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Software Freedom Day in Melbourne, AU
by Lev Lafayette 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

Software Freedom Day in Melbourne, AU Software freedom day was held in Melbourne with a series of lectures, a games room operated by Free Software Melbourne, 3D printer demonstration courtesy of the Melbourne Community Hackerspace, movies (Revolution OS, FreeBSD, Hope Conference '94), stalls from the Free Software Foundation, Raspberry Jam, One Laptop per Child, and Linux Users of Victoria, along with a free lunch with open sauce. About eighty-five people turned up during the day, with a height of around 75 just before noon. The day was opened by Dr. Alison Parkes, a lecturer from the University of Melbourne and candidate for Lord Mayor. Other speakers included Lev Lafayette on free software and business logic, Chris Samuel, from the Victorian Life Sciences Initiative discussing, "Free Software in Supercomputers and Science", Tony Forster from OLPC discussing that project, Alec Clews on the Raspberry Pi, Andy Gleme on 3D printing technologies, Daniel Jitnah on free software in the education sector, and Andrew Pam from Electronic Frontiers Australia on data retention legislation. (Next year we'll get our team together in time and actually receive the SFD pack - that's twice we've missed out!) All the best, -- Lev Lafayette, mobile: 0432 255 208 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

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Montreal/Quebec city report (Canada) for SFD 2012
by Fabian Rodriguez 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 (BCC: Gabriel Cossette, SFD 2012 organizer in Quebec city / CC: LibrePlanet QC mailing list) Hello, This year we had exceptionally low participation at SFD 2012 in Montreal and Quebec city. In Montreal we had a full day of activities on Friday Sept. 14: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2012/Canada/Montreal/LPQC In Quebec we had a smaller event, "happy hour" in a bar on Saturday, Sept. 15: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2012/Canada/Quebec/LinuQ I was leading the Montreal event while another free software activist here, Gabriel Cossette was leading the Quebec city event. This was advertised only a couple of weeks before the events, although it's not unusual in our context (lots of events in Quebec, last-minute volunteer organization). In Montreal very few showed up, two were presenters. One of them was a blind, long-time GNU/Linux user. Instead of following the schedule we made the best of our time, trying to liberate an Android phone, testing Trisquel for accessibility, testing new USB keys I had created with multisystem (http://liveusb.info/dotclear/) and generally talking about community reinforcement and advocacy ( a new local Mozilla community is coming up ). The venue for Montreal was graciously offered by the /Consulado General de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela en Montreal//,/ they have a beautiful place equiped with multimedia equipment and Internet. While a bit disappointing in attendance, low numbers meant we had lots of time to discuss one-on-one and experiment / test / exchange. On the positive side, I reviewed past year's communications, updated a few wiki resources, and kept open that important contact for the venue - free (as in beer), "compatible" venues for free open source software events are not easily found. In Quebec city something similar happened. I am told by Gabriel their meetup there started at 6 PM and lasted until 11PM, lots of informal discussion and exchanges: few people showed up but a great time was had :) I blame the low turn out on lack of proper planning beforehand - but specifically on my choice of Friday for the main event. The venue we had available for Montreal on such short notice was only available on Friday so I took a bet (and lost). The Quebec event wasn't coordinated with Montreal's - although I know Gabriel well the usual cooperation didn't happen. We missed the deadline for registrations too so promo material wasn't available other than what I produced on my own. This serves as a reminder we can't improvise, and we also need to coordinate better events between different locations. Last year we had prepared for over a month and the event was on a Saturday, very different (great) results. Keeping all the above in mind, I hope I ( or anyone else doing this in Quebec province next year) can avoid such mistakes for next year. tldr; lack of preparation and coordination resulted in low turnout, hopefully we learn from this and nail it next year Happy Hacking, Fabián Rodríguez http://fsf.magicfab.ca -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: PGP/Mime available upon request Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlBcabYACgkQfUcTXFrypNVjUgCg1UUfQB/fRHDL+ylwR3HZyiml y+AAoMjBXSSPtW6zU01jYEPXWZ95a5XK =zBhG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Now that it is over (not for all of us)
by Frederic Muller - DFI 20 Sep '12

20 Sep '12

Dear all, I'm forwarding an email I received to the group as it specifically asks about what others do: [quote] We are debriefing and planning for next year. We did not charge for admission, food, drinks, media or anything. We lost our shirt :-) I know computer people are cheap. But we can't afford this kind of loss. We asked for donations, it was pitiful. What do other groups do? [/quote] While this is covered in the SFD StartUp guide here [1] and talks about all the options maybe some of us can extend on the topic. In Beijing SFD events tend to be larger than most other things we organize and therefore we seek sponsorship from existing FOSS companies present in our area. We are lucky enough to have enough of them, even if some are rather cheap and would never give money to any other events than their own. One of the important aspect of this is to build relationships over time and not only contacting them for money. Your group has probably other events where it is worth inviting them to participate and/or to present what they are doing. Likewise you can also forward job offers when they have some, thus helping both parties. For smaller events we tend to ask our own members for funding. Again this is split into two different solution, where in both cases as mentioned in the StartGuide we set a budget first. In both cases you publish the budget and decide either to let people finance as they wish (some with give $100 while others nothing) or split the cost among the participants (you usually need to either do RSVP or "guesstimate" how many people will attend). Of course as I mentioned previously on this mailing list you can always find local sponsors who are not in the tech industry but who will happily support you because they are interested in your demographics. You just need to highlight those to them, look like "puss in boots" when asking and usually that does the trick. So if you have similar or different experiences please go ahead and share them with us. We could definitely extend the StartGuide and make it more like a case study section on this topic. Thanks. Fred [1] http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/StartGuide#Budgeting

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Cheers from Saratov, Russia!
by Dmitry Agafonov 16 Sep '12

16 Sep '12

Hi! That was great! Many photos here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/ct270uk346kpaf7f2jnvg6mldso Thanks everyone for helping and SFI for support and initiating all this! -- Dmitry Agafonov ~ http://agafonov.pp.ru/

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Software Freedom Workshop'2012 - Event Report
by A. Mani 15 Sep '12

15 Sep '12

Please find the report with slides of all talks at http://www.ilug-cal.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=196&Item… Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.in http://www.logicamani.co.cc

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Software Freedom Day 2012 - Sep 15 - Event Report - Chennai - India
by Shrinivasan T 15 Sep '12

15 Sep '12

http://ilugc.in/content/software-freedom-day-2012-sep-15-event-report/ Software Freedom Day 2012 – Event Report "Software Freedom Day" is a worldwide celebration to create awareness on GNU/Linux and other various Free Open Source Software to the public. It is celebrated in all the countries on third Saturday of September month, every year. Indian Linux Users Group – Chennai [ http://ilugc.in ] and Free Software Foundation TamilNadu [ http://fsftn.org ] organised Software Freedom Day on September 15, 2012 in collaboration with Department of Computer Science, DG vaishnav College, Arumbakkam, Chennai at SRG auditorium, in the college premises. The Secretary of the college, Shri P Haridas expressed that the use of Free Software should reach the academic and industry in all the ways. The Principal Dr.S.Narasimhan informed that the faculty and the students should change their mindset to learn and use Free Open Source Software for the daily life and for their academic/research needs. He encourages the students to contribute to Free Software community. Dr.T.Santhanam, HOD, Computer Science Department is the key person in origanizing the event. He told that the computer science department is already using GNU/Linux for the teaching in classrooms and in labs. The students are trained on GNU/Linux, Python, Latex, PHP/MySQL in all the years of their course. He is happy to conduct the event in their college. He requested the Free Software Community to organize regular events and workshops in the college for the benefit of student community. Around 1200 students from various colleges visited the stalls. Faculties from other departments of DG vaishnav College and faculties from colleges like Anna adharsh, SDNB Vaishnav College, Chrompet visited the stalls. 30 stalls on various topics like the following were held there. 1. Screencasting 2. Android Application Development 3. Mozilla Suites and development 4. Open source telephony applications 5. Geany IDE 6. Open source VS Proprietary Software 7. Open Source Security Tools 8. GIMP – Open Source Raster Image Editor 9. Inkscape – Open Source Vector Image Editor 10. Bluefish IDE 11. Ubuntu Linux 12. Desktop Environments 13. Open Source Databases – MySQL/PostgreSQL 14. Open Source Virualization Tools 15. OOAD tools 16. QT/PyQT 17. Mysql Bench 18. Webmin – Web Based System administration 19. Jmeter – Performance Testing Software 20. Subversion Edge – Version Control System 21. LinuxMint Linux Distribution 22. ILUGC 23. Kaniyam 24. wikipedia 25. WebOS operating System 26. MongoDB – NoSQL Database 27. Ruby – Programming Language 28. Ruby on Rails – Web programming framework 29. Python – Programming Language 30. Top 10 Open Source Software >From various colleges like Jaya Engineering College Madras Institute of technology DG Vaishnav College Vivekanda College KanchiLUG Organizations: CollabNet Software Private Ltd OpenNovus Whitestreet IT P Ltd The students from all the departments in the DG Vaishnav College, other engineering, Arts college students and public visited the all the stalls. In parallel, tech talks were given by Raman, Welkin, Yogesh, Atul jha, Kingsly,Balachandar, Subramani in the class room and in the auditorium. Free stickers and Pamphlets were distributed to the visitors. This event gave an introduction to GNU/Linux Operating system and all other Free Open Source Software available. The visitors are so happy to learn various Free Sofware in a single place and they requested to conduct such event regularly in various places across the country. We thank the Secretary, Principal, HOD, faculty and students of the Computer Science Department for this opportunity, nice co-operation and great hospitality. The event is so successful than other events of Indian Linux Uers Group Chennai. HOD of DG vaishnav college assured for continuous events in their college. We are happy to conduct various events to create awareness on GNU/Linux and other free open Source Software in all the colleges. We are starting regular events, workshops, certificate programs in DG Vaishnav college. Contact us for such events in your college: T. Shrinivasan tshrinivasan(a)gmail.com 9841795468 http://ilugc.in Welkin - alagunambiwelkin(a)fsftn.org – 9962240050 http://fsftn.org Snaps available at: https://picasaweb.google.com/102002010785949271518/SoftwareFreedomDay2012# -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge

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Software Freedom Day 2012 - Sep 15 - Event Report - Chennai - India
by Shrinivasan T 15 Sep '12

15 Sep '12

Software Freedom Day 2012 – Event Report "Software Freedom Day" is a worldwide celebration to create awareness on GNU/Linux and other various Free Open Source Software to the public. It is celebrated in all the countries on third Saturday of September month, every year. Indian Linux Users Group – Chennai [ http://ilugc.in ] and Free Software Foundation TamilNadu [ http://fsftn.org ] organised Software Freedom Day on September 15, 2012 in collaboration with Department of Computer Science, DG vaishnav College, Arumbakkam, Chennai at SRG auditorium, in the college premises. The Secretary of the college, Shri P Haridas expressed that the use of Free Software should reach the academic and industry in all the ways. The Principal Dr.S.Narasimhan informed that the faculty and the students should change their mindset to learn and use Free Open Source Software for the daily life and for their academic/research needs. He encourages the students to contribute to Free Software community. Dr.T.Santhanam, HOD, Computer Science Department is the key person in origanizing the event. He told that the computer science department is already using GNU/Linux for the teaching in classrooms and in labs. The students are trained on GNU/Linux, Python, Latex, PHP/MySQL in all the years of their course. He is happy to conduct the event in their college. He requested the Free Software Community to organize regular events and workshops in the college for the benefit of student community. Around 1200 students from various colleges visited the stalls. Faculties from other departments of DG vaishnav College and faculties from colleges like Anna adharsh, SDNB Vaishnav College, Chrompet visited the stalls. 30 stalls on various topics like the following were held there. 1. Screencasting 2. Android Application Development 3. Mozilla Suites and development 4. Open source telephony applications 5. Geany IDE 6. Open source VS Proprietary Software 7. Open Source Security Tools 8. GIMP – Open Source Raster Image Editor 9. Inkscape – Open Source Vector Image Editor 10. Bluefish IDE 11. Ubuntu Linux 12. Desktop Environments 13. Open Source Databases – MySQL/PostgreSQL 14. Open Source Virualization Tools 15. OOAD tools 16. QT/PyQT 17. Mysql Bench 18. Webmin – Web Based System administration 19. Jmeter – Performance Testing Software 20. Subversion Edge – Version Control System 21. LinuxMint Linux Distribution 22. ILUGC 23. Kaniyam 24. wikipedia 25. WebOS operating System 26. MongoDB – NoSQL Database 27. Ruby – Programming Language 28. Ruby on Rails – Web programming framework 29. Python – Programming Language 30. Top 10 Open Source Software >From various colleges like Jaya Engineering College Madras Institute of technology DG Vaishnav College Vivekanda College KanchiLUG Organizations: CollabNet Software Private Ltd OpenNovus Whitestreet IT P Ltd The students from all the departments in the DG Vaishnav College, other engineering, Arts college students and public visited the all the stalls. In parallel, tech talks were given by Raman, Welkin, Yogesh, Atul jha, Kingsly,Balachandar, Subramani in the class room and in the auditorium. Free stickers and Pamphlets were distributed to the visitors. This event gave an introduction to GNU/Linux Operating system and all other Free Open Source Software available. The visitors are so happy to learn various Free Sofware in a single place and they requested to conduct such event regularly in various places across the country. We thank the Secretary, Principal, HOD, faculty and students of the Computer Science Department for this opportunity, nice co-operation and great hospitality. The event is so successful than other events of Indian Linux Uers Group Chennai. HOD of DG vaishnav college assured for continuous events in their college. We are happy to conduct various events to create awareness on GNU/Linux and other free open Source Software in all the colleges. We are starting regular events, workshops, certificate programs in DG Vaishnav college. Contact us for such events in your college: T. Shrinivasan tshrinivasan(a)gmail.com 9841795468 http://ilugc.in Welkin - alagunambiwelkin(a)fsftn.org – 9962240050 http://fsftn.org Snaps available at: https://picasaweb.google.com/102002010785949271518/SoftwareFreedomDay2012# -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge

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Twitcam from Brazil
by Paulo Henrique Santana 15 Sep '12

15 Sep '12

Hi, in portuguese http://twitcam.livestream.com/c20bc Happy Software Freddom Day to everybody! -- Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana http://www.phls.com.br Tel. (41) 9638-1897 GNU/Linux user: 228719 GPG ID: 0443C450

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Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD-discuss Digest, Vol 64, Issue 23
by Yannis Kaskamanidis 15 Sep '12

15 Sep '12

I didn't get the pack yet. Any news?

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Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD-discuss Digest, Vol 64, Issue 24
by Eugene Ranjo 14 Sep '12

14 Sep '12

Hello All, Happy Software Freedom Day 2012! Long Live SFD! -- Eugene G. Ranjo, MIM Linux Registered User No. 455209 Ubuntu User No. 28864 http://www.eugeneranjo.com

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