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   1. Re:  hello and t-shirt cost (Robert Schumann)
   2.  CDs to be dispatched to SFD teams (Robert Schumann)
   3. Re:  CDs to be dispatched to SFD teams (Matthew Macdonald-Wallace)
   4. Re:  CDs to be dispatched to SFD teams (Melissa Draper)
   5. RE:   CDs to be dispatched to SFD teams (Douglas A. Whitfield)

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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:52:37 +0100
From: "Robert Schumann" <robert@softwarefreedomday.org>
Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] hello and t-shirt cost
To: "Open discussions about SFD" <sfd-discuss@sf-day.org>
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Hi Douglas,

The sfd-announce list is generally pretty low-traffic, particularly when
we're more than three months from SFD. Traffic will probably start to pick
up soon, though....

Regarding T-shirts, we're aiming to have the sales website up within about
two weeks. Speaking entirely non-authoritatively, so don't quote me, I
believe the T-shirt price may be around US$12. The small profit we make on
selling the shirts goes to help us send supplies to all the teams around the
world.

Anyway, it's great to have you signed up and we hope you organise some great
SFD events in North Carolina. Feel free to stay in touch with us and with
other teams from around the globe via this mailing list.

Robert.

On 10/06/07, Douglas A. Whitfield < whitdoug@email.unc.edu> wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I just signed up for this list today since no messages have come out of
> the sfd-announce since I joined it about a month ago.  My group's site
> is http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/teams/northamerica/ChapelHill.  We
> are looking to purchase about $100 of the t-shirts if the price is
> right.  I know the page says the shirts are being worked on, but do we
> have an estimated cost?
>
> This group is a new group begun this spring, so this obviously our first
> SFD.  None of us had actually even heard of SFD until May 8th!  We hope
> we can get similar events started at other local universities (Duke and
> NC State) as well as some other places we have ties (NCSSM and
> Gardner-Webb University).  Any questions, comments or concerns are very
> welcome!
>
> Thank you,
> --
> Douglas A. Whitfield
>
> UNC SILS MSIS Class of '08
> Cell: 919-360-0306
> AIM: DouglasAWh
>
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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:36:13 +0100
From: "Robert Schumann" <robert@softwarefreedomday.org >
Subject: [SFD-discuss] CDs to be dispatched to SFD teams
To: "Team discussions about SFD" <sfd-discuss@sf-day.org>
Cc: sfd-announce@sf-day.org, info@softwarefreedomday.org
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The organisers of Software Freedom Day have been discussing making some
changes to the supplies we will be making available to SFD teams this year.

Last year we helped Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, send shipments of
Ubuntu CDs to teams, and teams once again have the opportunity to request
Ubuntu CDs when they register this year. We have also been intending this
year to ship copies of The Open CD ( http://theopencd.org/), which was
supplied to teams in 2005 - and when teams register this year, they are
offered the opportunity to specify how many of The Open CD they would like
to receive.

However, for various reasons we would like to avoid shipping The Open CD
this year. The major reason is cost: although the cost per team might only
be US$10 or US$15, when you have hundreds of teams registered that becomes a
lot of money. Software Freedom International (the organisation behind SFD)
has very limited funds and we believe this is not an effective use of those
funds.

What we are proposing instead is to send teams
1. One CD or DVD containing open source documentaries, interviews, music and
any other open resources we can get hold of
2. A single copy of The Open CD, which can be replicated by teams if they
wish to distribute this software
3. ...as well as the usual T-shirts and a few other little items!

Another part of the reason for this proposed change is to make available to
teams (including teams in parts of the world where internet connectivity is
not great) a set of resources that can be used to convey the message of
software freedom (for example, interviews with some leaders in the FLOSS
world). These resources could then also be used to put together your own
documentary or shown at other software freedom events you may plan ( e.g.
for a campus fair at your college, or an IT exhibition).

Before making this change, we wanted to hear feedback from you, the team
leaders and FLOSS enthusiasts from around the world. So please do get in
touch with us to let us know what you think (about this change, and about
our proposed team supplies) and ask any questions you may have. You can
either chat with other SFD participants on the SFD-discuss mailing list (you
need to be a member: join at
http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss ) or you can send your
comments/questions direct to the SFI board at info@sf-day.org. We are
specifically interested in
1. suggestions for resources to be put on the CD/DVD (which must be under an
open license).
2. whether your team would have a problem using a DVD and you'd prefer a CD.

Looking forward to hearing from you,
Robert.

PS - Three months left to go before SFD! How are your preparations going?
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:16:45 +0100
From: Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <matthew@truthisfreedom.org.uk >
Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] CDs to be dispatched to SFD teams
To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss@sf-day.org>
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On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:36:13 +0100, "Robert Schumann" < robert@softwarefreedomday.org> wrote:
> Before making this change, we wanted to hear feedback from you, the team
> leaders and FLOSS enthusiasts from around the world. So please do get in
> touch with us to let us know what you think (about this change, and about
> our proposed team supplies) and ask any questions you may have. You can
> either chat with other SFD participants on the SFD-discuss mailing list
> (you
> need to be a member: join at
> http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss) or you can send your
> comments/questions direct to the SFI board at info@sf-day.org. We are
> specifically interested in
> 1. suggestions for resources to be put on the CD/DVD (which must be under
> an
> open license).
> 2. whether your team would have a problem using a DVD and you'd prefer a
> CD.

Sounds like a fair plan to me, I'm sure that there's a video of RMS talking about GPL/FOSS etc that's open source, also the recent BBC episode of CLICK (http://www.bbc.co.uk/click ) mentions Ubuntu and other OSS (but I'm not sure how well it does this!)

Would it be possible for the DVD to contain ISOs of Ubuntu, EdUbuntu, TheOpenCD, Knoppix, SLED[0] etc? That way we'd only need one disk and could get all the distros from it!

I'm hoping to build some sort of freedom toaster for the event, so if I can just copy a load of ISOs from a disk to the HDD, that would be great!

Cheers,

M.
--
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
Lug-Master (http://www.thanet.lug.org.uk),
Dad (http://www.helpmeimadad.com/),
Ubuntu User( http://www.ubuntu.com/ )

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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:10:36 +1000
From: Melissa Draper <melissa@meldraweb.com>
Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] CDs to be dispatched to SFD teams
To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss@sf-day.org>
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Robert Schumann wrote:
> The organisers of Software Freedom Day have been discussing making
> some changes to the supplies we will be making available to SFD teams
> this year.
>
> Last year we helped Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, send
> shipments of Ubuntu CDs to teams, and teams once again have the
> opportunity to request Ubuntu CDs when they register this year. We
> have also been intending this year to ship copies of The Open CD (
> http://theopencd.org/), which was supplied to teams in 2005 - and when
> teams register this year, they are offered the opportunity to specify
> how many of The Open CD they would like to receive.

So the version of TheOpenCD would be the 2005 version or would it be the
current one?

>
> However, for various reasons we would like to avoid shipping The Open
> CD this year. The major reason is cost: although the cost per team
> might only be US$10 or US$15, when you have hundreds of teams
> registered that becomes a lot of money. Software Freedom International
> (the organisation behind SFD) has very limited funds and we believe
> this is not an effective use of those funds.

Why not have an option for teams to cover the shipping if they still
want a batch? It would still be cheaper than buying them elsewhere? I
for one would take this option if it were offered.

>
> What we are proposing instead is to send teams
> 1. One CD or DVD containing open source documentaries, interviews,
> music and any other open resources we can get hold of
> 2. A single copy of The Open CD, which can be replicated by teams if
> they wish to distribute this software
> 3. ...as well as the usual T-shirts and a few other little items!
>
> Another part of the reason for this proposed change is to make
> available to teams (including teams in parts of the world where
> internet connectivity is not great) a set of resources that can be
> used to convey the message of software freedom (for example,
> interviews with some leaders in the FLOSS world). These resources
> could then also be used to put together your own documentary or shown
> at other software freedom events you may plan ( e.g. for a campus fair
> at your college, or an IT exhibition).
>
> Before making this change, we wanted to hear feedback from you, the
> team leaders and FLOSS enthusiasts from around the world. So please do
> get in touch with us to let us know what you think (about this change,
> and about our proposed team supplies) and ask any questions you may
> have. You can either chat with other SFD participants on the
> SFD-discuss mailing list (you need to be a member: join at
> http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss
> <http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss>) or you can send
> your comments/questions direct to the SFI board at info@sf-day.org
> <mailto:info@sf-day.org>. We are specifically interested in
> 1. suggestions for resources to be put on the CD/DVD (which must be
> under an open license).
> 2. whether your team would have a problem using a DVD and you'd prefer
> a CD.
>
>
>
> Looking forward to hearing from you,
> Robert.
>
> PS - Three months left to go before SFD! How are your preparations going?
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
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--
Sincerely
Melissa Draper

http://www.meldraweb.com

Phone: 0404 595 395
(intl): +61 404 595 395

P.O Box 1412
Lavington, NSW 2641

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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:25:22 -0400
From: "Douglas A. Whitfield" <whitdoug@email.unc.edu>
Subject: RE:  [SFD-discuss] CDs to be dispatched to SFD teams
To: "'Open discussions about SFD'" < sfd-discuss@sf-day.org>
Message-ID: <D48F3DE094C7441E835CC8D58D74387A@dev.unc.edu>
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We at COSI were looking forward to not buying the CDs ourselves, but the
video idea is interesting because we were planning on partnering with our
local Free Culture organization ( http://freeculture.org/) and the Creative
Commons license (or however the videos, etc. are licensed) would be of
interest to them.  Hopefully we can get some money for CDs from local
sponsors.  Dell is on board here, but we don't know for how much yet.

Douglas A. Whitfield

IT Student Assistant

Mon, Wed, Thurs 9-5 until July 30th

Development Office

208 West Franklin Street, CB# 6100

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Office (Server Room): 919-843-3226

Cell: 919-360-0306

Carolina Open Source Initiative Co-President

Carolina-opensource@listserv.unc.edu

http://softwarefreedomday.org/

http://www.ibiblio.org/cosi

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On Behalf Of Robert Schumann
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 6:36 AM
To: Team discussions about SFD
Cc: sfd-announce@sf-day.org; info@softwarefreedomday.org
Subject: [Spam:11.3] [SFD-discuss] CDs to be dispatched to SFD teams

The organisers of Software Freedom Day have been discussing making some
changes to the supplies we will be making available to SFD teams this year.

Last year we helped Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, send shipments of
Ubuntu CDs to teams, and teams once again have the opportunity to request
Ubuntu CDs when they register this year. We have also been intending this
year to ship copies of The Open CD ( http://theopencd.org/), which was
supplied to teams in 2005 - and when teams register this year, they are
offered the opportunity to specify how many of The Open CD they would like
to receive.

However, for various reasons we would like to avoid shipping The Open CD
this year. The major reason is cost: although the cost per team might only
be US$10 or US$15, when you have hundreds of teams registered that becomes a
lot of money. Software Freedom International (the organisation behind SFD)
has very limited funds and we believe this is not an effective use of those
funds.

What we are proposing instead is to send teams
1. One CD or DVD containing open source documentaries, interviews, music and
any other open resources we can get hold of
2. A single copy of The Open CD, which can be replicated by teams if they
wish to distribute this software
3. ...as well as the usual T-shirts and a few other little items!

Another part of the reason for this proposed change is to make available to
teams (including teams in parts of the world where internet connectivity is
not great) a set of resources that can be used to convey the message of
software freedom (for example, interviews with some leaders in the FLOSS
world). These resources could then also be used to put together your own
documentary or shown at other software freedom events you may plan ( e.g.
for a campus fair at your college, or an IT exhibition).

Before making this change, we wanted to hear feedback from you, the team
leaders and FLOSS enthusiasts from around the world. So please do get in
touch with us to let us know what you think (about this change, and about
our proposed team supplies) and ask any questions you may have. You can
either chat with other SFD participants on the SFD-discuss mailing list (you
need to be a member: join at
http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss
<http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > ) or you can send your
comments/questions direct to the SFI board at info@sf-day.org. We are
specifically interested in
1. suggestions for resources to be put on the CD/DVD (which must be under an
open license).
2. whether your team would have a problem using a DVD and you'd prefer a CD.

Looking forward to hearing from you,
Robert.

PS - Three months left to go before SFD! How are your preparations going?

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