OpenSource as an ideology OpenSource is a development methodology. So if you want to talk about
On 08/21/2011 09:06 PM, yaromir@hotbox.ru wrote: philosophy you should talk about Free Software. Now I fully agree with you that SFD is not about GNU/Linux but about Software Freedom, and getting people to know about it and why it is important. We are currently working on providing a set of several presentations with comments to help SFD teams organizers and speakers with delivering content. I gave a talk early this year about "Why software freedom matters" which covers exactly those points. I am currently reviewing those slides with a few people to make sure nothing is left out.
For SFD organizers this will help to be a bit more assured, that SFD is about freedom, not about trying Linux.
Totally right: local events should encourage anyone regardless of the operating system to try and use Free Software. It is a lot easier to change the browser or email client you use than the whole operating system. This will also keep users of the Windows and OS X operating systems interested. Thank you very much for reinforcing that point. Fred ps: links to slides will be posted when available, but surely it will be linked from that page: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources