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Re: [SFD-discuss] [SFD-announce] Sponsorship confirmed and testing ahead

by Thilo Pfennig

Btw, all attached documents (like ODT, PDF, Word) should now be searchable inside via xapian (http://xapian.org/) regards, Thilo

July 1, 2010

Re: [SFD-discuss] [SFD-announce] Sponsorship confirmed and testing ahead

by Frederic Muller

On 07/02/2010 12:00 AM, Steve Rainwater wrote: > On Sat, 2010-06-19 at 20:29 +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 00:14, Thilo Pfennig<tp(a)pfennigsolutions.de> wrote: >> >>>> b. Tagging :- This should also make it easy for people to find content. >>>> >>> What do you mean with that? You can add keywords to every page. And the >>> wiki supports categories as well. >>> >>> >> Preferably a tag-cloud but if not that atleast a way for us to figure >> out thing. >> >> Just as an e.g. http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/tag/rpg/ >> > > I looked up the SFD website today to see if I could sign up a local team > but discovered there's not much 2010 info there yet. Then I noticed this > discussion on the list and thought I'd join it. > > With SFD closing in fast, my preference is to get any wiki online as > soon as possible. I'd be happy with MediaWiki or DokuWiki or really any > wiki software. > > I've never found tag clouds useful and they really seem intended for > blogs rather than wikis. I'm not opposed to a tag cloud but given the > short amount of time until SFD, I'd prefer to get something useful > online now and work on the eye-candy later. > > -Steve > > > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > Dear Steve, The wiki is already up at wiki.softwarefreedomday.org and you can start entering information about your team and the event you're preparing. The static pages describing SFD should be up within a few days as well as the registration script which link to the map and allows to get goodies for early registration. We've been struggling with IT but hopefully this is going to be over very soon. Thanks a lot for your feedback and don't hesitate to ask us if you need more information. Fred

July 1, 2010

Re: [SFD-discuss] [SFD-announce] Sponsorship confirmed and testing ahead

by Steve Rainwater

On Sat, 2010-06-19 at 20:29 +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 00:14, Thilo Pfennig <tp(a)pfennigsolutions.de> wrote: > >> b. Tagging :- This should also make it easy for people to find content. > > > > What do you mean with that? You can add keywords to every page. And the > > wiki supports categories as well. > > > > Preferably a tag-cloud but if not that atleast a way for us to figure > out thing. > > Just as an e.g. http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/tag/rpg/ I looked up the SFD website today to see if I could sign up a local team but discovered there's not much 2010 info there yet. Then I noticed this discussion on the list and thought I'd join it. With SFD closing in fast, my preference is to get any wiki online as soon as possible. I'd be happy with MediaWiki or DokuWiki or really any wiki software. I've never found tag clouds useful and they really seem intended for blogs rather than wikis. I'm not opposed to a tag cloud but given the short amount of time until SFD, I'd prefer to get something useful online now and work on the eye-candy later. -Steve

July 1, 2010

Regards

by endurance odion

Greetings to all, Me and my team here in University of Benin Nigeria are trying to set up a Linux User Group. I would say its not easy and thanks to Canonical who gave us 10 CDs on Ubuntu 9.04 last year which we are gladly making use of and I must say that the operating system is great and most people we preach it to loved it. We are still on the learning phase of Linux and we love to do great things and we believe that by hosting a freedom software day here we do a lot more talking for us, my team and I are working hard for our website and if there is any help any one can render we will be grateful for the assistance.We're also looking for volunteers to help us get direct site were we could download UBUNTU packages and update for off line mode installation that will help a lot because Internet access is one of our limiting factors here and that is why most persons here shy away from UBUNTU Thanks for your time and the great work you guys are all doing I will like to have assistance in the form of advice, download links, pdf materials, books, etc that can help us, please do contact us. Please be rest assured that my team and I will be very grateful for any assistance that you have to offer. That will be all for now and we hope you're starting to get ready for this year SFD. Thank you all. Warm regards, Odion Endurance

July 1, 2010

Re: [SFD-discuss] [SFD-announce] Sponsorship confirmed and testing ahead

by shirish शिरीष

in-line :- On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 00:14, Thilo Pfennig <tp(a)pfennigsolutions.de> wrote: > Am 17.06.2010 17:50, schrieb shirish शिरीष: > > The wiki is already running, but I am still testing some stuff out. Hope > we will be able to open it in some days. As said before looking forward to it. A bit curious though would you be using something like mediawiki or something else http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wiki_software >> a. An openid single-on sign on to wiki :- This would make it easier >> for both me as well as people at the other end of the stream (Sponsors > >> b. Tagging :- This should also make it easy for people to find content. > > What do you mean with that? You can add keywords to every page. And the > wiki supports categories as well. > Lemme take examples for you. http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/Competition2009 http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/press http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/archives http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/archives/2008 http://sfd.openfreeway.org/index.php?cPath=5 (shouldn't the store be part of the site? curious) http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/archives/2008/asia (this page does not exist ? ) anyways, all the above pages there are no keywords. If there are other wiki pages which have keywords/tags somewhere and I have not been able to see them please link them so I know where and what I should be looking for? Preferably a tag-cloud but if not that atleast a way for us to figure out thing. Just as an e.g. http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/tag/rpg/ makes it easy for me as well as for others to figure out stuff (if they are looking for ) >> c. Filtering through cities :- Right now its pretty hard to get a good >> filter and contact details of SFD contributors based in other >> cities/countries. > > I like to structure it a bit better. Sure that's what we are looking for as well. > Regards, > Thilo > > > > -- > Thilo Pfennig - PfennigSolutions IT-Beratung- Wiki-Systeme > Sandkrug 28 - 24143 Kiel (Germany) > http://www.pfennigsolutions.de/ > XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Thilo_Pfennig - > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tpfennig _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17

June 19, 2010

Re: [SFD-discuss] [SFD-announce] Sponsorship confirmed and testing ahead

by Thilo Pfennig

Am 17.06.2010 17:50, schrieb shirish शिरीष: The wiki is already running, but I am still testing some stuff out. Hope we will be able to open it in some days. > a. An openid single-on sign on to wiki :- This would make it easier > for both me as well as people at the other end of the stream (Sponsors > b. Tagging :- This should also make it easy for people to find content. What do you mean with that? You can add keywords to every page. And the wiki supports categories as well. > > c. Filtering through cities :- Right now its pretty hard to get a good > filter and contact details of SFD contributors based in other > cities/countries. I like to structure it a bit better. Regards, Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig - PfennigSolutions IT-Beratung- Wiki-Systeme Sandkrug 28 - 24143 Kiel (Germany) http://www.pfennigsolutions.de/ XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Thilo_Pfennig - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tpfennig

June 17, 2010

Re: [SFD-discuss] [SFD-announce] Sponsorship confirmed and testing ahead

by shirish शिरीष

in-line :- On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 07:31, Frederic Muller <fred(a)beijinglug.org> wrote: > Dear SFD supporters, Dear Frederic, > We've been graciously granted a VPS by Linode (www.linode.com) to host > our platform, which has been scattered here and there so far. Until now > Canonical was providing the support for our web platform, but technical > details have been preventing us from upgrading a 3 years old wiki in > dear need of a lifting! > > So I extend my thanks to both Canonical who have been supporting us > since the early days and has just renewed their commitment to SFD in > 2010, and to Linode with whom we have slow migrated stuff over time. > Both companies have been extremely responsive to our needs and it's a > real pleasure dealing with them. > > This also means we'll still be getting loads of free Ubuntu CDs shipped > to each teams again this year, and that we'll be migrating our sites and > various services over the coming days. We might definitely experience > some outage (or maybe not). One thing which has been giving us headaches > so far was our mailing lists and we're planning to phase them out in the > short term, except from announcements. > > We're also looking for volunteers to help us add an Free Software > alternative to Google Maps and provide access to OpenStreetMaps. If > anyone has experience implementing an API similar to what we have so far > (http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/2009/map.shtml ), please do contact us. > > That will be all for now and we hope you're starting to get ready for > this year SFD. > > Thank you all. > > Warm regards, > > Frederic Muller > SFI President > Software Freedom Day 2010 happening on Saturday September 18th, 2010 > The announcements are terrific. I, alongwith all the other SFD supporters would be looking forward to what new you and your team of developers/volunteers do bring to the table. One of the things I would be looking for a. An openid single-on sign on to wiki :- This would make it easier for both me as well as people at the other end of the stream (Sponsors and other contributors) to know the history of persons and teams. As I am and have been working with different teams it makes sense to be able to compile all my activity at one username. b. Tagging :- This should also make it easy for people to find content. c. Filtering through cities :- Right now its pretty hard to get a good filter and contact details of SFD contributors based in other cities/countries. As I usually am on the move every few months I would like to meet and talk with other SFD contributors as well. Right now, that's a hard task in the existing way. I'm sorry if I've not been able to articulate my need (features) but do look forward to the new wiki. Is there a time-line when the new wiki and other things are in place? September is just 3 months away and packing and sending schwag does take quite a bit of time (previous years experiences ). Also posted the same about the site revamp announcement on the blog. http://wp.me/pfuZu-eQ I do hope you also think of having the mailing list and its archives also put up on the main page of the new site. > _______________________________________________ > SFD-announce mailing list > SFD-announce(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-announce -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17

June 17, 2010

Sponsorship confirmed and testing ahead

by Frederic Muller

Dear SFD supporters, We've been graciously granted a VPS by Linode (www.linode.com) to host our platform, which has been scattered here and there so far. Until now Canonical was providing the support for our web platform, but technical details have been preventing us from upgrading a 3 years old wiki in dear need of a lifting! So I extend my thanks to both Canonical who have been supporting us since the early days and has just renewed their commitment to SFD in 2010, and to Linode with whom we have slow migrated stuff over time. Both companies have been extremely responsive to our needs and it's a real pleasure dealing with them. This also means we'll still be getting loads of free Ubuntu CDs shipped to each teams again this year, and that we'll be migrating our sites and various services over the coming days. We might definitely experience some outage (or maybe not). One thing which has been giving us headaches so far was our mailing lists and we're planning to phase them out in the short term, except from announcements. We're also looking for volunteers to help us add an Free Software alternative to Google Maps and provide access to OpenStreetMaps. If anyone has experience implementing an API similar to what we have so far (http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/2009/map.shtml ), please do contact us. That will be all for now and we hope you're starting to get ready for this year SFD. Thank you all. Warm regards, Frederic Muller SFI President Software Freedom Day 2010 happening on Saturday September 18th, 2010

June 6, 2010

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by shamashuddin attar

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May 25, 2010

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Feb. 19, 2010