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Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
by Sridhar Gutam via LinkedIn Sept. 20, 2011

Sept. 20, 2011

LinkedIn ------------ Sridhar Gutam requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: ------------------------------------------ Ziad, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Sridhar Accept invitation from Sridhar Gutam http://www.linkedin.com/e/z38v9w-gsslrj8k-3a/7nY5jvZKK-sg1bUyULjK1bGJjvEg1x… View invitation from Sridhar Gutam http://www.linkedin.com/e/z38v9w-gsslrj8k-3a/7nY5jvZKK-sg1bUyULjK1bGJjvEg1x… ------------------------------------------ DID YOU KNOW you can be the first to know when a trusted member of your network changes jobs? With Network Updates on your LinkedIn home page, you'll be notified as members of your network change their current position. Be the first to know and reach out! http://www.linkedin.com/ -- (c) 2011, LinkedIn Corporation

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Trisquel 5.0 released on SFD "as a tradition"!
by Frederic Muller - SFI Sept. 19, 2011

Sept. 19, 2011

Hi! Just found out about the title of this thread. Announcement is here: http://trisquel.info/en/trisquel-50-release-announcement Well it's nice to know people do things just for SFD. So thank you Trisquel. Fred

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SFD'2011 Event Kolkata
by A. Mani Sept. 18, 2011

Sept. 18, 2011

A report can be found here: http://www.ilug-cal.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=177&Item… I will update the team page and put in the other slides later. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc

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JoinDiaspora and other SaaS alternatives
by Fabián Rodríguez Sept. 18, 2011

Sept. 18, 2011

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone If you are on Diaspora's main pod (at joindiaspora.com) please consider adding me to your aspects -> magicfab(a)joindiaspora.com If you are not but would like to be, please email me offlist with your preferred email address and I can send you an invite. To find out more about Diaspora, see: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Diaspora I think in SFD's context it's important we anticipate questions about using SaaS social networks, particularly Facebook and G+, and if we know or have tried others such as Diaspora, it makes for an interesting discussion on SFD, or even a viable alternative. I'd love to hear opinions on this, although my goal is only to provide another tools for SaaS discussion on SFD should you come across such questions. And interesting list of such alternatives for other services can be seen here, don't hesitate to augment/modify it: http://wiki.autonomo.us/Wish_list Cheers, Fabian Rodriguez Montral, QC, Canada http://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:MagicFab ~ http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011/Canada/Montreal -----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/ iEYEARECAAYFAk5rRl8ACgkQfUcTXFrypNVnjwCgt8MIpdhHezvOPOsad1h0Ht02 5IYAoPSjONXaXNB1DtR/XfQ7EEQivzN3 =Lhh1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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New Press Coverage: 7 ways to celebrate SFD
by Pockey Lam Sept. 18, 2011

Sept. 18, 2011

Hi friends, Just want to share with all of you an excellent article written by Katherine Noyes from PCWorld: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/240188/seven_ways_to_celebrat… She does give us some good insights about how we can celebrate our SFD events! I have already added this news coverage under: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/press By the way, we also got slashdot(ed) again on the SFDay: http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/17/049231/Celebrate-Software-Freedom-T… (yes, we got slashdot(ed) when we opened our registration as well: http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/23/2128207/Registration-Opens-For-Soft…) If you found any interesting press coverage in English or any other language, please feel free to share with us here in this mailing list and don't forget to link to the http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/press Enjoy! Pockey

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Unscheduled leaflets handout in Bracknell UK
by alan c Sept. 17, 2011

Sept. 17, 2011

Just to say that although the event has not been registered, I will be able to do a leaflet handout in the town centre in Bracknell UK 11am to 2pm. -- alan cocks Ubuntu user

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GNOME Women Outreach Program flyer
by Frederic Muller - SFI Sept. 17, 2011

Sept. 17, 2011

Hi! You might probably know that I have a weak spot for GNOME and wanted to let team leaders know that Marina together with Máirín from the GNOME WOP have made available a few flyers to advertise the program: so if you have women interested in contributing to Free Software and more particularly GNOME (it doesn't have to be technical) and while getting paid, it is probably something to talk about. The flyer is available at this page (and more): https://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen/OutreachProgram2011/SpreadTheWord#Flyer The application deadline is October 31 so definitely well within our schedule. Thanks. Fred

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Inspirational photos from our early SFD event
by Anders Hellström Sept. 16, 2011

Sept. 16, 2011

Hi! Nearly a week ago Uppsala Linux User Group organized our first SFD event. To coincide with the large event (100k+ visitors overall) Uppsala Culture Night[1] we decided to hold it a whole week early, on september the 10th. We had a tent down town where people could watch the blender project movies, try out different Linux distributions and of course get a (K)Ubuntu disk to try out at home. Photos from our event can be found here on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.200642563334644.49199.15709293435… I hope all of you have as good a time today/tomorrow during your SFD events as we did during ours last week! Best regards, Anders Hellström Chairman of the board Uppsala Linux User Group [1] http://kulturnattenuppsala.se/uppsala-culture-night/

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SFD is today!
by Frederic Muller - SFI Sept. 16, 2011

Sept. 16, 2011

Dear all! Forgetting we have up to 26 hours difference between 2 end points on the same planet and that a few teams have already celebrated SFD or will until almost end of October, SFD is here! While we are sure everyone is super busy with the last minute preparations we would like to draw your attention on the excellent community participation this year in making SFD a success. We have received many contributions of all kinds and we would like to thank and highlight those as they can be used to enhance your event. First for those still looking for a topic to present we have finally managed to upload our slides on "Why software freedom matters". Lots of notes have been added to the slides in order to let almost anyone make the presentation. It's however good to think about the topic before hand and be prepared for questions. Slides available at http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources#Software_Freedom I suppose you are also aware that we've had 2 great songs contributed from 2 different teams from the Philippines, both licensed under CC-BY-SA. One of the 2 even has a KTV version should you think of making singing games. Either way those will be great to add color to your event and definitely some great atmosphere! Songs and details, credits, lyrics available from http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources#Songs And since we're covering atmosphere, music and giveaways we would like to remind teams distributing non-free GNU/Linux distributions that we are providing a notice to be included with those CDs to let people know about the hidden non-free software they will be getting on the spot or later. Users need to understand what is included in the software you may be distributing. While we totally understand that some people already have bought their hardware and may just be discovering software freedom (thus needing proprietary drivers for example) it is our duty to let them know they can chose to buy hardware that is fully supported by free software on their next purchase, or be careful about the type of software they chose to install in the future. The notice has been pre-formatted to be easily printed and is available is English, Spanish and Portuguese thanks to our translators. Link to the English notice page is http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources/CdNotice . You can easily navigate to the other versions from there. Another excellent suggestion from our sfd-discuss mailing list has been to hang out on the #sfd irc channel on freenode to show the global nature of SFD. We have a web interface from the website or you can point your audience to specific free IRC clients that will run on their platform. Should the English channel be over populated with non-English discussions feel free to create language specific channels such as #sfd-es, #sfd-ru or #sfd-jp. Last but not least do not forget to document your events, take photos, blog or share the news on social networks. The official tag for SFD is #softwarefreedomday. The great news is that this year SFD Competition has attracted great sponsors again: first we are happy and proud to have the Free Software Foundation provide Richard Stallman books signed by himself. And then Lemote, the Chinese computer manufacturer of fully free hardware (BIOS including) will be supplying 1 Yeeloong per winning team so you can fiddle with MIPS CPU and fully free software machines! So thank you to all, it has really been a fun ride until now and we truly believe that this year celebration is going to be exceptional! Happy SFD to all! on behalf of Software Freedom International

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SFD Panama 2011
by Diego Tejera Sept. 16, 2011

Sept. 16, 2011

Hello Guys, We received the last package today, I just want to say thank you for the awesome gifts and the awesome work the whole team is doing! I hope all have a Happy SFD!! Regards, Diego Tejera Ubuntu Loco Contact Panama http://www.floss-pa.org/

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