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Free Distro Disk - was( Re: Preparing for schwags)
by Frederic Muller - DFI June 25, 2012

June 25, 2012

I'm moving this sub-topic to the sfd-discuss list On 06/23/2012 08:32 AM, Marcos Marado wrote: >> While all the artworks are ready we >> > need to update the ISO files for the SFD DVDs. On this front I would be >> > happy to know if you felt that shipping GNU/Linux distro ISO file was >> > something useful? > I bet it was for some teams, but for ours... well, we had enough > giveaway stuff anyway So was the free distro disc useful to anyone? Is this something we should keep for people who have bandwidth issue or not? Please give us your feedback as it will help to decide if we keep it or not. Thanks. Fred

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sfd countdown scripting
by Frederic Muller - DFI June 23, 2012

June 23, 2012

hi all! I do remember someone provided a script to automatically generate the xx necessary png out of the svg source file. I didn't pay much attention to it last year as I already did the language I knew and there was a slight bug in rendering. Now doing it for a second year I realize that all the translations need to be redone because the text is 'inside' those PNG files. It would be a lot more efficient to translate once and be able to regenerate those png regardless of the design. So could someone either point me to that script I can't seem to find, or the script author himself so we could try to work out a more efficient solution? Thanks again. Fred

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Osmarender layer in the map event
by Konfrare Albert June 22, 2012

June 22, 2012

The Osmarender layer in the map event is not working. It would have to be removed or changed. http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/map/index.php?year=2012 Salut! -- *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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SFD Countdown in Simplified Chinese
by Frederic Muller - DFI June 22, 2012

June 22, 2012

Dear all, 大家好！ I guess the greetngs already got all the Chinese audience attention so I can continue in plain English ! ;-) The SFD countdown is now available in one more language which is Simplified Chinese as the email title says it all. It makes now 5 languages in total (Catalan, English, French, German and Simp. Chinese). Full details here: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/zh_CN Continued happy preparations to all. Fred

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SFD Countdown now available in German too
by Frederic Muller - DFI June 18, 2012

June 18, 2012

Dear all, I'll spare you the dual language email this time as my German is non-existant (even though I did study at school...). Thanks to Edgar Hoffmann the SFD countdown also work in German as of right now! Thank you very much for the help. Full details here: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/de Happy preparations to all. Fred

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SFD 2012 registration is now LIVE!
by Frederic Muller - SFI June 17, 2012

June 17, 2012

Dear all, It is with a great pleasure that we are opening registration for SFD 2012. In fact some of you have already started to create your wiki pages and even registered. As usual we will be available for support through email on sfd-discuss or on IRC (#SFD on freenode). There will be a few changes this year as Canonical will no longer be providing Ubuntu CDs to teams. Canonical however remains a sponsor of the event, they are just terminating the ship-it program to SFD teams. We are in discussion with other distributions to see if we can get something similar running but our hopes are not very high because of the logistic and costs involved. We will keep you informed if anything happens on that front. So we are currently planning to produce team packs for 200 teams based on the funds raised. The packs will be delivered to teams that registered on or before July 15th on a first come first served basis. Simply create your team page underhttp://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2012 (/country/city for most) and complete the form onhttp://www.softwarefreedomday.org/cgi-bin/register.py. All information and links are of course available from SFD website. As usual artworks are available underhttp://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Artwork and CC-BY licensed. Feel free to use, enhanced and eventually localize them. I want to particularly thank our sponsors who are making this possible, namely Canonical, Google, and Linode for the time being. Should your organization be interested to sponsor DFI to be able to send more goodies please get in touch with us. Note that there is a deadline to be listed on the magazine ads we run with our media sponsors, Linux Magazine, Ubuntu user, Admin, Smart developer and Linux Journal, which is around mid July. Also be reminded that there are still 2 weeks to submit a proposal to co-host your SFD event with us. We have been thinking that doing it one or two weeks after the official SFD date could make sense and enable to fly in some contributors from our global community. Full announcement can be found onhttp://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/SfdSummit . SFD countdown is available much earlier this year, so please do use it. We currently have 2 languages available (English and Catalan) but hopefully more will come very soon. Checkhttp://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown for instructions. Do subscribe to the discuss mailing list[1] if you haven't yet, read SFD Planet[2], read our blog[3] and tweets[5] to keep posted (or RSS feed[4] to them), and don't forget to submit your own BLOG to be added to the SFD planet if you participate in SFD this year (and blog about FOSS...). So let's get started and happy SFD preparations! The DFI Board ps: do check the SFD 2011 winners for inspiration and thanks again to Lemote and FSF for the prizes. http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/competition/winners-2011 [1]:http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss [2]:http://planet.softwarefreedomday.org (language specific planets available through the language switcher) [3]:http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/blog [4]:http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/blog?format=feed&type=rss [5]:http://identi.ca/dfi/

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SFD Countdown now available in French
by Frederic Muller - SFI June 17, 2012

June 17, 2012

Dear all/ Bonjour à tous, The SFD countdown is now also available in French which covers France of course but also a few other French speaking countries all around the world. Full details here: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/fr The compte à rebours SFD est maintenant disponible en Francais pour la France donc, mais aussi tous les pays francophone où SFD est célébré, et cela fait beaucoup. Toutes les instructions sont à cette adresse: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/fr Happy preparations to all. Fred

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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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