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Open documents in support of software freedom
by Robert Schumann March 21, 2009

March 21, 2009

Software Freedom International, the worldwide organizer of the annual Software Freedom Day, encourages all SFD teams to support the Document Freedom Day 2009 (DFD 2009) celebration (http://documentfreedom.org/) on 25 March 2009. DFD 2009 aims to raise awareness on the importance of accessible document formats and open standards in everyone's day to day activities. Open standards are agreed document definitions which are available to the public to review and use. They cannot depend on formats or protocols that are not open standards themselves. The definitions of these open standards are free from legal and technical restrictions that limit their use, and can be easily implemented in multiple environments - so they can be used on PCs, iPods, Playstations and whatever computing environments we'll be using in 50 years time. Open standards protect governments, businesses and the wider community of computer users from vendor and data lock-ins. Such lock-ins obstruct users from exercising their full freedom in software and the information they access. Computers have only become part of daily life in the last twenty or thirty years, and yet already there are documents that, due to closed formats, we are unable to easily access using modern software. Software freedom will not be complete without open standards and open document formats. Together, they ensure that free and open source software can be created and developed to implement open standards to benefit millions of users worldwide. The Software Freedom Day and Document Freedom Day teams are united in advancing information and software freedom for everyone. Find out where your closest DFD 2009 team is by visiting the website ( http://documentfreedom.org/) - and if there isn't one, why not plan your own event? REFERENCE: Rick Bahague rick(a)cp-union.com Publicity officer, Software Freedom International

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Software Freedom Day needs your technical expertise
by Robert Schumann March 16, 2009

March 16, 2009

Software Freedom Day is looking for an innovative TECHNICAL STRATEGY DIRECTOR with strong IT skills to help bring software freedom to new audiences around the world. Software Freedom International (SFI), the organisation behind Software Freedom Day, 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. The position of Technical Strategy Director offers the opportunity to serve our community of over 500 team leaders and thousands more software freedom enthusiasts, as well as gain exposure and experience in developing the online presence of Software Freedom Day. Like all positions at SFI, this is a voluntary position with no remuneration apart from reimbursement of approved costs; we may at our discretion make funds available to enable a suitable candidate to develop their technical skills or acquire relevant qualifications. 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 to - arrange sysadmin of servers - hold passwords and access to domain names and other key infrastructure - implement online strategy including web and email platforms and our online shop - implement a team registration system, or upgrade the existing system - coordinate web design (in cooperation with our Media & Design officer) - enable collection of metrics including web stats, membership and mailing list subscribers - implement issue tracking (RT) system - facilitate i18n and l10n of online presence We would like the Technical Strategy Director to enable us to reach a broader community, including those without experience of programming. As such the chosen candidate should have ideas about how to use various online tools – including social networking, instant messaging, data mashups, online video and RSS – to promote SFD. The ideal candidate will have some experience of online content management systems for community development. However, we anticipate that they will work with a team (or with SFD partners) to actually execute most tasks and may therefore not need to devote time and energy to programming and web design unless they choose to do so. They will work alongside the SFI team, and particularly the President, the media and design officer and the publicity officer. The successful candidate will be invited to work with SFI at least until December 2009, and beyond that if possible. 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 technical strategy" in the email subject line. Please highlight any experience that is relevant to the specific responsibilities listed above. The deadline for submissions is 22 March 2009. Any questions regarding this position should be directed to info(a)softwarefreedomday.org.

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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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