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Re: [SFD-discuss] Team packs starting to arrive

by ndoubleday＠xipherspace.org

Hey Fred, If you're still keeping track, the SFD package just arrived here in Kalamazoo, Michigan. This stuff is great! Thanks! Nick > Dear all, > > Just wanted to let you know that I have received messages from a few > teams who have received the SFD team packs. Those teams are in: > - Germany > - Sri Lanka > - Singapore > - China > > People seem to be rather happy with the stuff... > > No sign of any Ubuntu CD pack yet though. > > Just wanted to let you know, it's time to keep those phone on during day > time or watch your home mailbox. > > Fred > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >

Aug. 22, 2011

Re: [SFD-discuss] having the event for SFD in Nagoya,Japan.

by Frederic Muller - SFI

On 08/22/2011 05:14 PM, Masafumi Ohta wrote: > Hello. > > We Japanese Team FLOSS Sakurayama planning to host a event for SFD in > Nagoya. > See the team wiki for more detail > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011/Japan/Nagoya/FLOSSS. > if you live in Nagoya and would attend the event register with atnd > website to join. > http://atnd.org/events/19203 (written in Japanese but you Gaijin-san are > always welcome our event!).also you can see our team on > facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/flosss/ > > hope to share the celebration with SFD guys all over the world :) > > Regards, > > -masafumi Excellent! We're always happy to see teams from places with little popularity of SFD and discuss what could be done to increase that popularity. As you might have noticed we have a SFD countdown in several languages. If you're up to it we could make a Japanese version of it (yourself or a member of your team will have to modify the svg source files available on the wiki and generate the 30 png files. Any other ideas to help promote SFD in Japan is welcome of course! Thanks. Fred

Aug. 22, 2011

4 weeks to go

by Frederic Muller - SFI

Dear all, we have now about 4 weeks left to SFD and I wanted to update everyone on all the great things which are happening this year. We have been working hard on SFD promotion to provide easy ways to advertise and attract people to your events. On top of the badges we showcased about 2 weeks ago we now have a multi-lingual countdown counter supporting all time zones. Currently nine languages are supported (English, German, Portuguese, French, Khmer, Sinhalese, Persian, Chinese simplified and traditional). It is very easy to add a new language should you need it and even documented. Link to countdown usage page: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/participate/countdown Link to translation howto: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/ Link to promotion badges: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Promote Since we are talking about promotion we would like to thank our media partners as we have a few new ones this year, and we have kept the old ones too. In no specific order those publications will advertise for SFD this month or the next: Linux Magazine, Linux Journal, Ubuntu Users, Admin magazine and Smart Developer. It is also important to thank our corporate sponsors who have followed us for quite a few years now and with whom we wouldn't be able to send those team packs or have our website up and running: Canonical, Google, Qt/Nokia and Linode. And then we have the people from other Free and Open Source projects joining the ranks of organizations celebrating SFD such as the FSF, the FSFE and newly stepping in this year, FreeBSD and Joomla! We sincerely hope this list will grow longer as everyone sees us working together on providing speakers, joining communities and providing more content to help raise the quality of all SFD events. So considering the press coverage and all the promotional efforts we're working on you should expect visitors to start looking for information and events in your area. It is very important to update your team wiki page providing at least an idea about: - Your event location - How to contact you or your group - Date and time of your event - Any more information such as schedule, registration info if any, etc will of course be very helpful to convince people to drop by. Another important point to highlight is that we are promoting Software Freedom regardless of the operating system being used and that means this freedom should be promoted on all fronts included on Free OSes. In order to help you out when distributing non-free GNU/Linux distributions and make this information process easy we have written a notice to be inserted into such CD/DVDs. The purpose is to let people know to be careful with what they are installing (or buying) even when using GNU/Linux. The notice (together with an odf document to print 4 per sheet) can be found here: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources/CdNotice We strongly ask for team organizers to use this notice when distributing non-free GNU/Linux distributions (translations available in pt and es). Also to help you with planning we have set up a few important pages where you can find logos, slides, videos, templates, all source files of whatever you can find on the wiki and plenty of more links. Head to http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Marketing to find a list of those. We will continue working on providing more slides and ideas in the coming weeks. Another helping factor this year is that we have finally started to translate our main website (the www one - we started with the wiki guides last year). All this work has been done by the SFD community and is progressing slowly. Hopefully we will get more done as we get closer to SFD. The planets have also been upgraded and it is now very easy to switch from one available language to another (note that not all languages have planet, default is English). And since we are talking about translations we would also like to point out that we have launched 2 new mailing lists this year to complete the existing Spanish one: one in Portuguese and one in Russian. Obviously if you're speaking one of those 3 languages it's probably worth subscribing and saying hi there! We will continue to speak English though (haven't found the language learning pill yet) and provide updates in that language. Mailing list info page is here: http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo Should you have any question either pop up on our irc channels (#sfd for English or #sfd-es for Spanish) or mail us back. Thank you all and happy SFD preparations! SFI Board

Aug. 22, 2011

Re: [SFD-discuss] Persian CountDown

by Frederic Muller - SFI

Hey! Thanks a lot for that. I just add the language to the script and slightly update the html code (we use 3.30 not 3.5) in the wiki page. So all is up and running. I suppose someone needs to tell the 2 other Iranian teams and their team members! \o/ Fred On 08/22/2011 08:29 PM, Bersam K wrote: > Hi everybody, > > one of Persian Designer Translated CountDown (little changes), and i > uploaded that in wiki, so please add persian to countdown. > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/fa > > Thanks, > > -- > And Still Nobody Cares > *contact me:* > https://forms.hush.com/bersam > Gmail : Bersam.k [at] gmail > hushmail : bersam [at] hushmail > > Weblog : http://Bersam.wordpress.com > GPG Key : 6B6B7E27 > <http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xCD82BAC86B6B7E…> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss

Aug. 22, 2011

Persian CountDown

by Bersam K

Hi everybody, one of Persian Designer Translated CountDown (little changes), and i uploaded that in wiki, so please add persian to countdown. http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/fa Thanks, -- And Still Nobody Cares *contact me:* https://forms.hush.com/bersam Gmail : Bersam.k [at] gmail hushmail : bersam [at] hushmail Weblog : http://Bersam.wordpress.com GPG Key : 6B6B7E27<http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xCD82BAC86B6B7E…>

Aug. 22, 2011

having the event for SFD in Nagoya,Japan.

by Masafumi Ohta

Hello. We Japanese Team FLOSS Sakurayama planning to host a event for SFD in Nagoya. See the team wiki for more detail http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011/Japan/Nagoya/FLOSSS. if you live in Nagoya and would attend the event register with atnd website to join. http://atnd.org/events/19203 (written in Japanese but you Gaijin-san are always welcome our event!).also you can see our team on facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/flosss/ hope to share the celebration with SFD guys all over the world :) Regards, -masafumi

Aug. 22, 2011

Re: [SFD-discuss] Presentation draft

by Michael Dorrington

On 21/08/11 14:27, Frederic Muller - SFI wrote: > > > On 08/21/2011 09:06 PM, yaromir(a)hotbox.ru wrote: >> OpenSource as an ideology > OpenSource is a development methodology. So if you want to talk about > philosophy you should talk about Free Software. So good to hear that said. > Now I fully agree with you that SFD is not about GNU/Linux but about > Software Freedom, and getting people to know about it and why it is > important. <snip lots of good stuff> I wholeheartedly agree. We will be helping Windows and MacOS users to try out (more) Free Software on their computers. If you get them to use cross platform Free Software then when they do (hopefully) become ready to make the move to a Free Software OS then it will be a lot easier for them and be a natural progression to freedom. I would, from the start, still stress to them the importance of having a fully free software system. Regards, Mike.

Aug. 21, 2011

Re: [SFD-discuss] Team packs starting to arrive

by Michael Dorrington

On 21/08/11 15:28, Frederic Muller - SFI wrote: > Dear all, > > Just wanted to let you know that I have received messages from a few > teams who have received the SFD team packs. Those teams are in: > - Germany > - Sri Lanka > - Singapore > - China We received our pack in Manchester, UK on Friday. > People seem to be rather happy with the stuff... Really good pack this time. T-shirts feel good, the transfers are great (good idea of mine), stickers appreciated, banner is great to get people in, balloons for the event photos :), and disks of free, as in freedom, stuff. Thanks to all the SFI team for getting this sorted. > No sign of any Ubuntu CD pack yet though. Let's hope they do arrive so that warning notice I wrote can go with them. :) Cheers, Mike.

Aug. 21, 2011

Team packs starting to arrive

by Frederic Muller - SFI

Dear all, Just wanted to let you know that I have received messages from a few teams who have received the SFD team packs. Those teams are in: - Germany - Sri Lanka - Singapore - China People seem to be rather happy with the stuff... No sign of any Ubuntu CD pack yet though. Just wanted to let you know, it's time to keep those phone on during day time or watch your home mailbox. Fred

Aug. 21, 2011

Re: [SFD-discuss] Presentation draft

by Frederic Muller - SFI

On 08/21/2011 09:06 PM, yaromir(a)hotbox.ru wrote: > OpenSource as an ideology OpenSource is a development methodology. So if you want to talk about philosophy you should talk about Free Software. Now I fully agree with you that SFD is not about GNU/Linux but about Software Freedom, and getting people to know about it and why it is important. We are currently working on providing a set of several presentations with comments to help SFD teams organizers and speakers with delivering content. I gave a talk early this year about "Why software freedom matters" which covers exactly those points. I am currently reviewing those slides with a few people to make sure nothing is left out. > For SFD organizers this will help to be a bit more assured, that SFD is > about freedom, not about trying Linux. Totally right: local events should encourage anyone regardless of the operating system to try and use Free Software. It is a lot easier to change the browser or email client you use than the whole operating system. This will also keep users of the Windows and OS X operating systems interested. Thank you very much for reinforcing that point. Fred ps: links to slides will be posted when available, but surely it will be linked from that page: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources

Aug. 21, 2011