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Software Freedom Day Bangladesh 2012: Free to Use, Learn, Develop and Distribute
by সাজেদুর রহিম জোয়ারদ ার Sept. 10, 2012

Sept. 10, 2012

*Software Freedom Day Bangladesh 2012: Free to Use, Learn, Develop and Distribute * Pre-Event International Press Release September 10, 2012 More than a six hundred students, enthusiasts, advocates and members of the Free and Open Source Sofware (FOSS) community will converge in Presidency University (PU), Gulshan-2 and United International University (UIU), Dhanmondi at Dhaka City and University of Rajshahi in Rajshahi City to celebrate software freedom and free and open source ideas on September 15, 2012 for the Bangladesh celebration of Software Freedom Day. Software Freedom Day (SFD) is an annual celebration of various FOSS communities worldwide to educate the public on the use, advantages and benefits of FOSS. Last year, FOSS Bangladesh organized/celebrated this event at Dhaka with 170+ participants. FOSS Bangladesh area of Interest: 1. Community Building – Adoption 2. Universities – Syllabus, Curriculum, Motivation and Hands on Training 3. Government – Collaboration 4. Industry Development – Subject Matter Experts 5. Research and Development - Inventor and Business Developers FOSS Bangladesh will celebrate the Software Freedom Day 2012 as the "সফটওয়্যার মুক্তি দিবস - ২০১২" with all the free software lovers in Bangladesh. In Dhaka (Capital of Bangladesh) we are organizing this event in two venues. Venues & Timing Presidency University, Gulshan-2, Dhaka-1230.<http://wikimapia.org/14241234/Presidency-University>[From 10.00 to 18.30 hrs(local time, GMT+6:00)] Schedule: - 10:00 - 10:30 -- Welcome + Opening Speeches - 10.30 - to till end there will be banners and festoons showing the history and moments, developments information etc. of various Free Softwares and GNU/Linux. - Along with this there will be localized video shows representing Software Freedom and the FSF movements and many more. United International University, Dhanmondi, Dhaka-1205.<http://wikimapia.org/12560500/United-International-University-UIU>[From 10.30 to 13.00 hrs(local time, GMT+6:00)] Schedule: - 10:30 - 11:00 -- Welcome + Opening Speeches - 11.00 - to till end there will be banners and festoons showing the history and moments, developments information etc. of various Free Softwares and GNU/Linux. - Along with this there will be localized video shows representing Software Freedom and the FSF movements and many more. For the first time such an event is going to celebrated in Rajshahi and FOSS Bangladesh is going to celebrate the Software Freedom Day 2012 as the "সফটওয়্যার মুক্তি দিবস - ২০১২" with all the free software lovers in Rajshahi division of Bangladesh. Rabindra Bhaban, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi. [From 16.00 to 18.30 hrs (local time, GMT+6:00)]. !!! Find out the venue in wikimapia!!!<http://wikimapia.org/#lat=24.3694737&lon=88.635701&z=19&l=39&m=h> Schedule: - 16:00 - 16:30 -- Welcome + Opening Speeches - 16.30 - to till end there will be banners and festoons showing the history and moments, developments information etc. of various Free Softwares and GNU/Linux. - Along with this there will be localized video shows representing Software Freedom and the FSF movements and many more. GNU/Linux installation and support booth All the participants may avail this service (registration required<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?pli=1&formkey=dE9VcHFRcF9rVHJL…>) for their laptop/desktop/netbook for free of cost by our volunteers. *We have bunch of DVDs for the participants with various GNU/Linux distros.* * *References: -- রিং/ring +8801671411437 মহাসচিব/General Secretary ফাউন্ডেশন ফর ওপেন সোর্স সলিউশনস বাংলাদেশ/Foundation for Open Source Solutions Bangldesh.

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The wiki Artwork page
by Frederic Muller - DFI Sept. 9, 2012

Sept. 9, 2012

Hi! The discussion is about this page: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Artwork I see more and more people providing translation and more stuff to the Artwork page and it's great! Now the page starts to be a bit long and I feel this is a problem. Am I right to think so? If this is the case there are a few things which can be done: 1. Put translations of artwork in separate pages 2. Enforce the current Artwork separation and extend it. At the moment we have separate pages for: - logo - banners (vague definition) - countdown - general artwork/others still we tend to put a copy of those (logo, banners and countdown) in the Artwork page. We could have another page for the swags artworks make Artwork page a link page to all different types of Artworks. What do you guys think? Thanks. Fred

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SFD Tunisia 2012
by Habib M. KAMMOUN Sept. 9, 2012

Sept. 9, 2012

Dear, It's a great pleasure to invite you to the SFD 2012 in Tunisia - North Africa :) http://softwarefreedomday.tn/ I wish you fantastic celebration next Saturday! Best Regards, Habib. ------------------------------------------ Mohamed Habib KAMMOUN IEEE, GTUG Assistant, Department of Computer Science, University of Gafsa, Faculty of Science, Tunisia. PhD Student, REGIM: REsearch Group on Intelligent Machines, University of Sfax, National Engineering School of Sfax (ENIS), Tunisia. URL: http://kammoun.regim.org/ Tel.: (+216) 98 414 608 - Fax: (+216) 74 408 894 Address: Av. Farhat Hached, 13 Rue BellaRigia - 3000 Sfax - Tunisia IEEE ENIS Student Branch: http://www.ieee-enis.org/ IEEE GOLD Tunisia: http://sites.ieee.org/tunisia-gold/ IEEE Sfax Tunisia: http://ewh.ieee.org/r8/tunisia/sfax/ Sfax GTUG: http://sites.google.com/site/sfaxgtug/ <http://ewh.ieee.org/r8/tunisia/gold/> ------------------------------------------ REGIM Lab., leading innovative research. IEEE Fosters Technological Innovation and Excellence for the Benefit of Humanity. Google: Don't be evil. ------------------------------------------ If you received this communication by mistake, please don't forward it to anyone else (it may contain confidential or privileged information), please erase all copies of it, including all attachments, and please let the sender know it went to the wrong person. Thanks.

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SFD 2012 in Quebec province, Canada
by Fabian Rodriguez Sept. 8, 2012

Sept. 8, 2012

Hi all Sorry if this is last minute... I had my share of health situations and other personal events (like our 4th birth in the family 3 weeks ago) :) I now have confirmation we have a space for SFD 2012 in Montreal, there will also be a small gathering in Quebec city: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2012/Canada/Montreal http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2012/Canada/Quebec If you are in the area or nearby, or know someone that will be on Sept. 15, please pass this information. I also wrote a formal invitation in French, feel free to use it/modify it or even translate it to other languages: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2012/Canada/Montreal/Invitation Cheers, Fabian Rodriguez http://fsf.magicfab.ca

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SFD Event Date
by Haris Praba Aditya Sept. 8, 2012

Sept. 8, 2012

Hi, I'm Haris from Semarang, Indonesia. I want to ask about SFD Event Date. It's already determined by 15 September 2012. My question is, can we held event not at that time? We plan to held SFD event on 7 October 2012. Is that okay? Thanks Haris.

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Making SFD happen in Detroit
by Frederic Muller - DFI Sept. 8, 2012

Sept. 8, 2012

On 09/06/2012 12:11 AM, mike bader wrote:> I'd like to get one going here, but not sure there is enough time left? > I think I have the manpower and maybe a location. > Too bad as there are none in Michigan. > > mike bader Hi! Sorry for not having fully followed up and great initiative to ping the list. The 3 events I was referring to in "your area" are all roughly from 210 to 300 miles from you (google map was unusable at the time of my email) which is still quite a distance. Considering you do have a LUG to assist you and are kind of confirming both some helpers and a location I would go ahead. Did you read the Start Guide which I pointed to you [1]? It's full of advice and tips to get off the ground. I can only give you a pale and shorten version here, but I'll still give it a shot: 1. Email your LUG (mailing list, forum?) and tell them the event is on and ask for: - speakers - help to reach out to people they know - volunteers and ideas 2. Asap make a meeting to get things off the ground, define tasks and assign roles. I'd say face to face meeting will be more efficient but if email is the same to you guys, then email is fine. 3. Tasks: just a few from the top off my head (the Start Guide [1] has a lot more) 3.1 - Find speakers or a theme - any hackerspace or other user groups in your area? contact them now! - non-profits could be a good target, see if they use FOSS and can come and talk how. If not, invite them to join, and make sure you'll have something that will interest them (productivity apps, web apps, cms, ask what they could need, civicrm?) 3.2 - Find an audience: - any free magazine, or free community website for the Detroit area? get a free listing in one of those - social networks, tweet, identic :P , G+, FB if you have to... but tell people you're doing something on the 15th. If you have a theme or a program beforehand that might help. 3.3 sponsors: that might be tough but arm yourself with your best smile and think of small IT shops, web development, they might have give aways for you or could help to produce a few CDs (think OpenCD or GNU/Linux distros). Think about your demographics, who you're trying to get to come to your event (usually young to middle age, geeks into technology but maybe you'll know better than me). Then try the delivery shop from around the corner or a bakery/coffee shop. they'll be interested to tap into your visitors and get them to come, ask them to provide free drinks/food maybe, and/or coupons to see what return they get. Be professional, make it sound interesting for them. 4. Get someone to update the wiki page or website you elect for the event as soon as you have updates (with that plan you should have plenty), propagate those updates through whatever means you're already using (mailing list, tweets, FB, G+, etc) to build up momentum. 5. Follow up with the 3 parties identified in 3 and you should be all set. Don't forget your own LUG members of course. You may have to use SMS to your phone address book too, and your friend's phone address books ;-), everything works. You have 8 days left, this is doable. If you think it's a bit too challenging delay, give yourself 1/2 more weeks and make the event happen on 22 or 29th, this is fine too. Just make sure people you contact know you're pick a different date ;-) And now you can also read the Start Guide, all is in it and much more. Good luck and go for it! It'll be a great experience I am sure. Thanks. Fred [1]: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/StartGuide

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Re: [SFD-discuss] Free Linux Essentials Training Manual (PDF and Android-APP)
by Seun Ojedeji Sept. 6, 2012

Sept. 6, 2012

Hello, Thanks for sharing the information. As we look forward to the training. Regards OJ sent from google nexus On Sep 4, 2012 11:53 PM, "LIS" <lis(a)lifeforte.com> wrote: > > Dear Seun, > > Free Linux Essentials Training Manual (PDF and Android-APP) for all at > FUOYE SFD 2012 > > I trust you will find this very useful. > As part of our preparations towards the Software Freedom Day and the LPI > Linux Essentials Training and Exams coming up at FUOYE SFD, please kindly > forward to the appropriate quarters. > > A material for Linux Essentials has been developed by our German partner, > Linup Front GmbH, and we are very grateful to them for making this > material free of charge to your candidates. > We would also be glad if you put on your site for interested candidates to > download for free for the training or anybody interested > PDF manual: > http://shop-download.linupfront.de/cc/lxes-en-manual-cc.pdf > > Android app: > https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.linupfront.essentialsen > > Linux Essentials at LPI: > http://www.lpi.org/linux-certifications/introductory-programs/linux- > essentials > > I think this has also just come in time, also in the spirit of Software > Freedom day and LPI with Linup Front GmbH are glad to be a part of > educating all on free software, Linux and Open Source Technologies. > > We also believe this will give majority even a wider opportunity take > advantage of the knowledge of free Software offered in the LPI Linux > Essentials education and certification program. > > Please kindly give us a feed back as you enlighten more on this > > Regards > Olaoluwa > > _____---------- > > Linup Front GmbH (established in 2001 in Weiterstadt, Germany) is a > leading provider of training materials and instructor services for > Linux and FLOSS. For more information, refer to > http://www.linupfront.com/ and http://shop.linupfront.com/ . > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------- > LIS is the Linux Professional Institute Nigeria Master Affiliate > For more information about LIS: > web: http://lpinigeria.org > follow us on: > twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/lpiconnect > facebook: http://www.facebook.com/LPIConnect > Snail mail: 1,Lifeforte Boulevard, Awotan GRA, UI P.O.Box 20923,Ibadan,Oyo > State, Nigeria or call > +234-08035444627,08033251511. > > ------------------------------------------------- > The Linux Professional Institute is globally supported by the IT industry, > enterprise customers, community professionals, government entities and the > educational community. LPI's certification program is supported by an > affiliate network spanning five continents and is distributed worldwide in > multiple languages in more than 7,000 testing locations. Since 1999, LPI > has delivered close to 200,000 exams and over 65,000 LPIC certifications > around the world.

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Software Freedom Day Philippines 2012: Going Green with the Free and Open Source Community
by rick Sept. 6, 2012

Sept. 6, 2012

FYI. The Computer Professionals' Union and the Software Freedom Network Philippines have this press release for the upcoming SFD celebration. It has been our practice to have a secondary theme every year. This year, we are having talks on the use of FOSS in protecting the environment. More than 15 local FOSS groups are taking time to help out. For the first time, we will have two venues in two main islands in Luzon and the Visayas (UP Diliman in Quezon City and University of San Carlos in Cebu City) to accommodate the growing FOSS community in the country. Cheers! Rick ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ *Software Freedom Day Philippines 2012: Going Green with the Free and Open Source Community* Press Release September 6, 2012 More than a thousand students, enthusiasts, advocates and members of the Free and Open Source Sofware (FOSS) community will converge in UP Diliman, Quezon City and University of San Carlos – Talamban Campus, Cebu City to celebrate software freedom and free and open source ideals on September 15, 2012 for the Philippine celebration of Software Freedom Day. Software Freedom Day (SFD) is an annual celebration of various FOSS communities worldwide to educate the public on the use, advantages and benefits of FOSS. Last year, Computer Professionals Union (CPU) and partners were one of the three winners in the 2011 Best Event Competition by the Document Freedom International for organizing a “marvelous” SFD celebration. FOSS are computer programs which give users freedom (1) to use the software for any purpose; (2) study the software through access to source codes; (3) redistribute the software to help other users; and (4) to improve the program and release such improvement to the public. Contrary to proprietary software where redistribution is a crime, FOSS encourages sharing. Mozilla Firefox web browser, Libre Office Suite, and the GNU/Linux operating system are among the most popular FOSS. “Since 2004, SFD has been an advocacy event to reach more computer users and encourage them to use FOSS,” said Mr. Rick Bahague, the National Coordinator of CPU. SFD 2012 will have a theme called Going Green with the Free and Open Source Community. FOSS helps reduce e-waste by extending the life of old computers and enables environmental groups maximize their advocacies with available FOSS tools. “Green ICT through community development of softwares, open hardware and other initiatives that empowers users to reuse old computers and create more energy efficient technology should be encouraged,” added Mr. Bahague. “SFD is now in Cebu. FOSS advocates and enthusiasts in the Visayas can now join the celebration,” announced Ms. Rachel Jaro. Ms. Jaro has been a regular participant of SFD and organizer of the annual DrupalCamp Manila. SFD Cebu is hosted by the University of San Carlos – Talamban Campus. “We hope that SFD Cebu will spark a more vibrant FOSS community in the Visayas,” added Ms. Jaro. SFD in UP Diliman is organized by the Computer Professionals' Union, Junior Computer Professionals' Union, AGHAM-Youth UP Diliman, UP Network for Educational Technology in cooperation with the Office of Rep. Teddy Casino and Kalikasan Green Party of the Philippines. D-Source Inc and PrometSource Inc are sponsoring the event with Globelabs and IT Pros Asia as supporters. SFD in Cebu is sponsored by Sulit.com.ph and Globe Labs in partnership with University of San Carlos, Mozilla Firefox, devCon, Exist, and Tripsiders. More than 15 FOSS community groups and various school organizations have expressed their participation in the plenary and breakout sessions in both Cebu City and Quezon City SFD venues. References: Rick Bahague, 09328886278 National Coordinator / Computer Professionals' Union Ms. Rachel Jaro, 09062156043 SFD Cebu Coordinator / Computer Professionals' Union - Cebu

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Updating some of the current resources
by Frederic Muller - DFI Sept. 6, 2012

Sept. 6, 2012

hi! I've just updated the "Getting things done with FOSS" presentation which is available from http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources Update contains more notes, typos and wording corrections, template upgrade (yes yes, that's an upgrade ;-) ) to the last brown SFD one, http links and applications checked (and sometimes removed). great slide to get your audience fell they're getting to know something not FOSS related (Getting Things Done) and implement it using FOSS, with some apps even GNU/Linux users may have never heard about. I'm also hoping to refresh 1/2 more if time permits. Comments welcome. Fred

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Ubuntu CDs
by Rik Tindall Sept. 6, 2012

Sept. 6, 2012

Hello - kia ora, from Aotearoa New Zealand. Team Christchurch has received its SFD promotional goods pack - thank you :) Are there to be any give-away Ubuntu CDs this year? Thank for organising Software Freedom Day for eight years already - very well done! Cheers, Rik

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