tips and tricks for running an event and much more - http://softwarefreedomday.org/StartGuide Many thanks to Robert Schumann who tirelessy worked on the registration page! == Website == Firstly, please note that in order to keep the website sane, we have migrated all 2006 team pages to an archive page. You are completely welcome to copy and paste from your archived pages to a new page, but you'll need to create a new team page prior to your team registration. We've got a new look and feel. Many thanks to Phil Harper who created the look and feel and Judy Wilson who updated loads of information. == Team Communications == We are currently not running a forum, and encourage you all to post to the sfd-discuss mailing list for questions, ideas, team announcements and more. Join the sfd-discuss mailing list at http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss. All team leaders that register will be automatically added to the sfd-announce mailing list if they are not already on it. If enough people request the forum functionality back again we may enable it. Ensure your SFD team page is up to date so that people can find and attend your event. If you choose to have a SFD team page separate from the SFD website, please ensure you link to it so everyone can find events through the SFD website. Make sure you link any press coverage of your event and press releases to http://softwarefreedomday.org/press. == Competition == We will certainly be running a competition again this year, however will be announcing the competition within the month. Please check out last years competition for some ideas as this years competition will be very similar. http://softwarefreedomday.org/competition. == Questions? == Please post questions to the sfd-discuss mailing list so all teams can learn from and support each other. For specific or private enquiries, please email info [at] sf-day [dot] org. Cheers, Pia Waugh President Software Freedom International -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/ "There is no darkness but ignorance." - William Shakespeare

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Celebrate SFD at educational institutions.
by Janet Hawtin May 8, 2007

May 8, 2007

Hi folks Got a bit of a start on promoting SFD for Australian education organisations. Hope it helps Janet http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2007/edition-13/soapbox-open-source-fo…

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