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Software Freedom Day 2011 Best Event Competition result announcement
by Frederic Muller - SFI June 15, 2012

June 15, 2012

Hudson, New Hampshire (June 15, 2011) - Digital Freedom International is one more time very proud to announce the SFD 2011 best event competition results. Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) with the goal of educating the public about the existence and the benefits of using FOSS in education, in government, at home and in business. The SFD Best Event Competition is an international recognition of the efforts made by individual organizing teams in regards to spreading the importance of Software Freedom and reaching out to the relevant groups of people in their area. Each year three teams are chosen and the awards given to those teams are meant to help them further in their tasks for the years to come. This year again, two leading organizations from the Free and Open Source Software movements have joined us to reward those exceptional achievers: the Free Software Foundation, the non-profit organization behind the Free Software movement, and Lemote, a private company making PCs running only Free Software from the BIOS to the drivers and the operating system as well. Among the 50 submissions we have received the three teams that came out as outstanding organizers and promoters of Software Freedom in 2011 will be known by some of you for having organized SFD in the past (and some even won that same competition in the past). We would like to name in no specific order: * SFD team 8layertech, Philippines * SFD team CP-Union, Philippines * SFD team IEEE ENIS Student Branch, Tunisia As a general comment we were very pleased to see a higher quality of most events participating in the competition and would also like to mention some entries which didn't make it in the top 3 but definitely deserve to be mentioned: * Palestine Software Freedom Day * Bluepoint Linux User Elite * Algeria Software Freedom Day Congratulations to all! Full details available here: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/competition/winners-2011 The above teams should be an inspiration to all SFD organizers and help you to prepare for SFD 2012 which will happen on Saturday September 15th this year. About DFI - Digital Freedom International is the non-profit organization at the origin of Software Freedom Day. DFI handles sponsorship contracts, official team registrations, sending out schwags to teams, the annual Best SFD Event Competition and many other things. For more information please contact: Frederic Muller Software Freedom International President info (at) sf-day.org or visit our website at www.softwarefreedomday.org

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PC hardware UEFIs to not boot own free software, just Microsoft etc.
by Julian H. Stacey June 15, 2012

June 15, 2012

Hi SFD people, A new topic for SFD this year should be Microsoft working with PC main board manufacturers to cripple their UEFI with keys so much free software won't boot. There's a discussion list elsewhere, & articles, indexed at http://berklix.org/uefi/ I welcome more URLs for that page. Thanks Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, & indent with "> ". Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/

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Catalan translation for CountDown banner
by Konfrare Albert June 12, 2012

June 12, 2012

I added the Catalan translation for countdown banner: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/ca Thanks! -- *KONFRARE ALBERT* La Konfraria de la Vila del Pingüí de La Palma WEB: http://www.konfraria.org TWITTER: http://twitter.com/La_Konfraria FACEBOOK: http://ca-es.facebook.com/people/Konfraria-Vila-Del-Pingui/100001918952076

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Your wiki edits
by Frederic Muller - SFI June 2, 2012

June 2, 2012

Dear Nathaniel, I see you've been starting to create pages under Brazil and BRA in the wiki. You also added states in the structure which from previous years (2011 and 2010) doesn't seem necessary. First Brazil and BRA is a duplicated entry and makes it confusing so we'll keep Brazil as we have used in the past. Have you considered checking with the Brazilian community first as well? planning-pt@ mailing list would be a good start, sfd-discuss@ as well (copied on this email). Also if you're having specific issues please let me know. Currently there is no template for country in Brazilian/Portuguese but that is easy to fix (when you know how to speak that language - which I don't). I will do some initial cleanup and deletion and then we can try to work out a solution from there. Thanks. Fred

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SFD 2012 countdown available for use and translation
by Frederic Muller - SFI June 1, 2012

June 1, 2012

Dear all, First I'm also including the sfd-discuss list as I am not sure last year countdown translators were later added to the localization list. The SFD countdown is actually ready for usage in English event though it will only start to count down from 99 days (in 7 days). We are therefore informing translators of 2011 and also people willing to add a new language that translation can start right now. All the instructions are available on the wiki at this page: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown For those who already want to add the countdown on their page/blog/website the code is also the same as last year (we've chosen a smaller size image this year) and has the same support for time zones. So if for example you're living in Paris (GMT+2/UTC+2 that would be) then the code to add is: <a href="http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/"><img src="http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/countdown/banner1-UTC+2-en.png" border="0" width="160" height="90" alt="Celebrate SFD with us on September 15!"></a> Of course you can also run the code from your website if you want and customize it to your liking. Full code available here: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/code and you'll need to add a cron job to run it every 15 minutes if you want to support all time zones. Else every day at 1am is probably fine. Thank you. Fred

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Re: [SFD-discuss] Your wiki edits
by Frederic Muller - SFI June 1, 2012

June 1, 2012

Hi again! Great to know what happens. It means that there is a bug somewhere which I need to fix. I have copied the Portuguese mailing list and I'm sure there are plenty of people around here from Brazil as well (you can also attempt the IRC channel - #sfd on freenode - it's rather quiet these days though). It's of course ok to create a Country or City if this one doesn't exist, that's how it's done ;-) We have a guide here in case something is unclear: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CreateYourTeampage I'll check the 2012 page and fix the issue asap. Thanks. Fred ps: also please communicate through the mailing lists as often your problem is someone else problem too, therefore it benefits more people. Thanks. On 06/01/2012 07:13 PM, Nathaniel Simch de Morais wrote: > Hi, i've created "Brazil" country because was not available. After > access "Brazil" the only option was "Create a State". So a created the > state and after this the option "Create City" apears. So, how can i > create a city directly in country? And i don't find a brazilian > community, so we decided to create the city (september 15 is near). We > alse tried to comunicate in the list but apears to have no one. Do you > knows or have a contact email of any person in Brazil? > > Thanks... > > 2012/6/1 Frederic Muller - SFI <fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org > <mailto:fred@softwarefreedomday.org>> > > Dear Nathaniel, > > I see you've been starting to create pages under Brazil and BRA in > the wiki. You also added states in the structure which from previous > years (2011 and 2010) doesn't seem necessary. First Brazil and BRA > is a duplicated entry and makes it confusing so we'll keep Brazil as > we have used in the past. > > Have you considered checking with the Brazilian community first as > well? planning-pt@ mailing list would be a good start, sfd-discuss@ > as well (copied on this email). Also if you're having specific > issues please let me know. Currently there is no template for > country in Brazilian/Portuguese but that is easy to fix (when you > know how to speak that language - which I don't). > > I will do some initial cleanup and deletion and then we can try to > work out a solution from there. > > Thanks. > > Fred > > > > > -- > /Att./ > / > / > /Nathaniel Simch de Morais/ > / > / > /Twitter: @nathanielmorais/ > /Skype: nathanielmorais/ > / > / > /========================================== > "Pelo poder que Deus Pai deu, nestes últimos > tempos, ao Rosário, não há problema pessoal, > nem familiar, nem nacional, nem internacional, > que não se possa resolver com ele". > (Irmã Lúcia, de Fátima) > ==========================================/

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Call for proposals to host SFD Summit 2012
by Frederic Muller - SFI May 24, 2012

May 24, 2012

Dear all, Digital Freedom International (Aka Software Freedom International) is proud to announce it will start co-organizing Software Freedom Days under the name of SFD Summit with one local team each year starting this year, and therefore we are inviting local organizers to submit proposals to host our upcoming and first SFD Summit around September 15th 2012. The purpose of co-organizing such an event is to raise the profile of our celebrations while bringing a public space for discussions about the future of our movement. Over the past two years DFI/SFI has been through important changes in its governance such as expending community involvement through various committees, tightening our budget to remain cash positive, surveying SFD organizers and enhancing the team pack to enable teams to reuse the materials they receive, just to name a few of our efforts. It is now time to raise collaboration efficiency by getting together! While this will be the first occurrence of a SFD Summit we are still very open on the details and expect proposals to enhance our views on the matter. Our current vision is to initially organize a great local SFD bringing in international speakers and attracting both sponsors and media attention, thus boosting the reputation and influence of the selected local organizer. Furthermore an extra day or two should be planned to work on the year ahead, programs and actions which could be run under the DFI umbrella and status updates on ongoing activities such as software development, infrastructure, marketing and fund raising campaigns. If you are interested in hosting the upcoming SFD Summit in September 2012 please submit a formal proposal to board (at) softwarefreedomday (dot) org before July 1, 2012 Sunday UTC 2359. The proposal should address all of the relevant topics listed below: - Introduction of the country / city / organizer - why is this a good choice? - Recommended venues and logistics - Internet access - Accommodation choices - Local 1 day tour - Local community / government / industry support - Detail budget estimation and potential local sponsors The event is recommended to run for at least 2 days on 15 and 16, September 2012, with a combination of parallel tracks (at least 2 tracks). The planning sessions for SFD contributors should not conflict with other SFD sessions. Other key points which will be taken into account when choosing a proposal, are listed on the Requirement List page a thttp://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/SfdSummit/RequirementList . Please check it out when putting together your proposal and feel free to contact sfd-discuss mailing list (or the board) if you have any further question. Also note that all profits from the summit will go to the DFI to further help our actions. We are looking forward to hearing from you soon! Digital Freedom International

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Illegal Map of India on the DFI website
by Manmohan Brahma May 21, 2012

May 21, 2012

Hi Webmaster / Webadmin DFI. I was just looking through the SFD Website. http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/map/index.php?year=2011 Suddenly I noticed that the border marking of India are different as per your map. To me it seems to be a serious offence and request you to change the website as per original google maps. Map as per SFD website. Map as per http://maps.google.co.in/ With thanks and regards, Manmohan Brahma India

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Celebrate Free Culture with us on May 19th 2012
by Frederic Muller - SFI May 11, 2012

May 11, 2012

Dear all, It is with great pleasure that we are announcing a new celebration in the lines of Software Freedom Day focusing on Free Culture. Over the years SFD gradually promoted Free Culture next to Software Freedom and we believe it is now time to have a specific event for Free Culture. Why is that so you may ask? We feel for starter that the audience and participants are quite a different audience from the people interested in software. In fact artists from the Free Culture movement often use proprietary software for plenty of reasons and wouldn't feel compelled to participate in SFD (or event know about it). Then the format should probably be different. While SFD tries to showcase Free Software and explains all the great things you could do with it, a day to celebrate Free Culture should definitely showcase Free Culture work, that is: - exhibitions - concerts - movie projections - surely more What we have envisioned is a day where all the Free Culture artists around the world could walk in the street and play, act or showcase their work and explain to people what Free Culture is and why they have chosen to contribute to the movement. Of course there could also be some amount of discussions and debates, but we should definitely stay away from long presentations and make it a real festival where the general public would come and simply enjoy the show while learning about those artists. The side idea is also to give free culture artists one international day where they can unite and make themselves heard all together. We are seeing way too many attacks on culture these days with copyright extensions and abuse of consumer rights of fair use, or lobbyists trying to lock away public funded work for example. So 2012 will be the first year and we will start contacting various Free Culture supporting organizations to get their support. In the meantime we have launched the Culture Freedom Day website at http://www.culturefreedomday.org and hopefully should have the registration and the wiki up and running fairly soon. So if you have any connections with Free Culture Artists, Art schools or universities, art galleries, pubs that organize live music, restaurant which do photo/painting exhibitions maybe you should talk to them to see how they feel about organizing a CFD event. Discussion about CFD will be happening on the CFD forum at http://www.culturefreedomday.org/forum and we also have an IRC channel on Freenode @ #cfday for the geeks among us. So thank you all to spread the word, 'identi.cate', twit, blog and tell your family and friends! ----------- Digital Freedom International (newly renamed to encompass our new activities) PS: and SFD will still happen on September 15th 2012!

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FOSS in Agriculture Blog Post on Australian Science
by Sridhar Gutam May 11, 2012

May 11, 2012

Dear All, Thanks for all suggestions for the FOSS in Agriculture logo. I tried to create one with suggestions using GIMP but I could not do it. Véronique Fritière had sent me his creations and I had used them in my blog post. Here is the title of that blog 'Sensitizing National Agricultural Research System on Free Open Source Software' and it available at < http://www.australianscience.com.au/news/sensitizing-national-agricultural-… > It may of some interest to you. I would like to thank Véronique Fritière for sharing FOSS in Agriculture images. Today I have got mail from Pravin that he would help me in creation of logo. You are all needed to take forward FOSS in Agriculture. You may see some of the initiatives here at the following urls. https://sites.google.com/site/fskiard/ https://www.facebook.com/FSKIARD https://www.facebook.com/groups/fridayfoss/ Thanks & Regards Sridhar __________________________________________________________ Sridhar Gutam PhD, ARS, Patent Laws (NALSAR), IP & Biotech. (WIPO) Senior Scientist (Plant Physiology) Central Institute for Subtropical Horticulture <http://www.cishlko.org> Rehmankhera, Kakori Post Lucknow 227107, Uttar Pradesh, India Phone: +91-522-2841022/23/24; Fax: +91-522-2841025 Mobile:+91-9005760036/8005346136 Publications: http://works.bepress.com/sridhar_gutam/ <https://www.facebook.com/gutamsridhar> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/sridhargutam> <http://twitter.com/gutam2000><http://works.bepress.com/sridhar_gutam/rss.html>

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