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Re: [SFD-discuss] Open documents in support of software freedom

by Alexjan Carraturo

2009/3/20 Robert Schumann <robert(a)softwarefreedomday.org>: > Software Freedom International, the worldwide organizer of the annual > Software Freedom Day, encourages all SFD teams to support the Document > Freedom Day 2009 (DFD 2009) celebration (http://documentfreedom.org/) on 25 > March 2009. DFD 2009 aims to raise awareness on the importance of accessible > document formats and open standards in everyone's day to day activities. > > Open standards are agreed document definitions which are available to the > public to review and use. They cannot depend on formats or protocols that > are not open standards themselves. The definitions of these open standards > are free from legal and technical restrictions that limit their use, and can > be easily implemented in multiple environments - so they can be used on PCs, > iPods, Playstations and whatever computing environments we'll be using in 50 > years time. > > Open standards protect governments, businesses and the wider community of > computer users from vendor and data lock-ins. Such lock-ins obstruct users > from exercising their full freedom in software and the information they > access. Computers have only become part of daily life in the last twenty or > thirty years, and yet already there are documents that, due to closed > formats, we are unable to easily access using modern software. > > Software freedom will not be complete without open standards and open > document formats. Together, they ensure that free and open source software > can be created and developed to implement open standards to benefit millions > of users worldwide. > > The Software Freedom Day and Document Freedom Day teams are united in > advancing information and software freedom for everyone. Find out where your > closest DFD 2009 team is by visiting the website > (http://documentfreedom.org/) - and if there isn't one, why not plan your > own event? Free Software User Group Italia preparing the DFD 09 as a very big event in Milan. Look at site http://www.dfdmilano09.tk A lot of talk, presentation and project, and a special part on Creative Commons, with concert. An we are at the second partecipation ad the DFD. > > REFERENCE: > Rick Bahague > rick(a)cp-union.com > Publicity officer, Software Freedom International > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > > -- #################################### Alexjan Carraturo admin of Free Software Users Group Italia http://www.fsugitalia.org Fedora Ambassador: Axjslack ####################################

March 21, 2009

Re: [SFD-discuss] Open documents in support of software freedom

by Norman Garcia Aguilar

2009/3/19 Robert Schumann <robert(a)softwarefreedomday.org> > Software Freedom International, the worldwide organizer of the annual > Software Freedom Day, encourages all SFD teams to support the Document > Freedom Day 2009 (DFD 2009) celebration (http://documentfreedom.org/) on > 25 March 2009. DFD 2009 aims to raise awareness on the importance of > accessible document formats and open standards in everyone's day to day > activities. The Nicaraguan Linux User Group, the group in charge of the SFD Nicaragua Organization will be participate from the Document Freedom Day (1) (1) http://www.linuxtour.org/dfd -- Norman Garcia Aguilar http://www.normangarcia.info/blog Linux user # 444131 Ubuntu user # 15806

March 21, 2009

Open documents in support of software freedom

by Robert Schumann

Software Freedom International, the worldwide organizer of the annual Software Freedom Day, encourages all SFD teams to support the Document Freedom Day 2009 (DFD 2009) celebration (http://documentfreedom.org/) on 25 March 2009. DFD 2009 aims to raise awareness on the importance of accessible document formats and open standards in everyone's day to day activities. Open standards are agreed document definitions which are available to the public to review and use. They cannot depend on formats or protocols that are not open standards themselves. The definitions of these open standards are free from legal and technical restrictions that limit their use, and can be easily implemented in multiple environments - so they can be used on PCs, iPods, Playstations and whatever computing environments we'll be using in 50 years time. Open standards protect governments, businesses and the wider community of computer users from vendor and data lock-ins. Such lock-ins obstruct users from exercising their full freedom in software and the information they access. Computers have only become part of daily life in the last twenty or thirty years, and yet already there are documents that, due to closed formats, we are unable to easily access using modern software. Software freedom will not be complete without open standards and open document formats. Together, they ensure that free and open source software can be created and developed to implement open standards to benefit millions of users worldwide. The Software Freedom Day and Document Freedom Day teams are united in advancing information and software freedom for everyone. Find out where your closest DFD 2009 team is by visiting the website ( http://documentfreedom.org/) - and if there isn't one, why not plan your own event? REFERENCE: Rick Bahague rick(a)cp-union.com Publicity officer, Software Freedom International

March 19, 2009

Software Freedom Day needs your technical expertise

by Robert Schumann

Software Freedom Day is looking for an innovative TECHNICAL STRATEGY DIRECTOR with strong IT skills to help bring software freedom to new audiences around the world. Software Freedom International (SFI), the organisation behind Software Freedom Day, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit company registered in New Hampshire, USA. We have been organising SFD since 2004 and have supported events in over 90 countries since then. The position of Technical Strategy Director offers the opportunity to serve our community of over 500 team leaders and thousands more software freedom enthusiasts, as well as gain exposure and experience in developing the online presence of Software Freedom Day. Like all positions at SFI, this is a voluntary position with no remuneration apart from reimbursement of approved costs; we may at our discretion make funds available to enable a suitable candidate to develop their technical skills or acquire relevant qualifications. WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR.... The chosen candidate may be appointed to the board of SFI, but in any case will be required to join in SFI's regular board meetings (which take place every 1-2 weeks via IRC or telephone). The specific responsibilities of the role are to - arrange sysadmin of servers - hold passwords and access to domain names and other key infrastructure - implement online strategy including web and email platforms and our online shop - implement a team registration system, or upgrade the existing system - coordinate web design (in cooperation with our Media & Design officer) - enable collection of metrics including web stats, membership and mailing list subscribers - implement issue tracking (RT) system - facilitate i18n and l10n of online presence We would like the Technical Strategy Director to enable us to reach a broader community, including those without experience of programming. As such the chosen candidate should have ideas about how to use various online tools – including social networking, instant messaging, data mashups, online video and RSS – to promote SFD. The ideal candidate will have some experience of online content management systems for community development. However, we anticipate that they will work with a team (or with SFD partners) to actually execute most tasks and may therefore not need to devote time and energy to programming and web design unless they choose to do so. They will work alongside the SFI team, and particularly the President, the media and design officer and the publicity officer. The successful candidate will be invited to work with SFI at least until December 2009, and beyond that if possible. HOW TO LET US KNOW THAT YOU'RE INTERESTED... Please send a CV or summary of relevant experience to robert(a)softwarefreedomday.org, with the words "Application: SFI technical strategy" in the email subject line. Please highlight any experience that is relevant to the specific responsibilities listed above. The deadline for submissions is 22 March 2009. Any questions regarding this position should be directed to info(a)softwarefreedomday.org.

March 16, 2009

Re: [SFD-discuss] Help needed: Artwork for SFD '09 team starter pack (schwag); Do we need to change the SFD logo font?

by Norman Garcia Aguilar

Its a good idea to change the font to a free (as in speech) and open licensed :) I like the font used on the SFD09 logo. I think that the SFI team needs to choose 5 fonts and make a poll. There is a lot of good fonts, it will be very difficult to the SFI and it'll be a hard work to choose one in a thousand of fonts. -- Norman Garcia Aguilar http://www.normangarcia.info/blog Linux user # 444131 Ubuntu user # 15806

March 10, 2009

Re: [SFD-discuss] Help needed: Artwork for SFD '09 team starter pack (schwag); Do we need to change the SFD logo font?

by jmC8

Hi Thilo, Danke! Thanks for that quick response. I've already seen that list of fonts you mentioned and the only problem was that weren't too many options for modern looking sans serif logo fonts among the font examples from that list. @All: Please disregard the earlier list of fonts that I mentioned. It seems that it would take time sort out our way through more than a thousand fonts listed there. Moreover, I've just found out that not all fonts there are free (as in speech) and open licensed -- others are just freeware that are just freely redistributable. As an alternative, perhaps it would be better for us to look at the font collection listed at the Open Font Library <http://openfontlibrary.org/>website. I've already found a promising one and you may look at at my first output here: http://softwarefreedomday.org/Artwork/2009/Logo RFC Cheers! ~JM Software Freedom Day P.S. Prior to posting my first output on my SFD '09 logo experiments, as a gauge to whether I'm ready to post that or not, I asked my sister which between the two logos look better: SFD '08 or '09? Her answer was '09 because it's more eye-catching and that motivated to post this now. I hope you'll all like it as well. :-) On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Thilo Pfennig <tp(a)pfennigsolutions.de>wrote: > jmC8 schrieb: > > As some/most of you might be aware of, the current logo font (Libel > > suit) that we are using is just a free (as in beer) font and not a > > free (as in speech) or open font. > Good point. I think one should use a free/open font instead. I would > suggest to use a rather new font. > > Here is another list: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software_Unicode_fonts > > I agree that it might be better to renew it all and also to decide quick > so that there is more time to do stuff. It would also be a good idea to > renew even if tis would not be a problem. So instead of trying to find > out IF it is a problem, why not just start? > > 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 >

March 5, 2009

Re: [SFD-discuss] Help needed: Artwork for SFD '09 team starter pack (schwag); Do we need to change the SFD logo font?

by Thilo Pfennig

jmC8 schrieb: > As some/most of you might be aware of, the current logo font (Libel > suit) that we are using is just a free (as in beer) font and not a > free (as in speech) or open font. Good point. I think one should use a free/open font instead. I would suggest to use a rather new font. Here is another list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software_Unicode_fonts I agree that it might be better to renew it all and also to decide quick so that there is more time to do stuff. It would also be a good idea to renew even if tis would not be a problem. So instead of trying to find out IF it is a problem, why not just start? 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

March 4, 2009

Help needed: Artwork for SFD '09 team starter pack (schwag); Do we need to change the SFD logo font?

by jmC8

Hi all, Good day! We at SFI would like to seek the assistance of the whole SFD community on coming up with the final artwork that we could use for the goodies to be distributed for SFD '09 and beyond. According to the initial feedback that Fred got from here (SFD-discuss mailing-list), most teams would want T-shirts, CDs/DVDs (FOSS compilations and a resource DVD), generic SFD (A2-sized) posters, balloons, stickers, and button pins/badges. Before we move on to the specifics about what Artwork we would like to have for each of those stuff, I, in behalf of SFI would like to consult with all of you first if there's a need for us to change the font that we have been using for the SFD logo since 2005. As some/most of you might be aware of, the current logo font (Libel suit) that we are using is just a free (as in beer) font and not a free (as in speech) or open font. On a side note, if I'm not mistaken, the SFD logo that we've used in the first worldwide SFD celebration back in 2004 as depicted in this archived image file<http://web.archive.org/web/20040801002506/www.softwarefreedomday.org/layout…>, uses the Sans font from the GNU FreeFont<http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/>collection. Back to my main query about the SFD logo font, should we decide to change the logo font (I do hope that we should), perhaps the listing from the Free Font Compilation made from the Debian GNU/Linux distribution<http://fonts.debian.net/>would provide a good kick start for this purpose. We still have until the end of the month to decide on this. We would like to get as many feedback or sample logo works as possible from all/most of you before then. Thanks! JM Software Freedom Day

March 4, 2009

linux and youth day in cameroon

by lugbamenda＠immerda.ch

The Linux school in Limbe join the rest of the youth of cameroon to celebrate the national youth day on the 11th of February 2009.Many people where impress as they saw us machine with white t-shirt and on it was written ubuntu, so they ask the meaning of ubuntu, why we are machine for Linux and not windows, we actually answer so many question this day befor the matching began. We had so many people coming in to the school the following day to learn Linux, some caming in with labtops to install Linux. This people explain to us that they have been having many problems with windows and that they did not know there exit other operating system other than windows now they prefer Linux, since we have explain to them the advantage of linux over windows operating system. Those of them who have known linux where very happy to join us and work with us because according to them they have acquired knowledge about open source but could not fine people with whom they could work together. you can see more on our website sokolo.cronopios.org

March 2, 2009

Re: [SFD-discuss] OpenSource in higher education

by Marcello Sales

Hi Alexander, For the university experience, I would mention the experiences of our M.S. program at San Francisco State University (SFSU), since the contents include Distributed and Collaborative software Engineering in Education, you could check a group at Java.net, where a growing number of universities are joining... https://distributedcollaboration.dev.java.net/ Last semester we had a class format at SFSU, part of a nice project with undergrad and graduate students from other Florida, California and Germany... All was using only open-source tools... The motivations behind this class is that the instructors (Software Engineer Professors) would play the role of CEOs or CTOs, and divide the classes into teams that may compete to develop the same tool or different modules to a given tool... It would have to take into account if students are undergraduate or graduate students for that matter, but the classes would basically cover the core of Software Engineering and life-cycle management, etc... Different instructors have introduced different approaches... One of the students has wrapped up his M.S. thesis on this subject as well... I'm a M.S. student who was a team learder for PPM (http://ppm.dev.java.net) part of group 8 (http://ppm-8.dev.java.net) and I can say that this was a very interesting approach to learn and experience what the real world is... I think the motivations can very, different students with real-world experience could share a lot on this format, but I would blend important research papers as well (including the Cathedral & the Bazar for example, among others)... That could drive the motivations on the OSS community... I wish I could have done my undergraduate Software Engineering class using such type of approach... -- Best Regards, Marcello de Sales - Software Engineer ( ( _)__) M.S. in Computer Science Graduate Student .-"( `-..-. |`-._` _.-'| ) Department of Computer Science L "" J / | JEE5 |.' San Francisco State University (SFSU) .-J Dev F-. ( `-.___.-' ) San Francisco, California 94132 `-._________.-' Board Member of the SF Bay area ACM Group __ __) __ (, /| /| /) /) (__/ ) /) / | / | _ __ __ // // / _ // _ _ ) / |/ |_(_(_/ (_(___(/_(/_(/_(_) ) / (_(_(/__(/_/_)_ (_/ http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~msales<http://userwww.sfsu.edu/%7Emsales> (_/ "Brick walls are not there to keep us out. The Brick Walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The Brick Walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly. They are there to stop OTHER people."~ Randy Pausch On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Bruce Mathew <brucemathew(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dear friend > > Please also include Opensource Software usage in research along with your > stuff. > > Bruce mathew > kerala > > > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Pia Waugh <greebo(a)pipka.org> wrote: > >> Hi Alexander, >> >> <quote who="Alexander.Trubin(a)sun.com"> >> >> > I'm now preparing for a talk at Urals State Technical University >> > (Russia) about OpenSource usage in Higher Education, >> > so if anyone have some thoughts about what should be covered in this >> > broad topic your help would be greatly appreciated. >> >> I was involved in a research project which looked at this in Australia: >> >> http://ask-oss.mq.edu.au/ >> >> There are loads of both case studies, and links to OSS in HE all around >> the >> world. >> >> Also, check out the UK equivalent (although, they are much more awesome >> than >> ASK-OSS :) >> >> http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/ >> >> Good luck! >> >> Cheers, >> Pia >> >> -- >> OLPC Friends >> http://olpcfriends.org/ >> Linux Australia >> http://linux.org.au/ >> Open Source Industry Australia >> http://osia.net.au/ >> Software Freedom Day >> http://softwarefreedomday.org/ >> >> "There is no darkness but ignorance." - William Shakespeare >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SFD-discuss mailing list >> SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org >> http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >> > > > > -- > With regards .... > > Bruce Mathew, > Sr Lecturer & Placement Officer > Secretary, Free Open Software Cell > MCA Department, Union Christian College > Aluva 683102 Kerala . > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Ph: 91-484-2603533 > Mob: 919447209932 > =============================================================== > Microsoft is not the answer; Microsoft is the question. Avoid the Gates of > Hell. Use Linux > =============================================================== > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > >

Feb. 27, 2009