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and finally arrived

by Alexjan Carraturo

And finally italian customs deicide to give me the SFD-pack.... it's incredible how much time they spent only to check, and is incredible what they do to block few t-shirt.... Only in italy!!!!! By the way it's finally arrived Thank you SFI, but next time, try to make start the pack from europe not china -- #################################### Alexjan Carraturo admin of Free Software Users Group Italia http://www.fsugitalia.org ####################################

Sept. 18, 2008

Re: [SFD-discuss] Software Freedom Day in Manila Times (Philippines)

by shirish

Hi Rick, I'm from Pune, Asia, India. I liked some of the things you have written. I would like to use it as or modify it to suit indian situations (something like instead of pesos it would be Rupees) and some other changes (which may not be relevant to Indian landscape). I would cite you or/and cite the manila times opinion article which you forwarded to the list. I wanted to ask for your permission before doing so, so please lemme know how you feel about the same. Looking forward to hear from you on the same. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal This email is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17

Sept. 18, 2008

Media release: Software Freedom Day 08

by Rik Tindall

Software Freedom Day 2008 Software Freedom Day is an international festival of computer telecommunications independence, marked on Saturday 20th September. A Christchurch team event is at the South Christchurch Library Learning Centre, 66 Colombo Street in Beckenham, from 10am to 4pm. The GNU/Linux operating system and other Free and Open-Source Software is on show, tutored, and available for the public to take home. Software installation help and DVD screenings also feature. This is an annual social and educational event for the Canterbury GNU/Linux user community, which numbers in hundreds. Similar SFD events will also take place in Wellington, Hamilton, Auckland, elsewhere in New Zealand and around the world. All are very welcome to attend this family-friendly celebration of liberating technology. For more information see: http://www.SoftwareFreedomDay.org http://www.bethere.co.nz/festivalEvents.aspx?id=12747 http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/teams/oceania/nz http://www.greens.org.nz/policy/informationtechnology Contact: rik.tindall(a)greens.org.nz (list candidate) Software Freedom Day Christchurch team leader +64 03-332-1069 or +64 027-406-0077 Canterbury Regional Councillor (ECan), Christchurch East

Sept. 18, 2008

Software Freedom Day in Manila Times (Philippines)

by rick

*PROMETHEUS BOUND * By Ricardo Bahague Jr. *Software Freedom Day *ref: http://manilatimes.net/national/2008/sep/18/yehey/opinion/20080918opi5.html* * For the past four years, computer users beginners and experts alike, programmers, NGOs and free software advocates have celebrated every third Saturday of September as Software Freedom Day. This year, over 500 teams all over the world is celebrating the event. It is a public education event held by different groups around the world to promote the use of free and open source software. "Software" is the word for programs and other procedures in your computer that uses your hardware to do the work you require it to do. Proprietary software is the most common kind of many software products that users are allowed to use upon the payment of license fees. Buying a software product like an operating system gives you a license to use it under certain conditions such as installing it only on a single computer, accepting the prohibition not to modify it and not to redistribute the program to others. Unlike proprietary software, free/open source software (FOSS) product owners, developers and/or creators give users the right to use it for any purpose and to redistribute, study, modify and improve it. This is done by doing away with traditional copyright conditions and making the source code of the software itself available to the public. The source code of a software is like the recipe of a dish and the chef would be the software company that produces the software. Using this analogy, the main idea in FOSS is that the recipe is made available to all. Others can modify it to suit their needs and its products can be shared freely, or given away to anyone we like. Most popular proprietary software already have free and open source equivalents. These equivalents are already on a par with their proprietary counterparts. A whole range of high quality and dependable applications that are free and open source can be downloaded from the Internet. It ranges from operating systems to run in your personal computer (such as GNU/Linux), servers that manage websites and your e-mail (Apache, SendMail), office suites such as OpenOffice, Internet browsers like Firefox, graphics design software (GIMP) and databases. An immediate benefit of using FOSS is the reduced licensing and upgrade fees. The giant chip maker Intel reportedly saved $200 million for switching their servers from proprietary UNIX software to open software, while Amazon.com reported a $17-million savings when they migrated to Linux. FOSS in lieu of proprietary software result in significant cost savings of anywhere from 15 percent to 35 percent over a span of three years. A UNDP study has pointed out that using FOSS in the Philippines can develop local capacity in our software industry, reduce our dependence on imports, conserve our foreign exchange, enhance our national security, reduce copyright infringements and enable software to be easily adapted to local languages and practices. Furthermore, reducing the costs of software increases the public's capacity to use and have access to information thus enabling more people to use these in their efforts to achieve overall economic development. A government policy on using free and open source software is the purpose of House Bill No. 1716 or the Free/Open Source Software Act authored by Bayan Muna Party-list Rep. Teddy Casiño. It proposes to require the use of free and open source software in the absence of a clear advantage of using proprietary software. It also promotes open standards and open formats in all government agencies and encourages the use and development of FOSS in the private and public sector. The government is the single biggest consumer of ICT goods and services. It spends billions of pesos to implement systems for public use. Mandating the use of FOSS to government agencies will lower the cost of implementing various ICT programs and projects. Rather than spending on software products that have FOSS equivalents, additional hardware can be acquired instead. The use of free and open source software is the affordable software alternative for a third world country like the Philippines. You can see free and open software in action during the Software Freedom Day to be held on Saturday September 20 at 9:00 p.m. at the University of Makati. The organizers will make available the latest versions of free operating systems that can be freely copied during the event. Aside from the University of Makati and PUP-Taguig events in Metro Manila, there will also be regional events in Baguio, Angeles, Mindanao State University and in Isabela City. The event is expected to bring in more than 2000 advocates and enthusiasts all over the country in line with this year's call for "One Nation: Unity for Software Freedom." More information can be found at www.cp-union.com or at www.sfdphil.org. Know a world where software is free and no pirates exist. Discover free and open software. *[A member of AGHAM, Mr. Ricardo Bahague graduated from physics at UP Diliman. He is a FOSS advocate, developer and coordinator of the Computer Professionals Union.] prom.bound(a)gmail.com.*

Sept. 18, 2008

Re: [SFD-discuss] Planet SFD - send us your blogs/newsfeeds!

by Rubén Romero y Cordero

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 3:44 AM, Pia Waugh <greebo(a)pipka.org> wrote: > Hi Rubén, > > <quote who="Rubén Romero y Cordero"> > >> News from Norway. I'll be blogging about yesterday's event in Oslo tomorrow: >> http://huayra.wordpress.com >> The exact rss is there :-) > > I've added your blog, and also used the nick huayra (as per your blog). Let > me know if you want it changed and if you get a gravatar/hackergotchi :) My nickname is good, thanks! My hackergotchi is here: <http://planet.ubuntu.com/heads/huayra.png> > >> Thanks for putting the SFD up with such entusiasm! > > It is my pleasure! The Planet is looking great and we have some awesome > content on there from the SFD community, so check it out everyone! Awesome work!! > > Cheers, > Pia > regards, Rubén.

Sept. 18, 2008

Re: [SFD-discuss] Planet SFD - send us your blogs/newsfeeds!

by Pia Waugh

Hi Rubén, <quote who="Rubén Romero y Cordero"> > News from Norway. I'll be blogging about yesterday's event in Oslo tomorrow: > http://huayra.wordpress.com > The exact rss is there :-) I've added your blog, and also used the nick huayra (as per your blog). Let me know if you want it changed and if you get a gravatar/hackergotchi :) > Thanks for putting the SFD up with such entusiasm! It is my pleasure! The Planet is looking great and we have some awesome content on there from the SFD community, so check it out everyone! Cheers, Pia

Sept. 18, 2008

Re: [SFD-discuss] Planet SFD - send us your blogs/newsfeeds!

by Rubén Romero y Cordero

Hi Pia! News from Norway. I'll be blogging about yesterday's event in Oslo tomorrow: http://huayra.wordpress.com The exact rss is there :-) Thanks for putting the SFD up with such entusiasm! Best regards, Rubén https://launchpad.net/~huayra 2008/9/12, Pia Waugh <greebo(a)pipka.org>: > Hi all, > > we've set up a planet (blog/news aggregator) for the Software Freedom Day > website. Please send us your blogs and rss/atom feeds so we can add you to > the planet if you are blogging about SFD, software freedom, open standards > and other related topics to our community :) > > http://planet.softwarefreedomday.org/ > > Currently we only have 3 of the SFI board members, but there are several > great posts from Fred about the packaging and sending of goodies to teams, > so check it out! > > Cheers, > Pia > > -- > OLPC Australia http://olpc.org.au/ > Linux Australia http://linux.org.au/ > Open Source Industry Australia http://osia.net.au/ > Software Freedom Day http://softwarefreedomday.org/ > > "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it > would be a merrier world." - J. R. R. Tolkien > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >

Sept. 17, 2008

Re: [SFD-discuss] Packages not received yet

by Leandro Gómez

2008/9/17 Frederic Muller <frederic.muller(a)dexxon.com> > Dear Leandro, > > Same thing happened with your package as did with the teams in Zimbabwe. I > can only apologize on behalf of the forwarding company. No problem, Frederic. Thank you very much for the info. Cheers, > > > Wishng you a happy Software Freedom Day. > > Fred > Software Freedom Day > > > Frederic Muller wrote: > >> morning guys! >> >> If you use a different name to ask for your package it makes it impossible >> for me to find it. Now I did find your team under this new name but it seems >> there has been a delivery problem (from the tracking information). Let me >> clarify this with the delivery company and get back to you. >> >> Thanks >> >> Fred >> >> Leandro Gómez wrote: >> >>> 2008/9/16 Frederic Muller <fred(a)beijinglug.org <mailto: >>> fred(a)beijinglug.org>> >>> >>> Hi Frederic, >>> >>> Dear Norman, >>> >>> I only have one team who registered and click the 'receive schwags' >>> checkbox from Nicaragua and it's not registered under your name. >>> >>> I registered the Nicaraguan team. We were one of the first teams >>> registered this year. >>> >>> Goodies >>> were only sent for the first 300 registered teams before mid-July. >>> >>> Hope that helps you better understand what happened. >>> >>> Fred >>> >>> Norman Garcia Aguilar wrote: >>> > Here in Nicaragua nothing arrived yet :S >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Norman Garcia Aguilar >>> > http://normangaguilar.blogspot.com >>> > Linux user # 444131 >>> > Ubuntu user # 15806 >>> > >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > 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 >>> > >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> SFD-discuss mailing list >>> SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org >>> http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >>> >>> >> >> >> >

Sept. 17, 2008

Re: [SFD-discuss] BBC World Service Click Program

by alan c

Cat Scratch wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Some of you may know that the BBC runs a program called Click on it's > World News Service... > > They have a contact form... would be great for teams to contact them > with what they are doing... we may not get coverage before the event - > but perhaps it will be of interest to the BBC for a follow up story? > > http://www.bbcworldnews.com/Pages/ContactProgramme.aspx?id=18 > > cheers > Donna thanks - good reminder! -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 Linux user #360648

Sept. 17, 2008

Re: [SFD-discuss] Stuff not yet received

by Frederic Muller

Dear Richard, I can only check for SFD schwag and not Ubuntu CDs. Those 2 are the same team in the document I received and from the registration it's your email address that has been used for Austin Njaya's registration. Now to the bad news: the forwarder has failed to ship your shwag (and the other 4 registered teams in Zimbabwe) so you will not be getting anything before September 20th. I must apologize for this. We are now negotiating how to get you the stuff so you can at least have an 'after SFD' party with balloons, stickers and t-shirts. Really sorry for the inconvenience, I hope this will not hinder your preparation work and you will still manage to have a great Saturday as all of us will. Kind regards, Fred Software Freedom Day Mr. R. Simango wrote: > Dear Fred, > Could you kindly furnish us with tracking information for swag send to: > 1. Richard Simango, Tonga Online, Binga, Zimbabwe > 2. Austin Njaya, Tinde High School, C/O Tonga Online, Binga, Zimbabwe > Please for both Ubuntu CDs and other promotional Material (Stickers, > T-shirts etc) > > Kind Regards, > > Richard Simango > Technical and Operations Manager > Tonga Online > P. O. Box 47 > Binga > Zimbabwe > > Tel +263-15-573 > Mobile: +263-11-619322 > skype: simangor > www.mulonga.net > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OpenIcdl > >

Sept. 17, 2008