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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

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

by Pia Waugh

Hi Matt, <quote who="Matthew Macdonald-Wallace"> > The Open Source Consortium is trying to achieve a similar goal, with a > specific aim to develop materials that can be used by our members to > target the public/education sectors. > > I will approach the membership and see if the are willing for some of > this work to be released into the public domain once it has been > created. Did you have any luck with this? :) 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

Hi Andress, <quote who="andress calderon"> > I'll travel to Sydney soon to study english, I love work on translations to > spanish, you can count me!!! Definitely come along to the Sydney Linux User Group, and I'll see you there! http://slug.org.au/ Cheers, Pia -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

Feb. 16, 2008

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

by Subir Pradhanang

Hi all, On 1/16/08, Pia Waugh <pia(a)softwarefreedomday.org> wrote: > > As we are going through initial planning and in particular new ideas and > brainstorming for 2008, I thought it would be great to invite responses from > you guys, the Software Freedom Day community :) What would you like to see > different in 2008? How could we better help you organise awesome events? How > can we help you with marketing and such? World Software Freedom Day! Adding World to our regular SFD term would automatically suggest that it is being celebrated worldwide like World Environment Day or something like that. This would make us easier in explaining to our potential local partners/supporters/sponsors that the event is taking place globally, which would in turn, attract more supporters and of course, the media support. Perhaps it could attract the support of UN agencies as well, which the SFI is looking for for the upcoming SFD. Please correct me if I'm mistaken. This especially held true for us when we approached the apex government body for IT in Nepal, HLCIT [1] to partner with us during the last SFD. Even in their annual newsletter [2], they've mentioned it as World Software Freedom Day. The actual newsletter can be found here [3]. [1] http://hlcit.gov.np/ [2] http://wiki.fossnepal.org/images/c/c3/Sfd07_on_hlcit_newsletter.jpg [3] http://www.hlcit.gov.np/pdf/newsletter2007.pdf Cheers, Subir --- Subir B. Pradhanang subirbp.livejournal.com

Jan. 21, 2008

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

by Frederic Muller

Hi! This is the Beijing team here. Thank you guys for the prize and the congrats we received. I'm jumping in to say we can do the Simplified Chinese version. Fred Pia Waugh wrote: > Hi all, > > <quote who="Leo Arias F."> > > >> A multilingual website would be great. >> > > We would love to be able to achieve this, but of course will need help! > 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). Then we can create a > multi-lingual sub-committee for SFD that works with the board to ensure both > the website and other announcements/information is able to be made available > in something more than english! :) > > Cheers, > Pia > >

Jan. 20, 2008