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Re: [SFD-discuss] Software Freedom Day 2008!

by Pia Waugh

Hi Masud, <quote who="PRAN.ORG"> > last year we did not get any materials of SFD. I hope you will send all > materials in time then we'll use it in our event. I had about 20 packets returned to me from last years event. The typical reasons were: - The package arrived too late - Incorrect address provided - No one came to the post office to pick it up We will be making sure we send the packages much earlier this year to deal with the first issue. For the second and third could everyone please make sure they put exactly the right address into their registration form, remembering that we can't check the addresses as we don't know all the teams personally :) Cheers, Pia -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

April 13, 2008

Re: [SFD-discuss] Software Freedom Day 2008!

by PRAN.ORG

Hi Pia Nice to hear from you. last year we did not get any materials of SFD. I hope you will send all materials in time then we'll use it in our event. In soliderity Masud Nurul Alam Bangladesh Pia Waugh wrote: > Hi everyone! > > The time has come to start planning your Software Freedom Day event for 2008! > We will be opening registrations in mid May and increasing the number of team > packs (shirts, CDs, balloons and such) to 300, so make sure you keep an eye out > and register as soon as you can! We have a new board with new members (details > at http://softwarefreedomday.org/sfi) A warm welcome to Fred and Peter! > > This years event will be September 20th, 2008 (please ignore the header of the > website, it will be changed as soon as possible). > > Last years event > ================ > > Last year we had an amazing event, with over 330 teams from over 90 countries. > There were around 3000 participants reaching over 40,000 members of the public. > Around 40,000 FOSS CDs were handed out, including Ubuntu, the Open CD, > Mandriva, Fedora, Kubuntu, Debian, Suse, Knoppix, and more! > > The SFD events including installations of FOSS, demonstrations, conferences, > presentations, radio, courses, some even used the day to collect food for > disadvantaged families! The three events that won "best 2007 SFD event" were > FOSS Nepal Community, SFD Nicaragua 2007 Team & Beijing Software Freedom Day > (China). Congratulations all! Their event reports can be found here > http://softwarefreedomday.org/Competition2007/Winners. > > Last year a lot of universities participated, however some schools also got > involved, which was great to see. Loads of user groups always get involved to > help get the word out about Software Freedom. There was excellent media > coverage from many teams in many languages so great job everyone! > > Planning > ======== > > The Software Freedom International team have been getting everything on track > for Software Freedom Day 2008. Firstly thank you to you all for your great > ideas and feedback from last year. It has helped us create a plan for this year > which should see Software Freedom Day grow even more, particularly in the > education sector. We will be providing more resources to teams, including a DVD > with video and presentation content that teams can use or mashup on the day. > We'll also be providing the OpenDisc (the new Open CD project) and more > resources to teams such as artwork, templates and other useful resources. We > hope that you all put stuff on the wiki to share with other teams and start > emailing the list with your ideas and lessons learnt. > > We are hoping to have over 500 teams participate in Software Freedom Day 2008, > and we should all try to reach a grand total of 100,000 members of the public! > Start thinking about what is the most appropriate way to take Software Freedom > to your community. Perhaps it is a stall at a festival, perhaps a computer > literacy course using FOSS, perhaps some presentations at a local school or > university. Get ideas for your SFD event planning from the Start Guide here > http://softwarefreedomday.org/StartGuide. > > As per an email late last year, we are keen to get more translations of SFD > content and information. We are in the process of setting up some > infrastructure to facilitate this so stay tuned for more information about > translations. > > New infrastructure > ================== > > We are in the process of setting up new infrastructure as we migrate to a new > hosting environment donated by Linode (http://linode.com/) This will increase > our control over the SFD website and mailing lists such that we can avoid > downtime, and also add new functionality. In the short term we will be doing a > site redesign, a moin moin upgrade (the wiki), and some mailing list migration. > We'll make sure this is as seamless as possible for you all. > > We are going to make reporting and registering much easier this year, with a > few changes including a world map as the mechanism to find events rather than a > list by continent. This will mean team pages will be > http://softwarefreedomday.org/<teamname> rather than a really long URL as has > been the case in the past. Thanks to everyone for their suggestions on this! > > We'll also be adding a "planet" to SFD, to aggregate blogs from our community, > a new online shop and more to be announced soon. > > Thanks > ====== > > Thank you to last years sponsors, to the rest of the SFI board, and finally, > thank you to you all for helping take Software Freedom to the world! We are > looking forward to seeing what teams come up with for next year, and we will be > supporting you all as much as we can! > > Cheers, > Pia >

April 13, 2008

Re: [SFD-discuss] Software Freedom Day 2008!

by Nicholas Ng

Guys, Hopefully this year all the materials will be shipped out earlier so that the materials reached us in time. We will be more prepared for this year Software Freedom Day !! Cheers, Nicholas Ng Sarawak, Malaysia On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Pia Waugh <pia(a)softwarefreedomday.org> wrote: > Hi everyone! > > The time has come to start planning your Software Freedom Day event for 2008! > We will be opening registrations in mid May and increasing the number of team > packs (shirts, CDs, balloons and such) to 300, so make sure you keep an eye out > and register as soon as you can! We have a new board with new members (details > at http://softwarefreedomday.org/sfi) A warm welcome to Fred and Peter! > > This years event will be September 20th, 2008 (please ignore the header of the > website, it will be changed as soon as possible). > > Last years event > ================ > > Last year we had an amazing event, with over 330 teams from over 90 countries. > There were around 3000 participants reaching over 40,000 members of the public. > Around 40,000 FOSS CDs were handed out, including Ubuntu, the Open CD, > Mandriva, Fedora, Kubuntu, Debian, Suse, Knoppix, and more! > > The SFD events including installations of FOSS, demonstrations, conferences, > presentations, radio, courses, some even used the day to collect food for > disadvantaged families! The three events that won "best 2007 SFD event" were > FOSS Nepal Community, SFD Nicaragua 2007 Team & Beijing Software Freedom Day > (China). Congratulations all! Their event reports can be found here > http://softwarefreedomday.org/Competition2007/Winners. > > Last year a lot of universities participated, however some schools also got > involved, which was great to see. Loads of user groups always get involved to > help get the word out about Software Freedom. There was excellent media > coverage from many teams in many languages so great job everyone! > > Planning > ======== > > The Software Freedom International team have been getting everything on track > for Software Freedom Day 2008. Firstly thank you to you all for your great > ideas and feedback from last year. It has helped us create a plan for this year > which should see Software Freedom Day grow even more, particularly in the > education sector. We will be providing more resources to teams, including a DVD > with video and presentation content that teams can use or mashup on the day. > We'll also be providing the OpenDisc (the new Open CD project) and more > resources to teams such as artwork, templates and other useful resources. We > hope that you all put stuff on the wiki to share with other teams and start > emailing the list with your ideas and lessons learnt. > > We are hoping to have over 500 teams participate in Software Freedom Day 2008, > and we should all try to reach a grand total of 100,000 members of the public! > Start thinking about what is the most appropriate way to take Software Freedom > to your community. Perhaps it is a stall at a festival, perhaps a computer > literacy course using FOSS, perhaps some presentations at a local school or > university. Get ideas for your SFD event planning from the Start Guide here > http://softwarefreedomday.org/StartGuide. > > As per an email late last year, we are keen to get more translations of SFD > content and information. We are in the process of setting up some > infrastructure to facilitate this so stay tuned for more information about > translations. > > New infrastructure > ================== > > We are in the process of setting up new infrastructure as we migrate to a new > hosting environment donated by Linode (http://linode.com/) This will increase > our control over the SFD website and mailing lists such that we can avoid > downtime, and also add new functionality. In the short term we will be doing a > site redesign, a moin moin upgrade (the wiki), and some mailing list migration. > We'll make sure this is as seamless as possible for you all. > > We are going to make reporting and registering much easier this year, with a > few changes including a world map as the mechanism to find events rather than a > list by continent. This will mean team pages will be > http://softwarefreedomday.org/<teamname> rather than a really long URL as has > been the case in the past. Thanks to everyone for their suggestions on this! > > We'll also be adding a "planet" to SFD, to aggregate blogs from our community, > a new online shop and more to be announced soon. > > Thanks > ====== > > Thank you to last years sponsors, to the rest of the SFI board, and finally, > thank you to you all for helping take Software Freedom to the world! We are > looking forward to seeing what teams come up with for next year, and we will be > supporting you all as much as we can! > > Cheers, > Pia > > -- > Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >

April 13, 2008

Software Freedom Day 2008!

by Pia Waugh

Hi everyone! The time has come to start planning your Software Freedom Day event for 2008! We will be opening registrations in mid May and increasing the number of team packs (shirts, CDs, balloons and such) to 300, so make sure you keep an eye out and register as soon as you can! We have a new board with new members (details at http://softwarefreedomday.org/sfi) A warm welcome to Fred and Peter! This years event will be September 20th, 2008 (please ignore the header of the website, it will be changed as soon as possible). Last years event ================ Last year we had an amazing event, with over 330 teams from over 90 countries. There were around 3000 participants reaching over 40,000 members of the public. Around 40,000 FOSS CDs were handed out, including Ubuntu, the Open CD, Mandriva, Fedora, Kubuntu, Debian, Suse, Knoppix, and more! The SFD events including installations of FOSS, demonstrations, conferences, presentations, radio, courses, some even used the day to collect food for disadvantaged families! The three events that won "best 2007 SFD event" were FOSS Nepal Community, SFD Nicaragua 2007 Team & Beijing Software Freedom Day (China). Congratulations all! Their event reports can be found here http://softwarefreedomday.org/Competition2007/Winners. Last year a lot of universities participated, however some schools also got involved, which was great to see. Loads of user groups always get involved to help get the word out about Software Freedom. There was excellent media coverage from many teams in many languages so great job everyone! Planning ======== The Software Freedom International team have been getting everything on track for Software Freedom Day 2008. Firstly thank you to you all for your great ideas and feedback from last year. It has helped us create a plan for this year which should see Software Freedom Day grow even more, particularly in the education sector. We will be providing more resources to teams, including a DVD with video and presentation content that teams can use or mashup on the day. We'll also be providing the OpenDisc (the new Open CD project) and more resources to teams such as artwork, templates and other useful resources. We hope that you all put stuff on the wiki to share with other teams and start emailing the list with your ideas and lessons learnt. We are hoping to have over 500 teams participate in Software Freedom Day 2008, and we should all try to reach a grand total of 100,000 members of the public! Start thinking about what is the most appropriate way to take Software Freedom to your community. Perhaps it is a stall at a festival, perhaps a computer literacy course using FOSS, perhaps some presentations at a local school or university. Get ideas for your SFD event planning from the Start Guide here http://softwarefreedomday.org/StartGuide. As per an email late last year, we are keen to get more translations of SFD content and information. We are in the process of setting up some infrastructure to facilitate this so stay tuned for more information about translations. New infrastructure ================== We are in the process of setting up new infrastructure as we migrate to a new hosting environment donated by Linode (http://linode.com/) This will increase our control over the SFD website and mailing lists such that we can avoid downtime, and also add new functionality. In the short term we will be doing a site redesign, a moin moin upgrade (the wiki), and some mailing list migration. We'll make sure this is as seamless as possible for you all. We are going to make reporting and registering much easier this year, with a few changes including a world map as the mechanism to find events rather than a list by continent. This will mean team pages will be http://softwarefreedomday.org/<teamname> rather than a really long URL as has been the case in the past. Thanks to everyone for their suggestions on this! We'll also be adding a "planet" to SFD, to aggregate blogs from our community, a new online shop and more to be announced soon. Thanks ====== Thank you to last years sponsors, to the rest of the SFI board, and finally, thank you to you all for helping take Software Freedom to the world! We are looking forward to seeing what teams come up with for next year, and we will be supporting you all as much as we can! Cheers, Pia -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

April 13, 2008

Netsquared Mashup Challenge

by Luis Gustavo Lira

Our team have submitted a project Agri Mashup: Data Utilization in Inclusive and Sustainable Agriculture at the Base of the Pyramid for the Netsquared Mashup Challenge. They are working with two peruvian organizations. Check out our application and if you think this project has a huge potential for social change, please vote for it before Friday! http://www.netsquared.org/2008/conference/projects ____________________________________________________________________________________ ¡Capacidad ilimitada de almacenamiento en tu correo! No te preocupes más por el espacio de tu cuenta con Correo Yahoo!: http://correo.espanol.yahoo.com/

March 19, 2008

Document Freedom Day: 26 March 2008

by Robert Schumann

Hi all SFD enthusiasts, Below is a press release from the organisers of Document Freedom Day, which is happening on 26 March. DFD is organised by a different organisation from SFD, but we're happy to support their message and encourage people to get out on the streets in support of open information exchange! Robert. ------------------------------------------------------------------- [ http://documentfreedom.org/News/20080220 ] Introducing Document Freedom Day 26 March: A global day for document liberation Sign up your DFD team today! The Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for Document Liberation with grassroots action for promotion of Free Document Formats and Open Standards in general. The DFD was initiated and is supported by a group of organisations and companies, including, but not limited to, the Free Software Foundation Europe, ODF Alliance, OpenForum Europe, IBM, Red Hat and Sun Microsystems, Inc. On 26 March 2008, the Document Freedom Day will provide a global rallying point for Document Liberation and Open Standards. It will literally give teams around the world the chance to "hoist the flag": A "DFD Starter Pack" containing a flag, t-shirt, leaflets and stickers is in preparation and is planned to be sent out in the first weeks of March to the first 100 teams that sign up. Sixteen teams already signed up during the preparation phase of the DFD prior to this release. Sign your team up now! "We're proud to support this global effort to encourage open and inclusive information exchange," said Marino Marcich, Managing Director, Open Document Format Alliance. "Document freedom means creating, exchanging, and preserving your electronic documents without having to buy software from a particular vendor." "Data lock-in and subsequent vendor lock-in are some of the most severe issues users are facing today," says FSFE president Georg Greve. "Yet most people only realise this connection when it is too late and they have effectively lost control over their own data. We are supporting the Document Freedom Day to help raise awareness for this issue by starting with something that affects pretty much all users of computers: text documents, spreadsheets and presentations." "Free document formats and open standards are important elements in the continued expansion of the global open source community," said Tom Rabon, executive vice president, Corporate Affairs at Red Hat. "Red Hat strongly supports Document Freedom Day and encourages participation by all who look forward to the day when documents are controlled by those who own them, not necessarily by those who create the technology to access those documents." Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer, Sun Microsystems stated, "As I explained in my paper "Freedom to Leave<http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dhb29vwq_3dzb2cs>", it's fundamental in the emerging market for people to be free to use any software they desire tohandle their data. I fully support the goals of Document Freedom ." Alexandre Oliva of the Free Software Foundation Latin America (FSFLA) comments: "When you save your documents using a Free Open Standard format such as ODF, you're also saving your own future, ensuring your continued ability to access, decode and convert their contents." Graham Taylor Director of OpenForum Europe: "OpenForum Europe applauds the announcement of Document Freedom Day. The whole essence of 'openness' is captured by the right of users, citizens, governments... to be able to freely access and exchange documents todayand in the future. Nothing gives greater meaning to the prevalent danger of lock-in to proprietary solutions, and for the need for Government to act now." About Document Freedom Day: The Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for Document Liberation. It is a day of grassroots effort around the world to promote and build awareness for the relevance of Free Document Formats in particular and Open Standards in general. The DFD is supported by a large group of organisations and individuals, including, but not limited to Ars Aperta, COSS, Esoma, Free Software Foundations Europe and Latin America, IBM, NLnet, ODF Alliance, OpenForum Europe, OSL, iMatix, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, Inc., The Open Learning Centre, Opentia, Estandares Abiertos. The list of DFD supporting groups can be found at http://documentfreedom.org/Who The list of DFD teams is available at http://documentfreedom.org/Category:Teams Further information: http://documentfreedom.org Contact: contact(a)documentfreedom.org Graham Taylor graham(a)openforumeurope.org Ivan Jelic jelic(a)fsfeurope.org Kerri Catallozzi kcatallo(a)redhat.com Marino Marcich mmarcich(a)odfalliance.org Marko Milenovic milenovic(a)fsfeurope.org Terri Molini terri.molini(a)sun.com FSFLA info(a)fsfla.org

March 8, 2008

Re: [SFD-discuss] Planning for SFD 2008 - Your ideas and input!

by Pia Waugh

Hi Peter, <quote who="eter"> > it will be possible to reduce the path "Regional teams". > > To avoid the links publication to the wiki so long. > Example: > http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/teams/northamerica/Mexico/tlaxcala > http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/teams/centralandsouthamerica/argentina We'll see what we can do. We have the challenge of wanting to group continents... Cheers, Pia -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

Feb. 16, 2008

Re: [SFD-discuss] Planning for SFD 2008 - Your ideas and input!

by Pia Waugh

<quote who="draicone(a)gmail.com"> > What I'd love to see is a set of consistent materials for the talks at > events. <snip> > We've got some resources for SFD events as it is, we just don't formally > have one set of notes and discussion points we're going to use for our > events. > > Comments? Sounds like a great idea! If people have talks or notes from their events in previous years that they think would be useful, please post them to the list and we'll try to collate them and put together useful materials for SFD events that can then be translated and such. This is a good idea. We had been focusing on packs for teams with posters, media release material and the like, but not actual event content! Great idea! Cheers, Pia -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

Feb. 16, 2008

Re: [SFD-discuss] Multilingual website

by Pia Waugh

Hi Eugene, <quote who="Eugene Fedin"> > >Could everyone who would be interested in helping achieve this please let us > know (on this list is fine, and state the language(s) you can help with so > people can see what is and isn't covered). > > I can help with Russian. Great! I'm collating the names and languages, so we can coordinate translations into multiple languages for this year! It is worth mentioning that if you have a Software Freedom Day mailing list (or any list) in another language you are always welcome to forward translated content anywhere you like! Posting stuff back to the mailing list in different languages is a great way to contribute to translations and get other people involved. Cheers, Pia -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

Feb. 16, 2008

Re: [SFD-discuss] Multilingual website

by Pia Waugh

Hi Lars, <quote who="Lars Noodén"> > Just be sure to follow the specification for content negotiation and > naming of files. e.g. index.en.html, index.sv.html, index.da.html, etc. Thanks for that, once we get underway with translations we'll try to figure out how to be standards compliant with naming of website files. It may be a little more tricky with a wiki, but we'll try :) Cheers, Pia -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

Feb. 16, 2008