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Survey

by Peter Ruwoldt

Hi I would like information about the use of surveys on SFD. Have people surveyed people who attend a SFD event? Was it useful? What questions were used? etc Peter -- Free and Open education for all Peter Ruwoldt Grant High School Hosking Avenue MOUNT GAMBIER SA 5290 P. 08 87263107 (Do not leave voice mail) F. 08 87250173 ruwoldtp(a)granths.sa.edu.au http://www.watiwara.com/

July 26, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] Question for last year's teams

by Melissa Draper

Janet, Rik and Paul, Thanks. The article draft is now submitted to the editors. Paul Schulz wrote: > Hi Melissa, > > (See below) > > On 7/25/07, Janet Hawtin <lucychili(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> On 7/25/07, Melissa Draper <melissa(a)meldraweb.com> wrote: >>> Greetings, >>> >>> I'm currently writing an article to promote this year's sfd. However, >>> I'd like to be able to include positive impacts that previous events >>> have brought about. >> Nice one Melissa. ok >> Paul's team at Mawson lakes brought linux folks and air-stream folks together. >> This month there were presentations by linuxsa person at air-stream >> and an air-stream person at linuxsa. People are able to see the >> connections between the kind of participation you can have in a >> community network and the kind of participation in free software. >> >> Paul might have other suggestions. >> Dale and crew at the Southern Vales event might have stories too. > > The SFD event at Mawson Lakes on 2006 was setup and called "Software > Freedom Showcase", and was setup to allow various groups to in the > community that were doing FLOSS related stuff to have a group meeting > and be available to explain to others who might wander in what they > did and how they did it. The Mawson Centre is a centre shared between > the University of South Australia, the local primary school and the > local council. (As a possible suggestion on how to get an idea on what > else might be possible, replace 'Mawson Centre' with the name of your > local community centre, library, or primary school.) > > The Mawson Centre contains the local public library, which was useful > for getting foot traffic, but the event wasn't relying on this. 'Bill, > the Penguin' and a book display of FLOSS related books, were set up > during the week prior to the event. > This generated quite a bit of interest, particularly Bill, who is a > 1.2m inflatable Emperor Penguin, but we weren't relying on this. > > Rather, the invited groups were able to mingle with each other and > find out what they were each doing and generally socialise and 'grok' > with fellow FLOSSers. > > Main groups involved: > - Bettong.Org - Free and Open Source Community Projects and Training > - Air-Stream - Community Wireless Network > also.. > - Demonstration of Music and Audio software for Linux > - Demonstrations of Linux games > - A home build segway > > As well as this we also included the following groups which provided > entertainment over lunch: > > - Chicago Show Band - Local community band > - Swing Dancers - A group that also meets in the Mawson Centre. > > Outcomes.. where do I start. > > Air-Stream made some very useful connections with the University of > South Australia, to the point that Air-Stream now has the full support > of the Mawson Centre board and it's accessability in the venue. This > goodwill may be extended to the other campuses in the University. > > Bettong.Org was able to demonstrate their Ubuntu desktop and training > capabilities, which led into a very successfully BarCamp event in > March 2007. > > Due to the SFD event, an invite was also received to an 'I.T. > Discovery Day', run by the Mawson Centre early in 2007, to commemorate > the launch of 'Delfins Community Website'. Participants of SFD were > invited back on the day which was run like a mini-SFD event. > > There exists an open invitation to be involved in any future such events. > > Members of Bettong.Org and Air-Stream have continued to work together > on a range of other projects including: Mesh Networking (olsrd), > Network portal infrustructure, improving the community wireless > network. > > In addition, presentations have been given to LinuxSA by people as a > direct result of their participation in SFD. > > Also, two new Linux User Groups, possible three, have started in > Adelaide during the last year. These groups have been supported > through contacts made as part of SFD, and one of these has also > registered as a SFD team this year as well. > > (Is this the sort of thing that your after?) > > Cheers, > Paul > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > -- Sincerely Melissa Draper http://www.meldraweb.com Phone: 0404 595 395 (intl): +61 404 595 395 P.O Box 1412 Lavington, NSW 2641

July 26, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] Question for last year's teams

by Paul Schulz

Hi Melissa, (See below) On 7/25/07, Janet Hawtin <lucychili(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 7/25/07, Melissa Draper <melissa(a)meldraweb.com> wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I'm currently writing an article to promote this year's sfd. However, > > I'd like to be able to include positive impacts that previous events > > have brought about. > > Nice one Melissa. ok > Paul's team at Mawson lakes brought linux folks and air-stream folks together. > This month there were presentations by linuxsa person at air-stream > and an air-stream person at linuxsa. People are able to see the > connections between the kind of participation you can have in a > community network and the kind of participation in free software. > > Paul might have other suggestions. > Dale and crew at the Southern Vales event might have stories too. The SFD event at Mawson Lakes on 2006 was setup and called "Software Freedom Showcase", and was setup to allow various groups to in the community that were doing FLOSS related stuff to have a group meeting and be available to explain to others who might wander in what they did and how they did it. The Mawson Centre is a centre shared between the University of South Australia, the local primary school and the local council. (As a possible suggestion on how to get an idea on what else might be possible, replace 'Mawson Centre' with the name of your local community centre, library, or primary school.) The Mawson Centre contains the local public library, which was useful for getting foot traffic, but the event wasn't relying on this. 'Bill, the Penguin' and a book display of FLOSS related books, were set up during the week prior to the event. This generated quite a bit of interest, particularly Bill, who is a 1.2m inflatable Emperor Penguin, but we weren't relying on this. Rather, the invited groups were able to mingle with each other and find out what they were each doing and generally socialise and 'grok' with fellow FLOSSers. Main groups involved: - Bettong.Org - Free and Open Source Community Projects and Training - Air-Stream - Community Wireless Network also.. - Demonstration of Music and Audio software for Linux - Demonstrations of Linux games - A home build segway As well as this we also included the following groups which provided entertainment over lunch: - Chicago Show Band - Local community band - Swing Dancers - A group that also meets in the Mawson Centre. Outcomes.. where do I start. Air-Stream made some very useful connections with the University of South Australia, to the point that Air-Stream now has the full support of the Mawson Centre board and it's accessability in the venue. This goodwill may be extended to the other campuses in the University. Bettong.Org was able to demonstrate their Ubuntu desktop and training capabilities, which led into a very successfully BarCamp event in March 2007. Due to the SFD event, an invite was also received to an 'I.T. Discovery Day', run by the Mawson Centre early in 2007, to commemorate the launch of 'Delfins Community Website'. Participants of SFD were invited back on the day which was run like a mini-SFD event. There exists an open invitation to be involved in any future such events. Members of Bettong.Org and Air-Stream have continued to work together on a range of other projects including: Mesh Networking (olsrd), Network portal infrustructure, improving the community wireless network. In addition, presentations have been given to LinuxSA by people as a direct result of their participation in SFD. Also, two new Linux User Groups, possible three, have started in Adelaide during the last year. These groups have been supported through contacts made as part of SFD, and one of these has also registered as a SFD team this year as well. (Is this the sort of thing that your after?) Cheers, Paul

July 26, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] Question for last year's teams

by Rik Tindall

Hello Melissa, Melissa Draper wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm currently writing an article to promote this year's sfd. However, > I'd like to be able to include positive impacts that previous events > have brought about. > > So, does anyone have any examples of these positive impacts? > > Please include your name and the name of the team. Thanks. Since we found a more permanent home for our SFD events, in a suburban library ICT teaching centre, we have been able to maintain the positive relationship through monthly Ubuntu / Free Software liveCD-based evening classes. Many new users have seen this series advertised, and come along for CDs, tuition, and installation help. Thus we also gained a regular schedule and base for training our SFD volunteers. From SFD, the profile of FOSS in the community has therefore been doubly lifted. This experience has also identified the need for a creche-like facility on SFD, for the many small children that attend a library with parents or grandparents on any weekend. We will prepare a section of our teaching suite accordingly, as a Penguin Creche, with several games and puzzle packages ready to meet this level of demand implicit in any public outreach event. Hope this helps, and kind regards, Rik Tindall pp SFD Team Christchurch, NZ

July 26, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] Spanish speakers mail list

by Peter Eisinger

Pia, Robert, do excuses for my English, understand me? Because they consult me that it lists do we use? This justified one the existence of the Hispanic list and their permanency year after year. If you agree we will diffuse it so that the SFD grows. Not alone in latam, also in Europe and USA there are many Spanish-speaking. Observations: The list http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/planning-is it remains hidden, and there is not connection at the 2007. In http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/europe The Spanish team is not: http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/Catalonia Waiting prompt answer, I say goodbye affectionately, Peter Eisinger

July 26, 2007

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by Luis Gustavo Lira

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July 25, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] Spanish speakers mail list

by Peter Eisinger

Pia, thank you for your kind response. Robert, I completly agree, this is the most logical and natural way to do it. I will be pleased to administering it. I believe that it is very important to have the list. There are many countries of Hispanic speech and although each country already have a channel of national communication, this list will be good to share ideas and experiences with the growth of the event as our goal. Because as of today, it is frankly incipient the participation of the community Hispanic speaker. If we work hard this year, the next one will be better. Since 2005 the FLISoL is carried out in Latin america (Latin American Festival of Free Sofware), participating hundreds of cities in more than twenty countries. It would be interesting to have two annual events (one in April and another in September) of massive diffusion and international integration. PreguntasLinux.Org has provided successfully support post installfest to the FLISoL, and we are willing to collaborate in the same way with the SFD. Regards Peter Eisinger http://preguntaslinux.org/ Community of Free Software. Forum GNU/Linux/*NIX. Support Installfest. El Sáb 21 Jul 2007 13:00, sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org escribió: > Message: 7 > Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 09:04:51 +0400 > From: "Robert Schumann" <robert(a)softwarefreedomday.org> > Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] Spanish speakers mail list > To: "Open discussions about SFD" <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org> > Message-ID: > <d58237a20707202204r4b911393v1b94327ecf5fc7d3(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > In fact, there is already a Spanish-speakers mailing list operating on the > SFD server: > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/planning-es > > It was established during last year's SFD campaign, but had very low > traffic. When we reorganised mailing lists earlier this year to create > SFD-announce and SFD-discuss, this list was hidden but not deleted (the > previous lists were called team-contacts, planning-en and planning-es). > > One of our projects for the SFD "off season" - after 15 September this year > - was to improve our multilingual capability by examining how which > languages are most in demand among our participants. > > Feel free to continue using the planning-es list, and if you are interested > I would be happy to make you a list administrator. > > Robert. > > On 7/21/07, Pia Waugh <greebo(a)pipka.org> wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > > > <quote who="Peter Eisinger"> > > > > > Whith the intention that the Software Feedom day expands in the > > > > community of > > > > > Spanish speakers the mail list was created. [1] > > > > Fantastic! Please try to remember to cross post anything from either list > > which would be broadly helpful :):) > > > > > It was already talked with some of you, we think that a more fluent > > > comunication will be reached on this way. > > > > We strongly encourage it. Would you like a mailing list set up on the SFD > > website instead so that all the archives are together? Just an option for > > your decision :):) > > > > Cheers, > > Pia > > > > -- > > Linux Australia > > http://linux.org.au/ > > > > > > "What are we doing today brain?" > > "We're taking over the world like we always do." > > - Pinky and the Brain > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > SFD-discuss mailing list > > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss

July 25, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] Question for last year's teams

by Janet Hawtin

On 7/25/07, Melissa Draper <melissa(a)meldraweb.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm currently writing an article to promote this year's sfd. However, > I'd like to be able to include positive impacts that previous events > have brought about. Nice one Melissa. ok Paul's team at Mawson lakes brought linux folks and air-stream folks together. This month there were presentations by linuxsa person at air-stream and an air-stream person at linuxsa. People are able to see the connections between the kind of participation you can have in a community network and the kind of participation in free software. Paul might have other suggestions. Dale and crew at the Southern Vales event might have stories too. Janet

July 25, 2007

Question for last year's teams

by Melissa Draper

Greetings, I'm currently writing an article to promote this year's sfd. However, I'd like to be able to include positive impacts that previous events have brought about. So, does anyone have any examples of these positive impacts? Please include your name and the name of the team. Thanks. -- Sincerely Melissa Draper http://www.meldraweb.com Phone: 0404 595 395 (intl): +61 404 595 395 P.O Box 1412 Lavington, NSW 2641

July 25, 2007

Spanish speakers mail list

by Peter Eisinger

http://mail.sf-day.org/pipermail/planning-es/2007-July/date.html

July 24, 2007