- SFD-discuss - lists.mailman3.com

SFD 2010 registration is OPEN!!!
by Frederic Muller July 20, 2010

July 20, 2010

Dear all, This is with a lot of struggles that we have finally managed to open the SFD 2010 registration <http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/register.html>! As you can see there is still a lot of ongoing work on the site, and this includes a New Wiki <http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org> where you can create your team page <http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CreateYourTeampage>, a new home page <http://maddog.softwarefreedomday.org/cms-sfd/> for all the information about Software Freedom International and other generic and important stuff and much more to come. I want to particularly thank *Thilo*, *JM*, *Matt* and *Robert* for helping out as well as our web infrastructure sponsors, that is Canonical <http://www.canonical.com> and Linode <http://www.linode.com> for providing our little corner on the web. Due to the delay there will only be 10 days to get free CDs this year, so don't slack! And happy SFD preparations! Oh and by the way, the direct link to registering your team is here http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/register.html after creating your team page <http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CreateYourTeampage> of course. Any question please let us know. The SFI Board

5 21

Registration confirmation back online
by Frederic Muller - SFI July 19, 2010

July 19, 2010

Dear all, Some of you might have received a second confirmation email, some of you might have seen our maintenance page for registration confirmation: yes we had a small glitch in the registration but all is back to normal now. So please feel free to click on the link in the email and validate your registration. Again sorry for the inconveniences and thank you for your patience. Have a great Software Freedom Day preparation. Note that we also have a SFD IRC channel on freednode at #sfd . Else the sfd-discuss mailing list or the Spannish planning mailing list are good ways to talk with other SFD community members and ask for tips and advices List mailman about planning SFD for spanish speakers http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/planning-es Thanks to Peter for reminding us. Regards, Fred Software Freedom International

1 0

Old Account won't work
by Edgar Hoffmann July 19, 2010

July 19, 2010

Hello. I just wanted to register my team as every year, but can't log in with my user and password. Has it changed since the old wiki? Do I have to register again? I would like to add our town in the wiki. Greetings from Germany Edgar "Fast Edi" Hoffmann

3 3

Discussions about planning for SFD (spanish)
by Peter Eisinger July 19, 2010

July 19, 2010

Hi, remembrer: List mailman about planning SFD for spanish speakers http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/planning-es

1 0

Re: [SFD-discuss] [Info] [SFD-announce] SFD 2010 registration is OPEN!!!
by Frederic Muller - SFI July 19, 2010

July 19, 2010

no no no.. you're looking at the old wiki. the new wiki is on wiki.softwarefreedomday.org Let us know if you're still having problems Fred On 07/19/2010 10:12 PM, Jeffrey Borbón Sanabria wrote: > Hi > > thanks for the announce. > > Seems like the wiki still is on read-only mode. I can't create the > page of my team. > > Thanks > > 2010/7/19 Frederic Muller <fred(a)beijinglug.org > <mailto:fred@beijinglug.org>> > > Dear all, > > This is with a lot of struggles that we have finally managed to > open the SFD 2010 registration > <http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/register.html>! As you can see > there is still a lot of ongoing work on the site, and this > includes a New Wiki <http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org> where you > can create your team page > <http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CreateYourTeampage>, a new > home page <http://maddog.softwarefreedomday.org/cms-sfd/> for all > the information about Software Freedom International and other > generic and important stuff and much more to come. I want to > particularly thank *Thilo*, *JM*, *Matt* and *Robert* for helping > out as well as our web infrastructure sponsors, that is Canonical > <http://www.canonical.com> and Linode <http://www.linode.com> for > providing our little corner on the web. Due to the delay there > will only be 10 days to get free CDs this year, so don't slack! > > And happy SFD preparations! > > Oh and by the way, the direct link to registering your team is > here http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/register.html after > creating your team page > <http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CreateYourTeampage> of course. > > Any question please let us know. > > The SFI Board > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-announce mailing list > SFD-announce(a)sf-day.org <mailto:SFD-announce@sf-day.org> > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-announce > > > > > -- > -- > Jeffrey Steve Borbón Sanabria > Ingeniero de sistemas > Auditor interno ISO 27001-2005 > Sun Certified Solaris Administrator (SCSA) > Sun Certified MySQL Associated (SCMA) > Integrante proyecto ACLibre > http://www.eljeffto.com > http://www.aclibre.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Info mailing list > Info(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/info >

1 0

presence on Facebook, Twitter and Identi.ca
by Sameer Verma July 6, 2010

July 6, 2010

Does SFD2010 have any presence on Facebook, Twitter and Identi.ca? cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ http://is.sfsu.edu/

2 2

SFD Wiki problem-access (creation pages)
by Jean7491 July 6, 2010

July 6, 2010

As observed by Steve, it appears to be a permissions problem of some kind that's preventing wiki users from editing the wiki or creating pages. I've been able to connect on the wiki.softwarefreedomday.org as registred user, but I was not allowed to create my personal page, nor a new country page "Belgium" (Europe/Belgium), nor my Team page "Ostend". Jean -- jean7491 Ubuntu Belgium Events Team

3 3

Re: [SFD-discuss] [SFD-announce] Sponsorship confirmed and testing ahead
by Frederic Muller July 6, 2010

July 6, 2010

On 07/02/2010 02:09 AM, Steve Rainwater wrote: > On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 00:23 +0800, Frederic Muller wrote: > >>> I looked up the SFD website today to see if I could sign up a local team >>> but discovered there's not much 2010 info there yet. Then I noticed this >>> discussion on the list and thought I'd join it. >>> >>> >>> >> Dear Steve, >> >> The wiki is already up at wiki.softwarefreedomday.org and you can start >> entering information about your team and the event you're preparing. >> > Thanks, the new wiki looks great. :) > > I created an account and logged but it's not at all clear where or how > to register a team. Are there any instructions? There's a reference to a > "StartGuide" but it just links to an empty page with a Chinese word. > There's a "register" link on the menu but it doesn't seem to work > either. And there don't appear to be any existing locations or teams > that I can find. Am I missing something? > > -Steve > Dear Steve, As I mentioned previously the registration script is still not up (and not all pages have been copied over. The old wiki is still available in read only mode on www.softwarefreedomday.org is you miss some of the information previously available) but you can already create your wiki page following the structure below: YEAR/CONTINENT/COUNTRY/CITY-REGION/TEAM A lot of Countries have been created already. We'll announce as soon as the official registration opens. Thank you for your patience. Fred

2 1

Re: [SFD-discuss] [SFD-announce] Sponsorship confirmed and testing ahead
by shirish शिरीष July 6, 2010

July 6, 2010

in-line :- On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 07:31, Frederic Muller <fred(a)beijinglug.org> wrote: > Dear SFD supporters, Dear Frederic, > We've been graciously granted a VPS by Linode (www.linode.com) to host > our platform, which has been scattered here and there so far. Until now > Canonical was providing the support for our web platform, but technical > details have been preventing us from upgrading a 3 years old wiki in > dear need of a lifting! > > So I extend my thanks to both Canonical who have been supporting us > since the early days and has just renewed their commitment to SFD in > 2010, and to Linode with whom we have slow migrated stuff over time. > Both companies have been extremely responsive to our needs and it's a > real pleasure dealing with them. > > This also means we'll still be getting loads of free Ubuntu CDs shipped > to each teams again this year, and that we'll be migrating our sites and > various services over the coming days. We might definitely experience > some outage (or maybe not). One thing which has been giving us headaches > so far was our mailing lists and we're planning to phase them out in the > short term, except from announcements. > > We're also looking for volunteers to help us add an Free Software > alternative to Google Maps and provide access to OpenStreetMaps. If > anyone has experience implementing an API similar to what we have so far > (http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/2009/map.shtml ), please do contact us. > > That will be all for now and we hope you're starting to get ready for > this year SFD. > > Thank you all. > > Warm regards, > > Frederic Muller > SFI President > Software Freedom Day 2010 happening on Saturday September 18th, 2010 > The announcements are terrific. I, alongwith all the other SFD supporters would be looking forward to what new you and your team of developers/volunteers do bring to the table. One of the things I would be looking for a. An openid single-on sign on to wiki :- This would make it easier for both me as well as people at the other end of the stream (Sponsors and other contributors) to know the history of persons and teams. As I am and have been working with different teams it makes sense to be able to compile all my activity at one username. b. Tagging :- This should also make it easy for people to find content. c. Filtering through cities :- Right now its pretty hard to get a good filter and contact details of SFD contributors based in other cities/countries. As I usually am on the move every few months I would like to meet and talk with other SFD contributors as well. Right now, that's a hard task in the existing way. I'm sorry if I've not been able to articulate my need (features) but do look forward to the new wiki. Is there a time-line when the new wiki and other things are in place? September is just 3 months away and packing and sending schwag does take quite a bit of time (previous years experiences ). Also posted the same about the site revamp announcement on the blog. http://wp.me/pfuZu-eQ I do hope you also think of having the mailing list and its archives also put up on the main page of the new site. > _______________________________________________ > SFD-announce mailing list > SFD-announce(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-announce -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17

5 11

Sponsorship confirmed and testing ahead
by Frederic Muller June 6, 2010

June 6, 2010

Dear SFD supporters, We've been graciously granted a VPS by Linode (www.linode.com) to host our platform, which has been scattered here and there so far. Until now Canonical was providing the support for our web platform, but technical details have been preventing us from upgrading a 3 years old wiki in dear need of a lifting! So I extend my thanks to both Canonical who have been supporting us since the early days and has just renewed their commitment to SFD in 2010, and to Linode with whom we have slow migrated stuff over time. Both companies have been extremely responsive to our needs and it's a real pleasure dealing with them. This also means we'll still be getting loads of free Ubuntu CDs shipped to each teams again this year, and that we'll be migrating our sites and various services over the coming days. We might definitely experience some outage (or maybe not). One thing which has been giving us headaches so far was our mailing lists and we're planning to phase them out in the short term, except from announcements. We're also looking for volunteers to help us add an Free Software alternative to Google Maps and provide access to OpenStreetMaps. If anyone has experience implementing an API similar to what we have so far (http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/2009/map.shtml ), please do contact us. That will be all for now and we hope you're starting to get ready for this year SFD. Thank you all. Warm regards, Frederic Muller SFI President Software Freedom Day 2010 happening on Saturday September 18th, 2010

1 0