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the name of the game

by Ivan Shmakov

[There were a few points raised, or hinted at, in planning-ru@, which I think may demand a wider audience. Below comes the first one.] It was observed that the Software Freedom Day is more than just occasionally called “Free Software Day” in Russian — a difference that's a bit hard to notice given that it's only a matter of suffix (or, rather, ending) there: “День /свободы/ программного обеспечения” (Software Freedom) vs. “День /свободного/ программного обеспечения” (Free Software.) It doesn't help that the “Free Software” variant of the name is used by certain teams (more or less consistently) since at least 2007 [1] (though “Software Freedom” appears since 2004 [2].) [1] http://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/2135552 [2] http://www.linux.org.ru/news/sco/642283#comment-642440 The proponents of the “Free Software” variant argue that “software freedom” is as much a nonsensical notion as “software slavery” is. It's said that it's the /user/ freedom that's at stake; and as it's Free Software that frees the user, the Day should be called after it. It should be mentioned that French and Ukrainian Wikipedia articles for SFD are seemingly titled after “Free Software”, too (though I'm by no means fluent in these languages): http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journée_du_logiciel_libre http://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/День_Вільного_ПЗ Any comments? TIA. -- FSF associate member #7257 http://sf-day.org/

Aug. 9, 2012

Re: [SFD-discuss] Misplaced location on the map -reg

by Gauthamraj Ela

Thank for your help fred :) ________________________________ From: Frederic Muller - DFI <fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org> To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org> Sent: Sunday, 5 August 2012 10:52 AM Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] Misplaced location on the map -reg Updated. You may have to manually refresh that file: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/map/2012coords.txt Fred On 08/04/2012 10:05 PM, Gauthamraj Ela wrote: > Hi Fred , > Thanks for your help :) The correct coordinates are , > > Latitude 11.323 > Longitude 77.728 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > * > From:* Frederic Muller - DFI <fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org> > *To:* sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org > *Sent:* Saturday, 4 August 2012 3:54 PM > *Subject:* Re: [SFD-discuss] Misplaced location on the map -reg > > Hi! > > Send us the correct coordinates and we will update them. > > Fred > > On 08/04/2012 02:24 PM, Gauthamraj Ela wrote: > > Hi all , > > I registered with a team > > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2012/India/Erode/MozErode , during > > registration I accidentally placed the location pointer somewhere and > > completed the registration process. Now , I can't even found my pointer > > is there anyway to change the location pointer after registration sorry > > to trouble you all :( > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > SFD-discuss mailing list > > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org <mailto:SFD-discuss@sf-day.org> > > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > > > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org <mailto:SFD-discuss@sf-day.org> > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > > _______________________________________________ SFD-discuss mailing list SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss

Aug. 5, 2012

Re: [SFD-discuss] Misplaced location on the map -reg

by Frederic Muller - DFI

Updated. You may have to manually refresh that file: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/map/2012coords.txt Fred On 08/04/2012 10:05 PM, Gauthamraj Ela wrote: > Hi Fred , > Thanks for your help :) The correct coordinates are , > > Latitude 11.323 > Longitude 77.728 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > * > From:* Frederic Muller - DFI <fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org> > *To:* sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org > *Sent:* Saturday, 4 August 2012 3:54 PM > *Subject:* Re: [SFD-discuss] Misplaced location on the map -reg > > Hi! > > Send us the correct coordinates and we will update them. > > Fred > > On 08/04/2012 02:24 PM, Gauthamraj Ela wrote: > > Hi all , > > I registered with a team > > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2012/India/Erode/MozErode , during > > registration I accidentally placed the location pointer somewhere and > > completed the registration process. Now , I can't even found my pointer > > is there anyway to change the location pointer after registration sorry > > to trouble you all :( > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > SFD-discuss mailing list > > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org <mailto:SFD-discuss@sf-day.org> > > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > > > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org <mailto:SFD-discuss@sf-day.org> > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > >

Aug. 5, 2012

Re: [SFD-discuss] Misplaced location on the map -reg

by Gauthamraj Ela

Hi Fred , Thanks for your help :) The correct coordinates are , Latitude 11.323 Longitude 77.728 ________________________________ From: Frederic Muller - DFI <fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org> To: sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org Sent: Saturday, 4 August 2012 3:54 PM Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] Misplaced location on the map -reg Hi! Send us the correct coordinates and we will update them. Fred On 08/04/2012 02:24 PM, Gauthamraj Ela wrote: > Hi all , > I registered with a team > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2012/India/Erode/MozErode , during > registration I accidentally placed the location pointer somewhere and > completed the registration process. Now , I can't even found my pointer > is there anyway to change the location pointer after registration sorry > to trouble you all :( > > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > _______________________________________________ SFD-discuss mailing list SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss

Aug. 4, 2012

Re: [SFD-discuss] Misplaced location on the map -reg

by Frederic Muller - DFI

Hi! Send us the correct coordinates and we will update them. Fred On 08/04/2012 02:24 PM, Gauthamraj Ela wrote: > Hi all , > I registered with a team > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2012/India/Erode/MozErode , during > registration I accidentally placed the location pointer somewhere and > completed the registration process. Now , I can't even found my pointer > is there anyway to change the location pointer after registration sorry > to trouble you all :( > > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >

Aug. 4, 2012

Misplaced location on the map -reg

by Gauthamraj Ela

Hi all , I registered with a team http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2012/India/Erode/MozErode , during registration I accidentally placed the location pointer somewhere and completed the registration process. Now , I can't even found my pointer is there anyway to change the location pointer after registration sorry to trouble you all :(

Aug. 4, 2012

Re: [SFD-discuss] Spanish countdown

by Frederic Muller - DFI

Hi! Sorry for missing that one. In the future note that I need the png files attached to the page. Should you have included them in the tar file, we can't easily untar from moinmoin, so zip will be a better format (one upload, unzip and all the png are there - rather than 100+ uploads). Also please do ping the mailing list, we have limited resources and are humans too: sometimes we just miss things. As a double check this year we have been using our microbloging accounts a lot more and each new countdown was announcement after activation. Spanish wasn't. This should tick you off too (like in "nothing has been done yet, I should ping them"). And as a last excuse, life has been a bitch for us this year, someone has been diagnosed with a very serious (as in incurable) disease in my family, I lost half of my vision last week, and my home internet has been dead since I am back from the doctor. Vision is back so hopefully we can process the goodies soon (I'm picking up the T-shirts today). So you know everything now! Fred On 08/02/2012 08:29 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > I did an upload earlier last month with the translated countdown, not > sure if something was wrong with that copy. > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/es?action=AttachFile&do=view&t… > and > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/es?action=AttachFile&do=view&t… > > On 8/2/12, Frederic Muller - DFI <fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org> wrote: >> Great! Everything looks fine but for some unknown reasons >> softwarefreedomday.org is currently blocked where I live. I do use >> tunneling but that only works with http. Besides I could always ssh into >> a foreign box and then ssh back to softwarefreedomday.org but that means >> I would have to move my private keys which is not something I feel very >> hot about. Those blocks usually don't stay very long so hopefully I will >> be able to activate the countdown very soon. >> >> Thank you very much for a very much needed contribution! >> >> Fred >> >> On 08/02/2012 03:47 PM, Rodrigo Rodríguez wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I just uploaded the needed files for the spanish Countdown [0]. >>> >>> I can't remove the files already there, from 2011. >>> >>> I also edited the frontpage [1] adding spanish to the language >>> availables. >>> >>> I'm only requesting for review the files and the script, which I made >>> them by inertia. :P >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> >>> [0] http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/es >>> [1] http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SFD-discuss mailing list >> SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org >> http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >> > >

Aug. 3, 2012

Re: [SFD-discuss] Spanish countdown

by Frederic Muller - DFI

Replying to myself: i noticed a slight blur on the image when displaying on your website. Explaination: the png export was done in a slightly different size: 89 x 159. If you want to get clear display then you need to update the width and height parameters to those 2 values. I'll update the wiki page for Spanish. Fred On 08/03/2012 02:06 PM, Frederic Muller - DFI wrote: > That should be fixed right now! The god of the Chinese internet has > decided that I could ssh to our sfd server today so I could enable the > Spanish countdown. > > A bit of background information for people following this: if the png > files are not attached in the wiki page I cannot enable the script. In > that case the last image of last year "see you in 2012" is displayed. > > Now that the script incorporates the Spanish flag the images are being > refreshed. Nothing to change on your side. > > Sorry for the delay. > > Fred > > On 08/02/2012 09:56 PM, Ingeniero Forigua wrote: >> I just put the countdown on my website team and it doesn't shows the >> left days (sorry for my bad english :P ) >> >> http://sfdbogota.info/ (look the left blocks) >> >> TYSM >> >> >>

Aug. 3, 2012

Re: [SFD-discuss] Spanish countdown

by Frederic Muller - DFI

That should be fixed right now! The god of the Chinese internet has decided that I could ssh to our sfd server today so I could enable the Spanish countdown. A bit of background information for people following this: if the png files are not attached in the wiki page I cannot enable the script. In that case the last image of last year "see you in 2012" is displayed. Now that the script incorporates the Spanish flag the images are being refreshed. Nothing to change on your side. Sorry for the delay. Fred On 08/02/2012 09:56 PM, Ingeniero Forigua wrote: > I just put the countdown on my website team and it doesn't shows the > left days (sorry for my bad english :P ) > > http://sfdbogota.info/ (look the left blocks) > > TYSM > > >

Aug. 3, 2012

Re: [SFD-discuss] Spanish countdown

by Alexandro Colorado

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Ingeniero Forigua < ingeniero.forigua(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I just put the countdown on my website team and it doesn't shows the > left days (sorry for my bad english :P ) > > http://sfdbogota.info/ (look the left blocks) > You are pulling from the 2011 code I am afraid. > > TYSM > > > > -- > ========= Miembro Bogota Mesh ========== > === Redes Comunitarias libres de Bogotá === > Mi Identi.ca: http://identi.ca/ingforigua > http://wiki.bogota-mesh.org/doku.php > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >

Aug. 2, 2012