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Mark Shuttleworth Interview for Software Freedom Day

by Judy Wilson

Last Thursday we received a DVD from Mark Shuttleworth with a 14.5 minute interview using questions that I submitted. My husband, Jan, re-encoded it and reduced it from one gigabyte to 152 megabytes. The questions relate to how he got involved in Open Source, his experience in space, why he decided to start Ubuntu, what the word ubuntu means, and how he feels about the progress of open source and Ubuntu to date. It is now available for download at: http://www.archive.org/details/Mark_Shuttleworth_SFD It took us about 3 hours to upload the file, but your connection may be faster. We think it's an excellent interview. He starts and ends complimenting the work done on Software Freedom Day and wishes us success on this one. It is not "dated" so it will be appropriate for at least a couple of years, or to use as you see fit. It's under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike open source license. If you download it and watch it, please consider going back to that page on archive.org and writing a review. Enjoy! Judy of SFI

Sept. 10, 2007

OLPCs for the SFD competition

by Pia Waugh

Hi all, Only 6 days to go for most of our events!! Just a couple of last things to think about. 1) We have had a third OLPC donated for the 2007 SFD competition from the OLPC project themselves! This means there are 3 chances to win an OLPC! Check out the Competition page. The 2 best events and the best OLPC contribution or plan all win one. Entries close 30th September so you have some time to pull together your entries. http://softwarefreedomday.org/Competition2007 2) Make sure your SFD wiki pages are up to date, and try to get some posters, radio play, announcements out early this week to get more people along to your event. 3) Make sure you take loads of pictures and upload them to the gallery :) We'll be putting up a reporting tool for everyone after the event, so please fill out a basic report because it helps us demonstrate the global success of the day and gain more support for SFD. Happy SFD everyone and good luck with all your events. Thank you _all_ for helping take software freedom to the world and doing your part to create a better future! :) Cheers, Pia -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

Sept. 9, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] Using global sponsors logos

by Pia Waugh

Hi Subir, <quote who="Subir Pradhanang"> > We are trying to finalize our banners for SFD here in Nepal. We've > already put our local sponsors logos in those banners, posters and > flyers. My query is whether we can use the global sponsors logos in > those banners and posters by distinguishing them from local sponsors. So long as your clearly distinguish them, it should be fine. Cheers, Pia -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

Sept. 8, 2007

Using global sponsors logos

by Subir Pradhanang

Hi all, We are trying to finalize our banners for SFD here in Nepal. We've already put our local sponsors logos in those banners, posters and flyers. My query is whether we can use the global sponsors logos in those banners and posters by distinguishing them from local sponsors. Cheers, Subir

Sept. 8, 2007

SFD email sigs and sponsors

by Pia Waugh

Hi all, we just noticed someone had Dell and Red Hat in their sig as a sponsor of their event, but it wasn't clear whether the companies were sponsoring the global event, or their event. We encourage all teams to get local sponsorship where they can as it encourages local support of FOSS and our community, but please make sure it is clear that local sponsors are supporting local events, so we can differentiate between local sponsors and global sponsors. Thanks everyone! Cheers, Pia -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

Sept. 7, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] Flickr and other tags - bayimg.com

by Bruce Kingsbury

On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 20:50 -0400, Douglas A. Whitfield wrote: > I'm still having problems with the site being slow, but Wikipedia gets > its info from http://www.zeropaid.com/news/8861/The+Pirate+Bay > +Launches+'BayIMG'+to+Host+Uncensored+Images > > Maybe they are just saying that to appease people and don't actually > remove images. I can't reach that site right now. I also wonder why you think photos taken at SFD events might ever be taken down by flickr or other 'mainstream' photo sites. Has there been any problem in the past? They've never removed or censored any of my photos.. It seems to me that BayIMG's claim to fame is "we won't remove your hardcore porn and pirated commercial photography." I'm not sure that's the sort of place we want to be associated with.

Sept. 7, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] Flickr and other tags - bayimg.com

by Douglas A. Whitfield

I'm still having problems with the site being slow, but Wikipedia gets its info from http://www.zeropaid.com/news/8861/The+Pirate+Bay+Launches+'BayIMG'+to+Host+Uncensored+Images Maybe they are just saying that to appease people and don't actually remove images. Douglas A. Whitfield Carolina Open Source Initiative Co-President http://www.ibiblio.org/cosi Group SFD site: http://tinyurl.com/2qmreb Cell: 919-360-0306 http://www.softwarefreedomday.org *UNC SFD Platinum Sponsors: Dell* Gold Sponsors: OpenNMS, MindTouch, TriLUG, Siena Tech Georg Sluyterman wrote: > Douglas A. Whitfield skrev: > >> That's not exactly true...they censor illegal (under Swedish law) >> content. Site's down right this second anyway. >> >> > > The site works fine (just checked). > > Could you please link to a source, confirming your claim (sounds > interesting if thats true. I was not aware of that. Since the site is > made from the guys behind thepiratebay.org, i had trust in that they > were doing something good.). > >

Sept. 7, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] Flickr and other tags - bayimg.com

by Georg Sluyterman

Douglas A. Whitfield skrev: > That's not exactly true...they censor illegal (under Swedish law) > content. Site's down right this second anyway. > The site works fine (just checked). Could you please link to a source, confirming your claim (sounds interesting if thats true. I was not aware of that. Since the site is made from the guys behind thepiratebay.org, i had trust in that they were doing something good.). -- Regards Georg Sluyterman njlug.dk, Aalborg, Denmark

Sept. 6, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] Flickr and other tags - bayimg.com

by Douglas A. Whitfield

That's not exactly true...they censor illegal (under Swedish law) content. Site's down right this second anyway. Georg Sluyterman wrote: > > > You could also use http://www.bayimg.com <-- They don't censor. As we > care about freedom, this would be a good place to upload your pictures. > > -- http://www.ibiblio.org/cosi Group SFD site: http://tinyurl.com/2qmreb Cell: 919-360-0306 http://www.softwarefreedomday.org /UNC SFD Platinum Sponsors: Dell/ UNC SFD Partners: Red Hat

Sept. 6, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] Flickr and other tags - bayimg.com

by Pia Waugh

Hi Georg, <quote who="Georg Sluyterman"> > You could also use http://www.bayimg.com <-- They don't censor. As we > care about freedom, this would be a good place to upload your pictures. Thanks for the information Georg! Cheers, Pia -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

Sept. 6, 2007