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Software Freedom Day contests
by LM Aug. 31, 2023

Aug. 31, 2023

Just to update list members on some of the actions going on, the new DFF board is working getting a few prizes for Software Freedom Day contests. The contests are open to anyone. Feel free to promote them at your local SFD event if you'd like. There's a SFD song contest with a prize from MuseScore. More details here: https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/SFDSongContest The Free Software Foundation has also donated some prizes. Contest rules will be forthcoming. If anyone's interested in getting more involved or becoming part of the new DFF board, feel free to join us on matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#SoftwareFreedomDay:matrix.org

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Software Freedom Day - Let's get the word out
by LM Aug. 31, 2023

Aug. 31, 2023

We're at 17 days and counting down to Software Freedom Day. If you need any help organizing a local event, registering your event on the wiki or publicizing, please let us know. If you'd like to share information about a local event to the Digital Freedom Foundation's Mastodon account or other social media accounts, send us a post about it. There are some sample outreach communications on the Software Freedom Day wiki at: https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CommunityOutreach You're welcome to remix and reuse them. Thanks to all of you who have participated in Software Freedom Day over the years. Let's make this 20th edition a year to remember.

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Next Steps for Software Freedom Day 2023
by Jurgen Gaeremyn July 11, 2023

July 11, 2023

Hey all, for the next edition of Software Freedom Day, the artist /*RoadArchie*/ created some really nice artwork - including a celebration edition of the logo for the 20th edition of SFD. You can find the artwork here: https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2023/Artwork So customize the countdown banner, we'd need your help translating 4 short strings into as many languages as possible. You can add/edit the strings to your language in this Collabora Office spreadsheet: https://jurgeng.ocloud.de/index.php/s/pXf9H7kpk4aMANA Here's already a preview of the countdown banner: SFD Countdown banner Also, if you would like to write a Software Freedom Day Song (or you already did in the past), would you like to share it? (a recording, or maybe even a MuseScore <https://musescore.org> file?) Just imagine your SFD song being sung al over the world, in a happy creative commons tune ... So don't forget to keep Saturday 16th of September on your agenda! Really looking forward to be rocking to the Software Freedom Day beat this year! Jurgen

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SFD 2023 Registration soft launch
by Frederic Muller - DFF July 5, 2023

July 5, 2023

Dear all, SFD registration has been opened for a few hours. Please try registering your event if you have already created a wiki page please go ahead and register, if you are planning on organizing SFD this year (it's SFD's 20th anniversary!) then create your wiki page on the SFD wiki and go to register your event. Let us know if you're experiencing any issue. Thank you very much. Happy SFD! Fred

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online meeting July 6 14:00 UTC - Brainstorming about the future of Software Freedom Day
by Jurgen Gaeremyn July 2, 2023

July 2, 2023

Hey all, Recently I shot out a poll for an online brainstorm session on the future of Software Freedom Day and the other events organized by the Digital Freedom Foundation. The poll showed a clear winner. The 7 persons who entered the poll, were all available (if needed) on next Thursday, July 6th at 14:00 UTC The meeting will take at most 90 minutes (capped). Chat will happen on Element (https://matrix.to/#/#SoftwareFreedomDay:matrix.org) and on there we will supply a Jitsi link for the participants. Thank you Ring for your inspiring testimonial from Bangladesh! Looking forward to be meeting you upcoming Thursday together with the other volunteers. As your life story also testifies... we are but humans and our commitments often depend on health and other circumstances. The current board also was confronted with this very harshly with the tragic accident of Patrick Sinz. Cordially, Jurgen

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20 years Software Freedom Day - and the future
by Jurgen Gaeremyn July 2, 2023

July 2, 2023

Dear Friends of Digital Freedoms, (if nothing else, please read the last paragraph with a practical question) Over the last 20 years, many people have stepped up to make Software Freedom Day big. Under the leadership of Frederic Muller, Patrick Sinz, Pockey Lam and Julien Forgeat - the celebration of Software Freedom Day grew further to an international event with celebrations in every continent, gathering thousands of people. Read more about the history on https://www.digitalfreedomfoundation.org/index.php/about On May 27th 2019, Patrick died in a traffic accident. He contributed very much to the French speaking Open Source community, was a friend to many and was also a loving father and spouse. The other board members were struck hard by this blow. This loss, with consequently the COVID pandemic and personal health issues, have lead the board into being less and less active the last few years. Recently it was announced on the mailing list that the complete board of the Digital Freedom Foundation have resigned and are looking for people to take over the task. Despite multinational companies growing into bigger and bigger closed source eco systems, great projects like Linux, LibreOffice, NextCloud, Inkscape and Moodle succeed in setting an example in an economical viable way, while still setting new standards for Open Source Software. It is more important than ever to give voice to the many great projects out there that choose to be available to every person on the globe, giving them the freedom to use, study, modify and pass on this software. Putting Free and Libre software front and center, is a core challenge of the Digital Freedom Foundation. Over the years, we gradually grew bigger and next to Software Freedom Day (SFD, since 2004) also added the Document Freedom Day (DFD, since 2008), the Hardware Freedom Day (HFD, since 2013) and the Education Freedom Day (EFD, since 2013) to their calendar. With the 20^th edition of SFD up the horizon, we need to look who is willing to step up and put in a helping hand for the Digital Freedom Foundation (DFF), who is willing to put their shoulders under respectively SFD, DFD, HFD and EFD? Are you willing and able to help think about shaping the Digital Freedom Foundation and help organize their events? Please fill out this Framadate page <https://framadate.org/OJEn7rqio6NX37LN> so we can pick a time slot for an online meeting. Greetings, Jurgen

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Software Freedom Day in Brussels
by Jurgen Gaeremyn June 12, 2023

June 12, 2023

Hello, We're planning for Software Freedom Day 2023 in Hackerspace Brussels (hey... it's our 20th edition, we should celebrate!) We picked the topic "Freedom in education" Is anyone else doing SFD this year? I haven't seen a lot of activity on the mailinglist. Maybe we could meet in a Matrix channel? I created #SoftwareFreedomDay:matrix.org where we could coordinate and exchange ideas) Grtz, Jurgen

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Re: [SFD-discuss] Document Freedom Day 2021
by Mostafa Ahangarha Jan. 11, 2023

Jan. 11, 2023

On 2/4/21 4:30 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. Document Freedom Day 2021 (Naudy Villarroel Urquiola) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2021 15:34:32 -0400 > From: Naudy Villarroel Urquiola <naviurq(a)gmail.com> > To: "Discussions about planning for SFD (spanish)" > <planning-es(a)sf-day.org>, sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org > Subject: [SFD-discuss] Document Freedom Day 2021 > Message-ID: > <CACCs6RQ7hsEmtbPqaiem6xT_-hh5j+Do3XdE2ZxkxYZ-5pWDJg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > *ES* > > Hola a todos, me estoy fijando que la pagina > https://www.documentfreedom.org/ no ha sido actualizada desde el 2018, > desconozco los motivos y las razones por que est? todo paralizado , pero > seria bueno armar nuevamente un grupo de trabajo para reactivar el "Dia de > Documento Libre" . > Ser?a interesante escuchar sugerencias y recomendaciones para activar > nuevamente Document Freedom Day. > > Saludos Cordiales > > EN > > Hello everyone, I am noticing that the page https://www.documentfreedom.org/ > has not been updated since 2018, I do not know the reasons that it is > paralyzed, but it would be good to put together a working group again to > reactivate the "Day of Free Document ". It would be interesting to hear > suggestions and recommendations to activate Document Freedom Day again. > I agree with you on reviving documentfreedom.org. If it has reached to its goal, then it should be informed to the public. Otherwise, we should revive it. I think we need to educate people and governments to move towards Open Document Formats. We had small program two years ago in Iran. But we were the only one who did it. At least there was no post on social media about any group having any program on that day. We need a better way of communication. It is hard for me to track topics on mailing list.

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mailing lists
by Frederic Muller - DFF Oct. 20, 2022

Oct. 20, 2022

Hi! It seems Canonical is retiring the server on which this mailing list is running and do not have any place for us. They have suggested a paid-for service as a replacement, but we´re looking at $5/month/list. Not something we have any budget for, Does anyone has any alternative suggestion to move somewhere else? Thank you. Fred

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