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Illegal Map of India on the DFI website

by Manmohan Brahma

Hi Webmaster / Webadmin DFI. I was just looking through the SFD Website. http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/map/index.php?year=2011 Suddenly I noticed that the border marking of India are different as per your map. To me it seems to be a serious offence and request you to change the website as per original google maps. Map as per SFD website. Map as per http://maps.google.co.in/ With thanks and regards, Manmohan Brahma India

March 28, 2012

We want to translate the website

by 三秒緯

Hello, we are a team of free software project "ezgo" in taiwan, we want to translate this website into Traditional Chinese, so that people in Taiwan or China can easliy understand what the frontpage is saying. We would love to know how to do this, and beside translate the website that already exist, we also want to keep updating the new article into Traditional Chinese. So, if anyone can teach us how to do it, it will be very great! Thank you! -- 徐志緯 Ubuntu-TW 行政管理員行政院研考會「自由軟體網路學習應用及推廣」計畫第3期之討論區負責人自由軟體公民團體運動國家型典藏推廣計劃研究助理 Plurk：http://www.plurk.com/aa33002 Facebook：http://www.facebook.com/aa33002

March 28, 2012

CAPTCHA sequence always wrong.

by 三秒緯

Hello everyone: When I try to contact the SFD team using the page right here: http://softwarefreedomday.org/en/contact-us I found that I can't type the CAPTCHA sequence right, no metter what CAPTCHA sequence is.(I have tried to change the CAPTCHA but still not working.) Dont' know is that a exist bug of website or It just my problem? -- 徐志緯 Ubuntu-TW 行政管理員行政院研考會「自由軟體網路學習應用及推廣」計畫第3期之討論區負責人自由軟體公民團體運動國家型典藏推廣計劃研究助理 Plurk：http://www.plurk.com/aa33002 Facebook：http://www.facebook.com/aa33002

March 28, 2012

Re: [SFD-discuss] Celebrate Free Culture with us on May 19th 2012

by Frederic Muller - SFI

On 03/23/2012 10:58 PM, Marcos Marado wrote: > On Friday 23 March 2012 14:52:40 Frederic Muller - SFI wrote: >> On 03/23/2012 10:44 PM, Marcos Marado wrote: >>> "A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is >>> anarchy, not freedom." - L.L >>> >>> I can see people reading that and thinking that we're against free (as in >>> beer) music like those from the netlabels, for instance.. >> >> The idea is again to make it clear that we care about copyrights and >> artists, and that we are not free loaders. We'll been facing similar >> issues as with Free Software vs freeware, or endless discussion about >> the inclusion of CC-BY-NC-ND licenses... >> >> LL is Laurence Lessig by the way, just didn't have enough space to put >> the full name (I'll probably add a link or something). > > Yet, without context that sentence can be misleading, I would replace it... Are we against freeware? are we against NC-ND? Free Culture is not about promoting free stuff that people are happy to listen too for free regardless of its licenses. Besides from Wikipedia I read "netlabels typically emphasize free distribution online, often under licenses that encourage works to be shared (e.g., Creative Commons licenses), and artists often retain copyright." So why would we be against it? I am not sure I understand your concern in fact, or realize it (it's late here, and Friday night). What is shocking for you, or misleading? which context do you think is needed? We are already in the free culture context, which is about sharing and building upon other people's creations. We don't want to simply take stuff, any stuff and "steal" from those dear artists, like some would say. Fred

March 23, 2012

Re: [SFD-discuss] Celebrate Free Culture with us on May 19th 2012

by Frederic Muller - SFI

On 03/23/2012 10:40 PM, Leandro Gómez wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan(a)gmail.com > <mailto:tshrinivasan@gmail.com>> wrote: > > awesome initiative. > > started discussions for organizing events in Chennai, India. > > > > really, really nice! > started discussions in Nicaragua as well > Thank you guys! We already made some web banners available if needed (I'm thinking blogs and community websites) which can be found here (svg source file as well): http://www.culturefreedomday.org/promote/become-a-supporter#banners Fred ps: we're uploading the source file as I'm writing this email...

March 23, 2012

Re: [SFD-discuss] Celebrate Free Culture with us on May 19th 2012

by Marcos Marado

On Friday 23 March 2012 14:52:40 Frederic Muller - SFI wrote: > On 03/23/2012 10:44 PM, Marcos Marado wrote: > > "A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is > > anarchy, not freedom." - L.L > > > > I can see people reading that and thinking that we're against free (as in > > beer) music like those from the netlabels, for instance.. > > The idea is again to make it clear that we care about copyrights and > artists, and that we are not free loaders. We'll been facing similar > issues as with Free Software vs freeware, or endless discussion about > the inclusion of CC-BY-NC-ND licenses... > > LL is Laurence Lessig by the way, just didn't have enough space to put > the full name (I'll probably add a link or something). Yet, without context that sentence can be misleading, I would replace it... -- Marcos Marado

March 23, 2012

Re: [SFD-discuss] Celebrate Free Culture with us on May 19th 2012

by Frederic Muller - SFI

On 03/23/2012 10:44 PM, Marcos Marado wrote: > "A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, > not freedom." - L.L > > I can see people reading that and thinking that we're against free (as in > beer) music like those from the netlabels, for instance.. The idea is again to make it clear that we care about copyrights and artists, and that we are not free loaders. We'll been facing similar issues as with Free Software vs freeware, or endless discussion about the inclusion of CC-BY-NC-ND licenses... LL is Laurence Lessig by the way, just didn't have enough space to put the full name (I'll probably add a link or something). Fred

March 23, 2012

Re: [SFD-discuss] Celebrate Free Culture with us on May 19th 2012

by Marcos Marado

Hi there, On Friday 23 March 2012 14:16:41 Frederic Muller - SFI wrote: [...] > So 2012 will be the first year and we will start contacting various Free > Culture supporting organizations to get their support. In the meantime > we have launched the Culture Freedom Day website at > http://www.culturefreedomday.org and hopefully should have the > registration and the wiki up and running fairly soon. Great great news! One question, tho, do we really want this sentence in the website? "A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom." - L.L I can see people reading that and thinking that we're against free (as in beer) music like those from the netlabels, for instance... > PS: and SFD will still happen on September 15th 2012! Yay! :-) -- Marcos Marado ANSOL

March 23, 2012

Re: [SFD-discuss] Celebrate Free Culture with us on May 19th 2012

by Leandro Gómez

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan(a)gmail.com>wrote: > awesome initiative. > > started discussions for organizing events in Chennai, India. > > really, really nice! started discussions in Nicaragua as well > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > >

March 23, 2012

Re: [SFD-discuss] Celebrate Free Culture with us on May 19th 2012

by Shrinivasan T

awesome initiative. started discussions for organizing events in Chennai, India.

March 23, 2012