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HFD registration is up!

by Frederic Muller - DFF

Dear all, As discussed previously, Hardware Freedom Day[1] is set for April 20th, 2013. We are just launching both the mailing list[2] and the registration[3] right now (hopefully without too many glitches). While we haven't confirmed any sponsor yet we are confident to raise enough funds to get a team pack ready and on time for the event. So don't wait, rush to the HFD wiki[4], create your event page[5] and register your event[3]! HFD support questions will be handled on the hfd mailing list[2]. Thanks a lot and happy HFD! ---- The Digital Freedom Foundation Board [1] http://www.hfday.org/ [2] http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/hfd-discuss [3] http://www.hfday.org/cgi-bin/register.py [4] http://wiki.hfday.org/ [5] http://wiki.hfday.org/CreateYourEventpage

Feb. 21, 2013

Re: [SFD-discuss] DFF registers, announces HFD, CFD and SFD

by Pockey Lam

Le 17/02/2013 10:05, Marcos Marado a écrit : > * Is SFD's wiki gone? SFD wiki is back online :-) however it may not be 100% reliable. Fred is still working on it while online. Regards, Pockey

Feb. 19, 2013

Re: [SFD-discuss] DFF registers, announces HFD, CFD and SFD

by Pockey Lam

On 02/17/2013 10:05 AM, Marcos Marado wrote: > Hi there, > > * Are you aquainted with http://hardwarefreedomday.org/ ? Our official URL is : http://hfday.org/, please share this good news with your friends and hackerspace nearby :) Regards, Pockey

Feb. 18, 2013

Re: [SFD-discuss] DFF registers, announces HFD, CFD and SFD

by Frederic Muller - DFF

On 02/17/2013 10:05 AM, Marcos Marado wrote: > Hi there, > > * Is SFD's wiki gone? Yes and no. As mentioned here http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/blog/206-wiki-under-maintenance we had to do some work on the wiki. The current status is that the wiki farm is usable which is why both HFD and CFD wikis are back up. For SFD there are about 1200 spam pages which I need to clean up and that is being worked on. > * Are you aquainted with http://hardwarefreedomday.org/ ? The domain was registered and unused by someone who organizes SFD in his city. We tried to get the domain back over a year ago and then that person replied he would make one HFD for himself first and then let us have the domain. At the end he changed his mind and decided not to let us have the domain. So except for the few email exchanges we had, and the fact that he organizes SFD regularly and called his team Software Freedom Day International last year, we are not related to that individual. Fred > > Best, >

Feb. 17, 2013

Re: [SFD-discuss] DFF registers, announces HFD, CFD and SFD

by Marcos Marado

Hi there, * Is SFD's wiki gone? * Are you aquainted with http://hardwarefreedomday.org/ ? Best, -- Marcos Marado ANSOL.org

Feb. 17, 2013

DFF registers, announces HFD, CFD and SFD

by Frederic Muller - DFI

Dear all, Digital Freedom Foundation (formerly known as Software Freedom International) is proud to announce its new incorporation in the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong. While the charity status is still pending approval as our bylaws, goals and three-year plan are being reviewed, the organization has just been incorporated and we opened our bank account on February 14th. We can therefore officially announce our plans for 2013 including the exciting things you already know about, and the new exciting stuff we have had in our pipeline for quite some times now. We will of course continue with the current schedule of two annual worldwide celebrations of Culture and Software Freedom respectively called Culture Freedom Day and Software Freedom Day. Both will be celebrated as planned, respectively the 3rd Saturday of May and the 3rd Saturday of September, putting CFD on Saturday 18 May and SFD on Saturday 21 September this year. Events registration will open around mid March for CFD and early June for SFD. As usual early SFD registrants gets to receive a free team pack and we are still trying to raise sufficient funds to provide the same benefits for CFD events. Now to the exciting new stuff: if you follow us on identi.ca or twitter, you then already know that we are launching a new celebration around Open Hardware called Hardware Freedom Day and which will be celebrated one month before Culture Freedom Day on April 20 2013. As Open Hardware mixes a bit of the three pillars on which we focus (software, art/culture and hardware) we have chosen this date to enable people to either merge HFD and CFD (as open hardware necessary involves design, which arguably involves artists) or only focus on the part they feel more relevant to them by only celebrating one or the other international day. In the future we are planning to move HFD earlier in the year to balance the three celebrations every four months and have HFD closer to Christmas as well, so people can show off all the cool open hardware gifts they got during the holiday season. Last but not least our yearly plan includes two other major milestones: the SFD Summit which was postponed from last year, which we need to realign with our current endeavours (HFD,CFD and SFD), and creating a curriculum about the digital freedoms we celebrate covering Free Software, Free Culture and Open Hardware. Both need further considerations as we are in the early stages of planning and will warrant dedicated announcements in due time. We would like to thank our former board members with a special mention to Matt Oquist, SFI founder, treasurer and vice president until end of 2012 with whom we obviously wouldn't be where we are today. Another thank you goes to our long term and faithful sponsors and partners would have followed us for years and without whom we couldn't provide teams with the schwags and competition prizes. Those are namely Canonical, Google, Linode, the Free Software Foundation, Linux Magazine, the Linux Journal and Lemote. To conclude our next focus will therefore be Hardware Freedom Day, on Saturday 20 April 2013 and official registration will open early next week. So get your hackerspace in order and join us to celebrate! ---- Digital Freedom Foundation ---- ps: hfd mailing lists are also pending and hopefully we should resolve the last issues within a few days. In the meantime don't hesitate to use the sfd-discuss list to ask any question.

Feb. 15, 2013

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Feb. 8, 2013

Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD-discuss Digest, Vol 65, Issue 5

by Hal

Unsubscribe Hal F. Gottfried 2013 CCCKC VP of Communications 2013 IEEE Kansas City Region - Computer Society Chairman GPG key ID: EC8935F5 GPG key fingerprint: 30CF 6B38 1B99 EFBF 83B7 F0AC 95F8 91DA 0CBC 5149 On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 6:00 AM, sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org wrote: > Send SFD-discuss mailing list submissions to > sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > sfd-discuss-owner(a)sf-day.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of SFD-discuss digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Adding a poster in Swag 2013 (Pockey Lam) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:03:49 +0800 > From: Pockey Lam <pockey(a)softwarefreedomday.org> > Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] Adding a poster in Swag 2013 > To: sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org > Message-ID: <5107F2E5.4000900(a)softwarefreedomday.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" > > Thanks a lot for all the positive feedback. We will definitely add a > poster (most likely A2 size) in our Swag for 2013 and make sure that > every swag items will have its SVG file for download (and localize) when > we finished to create the artwork, just like previous years ;-) > > Cheers, > Pockey > > > On 01/28/2013 04:33 PM, Marcos Marado wrote: > > On Sunday 27 January 2013 07:56:37 Pockey Lam wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > It is time to talk about SFD 2013,since we received quite some good > > > feedback for sfd banners, we are wondering if adding one or two big > > > poster(s) would be useful for your SFD event. > > > > > > In terms of size, it would be either A1: 570 x 870mm or A2: 570 x > > > 420mm. One downside is that the poster will be folded into smaller size > > > in order to fit inside the package so it may have a chance to arrive > > > damaged as well. So it's good to hear your opinions to see if it's > > > worth to try :-) > > > > > > > Posters are a very good idea and allways useful. If they are folded to A4, > > shipping damage shouldn't be much. > > > > Cheers, > >

Jan. 30, 2013

Re: [SFD-discuss] Adding a poster in Swag 2013

by Pockey Lam

Thanks a lot for all the positive feedback. We will definitely add a poster (most likely A2 size) in our Swag for 2013 and make sure that every swag items will have its SVG file for download (and localize) when we finished to create the artwork, just like previous years ;-) Cheers, Pockey On 01/28/2013 04:33 PM, Marcos Marado wrote: > On Sunday 27 January 2013 07:56:37 Pockey Lam wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> It is time to talk about SFD 2013,since we received quite some good >> feedback for sfd banners, we are wondering if adding one or two big >> poster(s) would be useful for your SFD event. >> >> In terms of size, it would be either A1: 570 x 870mm or A2: 570 x >> 420mm. One downside is that the poster will be folded into smaller size >> in order to fit inside the package so it may have a chance to arrive >> damaged as well. So it's good to hear your opinions to see if it's >> worth to try :-) > Posters are a very good idea and allways useful. If they are folded to A4, > shipping damage shouldn't be much. > > Cheers,

Jan. 29, 2013

Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD-discuss Digest, Vol 65, Issue 3

by Julian H. Stacey

> And the SVG or PDF > source file idea is also good, especially for groups that are at more > than one site. Poster should also look OK in monochrome: Most people don't have access to colour printers at work, or if they do, same problem arises: colleagues often are discouraged from using the colour printer. SFD people might print in colour, but friends of SFD people emailed to at work, won't be so motivated to use the company's colour printer. `Small is beatiful' ;-) A5, USA Letter, & A4 most useful. Numerous friends can generaly be easily persuaded to print & stick A5 on the outside of their own office doors, if friends in local source groups personaly enclose them in email, for any of various tech. events inc. SFD. Some lesser number will be prepared to stick up A4. Most people can't publicise larger, they'd need to be quite motivated to take time to get permission/ agreement from room colleagues, boss & personnel for notice boards etc. The small USA: Still not yet grown to A4 paper ;-) Margins would be a problem above single sheet: Most printers only print up to A4, & most leave a white margin. Sticking sheets together, we'd have to accurately cut off white margins & align. The bigger the worse the drift. Cut marks would help. What would generate them ? We'd get into a distracting discussion on tools, (between small & light tools & versions with dependencies that run on some not all OSs, versus bloated mega packages, eg open/libre/office, that some teams have forced to run on most OS, at least some version). A5 black & white won't be ambitious enough for various SFD activists, & good to have something better too, but A5 B/W will have far greater chance of appearing outside lots of office doors of friends & acquaintainces of SFD people. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, like a play script. Indent old text with "> ". Send plain text. No quoted-printable, HTML, base64, multipart/alternative.

Jan. 28, 2013