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Re: [SFD-discuss] New Press Coverage: 7 ways to celebrate SFD

by Gladys Regalado

This one's from the GMA News Online. GMA is one of the two major media groups in the Philippines. They covered SFD and published this article that talks about the efforts to push the use foss in government. http://www.gmanews.tv/story/232709/technology/open-source-gaining-in-phl-ho… --- Gladys Regalado Computer Professionals' Union SFD Philippines at the University of Santo Tomas Manila, Philippines On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Pockey Lam <pockey(a)softwarefreedomday.org>wrote: > Hi friends, > > Just want to share with all of you an excellent article written by > Katherine Noyes from PCWorld: > > > http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/240188/seven_ways_to_celebrat… > > She does give us some good insights about how we can celebrate our SFD > events! > > I have already added this news coverage under: > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/press > > By the way, we also got slashdot(ed) again on the SFDay: > http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/17/049231/Celebrate-Software-Freedom-T…, we got slashdot(ed) when we opened our registration as well: > http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/23/2128207/Registration-Opens-For-Soft…) > > > If you found any interesting press coverage in English or any other > language, please feel free to share with us here in this mailing list and > don't forget to link to the > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/press > > Enjoy! > Pockey > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > >

Sept. 18, 2011

New Press Coverage: 7 ways to celebrate SFD

by Pockey Lam

Hi friends, Just want to share with all of you an excellent article written by Katherine Noyes from PCWorld: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/240188/seven_ways_to_celebrat… She does give us some good insights about how we can celebrate our SFD events! I have already added this news coverage under: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/press By the way, we also got slashdot(ed) again on the SFDay: http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/17/049231/Celebrate-Software-Freedom-T… (yes, we got slashdot(ed) when we opened our registration as well: http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/23/2128207/Registration-Opens-For-Soft…) If you found any interesting press coverage in English or any other language, please feel free to share with us here in this mailing list and don't forget to link to the http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/press Enjoy! Pockey

Sept. 18, 2011

Re: [SFD-discuss] Unscheduled leaflets handout in Bracknell UK

by alan c

On 17/09/11 03:40, Frederic Muller - SFI wrote: > That's great. Please do register, it only take 2 minutes: > 1. create a wiki account if you don't have one > 2. create a event page under > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011/UK/Bracknell/SFD and put that > description > 3. Fill http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/cgi-bin/register.py > > There were a few last minutes registration and we've kept the > registration on until the end of today (Sept 17 UTC-4). > > Thank you. > > Fred > > On 09/17/2011 05:12 AM, alan c wrote: >> Just to say that although the event has not been registered, I will >> be able to do a leaflet handout in the town centre in Bracknell UK >> 11am to 2pm. Thanks Fred, I just managed it, ok. I forgot my earlier wiki a/c details so I created a new one. -- alan cocks Ubuntu user

Sept. 17, 2011

GNOME Women Outreach Program flyer

by Frederic Muller - SFI

Hi! You might probably know that I have a weak spot for GNOME and wanted to let team leaders know that Marina together with Máirín from the GNOME WOP have made available a few flyers to advertise the program: so if you have women interested in contributing to Free Software and more particularly GNOME (it doesn't have to be technical) and while getting paid, it is probably something to talk about. The flyer is available at this page (and more): https://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen/OutreachProgram2011/SpreadTheWord#Flyer The application deadline is October 31 so definitely well within our schedule. Thanks. Fred

Sept. 17, 2011

Re: [SFD-discuss] Unscheduled leaflets handout in Bracknell UK

by Frederic Muller - SFI

That's great. Please do register, it only take 2 minutes: 1. create a wiki account if you don't have one 2. create a event page under http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011/UK/Bracknell/SFD and put that description 3. Fill http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/cgi-bin/register.py There were a few last minutes registration and we've kept the registration on until the end of today (Sept 17 UTC-4). Thank you. Fred On 09/17/2011 05:12 AM, alan c wrote: > Just to say that although the event has not been registered, I will > be able to do a leaflet handout in the town centre in Bracknell UK > 11am to 2pm.

Sept. 17, 2011

Inspirational photos from our early SFD event

by Anders Hellström

Hi! Nearly a week ago Uppsala Linux User Group organized our first SFD event. To coincide with the large event (100k+ visitors overall) Uppsala Culture Night[1] we decided to hold it a whole week early, on september the 10th. We had a tent down town where people could watch the blender project movies, try out different Linux distributions and of course get a (K)Ubuntu disk to try out at home. Photos from our event can be found here on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.200642563334644.49199.15709293435… I hope all of you have as good a time today/tomorrow during your SFD events as we did during ours last week! Best regards, Anders Hellström Chairman of the board Uppsala Linux User Group [1] http://kulturnattenuppsala.se/uppsala-culture-night/

Sept. 16, 2011

Unscheduled leaflets handout in Bracknell UK

by alan c

Just to say that although the event has not been registered, I will be able to do a leaflet handout in the town centre in Bracknell UK 11am to 2pm. -- alan cocks Ubuntu user

Sept. 16, 2011

Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD is today!

by Michael Dorrington

On 16/09/11 18:22, Frederic Muller - SFI wrote: <snip> A big thank you to Fred and Pockey for all their work. They have been the core which has made SFD2011 happen and why we have such a great goodies pack this year. > Another excellent suggestion from our sfd-discuss mailing list has been > to hang out on the #sfd irc channel on freenode to show the global > nature of SFD. We have a web interface from the website or you can point > your audience to specific free IRC clients that will run on their > platform. Should the English channel be over populated with non-English > discussions feel free to create language specific channels such as > #sfd-es, #sfd-ru or #sfd-jp. See you all on IRC and I wish everyone has a great event. Regards, Mike. Team Leader, SFD2011 in Manchester, UK.

Sept. 16, 2011

Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD is today!

by Marcos Marado

On Friday 16 September 2011 18:22:14 Frederic Muller - SFI wrote: > First for those still looking for a topic to present we have finally > managed to upload our slides on "Why software freedom matters". Lots of > notes have been added to the slides in order to let almost anyone make > the presentation. It's however good to think about the topic before hand > and be prepared for questions. > Slides available at > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources#Software_Freedom I've used a web service to convert this presentation into a video (we'll possibly have it playing during SFD). If you think it might be useful to you, feel free to download it here: http://s3.amazonaws.com/asVideo/mpeg4/1191748_634517733432305000-Ver1-Z1.mp4 Sorry for the mp4 format, but please do convert it and share it. Best regards, -- Marcos Marado

Sept. 16, 2011

SFD is today!

by Frederic Muller - SFI

Dear all! Forgetting we have up to 26 hours difference between 2 end points on the same planet and that a few teams have already celebrated SFD or will until almost end of October, SFD is here! While we are sure everyone is super busy with the last minute preparations we would like to draw your attention on the excellent community participation this year in making SFD a success. We have received many contributions of all kinds and we would like to thank and highlight those as they can be used to enhance your event. First for those still looking for a topic to present we have finally managed to upload our slides on "Why software freedom matters". Lots of notes have been added to the slides in order to let almost anyone make the presentation. It's however good to think about the topic before hand and be prepared for questions. Slides available at http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources#Software_Freedom I suppose you are also aware that we've had 2 great songs contributed from 2 different teams from the Philippines, both licensed under CC-BY-SA. One of the 2 even has a KTV version should you think of making singing games. Either way those will be great to add color to your event and definitely some great atmosphere! Songs and details, credits, lyrics available from http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources#Songs And since we're covering atmosphere, music and giveaways we would like to remind teams distributing non-free GNU/Linux distributions that we are providing a notice to be included with those CDs to let people know about the hidden non-free software they will be getting on the spot or later. Users need to understand what is included in the software you may be distributing. While we totally understand that some people already have bought their hardware and may just be discovering software freedom (thus needing proprietary drivers for example) it is our duty to let them know they can chose to buy hardware that is fully supported by free software on their next purchase, or be careful about the type of software they chose to install in the future. The notice has been pre-formatted to be easily printed and is available is English, Spanish and Portuguese thanks to our translators. Link to the English notice page is http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources/CdNotice . You can easily navigate to the other versions from there. Another excellent suggestion from our sfd-discuss mailing list has been to hang out on the #sfd irc channel on freenode to show the global nature of SFD. We have a web interface from the website or you can point your audience to specific free IRC clients that will run on their platform. Should the English channel be over populated with non-English discussions feel free to create language specific channels such as #sfd-es, #sfd-ru or #sfd-jp. Last but not least do not forget to document your events, take photos, blog or share the news on social networks. The official tag for SFD is #softwarefreedomday. The great news is that this year SFD Competition has attracted great sponsors again: first we are happy and proud to have the Free Software Foundation provide Richard Stallman books signed by himself. And then Lemote, the Chinese computer manufacturer of fully free hardware (BIOS including) will be supplying 1 Yeeloong per winning team so you can fiddle with MIPS CPU and fully free software machines! So thank you to all, it has really been a fun ride until now and we truly believe that this year celebration is going to be exceptional! Happy SFD to all! on behalf of Software Freedom International

Sept. 16, 2011