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Presenting SFD-REG and SFD 2008 Artwork
by Leandro Gómez Sept. 16, 2008

Sept. 16, 2008

Hi all, For those of you that haven't been following the posts on the Planet SFD: We have released SFD-REG, a free event registration system developed by Adolfo Fitoria [0] using RoR. It's released under GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3). You can read more about it here (including some screenshots). [1] We have also released all the artwork made by Byron Corrales [2] for the SFD Nicaragua 2008 event. More info here. [3] Hope you can make good use of it. Cheers, [0] http://fitoria.wordpress.com/ [1] http://leogg.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/tools-for-freedom/ [2] http://byroncorrales.blogspot.com/ [3] http://leogg.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/sfd-2008-artwork/

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[OT] Scarcity and copyright
by shirish Sept. 16, 2008

Sept. 16, 2008

Hi all, While its great that we are having a software freedom day, but I believe that free software is just the beginning of the wakeup call . There is so much more that needs to be done. There is also the whole of Free Culture movement as well which has lots of similarities and dis-similarities to what free software hopes to do. As an individual I believe the free software movement and the free culture movement have much to gain and I'm sure there would be lot of loose relationships which are there or may be forming as we speak. A recent international incident concerning copyrights irritated and disturbed me quite a bit . Even after thinking about it for days it just wouldn't go down, hence put up a blog post about the same . http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/scarcity-and-copyright/ One thing though, I'm no expert in copyright. While it may not serve the interests of the free software movement directly I do believe we get affected by it quite a bit. Hoping we can make our voices heard in as many places as we can. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal This email is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17

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Sun promotes SFD
by Przemysław Kulczycki Sept. 15, 2008

Sept. 15, 2008

I don't know if you guys have seen it, but Sun promotes SFD a lot: http://www.sun.com/events/softwarefreedomday/index.jsp Sun is pushing SFD very much. Here in Kraków, Poland, a local Sun ambassador contacted me and offered free OpenSolaris cds, t-shirts, poster printing, and even free pizza on our event! I know it's a bit late to inform you about it, but if you have any time then you can try contact Sun for additional resources for your SFD events. -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki <<>> Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael[na]jabster.pl | tlen: azrael29a # ### www: http://reksio.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~azrael/ ###

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Press release
by Pia Waugh Sept. 14, 2008

Sept. 14, 2008

Hi all, Software Freedom International will be doing a press release early next week about SFD 2008 (as will several of our sponsors). I wanted to give the community a chance to: a) post to the list any amazing preparations, or expectations for the event. Any big names participating, or Government announcements? b) give everyone a chance to update their event pages before we get some press. We already are seeing a much greater build up of website interest this year than last year, and it looks like we may hit 500 teams this year, with over 400 already registered and many more expected! c) do your own press releases. We are almost 2 weeks out, so get out to the local radio, newspapers, and other media for the final build up of interest and participation! Thanks all and happy planning! Cheers, Pia -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

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Request for contact from Polish SFD teams
by Przemysław Kulczycki Sept. 14, 2008

Sept. 14, 2008

Everyone from SFD teams in Poland is invited to contact me to coordinate promotion of SFD events in our country. Osoby z polskich teamów SFD które jeszcze się ze mną nie skontaktowały proszone są o kontakt. -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki <<>> Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael[na]jabster.pl | tlen: azrael29a # ### www: http://reksio.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~azrael/ ###

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Re: [SFD-discuss] Planet SFD - send us your blogs/newsfeeds!
by Rakesh Ganatra Sept. 14, 2008

Sept. 14, 2008

Hello Pia, please add my blog, Name:Open Source University Meetup at BITS-Pilani,Goa Campus (BITSOSUM) Blog URL: http://bitsosum.blogspot.com/ Feed URL: http://bitsosum.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default Hackergotchi : attached with the mail (hope this one doesnt bounce)

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New look for planet SFD
by Pia Waugh Sept. 13, 2008

Sept. 13, 2008

Hi all, Our wonderful board member Phil Harper has created a cool look for the SFD planet! thakns Phil! http://planet.softwarefreedomday.org/ Cheers, Pia -- OLPC Australia http://olpc.org.au/ Linux Australia http://linux.org.au/ Open Source Industry Australia http://osia.net.au/ Software Freedom Day http://softwarefreedomday.org/ "We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free." - Bill Hicks

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Software Freedom Day Cleveland Conference
by boscagarda-meetup2345d＠yahoo.com Sept. 13, 2008

Sept. 13, 2008

Howdy Yall! I have waited to say too much until we had some things in place. But our plans for Software Freedom Day Cleveland are moving along. Due to circumstances beyond our control, we had to set the date much later than the rest of yall will be celebrating. But we have a great team on board to help us make a knock out conference. We are shooting for an attendance of about 200 to 250 including volunteers for an all day conference. We've already got sponsors signing on and more work is being done to encourage more sponsorship. We're definitely looking for speakers if you would be interested. We will have more posted on this shortly. To see our announcement and then links to our sites just go to: http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/ClevelandOhio Of course I want to thank everyone that is involved with helping us. The volunteers are reallying starting to pull together to give us the help we need. Thanks to yall for setting up this on a global scale, as it helps us to be part of something much larger than ourselves. Many Kind Regards, Joseph James Frantz (Aoirthoir)

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Shuttleworth and Phipps added to SFD Planet
by Pia Waugh Sept. 12, 2008

Sept. 12, 2008

Hi all, barely 14 hours after launching the SFD planet, we already have 10 feeds added, including Mark Shuttleworth and Simon Phipps. Send us your feeds everyone! And your hackergotchi's! Cheers, Pia -- OLPC Australia http://olpc.org.au/ Linux Australia http://linux.org.au/ Open Source Industry Australia http://osia.net.au/ Software Freedom Day http://softwarefreedomday.org/ "We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free." - Bill Hicks

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Change event coordinates?
by gk＠fsfe.org Sept. 12, 2008

Sept. 12, 2008

Hello everyone, When I registered our team, we did not know where exactly our event will take place, so I set the coordinates in this Google Maps applet to the center of our city. Now that we know the exact location I would like to correct this. How do I do that, or whom do I have to contact? Thanks in advance! Regards, georg -- We could change the world if god gave us the source.

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