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Re: [SFD-discuss] [Marketing] the 3 DVDs from the team pack
by Pockey Lam July 21, 2011

July 21, 2011

hi there, This kind of discussion shouldn't be in the marketing mailing list so I moved this discussion to sfd-discuss mailing list. As Marcos said you don't need to register the event in order to prepare or plan for your event. A lot of teams have already set up their wiki page under http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011/ Please stay tuned while the registration should be open shortly end of this week or early next week. You may not know that the old registration form has a lot of bugs so Fred has been working on a new script. Since he is not a developer and he has very limited help, so let's give him sometime to make us a Free Bug-free script for this year and the years to come. On 07/21/2011 09:17 PM, Marcos Marado wrote: > Hi there, > > On Thursday 21 July 2011 14:14:25 endurance odion wrote: >> Good day >> I am glad to write you once more please I really need to know when >> registration of teams will start > You can do it already. Just head to http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011/ > and follow the link to your country, or, if it is not there, create it using > the form in the bottom of that page. > >> , and also I dont know if it is possible >> to get a covering letter or letter of introduction to enable me and my >> team source for sponsorship to organize the software freedom day this year >> to enable me and my team start organizing on time since the event is less >> than two months from now and we really need to make ours better than what >> we had last year thanks for your time > I don't think we have any "sponsorship request template", but that would be a > great idea. > SFI doesn't provide any letter to any local team to call for sponsorship. However, I have been organizing SFD events since 2007 in China, I believe as an organizer, what you need is to prepare a sponsorship proposal and send it to different companies and organizations that may be interested. The proposal can include: * Organizers introduction * What is SFD * Objectives of the event * When and where * target audiences and expected number * activities and schedule * potential speakers * estimated budget with breakdown * sponsorship options / package / benefits * contact info Hope it helps! All the best to your SFD event! Pockey Lam Director and Secretary Software Freedom International

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RE SFD-discuss Digest, Vol 52, Issue 4
by Bagus Ahmad July 21, 2011

July 21, 2011

I Like the Song ----- Pesan Asli ----- Dari: "sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org" <sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org> Kepada: sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org Cc: Dikirim: Rabu, 20 Juli 2011 19:00 Judul: SFD-discuss Digest, Vol 52, Issue 4 Send SFD-discuss mailing list submissions to sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org You can reach the person managing the list at sfd-discuss-owner(a)sf-day.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of SFD-discuss digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Celebrate Software Freedom Day Song (meric mara) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 01:48:53 +0800 (SGT) From: meric mara <meric_m(a)yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] Celebrate Software Freedom Day Song To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org>, "fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org" <fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org> Message-ID: <1311097733.83377.YahooMailNeo(a)web76806.mail.sg1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Dear Fred: We are delighted and glad to hear that you like the song and appreciate the work/effort. Thank you too for sharing with us an important/ relevant article to clarify copyright and non-commercial issues.? Upon reading along and pondering we realize how NC could be restrictive and may also be not towards culture and community building. Let us however be regarded a little time to consider our options more concretely and we promise to revert to you guys on a detailed and more positive note. Thank you very much and more power to all, Meric ________________________________ From: Frederic Muller - SFI <fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org> To: sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 4:35 PM Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] Celebrate Software Freedom Day Song Dear Meric, Thanks a lot for the great song! Definitely a worthy addition to our marketing tools for team organizers. I do have a small problem regarding the license being NC. Organizing a SFD event means that some team will raise funds and maybe even make money (for themselves or the organization they represent). So in that context NC being so vague could conflict with such an event. NC is also a lot more restrictive than GPL Nina Paley has a good blog post related to the issue which you can read here: http://blog.ninapaley.com/2010/09/01/paley-vs-doctorow/ And then some more: http://blog.ninapaley.com/2011/07/04/rantifesto/ http://blog.ninapaley.com/2010/10/20/creative-commons-branding-confusion/ With this in mind it would be really nice if you could re-license the song under a CC-BY-SA or CC-BY Thanks a lot for your consideration and looking forward to reading from you soon. Fred On 07/19/2011 02:16 PM, meric mara wrote: > Hi Pockey: > > Here's the License detail of the song > > Creative Commons License <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/> > Celebrate Software Freedom Day Song by Erwin Galang,Meric Mara and Deng > Silorio > <http://labs.cre8tivetech.com/2011/07/celebrate-software-freedom-day-song/> > is licensed under a Creative Commons > Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License > <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/>. > Based on a work at labs.cre8tivetech.com > <http://labs.cre8tivetech.com/2011/07/celebrate-software-freedom-day-song/>. > > Also, do you mind changing the link to the title of the song per se > ?"Celebrate Software Freedom Day Song" and just link it to > http://labs.cre8tivetech.com/2011/07/celebrate-software-freedom-day-song/ =) > > Thank you > > Meric > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Pockey Lam <pockey(a)softwarefreedomday.org> > *To:* meric mara <meric_m(a)yahoo.com> > *Cc:* Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org> > *Sent:* Tuesday, July 19, 2011 1:09 PM > *Subject:* Re: [SFD-discuss] Celebrate Software Freedom Day Song > > Hi Meric, > > That's really cool! It's indeed a very nice song, have the spirit of > celebrating SFD! The singing is very pro too! Thanks for sharing! > > I have added your link here: > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources#Songs > so all the teams can access it! > > And we will definitely play it in all the SFD events in China and > recommend it to all the other countries! > > By the way, what's the license? :-) > > Cheers, > Pockey > > On 07/19/2011 12:25 PM, meric mara wrote: >> Guys. >> >> We just wish to share this song/music that we did in preparation for >> The SFD Celebration this year. >> And yes we intend to use tune for our SFD Celebration here in the >> Philippines (sfdph2011). If at any rate, you find it useful or >> friendly to listen/use as well, feel free to use it for your SFD >> Celebration. >> >> Here's the Lyrics of the Song. >> Title: Celebrate Software Freedom Day >> >> Let?s go out and celebrate >> It?s the Software Freedom Day >> (Chill out/ Cheer out)Yell out and participate >> It?s the Software Freedom Day >> >> Let everyone know there?s a software for(that?s) free >> Free to use for you and me >> Free to run and study >> Modify, make copies >> Save more money >> It?s the Software Freedom Day >> >> Let?s go out and celebrate >> It?s the Software Freedom Day >> (Chill out/ Cheer out) Yell out and participate >> It?s the Software Freedom Day >> >> Throughout the whole world >> Sharing is a plenty >> Hackers are smiling, knowledge a?flowing >> Dance to the beat and feel the heat >> Free and Open Software is Here to Stay. >> >> Software Freedom Day >> >> aha (2x) >> Software Freedom Day. >> >> You can find the audio (mp3 and ogg version) at this link below. >> >> http://labs.cre8tivetech.com/2011/07/celebrate-software-freedom-day-song/ >> >> Thank you >> >> Meric >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SFD-discuss mailing list >> SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org? <mailto:SFD-discuss@sf-day.org> >> http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss _______________________________________________ SFD-discuss mailing list SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss

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2010 competition results announcement
by Frederic Muller - SFI July 21, 2011

July 21, 2011

Software Freedom Day 2010 Best Event Competition result announcements: Africa, Asia and Australia under the spotlights! Hudson, New Hampshire (May 23, 2011) - Software Freedom International is proud to announce the SFD 2010 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, 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 Makerbot, a private company pushing the concept of Free Software to physical media and making an fully open source 3D printer. Among the 40 submissions we have received the three teams that came out as outstanding organizers and promoters of Software Freedom in 2010 are spread over 3 different continents. We would like to name in no specific order: * SFD team Melbourne, Australia * SFD team Yaoundé, Cameroon team * SFD team SPCF-CITE, Angeles City, Philippines As a side note we are very pleased to see winners from different areas this year, especially Africa and would also like to mention some entries which didn't make it in the top 3 but definitely deserve to be mentioned: * CPU & Software Freedom Network team, Manila, Philippines * 8layes team, manila, Philippines * Limestone Coast GLUG, Mount Gambier, Australia * NOSK team, Lalitpur, Nepal The above teams should be an inspiration to all SFD organizers and help you to prepare for SFD 2011 which will happen on Saturday September 17th this year. About SFI - Software Freedom International is the non-profit organization at the origin of Software Freedom Day. SFI 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) softwarefreedomday.org or visit our website at www.softwarefreedomday.org

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Re: [SFD-discuss] Celebrate Software Freedom Day Song
by Bagus Ahmad July 20, 2011

July 20, 2011

Hai Meric this song a very nice and so really heroic tone.

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Hi, SFD organization!
by Damián Muraña June 6, 2011

June 6, 2011

Hello, my name is Damian Muraña, and I registered on the list in order to help and be helped in organizing the SFD. I'm from Rio Branco, Uruguay, and I represent the groups 'Cultura Libre Digital' [0] and 'Río Branco Libre' [1] who are organizing the event in the same city [2], more specifically in a nearby spa. I registered in the lists that it considers appropriate, and here communicate our intention to organize the event, and more than intent, and we have something in advance. According to the guide start next thing is to create a page on the wiki, right? Regards, PS: Sorry if my English isn't very good. [0] http://www.cld.org.uy [1] http://sites.google.com/site/riobrancolibre/ [2] http://www.softwarefreedomday.cld.org.uy/ -- Damián Muraña Linux Registered User #460383 http://www.geekdiotizados.com.uy

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International Conference in Lima
by Luis Gustavo Lira June 5, 2011

June 5, 2011

Hi, The International FabLab Conference organized by MIT's Center for Bits & Atoms will be in Lima (Peru) this year (August 15-20). Our hackerspace "Yachachiq" want to organize an International HackerSpace Conference after the FabLab Conference (August 22 -26) in Lima and Cusco. Please fill the following form we need some information for planning and organize the conference. https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGZINnpkZnI1MX…

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SFD registration opening delayed to next week (June 6 or 7)
by Frederic Muller - SFI May 31, 2011

May 31, 2011

Dear all, I'm having connectivity issues preventing me to finish what needs to be done. Hopefully I'll be back home for the weekend and be able to work on this to launch registration next week. Sorry for the inconvenience. Fred

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Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD-discuss Digest, Vol 50, Issue 7
by Prince Annan Koomson May 31, 2011

May 31, 2011

I will be grateful if the logo can be open so we the Africans can also translate the writing into our native language. On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:00 AM, <sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org> wrote: > Send SFD-discuss mailing list submissions to > sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > sfd-discuss-owner(a)sf-day.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of SFD-discuss digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Logo for SFD 2011 (Efrain Valles) > 2. Re: Logo for SFD 2011 (Brandon Lum) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 08:47:58 -0430 > From: Efrain Valles <effie-jayx(a)ubuntu.com> > Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] Logo for SFD 2011 > To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org> > Message-ID: <BANLkTikk9GaP+Y_gVTsBQKOpqZOSQ62Gww(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hello all, great work on the proposed logo, In latin america we would > like to have access to fonts to be able to write the text in spanish. > Is there a posibility to have the fonts available as well? > > Thanks for your consideration. > > > -- > Efrain Valles > https://launchpad.net/~effie-jayx > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 21:20:57 +0800 > From: Brandon Lum <lumjjb(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] Logo for SFD 2011 > To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org> > Message-ID: <BANLkTikMHZgoeLVChTiHmcBPBwG5ES_Zrg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi Efrain, > > The font used for the logo is ubuntu. There is a link at the bottom of the > page where you can download it, under the link Ubuntu font > file< > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Artwork/ProposedLogoMaxus?action=AttachF… > > > . > > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Artwork/ProposedLogoMaxus > > Cheers > Brandon > > On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Efrain Valles <effie-jayx(a)ubuntu.com > >wrote: > > > Hello all, great work on the proposed logo, In latin america we would > > like to have access to fonts to be able to write the text in spanish. > > Is there a posibility to have the fonts available as well? > > > > Thanks for your consideration. > > > > > > -- > > Efrain Valles > > https://launchpad.net/~effie-jayx > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > SFD-discuss mailing list > > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > > >

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Re: [SFD-discuss] Logo for SFD 2011
by Efrain Valles May 29, 2011

May 29, 2011

Hello all, great work on the proposed logo, In latin america we would like to have access to fonts to be able to write the text in spanish. Is there a posibility to have the fonts available as well? Thanks for your consideration. -- Efrain Valles https://launchpad.net/~effie-jayx

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Logo for SFD 2011
by Buddhika Kurera May 19, 2011

May 19, 2011

Hello Folks, Any updates on logo designing? see you -- Regards, Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera

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