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linux and youth day in cameroon
by lugbamenda＠immerda.ch March 2, 2009

March 2, 2009

The Linux school in Limbe join the rest of the youth of cameroon to celebrate the national youth day on the 11th of February 2009.Many people where impress as they saw us machine with white t-shirt and on it was written ubuntu, so they ask the meaning of ubuntu, why we are machine for Linux and not windows, we actually answer so many question this day befor the matching began. We had so many people coming in to the school the following day to learn Linux, some caming in with labtops to install Linux. This people explain to us that they have been having many problems with windows and that they did not know there exit other operating system other than windows now they prefer Linux, since we have explain to them the advantage of linux over windows operating system. Those of them who have known linux where very happy to join us and work with us because according to them they have acquired knowledge about open source but could not fine people with whom they could work together. you can see more on our website sokolo.cronopios.org

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OpenSource in higher education
by Alexander.Trubin＠sun.com Feb. 27, 2009

Feb. 27, 2009

Hello all, I'm now preparing for a talk at Urals State Technical University (Russia) about OpenSource usage in Higher Education, so if anyone have some thoughts about what should be covered in this broad topic your help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

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Schwags this year
by Frederic Muller Feb. 17, 2009

Feb. 17, 2009

Dear all, We've been starting to prepare for SFD'09 and we would like to know if there is anything that we could add/replace in the schwags we're sending out that could be more helpful for your team to prepare the event this year. We of course do have a limited budget, but it would be nice to get some feedback about how to possibly improve our support. So I hope to get a lot of feedbacks from the 600 team leaders and their support team who made SFD '08 happen! Looking forward to it. Fred SFI Vice President

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Re: [SFD-discuss] Schwags this year (Mathias Friman)
by Arthur Simiyu Feb. 16, 2009

Feb. 16, 2009

> Dear all, > We've been starting to prepare for SFD'09 and we would like to know if > there is anything that we could add/replace in the schwags we're sending > out that could be more helpful for your team to prepare the event this > year. We of course do have a limited budget, but it would be nice to get > some feedback about how to possibly improve our support. > So I hope to get a lot of feedbacks from the 600 team leaders and their > support team who made SFD '08 happen!Hi, If its possible could you include the large SFD banner, something for the venue Thanks :) Simiyu Since we do a lot of marketing on the web, one thing that would be nice is the new SFD'09 logo. Couldn't take more than an hour to do a remake on the '08 one.. :) Preferrably in SVG format so it can be fitted to any physical size. This is definately priority number one. Since we in Sweden (at least to some part) try to coordinate everything on a local level, we usually do our own swedish marketing material. That's why it would'a been awsome to get t-shirt-logos and stuff so that we can hunt our own sponsors for printing t-shirts and posters. However, I don't know how much responsability and control you are willing to delegate to local groups. :) Kindest regards, Mathias SFD Sweden ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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 28, Issue 2 ******************************************

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Re: [SFD-discuss] Schwags this year
by Mathias Friman Feb. 16, 2009

Feb. 16, 2009

> Dear all, > We've been starting to prepare for SFD'09 and we would like to know if > there is anything that we could add/replace in the schwags we're sending > out that could be more helpful for your team to prepare the event this > year. We of course do have a limited budget, but it would be nice to get > some feedback about how to possibly improve our support. > So I hope to get a lot of feedbacks from the 600 team leaders and their > support team who made SFD '08 happen! Since we do a lot of marketing on the web, one thing that would be nice is the new SFD'09 logo. Couldn't take more than an hour to do a remake on the '08 one.. :) Preferrably in SVG format so it can be fitted to any physical size. This is definately priority number one. Since we in Sweden (at least to some part) try to coordinate everything on a local level, we usually do our own swedish marketing material. That's why it would'a been awsome to get t-shirt-logos and stuff so that we can hunt our own sponsors for printing t-shirts and posters. However, I don't know how much responsability and control you are willing to delegate to local groups. :) Kindest regards, Mathias SFD Sweden

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Open source community members in Hobart, Tasmania
by Steve Olive Feb. 16, 2009

Feb. 16, 2009

Hi, A bit of a strange request ;-) but one of my colleagues has moved from Bathurst NSW to Hobart Tasmania. He has helped me with Software Freedom Day for that last 3 years and wanted to get involved in Hobart but isn't sure who to contact. Is there a Software Freedom Day group in Hobart? If so, could someone or everyone in SFD Hobart please contact me off list so I can pass on contact details? I'd post his contact details, but I use this email address which is the only email account on this mail server, for one thing, subscribing to the SFD Discuss list but I receive nearly 300 spam emails a week :( -- Thanks, Steve Computer Support Officer P/T Teacher Information Technology P/T Arts & IT Faculty Bathurst TAFE NSW Western Institute Phone: 02 6338 2450 email: steve(a)bathurst-tafe.nsw.edu.au .... _ ... (0)> ... //\ .. //. ) .. V__/_ Linux Powered! Registered Linux User #355382 Registered Ubuntu User #19586

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Vote for OOoCon 2009/2010 in Quezon City, Philippines
by rick Feb. 13, 2009

Feb. 13, 2009

The OpenOffice.org Annual International Conference (OOoCon) is the premier event for anyone interested in or working with OpenOffice.org. OOoCon is where representatives of all the community projects meet to celebrate and learn from the achievements of the past twelve months, and discuss how to meet the challenges of the next twelve. Visit the conference site here, http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2009/cfl/. *If you were a registered Community member on 1st January 2009, and you would like to attend OOoCon, you are entitled to have a say* in where OOoCon is held. Voting closes at midnight UTC on February 27th., and the locations of OOoCon 2009 and OOoCon 2010 will be announced shortly afterwards once all the preferences have been verified and verified.

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SFD planet hackergotchi
by Frederic Muller Jan. 29, 2009

Jan. 29, 2009

Hi everybody, A new year has started (well a month ago for most of us, right now for Chinese and in a few months for others...). SFI works on the Gregorian Calendar and we have started preparing for Software Freedom Day 2009. As we mentioned earlier in a response to João Nunes from Portugal, SFD is organized on the third Saturday of September and it will be a Saturday 19th this year. There are a few things we will want to get your input on and we will get back to this probably in the coming week. At the moment we're ironing out the website and I have been looking at our Planet (http://planet.softwarefreedomday.org) I noticed a lot of missing hackergotchi's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackergotchi) and it'd be really nice if people on the planet could send me links to their hackergotchi's so we can have a more colorful and personal planet. Thanks a lot. Fred Beijing LUG

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SFD 2008 - competition winners!
by Robert Schumann Dec. 17, 2008

Dec. 17, 2008

* ***Dear SFD'ers, Following a highly successful SFD 2008 - with 50% more teams registered than in 2007 - we are pleased to announce the winners of the competition for the best event: - FOSS Nepal Community (team leader Subir Pradhanang) - team report PDF 7.4MB<http://softwarefreedomday.org/Competition2008?action=AttachFile&do=get&targ…> - SFD Nicaragua (team leader Leandro Gomez) - team report 1.6MB<http://softwarefreedomday.org/Competition2008?action=AttachFile&do=get&targ…> - DabaweGNU (team leader Holden Hao) - team report<http://www.dabawegnu.org/Members/holden/software-freedom-day-2008> Congratulations to these teams, and many thanks to Subir, Leandro and Holden for leading their events and telling the world about their how it went! Each winning team will be receiving a prize of a *pair of OLPC laptops*<http://laptop.org/> . The winning entries were selected for the scope of their SFD activities, the number of people reached (particularly from the wider, non-technical community) and the quality of the reporting. However we received many high quality entries - a total of almost fifty submissions - and special mention also goes to: - Guyana (team leader Vidyaratha Kissoon) - team report<http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/centralandsouthamerica/guyana> - Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (Dev Anand Teelucksingh) - team report <http://www.ttcsweb.org/articles/sfd2008/index.htm> - freeIT (team leader Mylene Sereno) - team report<http://mylenesereno.blogspot.com/2008/09/software-freedomday-08-gensan.html> Thank you to all teams (over 500 teams in almost 90 countries) for their efforts in making SFD 2008 such a great success, and don't forget to put Saturday 19 Septermber 2009 in your calendars! To make sure you don't miss out on registration, make sure that you are subscribed to the SFD-announce mailing list <http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-announce>. Robert Schumann *Vice President, Software Freedom International*

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Publicity Officer required for Software Freedom International
by Robert Schumann Dec. 8, 2008

Dec. 8, 2008

Hi SFD'ers, Software Freedom International (SFI), the organisation behind Software Freedom Day, is gearing up for SFD 2009 and is currently seeking the services of a Publicity Officer. The position offers the opportunity to serve a community of over 500 team leaders and thousands more software freedom enthusiasts, as well as gain exposure and experience in developing the public profile of Software Freedom Day. Like all positions at SFI, this is a voluntary position with no remuneration apart from reimbursement of approved costs. SFI is a 501(c)(3) non-profit company registered in New Hampshire, USA. We have been organising SFD since 2004 and have supported events in over 90 countries since then. WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR.... The chosen candidate may be appointed to the board of SFI, but in any case will be required to join in SFI's regular board meetings (which take place every 1-2 weeks via IRC or telephone). The specific responsibilities of the role are: * Manage all written publicity materials * Coordinate the SFD competition * Arrange an editorial team to develop the SFD website * Plan and manage the translation of materials into other languages * Draw up and execute a plan for promoting SFD through the web, media and other channels. The ideal candidate will have an excellent command of English and a demonstrated ability to write creative and targeted copy for press releases. They will work alongside the SFI team, and particularly with the technical director, media & design officer and the sponsorship officer. Particular sensitivity to the requirements of SFD teams - who operate across many time zones, in varying socio-economic and cultural environments, and in dozens of languages - will be essential. The successful candidate will be invited to work with SFI until December 2009 and possibly beyond that. HOW TO LET US KNOW THAT YOU'RE INTERESTED... Please send a CV or summary of relevant experience to robert(a)softwarefreedomday.org, with the words "Application: SFI publicity officer" in the email subject line. References to previous written work or previous experience of managing publicity would be beneficial, as would evidence of managing a team. The deadline for submissions is 20 December 2008. Any questions regarding this position should be directed to info(a)softwarefreedomday.org. Robert Schumann President, Software Freedom International

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