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SFD reports or summaries
by Frederic Muller - DFF 12 Oct '16

12 Oct '16

Dear all, We're seeing a few organizing teams uploading reports of their events on the wiki. Maybe we could actually publish them under blog post format on DFF website. We would need for that just text, a few photos (like 1-2 I'd say) and eventually links to partners or news reports if any. Please send those preferably off the list to me, or if you prefer in the list. We will publish those over the coming few weeks not all at once in mo specific order. Thank you very much. Fred ps: and yes, the reports should be in English.

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Software Freedom Day: The importance of free and open source software
by Kevin Cole 21 Sep '16

21 Sep '16

Seen in the news: http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/column-software-freedom-day-the-importance-…

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"Spotlight on FOSS 2016" DVD for Mac OS X Released for Software Freedom Day
by Nicholas Pyers - AppleUsers.org 29 Aug '16

29 Aug '16

As part of the celebrations of Software Freedom Day 2016, AppleUsers.org has compiled a selection of some of the best, yet totally free, software that’s available for the Mac, collected together on a single DVD, called “Spotlight on FOSS 2016” plus a bonus video and a copy of The AppleUsers Spotlight “Software Freedom Day 2016” Special Edition are included. Organisers of Software Freedom Day events and Apple User Group Leaders can download the Golden Master (and support files including a DVD Label and Promo Flyer) free of charge from AppleUsers.org. Copies of the DVD can then be burnt and distributed to attendees of Software Freedom Day 2016 events or to Apple User Group members — again free of charge. A five page flyer, supplied as a PDF, which details the DVDs content is also available for printing out and displaying at SFD Events and Apple User Group Meetings. Feel free to expand it to A3 and use it as posters to promote the DVD contents. The “Spotlight on FOSS 2016” DVD contains; Audio: Audacity eBooks: Calibre, Jomic Education: Celestia, Moodle, Stellarium Games: Aleph One – Marathon, Armagetron Advanced, BZFlag, Cube 2: Sauerbraten, PrBoom, PySol Fan Club Edition, Scorched 3D, Wesnoth Graphics: Blender, GIMP, Seashore Internet: Adium, Cyberduck, Firefox, Kompozer, RSS Owl, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird, Transmission, Vienna Office Productivity: Apache OpenOffice, FormulatePro, FreeMind, LibreOffice, Skim Utilities: Burn, MAMP (Macintosh, Apache, Mysql and PHP), Quicksilver, SheepShaver, The Unarchiver, VirtualBox Video: HandBrake, Miro Video Converter, Miro, Plex, Video Lan Client (VLC) Bonus Video: Happy Birthday to GNU, by Stephen Fry The applications and files supplied on this Disc are supplied as is and we make no representations regarding the applications nor any information related thereto. Any questions, complaints or claims regarding the applications must be directed to the appropriate software vendor. — Downloading “Spotlight on FOSS 2016” — The DVD Golden Master, plus a DVD Label and Promotional Flyer, can be downloaded from; http://www.appleusers.org/dotm/spotlight-on-foss-2016-dvd-released/ If you’d like to download the Spotlight FOSS Sampler Edition 2016 as a standalone file, you can download it, free of charge, from http://www.appleusers.org/magazine/spotlight-foss-sampler-edition-2016-rele… [ps: to the admin(s) of the SFD.org wiki, you may wish to update the section under http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources#FOSS_stuff_on_DVDs ;) ] -- Nicholas Pyers (nicholas(a)appleusers.org) Founder & Publisher, AppleUsers.org http://www.appleusers.org/

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German countdown
by Frederic Muller - DFF 29 Aug '16

29 Aug '16

Hi! I've noticed Edgar from the FSFE has edited the text for the German countdown but the graphics haven't been modified since 2013. We have actually slightly updated the design this year but to get it working you can either update: 01.png, 00.png and 00here.png which have the date of the event of this year and the coming year. You can find the original SVG file here http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/de?action=AttachFile&do=get&ta… and then you'll have to upload them there: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/de?action=AttachFile Else you would need to take the English countdown and do at least 23 images (as SFD is in 21 days roughly). The English image file is here: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/en?action=AttachFile&do=get&ta… I can activate it now as it will only show the wrong images the day before SFD but I would just like to be sure it is happening ;-) If you go for the new design of course generating the 99 files will be nice for next year. We will also have to remove the old ones before you can upload the new ones. Just let us know. Thank you. Fred

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Other languages for SFD Countdown
by Frederic Muller - DFF 28 Aug '16

28 Aug '16

Hi! As you have read over the past few days we have localized the countdown in 3 additional languages, namely Chinese, French and German. I have just emailed the Spanish, Portuguese and Russian SFD mailing list to gather some volunteers for those languages. We have had other languages translated in the past and I was wondering if we still had someone willing to help us out on those. The languages I have on the wiki are: - Catalan - Serbian Cyrillic - Serbian Latin - Ukrainian - Estonian - Persian - Arabic - Greek If anyone has a bit of free time on their hands, it would be nice to help out. Just let us know whether you decide to just modify the last 3 png(s) or the whole countdown based on the new design (or your wiki name so we can add you to the list of people who can delete files in the countdown section). Full documentation for CountDown translation is available here: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown Thank you very much. Fred

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Call for Help on SVG Counter
by Alexandro Colorado 27 Aug '16

27 Aug '16

Hello I put a Call for help on the FB group and page of the SFD, would be nice if I can get it reposted as SFD on FB, twitter and Identi.ca. I am sure much more people will pay attention to the call, if it comes from the official SFD account. Here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/jzarecta/posts/10152100110451978 http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown Regards. -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://www.openoffice.org

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SFD wiki is live
by Frederic Muller - DFF 26 Aug '16

26 Aug '16

Hi! The wiki is finally live and ready to add your teams in any language (already supported). The Artwork page, the localization of fixed pages and a few other things are still being updated. Of course for languages we do not speak, if you think you can make those minor modifications that would be great. Those are in no particular order: - Spanish - Portuguese - Russian - Sinhala Then there are some random pages including the FrontPage which seems to have some translation in Hindi and Korean. And registration should also follow shortly. Thank you all for your patience. Fred

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Upload images locally
by Frederic Muller - DFF 26 Aug '16

26 Aug '16

Hi! I've noticed a few of SFD organizers tend to link images from outside of our domain. The problem with that is that sometimes URLs change or sites just disappear. I would recommend to upload the images locally and link them as per the wiki syntax {{attachment:image_name.jpg}}. Thank you not to upload 10MiB images but mainly since our hosting is sponsored by Linode we do not really have size constraint. We've also modified the css to have attached images responsive so they'll always scale to the screen width whatever the size of viewers' devices. That was missing from the default theme. You can check http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2016/Colombia/Cartagena for an example. Should you find out other non responsive parts please let us know and we'll try to fix it. Thank you very much. Fred

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we're finally all mobile ready!
by Frederic Muller - DFF 23 Aug '16

23 Aug '16

Hi! This is 2016 and we are finally mobile ready, both on our website and our wiki. The registration form still has tables for the previous year one got involved with SFD. We might change that table in the future too... Should you have any related question or problems please do not hesitate to ask us. Thank you. Fred

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To add Ewe SFD-discuss Digest, Vol 98, Issue 7
by Traugott Dew 19 Aug '16

19 Aug '16

I wish to translate to local langEwe Ghana On 18/08/2016, sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org <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: SFD wiki is live (Sandaruwan Nanayakkara) > 2. Re: SFD wiki is live (Frederic Muller - DFF) > 3. Re: SFD wiki is live (Sandaruwan Nanayakkara) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 19:14:59 +0530 > From: Sandaruwan Nanayakkara <sandaru.ny(a)gmail.com> > To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org> > Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD wiki is live > Message-ID: > <CAAqGOx3_SMw-ga-g5bZwwJzuw1fDmzH4qbQD=yccZ=BJ+Ay_sw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi Fred, > > Its quite great to help you with this. And all of your work is really > amazing guys! Keep it up. > > I will start the translation for a new page and let you know if there is > any thing to help. > > For the first page, the top line shoud be change to this ?????. > Could you please delete this ?????? ? and put ????? there? > Other than that Ruwan and me will translate the content. > > BR > Sandaruwan > > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Frederic Muller - DFF < > fred(a)digitalfreedomfoundation.org> wrote: > >> Hey! >> >> Thank you Sandaruwan and Ruwan! We have all the templates for city/team >> creation already done, but I believe the wiki frontpage could be done. >> "someone" added ?????? ? on the FrontPage which leads to an empty page. >> I am not sure whether this is the correct translation or not. Either way >> it should either be someone translated or else removed. The FrontPage is >> only editable by the moderator group so let me know if you want to be >> part of it, any other page should be fine for an edit (or creation). >> >> Thank you again. >> >> Fred >> >> >> >> On 08/18/2016 12:50 PM, Ruwan Ranganath wrote: >> > Hi , I"ll be able to support with Sinhala Language. >> > >> > Thank you >> > >> > On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 12:35 AM, Luna Jernberg <droidbittin(a)gmail.com >> > <mailto:droidbittin@gmail.com>> wrote: >> > >> > Cool hope there will be something in Sweden this year aswell :) >> > >> > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Marcos Marado >> > <mindboosternoori(a)gmail.com <mailto:mindboosternoori@gmail.com>> >> wrote: >> > >> > Hi there, >> > >> > SFD event in Portugal added to the wiki, please let us know in >> > this mailing list when the registration page is available so we >> > can add it to the map. >> > >> > Thanks! >> > >> > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 11:08 AM Frederic Muller - DFF >> > <fred(a)digitalfreedomfoundation.org >> > <mailto:fred@digitalfreedomfoundation.org>> wrote: >> > >> > Hi! >> > >> > The wiki is finally live and ready to add your teams in any >> > language >> > (already supported). The Artwork page, the localization of >> > fixed pages >> > and a few other things are still being updated. >> > >> > Of course for languages we do not speak, if you think you >> > can make those >> > minor modifications that would be great. Those are in no >> > particular order: >> > - Spanish >> > - Portuguese >> > - Russian >> > - Sinhala >> > >> > Then there are some random pages including the FrontPage >> > which seems to >> > have some translation in Hindi and Korean. >> > >> > And registration should also follow shortly. >> > >> > Thank you all for your patience. >> > >> > Fred >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 >> > <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 >> > <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 >> > <http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss> >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Ruwan Ranganath >> > Associate Engineer - DevOps WSO2.Telco >> > Regional Ambassador Lead - Mozilla >> > Dell / HackerRank Ambassador >> > OWASP Student Chapter Leader >> > | IEEE member >> > >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SFD-discuss mailing list >> SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org >> http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >> > > > > -- > *Sandaruwan Nanayakkara* > Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya > +94 713 833 068 | sandaruny.blogspot.com > > * <https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandaruny> <https://twitter.com/sandaruNY>* >

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