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Information about Document Freedom Day 2012
by Marcos Marado 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

Hi there, Please forgive me on this slightly off-topic message, but it is my understanding that most people interested in Software Freedom would also be on Document Freedom, and maybe teams participating on SFD would also be interested in participating on DFD. Document Freedom Day (DFD) <http://documentfreedom.org> is a global day for document liberation. It is a worldwide event celebrating Open Standards and raising general awareness about the need for their adoption. DFD is actively redefining perceptions of Open Standards in media, public administration and educational institutions. Thanks to generous donations, in the last year we were able to: - Organise 42 events in 14 different countries around the world, ranging from Brazil and Mexico, to Greece and Portugal, - Coordinate an important talk at the European Parliament with multiple speakers, and - Raise the profile of pioneering users of Open Standards, such as German news website 'tagesschau.de', by awarding certificates and prizes in view of the press. The winner of the DFD 2011 Germany prize went to a popular news website which provides its 1.4m daily visitors with current affairs videos in the Free video format Ogg Theora. The award was presented in Berlin, resulting in coverage in 8 national and international media outlets. The city of Munich received the European prize, for the use of Open Standards in its LiMux project. In 2012 we will celebrate Document Freedom Day for the fourth time. We shall again organise more than 42 events, include countries that were previously not involved, and strenghten engagement with the public sector. To make these plans a reality, we need your support as a partner of Document Freedom Day 2012! Talk with your friends/regional groups, and think about activities and events that you could organise to promote Open Standards. We would be happy to help you with ideas, prize-giving, and finding sponsors. With your help we will be able to organise more events in 2012, and together we can raise awareness for Open Standards around the world. At the moment we are coordinating our activities with international partners and sponsors. Please do not hesitate to contact us for more detailed information about partnership opportunities for Document Freedom Day 2012. Please let us know until 6. February if you want to organise your own activity or event, and/or if you want to be listed on our supporter page as a supporting organisation. Your participation makes a difference! Best regards, -- Marcos Marado ANSOL - http://ansol.org

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Free Culture Disk
by Frederic Muller - SFI 19 Jan '12

19 Jan '12

Dear all, I'd like to get started on preparing the free culture disk and fixing the few issues we had last year (file formats, better content, hosting/repository). While I believe the people helping to make it happen are still available to help, I was wondering which platform/site would be the best to host, manage and distribute the project? Our requirements are simple: - free bandwidth - discussion channels (list or web based) - easily accessible from all over the world (if possible) - large size file storage (DVD size) - version control system So suggestions and experience on the matter definitely welcome. Thanks. Fred

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New Year, SOPA and SFD 2011 competition
by Frederic Muller - SFI 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Dear all, Best wishes to all of you and time for me to send out some updates: - The SFI board has been re-elected. There is no change for 2012 which is a good thing: a little stability should help us to reach new territories :D - We are of course very concerned about SOPA and have joined the strike as many others. SFD website will come back from the dark on the 19th - Lemote, a manufacturer of MIPS computers using only free drivers has joined the rank of our sponsors for the SFD competition and will provide 3 Yeeloong netbook for the winners of 2011 (while prizes for the 2010 winners have almost all arrived, we're still tracking what's missing) - The FSF will be providing again Richard Stallman essays and Richard will sign the book himself for the 2nd year - The competition participation form is now live and can be filled here: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/cgi-bin/report.py . Only teams who have registered their SFD events in 2011 can participate. You will also need to provide the email address used for registration. Rules can be checked when the SOPA strike is over at this address: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/competition => any problem, bug, question please don't hesitate to email sfd-discuss Let's make 2012 a great year for all of us. We are planning to resume active preparations very soon and will let everyone know! Thank you for your continuous support. Sincerely Frederic Muller on behalf of the SFI board

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OT: Fully free colorimeter!
by Frederic Muller - SFI 20 Nov '11

20 Nov '11

Hi! A slightly off season off topic post, but since it's addressing one of my itches I thought I would share. Richard Hughes has just launched a fully free (as in freedom) colorimeter project where both the hardware schematics, the firmware and the software will be released under a free license. He is looking for pre-orders (50) and ships worldwide. Initial orders will get a 20% discount making the final price at 48 GBP + shipping and packing. Discount assume you'll be contributing to the project by helping out testing the hardware and software and it might be a bit more complicated than just plug-and-play. Full announcement here: http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2011/11/13/introducing-the-colorhug-open-sou… So if like me you've been longing for accurate colors on your screens but didn't want to buy an overprice proprietary device that didn't even have free drivers for your OS of choice, then it is the time to step up. Thanks. Fred ps: I am not involved in the project at all, so please direct your questions to Richard directly if you have any.

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Thanks for supporting SFD 2011!
by Steve Rainwater 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

I just wanted to offer my thanks to everyone here who helped support SFD 2011! Our event in Dallas was small but successful. We had a lot of people show up. We gave away lots of Ubuntu and Fedora CDs. Thanks for all the swag, it arrived well before the big day and we used nearly all of it. We even inflated all the balloons and decorated the room with them this year. One note about the t-shirts - they suffered major shrinkage. On the first washing, my large became a medium. On the second wash, it shrunk to small. :) But better those orange shirts from a few years ago where the color leached out and stained everything you washed with them. Best t-shirts so far have been the bright green ones (maybe 2007?) - no shrinkage, no color leaching. If anyone knows who made those, use that company to make next year's shirts! We also got some media attention on Geekbeat.tv. Cali Lewis came out and shot video at our event, check it out if you haven't seen it yet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO3N_N3e7Eo -Steve

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Highlighting remaining events
by Frederic Muller - SFI 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

Hi! There will be SFD event until almost end of October. Has anyone some ideas how to easily show this on the front page (while we've past the "date") and make it easy for people to find those events? Fred

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URLs to SFD lectures ?
by Julian H. Stacey 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

Hi SFD teams. Most of you have finished, but a few cities inc. mine (Munich) still have to do theirs (ours on 22nd Oct) http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources/ Has some movies & sound, but not many lectures. If any of you gave lectures, could you please put a URL to them on the wiki (or at least post to list) I'm looking for English or German lectures. Here as an example, one I gave in 2010 http://www.berklix.com/free/talk/sfd/ Free Software for Engineering & Products Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below, not above; Indent with "> "; Cumulative like a play script. Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Software Freedom Day, Muenchen: 22 Okt http://berklix.org/sfd/

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Wikipedia presentation on SFD Munich
by gmail.saibot 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

Hi, I could give a presentation on Wikipedia, if you need more lecturers. I'd focus on the history of Wikipedia and explain how Wikipedia works; with maybe a short presentation on the free software MediaWiki behind Wikipedia. Something between 15 and 45 minutes (whatever you like; I think 30 min including question time might be best). I need a beamer with a VGA port. Language can be German or English, whatever the audience wants. About me: I'm 21 years old, studying Computer Science and Philosophy in Munich. I have been a Wikipedia author for five years now, and an administrator for three years. I give presentations on Wikipedia to students and teachers as part of Wikimedia Deutschlands school project. Regards, Tobias

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Create a local "Libre Planet" group for software freedom advocacy
by Fabián Rodríguez 18 Oct '11

18 Oct '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone After SFD in Montreal I've created a new Libre Planet group to continue gathering and encouraging local activists and free technology enthusiasts: http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:LibrePlanet_Quebec I encourage all SFD teams to start similar groups locally: http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Form:Group We are very lucky to have active local communities already, so this is mostly serving as an umbrella communication hub, as well as a place where active FSF members that live in the area can organize and represent our goals. Cheers, Fabian Rodriguez http://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:MagicFab Montreal, QC, Canada -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: PGP/Mime available upon request Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk6dV9AACgkQfUcTXFrypNVWvACgml2p0VNQaVoy2Uh/enWKTbtN eNQAoPDoA5/dYyrkb4aRy8zYochJkxWq =6mkd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Mailman interface fails to show URLs to specific mails in SFD archive.
by Julian H. Stacey 08 Oct '11

08 Oct '11

Hi all, Mailman interface fails to show URLs to specific mails in SFD archive. Can you please fix/ enhance ? Detail: I want to point my city team of lecturers from city page of lectures http://www.berklix.org/sfd/lectures/2011.html to a URL of responses to global list To: sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org Subject: URLs to SFD lectures ? perhaps specificaly starting in middle of thread even, eg at: From: Bas de Lange <Bas(a)basdelange.com> Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 07:21:14 +0200 Mailman allows this, See example here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2011-October/001388.html observe that browsers (firefox & konqueror) URL window shows specific URL. Now try with SFD: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/community/ no specific URL is displayed just http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/community/mailing-lists wherever you go within mailman. I guess it's because SFD is putting mailman in a decorative frame, thus breaking it ? Is [or could] mailman be available outside a decorative frame, to allow specific URLs to be displayed ? Does this request need to be copied to another list eg webbers(a)sf-day.org (where I'm not subscribed) or might someone forward & deal with it ? Thanks, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below, not above; Indent with "> "; Cumulative like a play script. Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Software Freedom Day, Muenchen: 22 Okt http://berklix.org/sfd/

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