Frederic Muller <- SFI <fred@softwarefreedomday.org>> writes:
So with a bit more than a week to SFD some of us are wondering how you're all getting ready for your event.
[…] [I should probably post a detailed report in both Russian and English on our Web site, but just for now, I'm posting it to the mailing lists.] What we've done? • We've discussed the event a bit, both face to face, and via the local LUG forum, e. g.: http://altlug.ru/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=5350 • We've agreed on four computer-related reports at our event! • We've got a Web site (http://sfd.am-1.org/) and a mailing list for our event (sfd-discuss at sfd.am-1.org; not to be confused with /The/ SFD-discuss) running! • We've also got QR-codes for the respective URI's (http://sfd.am-1.org/img/), but I'm not sure whether those will be used. • We've corresponded to one of the local computer-related magazines and they're going to publish a pointer to our event! • We've got some CD's and images with some GNU/Linux distributions. (Thanks again for 20 × Ubuntu 10.4 CD's!) • We've agreed that we'll have about 30 copies of our event's poster or so, to be placed at all the local universities, and probably some schools. (The poster design is still in progress. Should be ready next Monday.) • We're also going to have some small (10 cm × 7.5 cm = 4" × 3" or so) give-aways pointing to our event. (Still in progress.) What we've not. • In order to estimate the number of participants and to know the interests of the public better, we've started a (completely optional) registration. Unfortunately, there weren't too much people registered so far. • There's still some uncertainty regarding the equipment and software that will be available at the display room. • I still hope to come up with a suitable FreeDOS kit, in order to show the folks that Free Software comes in all the sizes! (Re. the last one: I've found the EGAint game for DOS, developed in 1989, and, well, it comes under GNU GPL v1! Unfortunately, a quick Google scan didn't reveal its home page or sources.) -- FSF associate member #7257