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Forum
by Frederic Muller - SFI July 25, 2010

July 25, 2010

Dear all, We've been considering a move to using a forum as our main discussion platform based on the following reasons: - More open and visible - Searchable - Mailing list are usually for developers. Our community is definitely not developers oriented - Better for search engines indexing - More pleasant to read - And you get to add a little icon for yourself ;-) Since you'll be using it, I wanted to get a initial feedback of what (FOSS) software you believe would suit that purpose. We've been looking in PhpBB but are definitely open for anything else that does the job and is Free Software. Thanks. Fred

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SFD 2010 Banners are up
by Pockey Lam July 25, 2010

July 25, 2010

Dear SFD friends, In order to further promote Software Freedom Day 2010, we have designed some SFD 2010 banners with different messages and size in both PNG and SVG formats, please feel free to access them at http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Artwork#Banners You may place these banners on your blogs, community websites, friends' websites, social network, etc. If you want to localize the banners, please download the SVG files from the bottom of the page. You may link it them back to www.softwarefreedomday.org or your own SFD event site if you have any. All the provided banners are released under Creative Commons license, you are free to use, modify and adapt to your own. Thank you for spreading the word to the world! Regards, Pockey SFD Rocks!

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Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD-discuss Digest, Vol 42, Issue 21
by safrida big gradation July 24, 2010

July 24, 2010

<kumbolinuxusers(a)gmail.com>I think this can help for KLU Group < kumbolinuxusers(a)gmail.com> you're problem has been same with me.. :) ..that picture/screenshot maybe help you. thanks... this messages from fred: Message: 2 Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:34:07 +0800 From: Frederic Muller - SFI <fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org> Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] Problem in creating a team wiki page To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org> Message-ID: <4C4A895F.6070208(a)softwarefreedomday.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi! What problem are you having? Did you look at http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CreateYourTeampage ? This page has screen shots which should help. Fred On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 6:00 PM, <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. Difficulties in creating a wiki page for our team - KULUG! > (KLU Group) > 2. Re: Difficulties in creating a wiki page for our team - > KULUG! (Frederic Muller - SFI) > 3. Re: Forum (Alexjan Carraturo) > 4. Re: Difficulties in creating a wiki page for our team - > KULUG! (KLU Group) > 5. Re: Difficulties in creating a wiki page for our team - > KULUG! (Frederic Muller - SFI) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:56:53 -0700 > From: KLU Group <kumbolinuxusers(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [SFD-discuss] Difficulties in creating a wiki page for our > team - KULUG! > To: sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org > Message-ID: > <AANLkTimsrOgYd-AO4HzrnPRhJgeO-jJ8Lr2K7Wq2caRb(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hello! > Wish to share this with you all...that we haven't been able to create > a wiki page for our team - KULUG i.e. Kumbo Linux Users Group, base > Kumbo - Cameroon! > Is there any possibility of help from anyone of us? > Best regards, > Emmanuel F. SEVIDZEM > Team Leader > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:03:25 +0800 > From: Frederic Muller - SFI <fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org> > Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] Difficulties in creating a wiki page for > our team - KULUG! > To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org> > Message-ID: <4C4AAC5D.10702(a)softwarefreedomday.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hi! > > Did you take a look at > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CreateYourTeampage > > Please let us know at which part of that process you're having problem, > and which one. > > Thanks > > Fred > > On 07/24/2010 04:56 PM, KLU Group wrote: > > Hello! > > Wish to share this with you all...that we haven't been able to create > > a wiki page for our team - KULUG i.e. Kumbo Linux Users Group, base > > Kumbo - Cameroon! > > Is there any possibility of help from anyone of us? > > Best regards, > > Emmanuel F. SEVIDZEM > > Team Leader > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > SFD-discuss mailing list > > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:11:16 +0200 > From: Alexjan Carraturo <axjslack(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] Forum > To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTi=HRZm2QsUq3rVvrpb43shEus-9Zc0xk0vz7yZ=(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hello Fred and everyone, > > > > +1 A forum is a good idea, & phpBB is fine choice for the software. > > > > > I don't think so.... actually PHPBB have a lot of security trouble. I > use to have it on my FSUG site, but, after year of spam attack, I have > to change my mind and use a mailing-list. > > > -- > ######################################## > Alexjan Carraturo > admin of > Free Software Users Group Italia > http://www.fsugitalia.org > Fedora Ambassador: Axjslack > openSUSE Ambassador: Axjslack > Free Software Foundation Europe Fellow 1623 > Software Freedom International board member > ######################################## > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 03:04:32 -0700 > From: KLU Group <kumbolinuxusers(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] Difficulties in creating a wiki page for > our team - KULUG! > To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTikr70KDh5inR38381g1k8=AFfkBDrF37YgE+E6z(a)mail.gmail.com<AFfkBDrF37YgE%2BE6z(a)mail.gmail.com> > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > We got this message below, while the page has been created!!! > > The team wiki page you specified, > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/kulug, does not exist. Please > create your team's wiki page first before submitting your > registration. Use the Back button on your browser to return to the > registration form and try again. > > What next...! > > > On 7/24/10, Frederic Muller - SFI <fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org> wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Did you take a look at > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CreateYourTeampage > > > > Please let us know at which part of that process you're having problem, > > and which one. > > > > Thanks > > > > Fred > > > > On 07/24/2010 04:56 PM, KLU Group wrote: > >> Hello! > >> Wish to share this with you all...that we haven't been able to create > >> a wiki page for our team - KULUG i.e. Kumbo Linux Users Group, base > >> Kumbo - Cameroon! > >> Is there any possibility of help from anyone of us? > >> Best regards, > >> Emmanuel F. SEVIDZEM > >> Team Leader > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:20:14 +0800 > From: Frederic Muller - SFI <fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org> > Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] Difficulties in creating a wiki page for > our team - KULUG! > To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org> > Message-ID: <4C4ABE5E.2000201(a)softwarefreedomday.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hi! > > You actually got the message because... the page doesn't exist. Looking > (actually clicking the link you supplied) showed me that you created a > team page here: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/KULUG > > which if you followed the instruction that I supplied, you would know is > the wrong location. From what you wrote earlier your page should be this > one: > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/Africa/Cameroon/Kumbo/KULUG (be > careful the wiki is case sensitive). > > So please go to http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CreateYourTeampage > and follow the steps described as u will need to create Cameroon and > Kumbo as well. > > Thank you. > > Fred > > > On 07/24/2010 06:04 PM, KLU Group wrote: > > We got this message below, while the page has been created!!! > > > > The team wiki page you specified, > > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/kulug, does not exist. Please > > create your team's wiki page first before submitting your > > registration. Use the Back button on your browser to return to the > > registration form and try again. > > > > What next...! > > > > > > On 7/24/10, Frederic Muller - SFI<fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org> wrote: > > > >> Hi! > >> > >> Did you take a look at > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CreateYourTeampage > >> > >> Please let us know at which part of that process you're having problem, > >> and which one. > >> > >> Thanks > >> > >> Fred > >> > >> On 07/24/2010 04:56 PM, KLU Group wrote: > >> > >>> Hello! > >>> Wish to share this with you all...that we haven't been able to create > >>> a wiki page for our team - KULUG i.e. Kumbo Linux Users Group, base > >>> Kumbo - Cameroon! > >>> Is there any possibility of help from anyone of us? > >>> Best regards, > >>> Emmanuel F. SEVIDZEM > >>> Team Leader > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> 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 > >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > End of SFD-discuss Digest, Vol 42, Issue 21 > ******************************************* >

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Difficulties in creating a wiki page for our team - KULUG!
by KLU Group July 24, 2010

July 24, 2010

Hello! Wish to share this with you all...that we haven't been able to create a wiki page for our team - KULUG i.e. Kumbo Linux Users Group, base Kumbo - Cameroon! Is there any possibility of help from anyone of us? Best regards, Emmanuel F. SEVIDZEM Team Leader

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Re: [SFD-discuss] Problem in creating a team wiki page
by safrida big gradation July 24, 2010

July 24, 2010

i don't know how to give you're a feed back. i hope so the software freedom day international supporting SAFRIDA 2010 or KSL-BL Indonesia. because limited language in English conversation. Hope you're guys in there give a support. i'm sorry for my English. What there is of you who can speak Indonesia?? bisa tolong bantu saya..saya kurang lancar berbahasa Inggris. Terima Kasih banyak..

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Re: [SFD-discuss] Artwork (Thilo Pfennig)
by safrida big gradation July 24, 2010

July 24, 2010

this is a logo from our groups (in attachment). KSL-BL SAFRIDA 2010. Jakarta Indonesia.

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Re: [SFD-discuss] Problem in creating a team wiki page
by misheck mutuzana July 23, 2010

July 23, 2010

Dear Fred, Iam writing from Zambia . My name is Misheck Mutuzana Team Leader for 2010/Africa/Zambia/Copperbelt Software Freedom Day. Iam also encountering the same problem that my colleague from Ethiopia is having. Each time i try to register my team for Software Freedom Day i always get a message telling me that: " The team wiki page you specified, http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/Africa/Zambia/Copperbelt, does not exist. Please create your team's wiki page first before submitting your registration. Iam worried that we won't get materials for Software Freedom Day on time if i do not register. Regards Misheck MutuzanaEmail: mutuzana(a)yahoo.com, mutuzana(a)gmail.comSkype: misheckmutuzana +260 955-418926 /966-418926/977-418926 --- On Thu, 7/22/10, sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org <sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org> wrote: From: sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org <sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org> Subject: SFD-discuss Digest, Vol 42, Issue 16 To: sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org Date: Thursday, July 22, 2010, 3:58 PM 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: SFD 2010 registration is OPEN!!! (Asmelash Teka) 2. Re: SFD 2010 registration is OPEN!!! (Frederic Muller - SFI) 3. Re: Continents (Peter Eisinger) 4. Re: Artwork (Edgar Hoffmann) 5. Re: Continents (Thilo Pfennig) 6. Re: Artwork (Frederic Muller - SFI) 7. Re: Artwork (Thilo Pfennig) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:40:36 -0700 From: Asmelash Teka <asmelashtk(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD 2010 registration is OPEN!!! To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org> Message-ID: <AANLkTinQ-4_6-BZEY00WYQVkRdv69rgbyHXZUdKFrC3O(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Dear Fred, I'm from Mekelle Ethiopia. I tried and couldn't create a team page. All I get is the message " The team wiki page you specified, http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/Africa/Ethiopia/Mekelle, does not exist. Please create your team's wiki page first before submitting your registration. Use the Back button on your browser to return to the registration form and try again. " Sorry for not beinig able to solve it myself. I tried enough not to try more. peace, Asmelash ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:02:49 +0800 From: Frederic Muller - SFI <fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org> Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD 2010 registration is OPEN!!! To: Asmelash Teka <asmelashtk(a)gmail.com> Cc: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org> Message-ID: <4C4879B9.2060906(a)softwarefreedomday.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear Asmelash, No worries. Let us guide you through the necessary steps: 1. You need to create a wiki account at http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/FrontPage?action=newaccount 2. Login 3. Now from the wiki front page (http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/ ) you follow the link that says "SFD 2010 <http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010> - This is the central page to find or add a team worldwide! " Direct link is: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010 4. From there you go to your continent which is Africa: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/Africa 5. Look for Ethiopia and... it doesn't exist yet! 6. Create you country: at the bottom of this page there is a text box where you simply type Ethiopia and it will create the page for you. 7. Now you're in edit mode for your country. You might want to replace "SFD @PAGE@" by "SFD 2010 Ethiopia" and eventually add a description of your country. One source that comes to my mind is wikipedia, just copy the introduction and that will be a good start. 8. Save the page. Do not forget to answer the question just below the save button! 9. You are now on your country page asking you to create a new City or Region. Same process, enter what suit best your event location, do the text change and add a bit of description. I guess you will chose Mek'ele here. 10. Save. Remember the question under the save button! 11. You're now on your City page. You can create your Team page. Save thing, there is a text box at the bottom of the page where you can just type in the Team name and validate: it will automatically create your team page. 12. Edit your page with all the details needed. 13. Go back to you city page and replace Team1 with your team name and add a link to your team page (which should be /2010/Africa/Ethiopia/Mek'ele/YourTeamName (YourTeamName is your real team name). Save again. You're done. Now in the registration form you will just have to enter Africa/Ethiopia/Mek'ele/YourTeamName and it will work. The process is a bit long because you're the first team in Ethiopia. However by following those steps you ensure people looking at the team list http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CategoryTeam or at the Region list http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CategoryRegion will find your city and your team. Also please do not remove the CategoryTeam tag from your team list: it is that which makes the listing automatic. I hope this was clear enough. Let us know if you're still having issues. Thanks. Fred On 07/23/2010 12:40 AM, Asmelash Teka wrote: > Dear Fred, > > I'm from Mekelle Ethiopia. I tried and couldn't create a team page. > All I get is the message " The team wiki page you specified, > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/Africa/Ethiopia/Mekelle, does > not exist. Please create your team's wiki page first before submitting > your registration. Use the Back button on your browser to return to > the registration form and try again. > " > Sorry for not beinig able to solve it myself. I tried enough not to try more. > > peace, > > Asmelash > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > >

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A few updates (marketing and registration)
by Frederic Muller - SFI July 23, 2010

July 23, 2010

Dear all, In the email: 1. Registration count update 2. Marketing efforts and tracking 3. Migration to Open Street Map in progress 4. Discussions available on mailing list and IRC channel 1. Registration count update I just wanted to let you know what has been happening so far. With a last kick start for registration and a whole new site for SFD we've hit a few technical bumps but have mainly solved most of them. Within the first 24 hours we received over 100 registration. We are now at about 160 teams, however we mistakenly removed a good 10 teams from China as they appeared (to someone from the team) as spam. Our apologies, we're going through the logs and will try to re-add them avoiding the need to re-register. 2. Marketing efforts and tracking We are now in the phase of spreading the word out as our objective from 2010 is to reach 1000 teams worldwide, a 200 increase from last year. We believe this is achievable but need your help. We have set up a page to track our current submissions to various news sites, community sites, blogs and such. You can find it here: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Marketing/SitePosting Please help us to complete the page so we don't do double submissions. Also help us to spread the word out. 3. Migration to Open Street Map in progress Last but not least, as promoters of Software Freedom it is important for us to use Free Software. Since 2008 we had been looking for help to migrate our map to Open Street Map and have finally found someone to work on this. It is currently in the development stage but you can have a preview here: http://www.rigacci.org/2010/map2.shtml (those are sample data and doesn't get updated at all) We want to extend a big thank you to Niccolo for his support. Hopefully we should all be able to use OSM very soon. 4. Discussions available on mailing list and IRC channel Those are the news for now. Should you have any question please do not hesitate to subscribe to sfd-discuss (or es-planning for Spanish speakers) if not yet done, and let us know. We are also regularly on our SFD IRC channel on freenode (#sfd). The mailing list page is here: http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo Thank you for your support and happy SFD preparation. Fred

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Artwork
by Edgar Hoffmann July 22, 2010

July 22, 2010

Hello, teams out there. I have two things to mention that bother me: 1. There are no source files of the logo, to have it translated (hm, yes, just the date...) in german. 2. What is the "official" font of this year? (Jura, Libel Suit, ...)? If this things are missing, I would gladly load them up. I have the svg's and TrueTypes/OpenFonts from last year. Greetings from Germany Edgar "Fast Edi" Hoffmann

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Redirects from the old site's dead pages to the new site.
by Lars Nooden July 21, 2010

July 21, 2010

If there is time, please use mod_rewrite[1] to redirect user to the new pages or at least to the new site. Sending an HTTP response (301) 'Moved Permanently' might also help the search engines update, because the old pages are still turning up in Google. This one turned up just now near the top of the search results but gives a 404 Not Found error: http://softwarefreedomday.org/about The redirects can point to individual pages if there is a 1:1 mapping or just to a page on the new site saying that there is a new address and to rummage around there. Regards /Lars [1] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.3.2

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