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Best SFD 2009 Event Competition Winner
by Frederic Muller - SFI Sept. 16, 2010

Sept. 16, 2010

Dear all, It is with great pleasure (and a bit of delay) that we're announcing the results of the Best 2009 SFD Event Competition. Many thanks to all the participants, organizers and sponsors for being here with us each year on SFD date since 2004 and making it happen. We saw some excellent examples of how to take software freedom to local communities, and we were inspired, as you all will be to see some of the outcomes and reports. Definitely a great read while you're still in the last stage of your preparations before the big day. Now to the prizes: the three outstanding teams will receive a Tux-Droid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux_Droid) and a trophy. The highly commended entries will receive a certificate for their excellent submissions. We want to extend a warm congratulations in particular to the three winners (in no particular order): * Bluepoint Linux User Elite * FOSS Nepal * 8Layertech and the three highly commended entries: * KN FOSS * TTCS Web * Emakulam Please do read more about the entries along with their reports in our competition 2009 results page here: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/competition/winners-2009 You will also have noticed that the 2010 Best Event Competition has been announced together with the prizes for this year. The rules will be finalized by the end of the month, but don't expect any drastic change: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/competition We hope you're all as much excited as us to see Makerbot Industries (a 3D open source printer) joining the rank of our supporters, and that will stimulate you to better document your event. Remember that the recommend hashtag is #softwarefreedomday and all the best for Saturday (or any other day if you had to find a better day)! Thank you all. SFI Board

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Remove files
by Paulo Henrique Santana Sept. 15, 2010

Sept. 15, 2010

Hi, I need to remove some files from wiki, but I don't have permission to remove ou rewrite. http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/SouthAmerica/Brazil/Curitiba/GUD-BR… cartaz-sfd-curiitiba-A4.pdf cartaz-sfd-curiitiba-A4.zip cartaz-sfd-curitiba-A4.pdf cartaz-sfd-curitiba-A4.zip Thanks, -- Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana http://www.phls.com.br Tel. (41) 9638-1897 GNU/Linux user: 228719 GPG ID: 0443C450 .

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Announcing TTCS FSWIN CD - Free Software for Windows CD available for download
by Dev Anand Teelucksingh Sept. 15, 2010

Sept. 15, 2010

The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (TTCS) announces the availability of the TTCS FSWIN CD (http://ttcsweb.org/fswin-cd) a collection of Free Software for Windows, for download. Free Software is software that meets the Free Software Foundation's (FSF) definition : http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html ; The impetus for the TTCS FSWIN CD came from a request from someone from Free Software Foundation Europe (FSF Europe) (http://www.fsfe.org/) currently co-organising Software Freedom Day 2010 (SFD) and was looking for a Free Software for windows CD for SFD teams to use and distribute to the public. While the TTCS has a TTCS OSSWIN CD, a collection of Free and Open Source Software for Windows (http://www.ttcsweb.org/osswin-cd/) ; not all open source software meets the Free Software definition. A list of software licenses that meets the FSF's definition of Free Software and those that do not can be found at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html Hence the creation of the TTCS FSWIN CD since nearly all of the software on the TTCS OSSWIN CD matched the FSF's definition of Free Software. What was done : - All of the licenses for all 92 programs on the TTCS OSSWIN CD were examined. A short list of programs that didn't meet the FSF definition of Free Software was determined. - For those programs, Free Software equivalents were located, documented and added to the TTCS FSWIN CD webpages. - All of the program descriptions for the TTCS OSSWIN CD was updated to mention Free Software instead of just Open Source and used to provide the web based documentation for the TTCS FSWIN CD. - webpages and program were assembled together to finalise an ISO of the TTCS FSWIN CD. Short sentences on what was done, but *lots* of hours involved :-) The result is the TTCS FSWIN CD - Free Software for Windows is available for download thanks to a mirror provided by the FSF Europe. Details about the TTCS FSWIN CD, including the download mirror can be found at http://www.ttcsweb.org/fswin-cd/ . Date created : September 8th, 2010 File name : ttcs_fswin_cd_v1.00.iso File size : 693 MB (727,220,224 bytes) MD5 checksum : 3a38ef06e56a87199122a425bac020a4 / 3a38ef06 e56a8719 9122a425 bac020a4 The TTCS will continue to maintain the TTCS OSSWIN CD, in addition to the TTCS FSWIN CD. With our experience of developing multiple versions of CDs, we are looking to develop a TTCS OSSWIN DVD and a TTCS OSSMAC CD and/or DVD in the near future. Regards, Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society at http://ttcsweb.org/ ; http://fb.me/ttcsweb ; http://twitter.com/ttcs "networking local computer users!"

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Still no updates on the Spanish section
by Alexandro Colorado Sept. 14, 2010

Sept. 14, 2010

Hi a couple of days ago I sent an email alerting of the non-localized status of the Spanish site in Drupal. Still there has been no updates. Is there something we can do to update it? -- *Alexandro Colorado* *OpenOffice.org* Español http://es.openoffice.org

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this is a test
by Alexandro Colorado Sept. 14, 2010

Sept. 14, 2010

ping -- *Alexandro Colorado* *OpenOffice.org* Español http://es.openoffice.org

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9 days to go
by Frederic Muller - SFI Sept. 14, 2010

Sept. 14, 2010

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New SFD website launched!
by Frederic Muller - SFI Sept. 14, 2010

Sept. 14, 2010

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Red Hat speakers
by Frederic Muller - SFI Sept. 14, 2010

Sept. 14, 2010

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Any chance on adding OpenOffice.org to the sponsor list
by Alexandro Colorado Sept. 14, 2010

Sept. 14, 2010

I very much would like to have the OpenOffice.org listed as supporters. Here is a badge to the current measures of your other sponsors from your site. http://alexandro.biz/OOoES_0.png http://alexandro.biz/OOoES_0.svg -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español http://es.openoffice.org

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Date of SFD 2011?
by C David Rigby Sept. 12, 2010

Sept. 12, 2010

Hello All, Perhaps this is too soon to ask, but we here in Singapore were a bit tardy in our planning. The result is that we were unable to reserve the National Library Building's larger, well-appointed (and most importantly) air-conditioned presentation rooms. So, can we predict accurately the date of SFD 2011? If so, I hope to reserve the rooms on Monday, 20 Sept 2010! Regards David Rigby SFDS 2010 site admin http://softwarefreedomday.sg

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