Hi! Thanks for raising the issue. We unfortunately don't have a ready made answer to that problem but we can provide a few hints for this year and see how we can pick a better date for the celebration next year: - as with all the event the final date for YOUR event is really YOUR choice and what works for you. This year we're having a team celebrating SFD on November 30th, because that's what worked for them... Hopefully you can find a good date for yourself. - for the upcoming years we have 4 celebrations (CFD, EFD, HFD and SFD). Logically it would be one every quarter and we'd be fine but... SFD is on September and somehow now going to change (more on this later). December seems a difficult month to do things because of the nearby Christmas celebration, so next available month seemed to be January (we have Chinese New Year in the way, but living in China we can deal with that when it happens). July and August and usually summer holidays for the northern hemisphere (maybe August more) keeping those 2 months off the celebration calendar. So in fact it would seem like CFD, EFD and HFD need to be organized between January and June. June is not good for neither CFD nor EFD: there is a (Mainly French but it's spreading and it's old) "Music celebration" is June and we wouldn't want CFD to be celebrated at the same date as it'd bring confusion between Music (Free or not) and Free Culture, dissolving the focus. March is also a tricky month because of DFD and, as we've found out after deciding for EFD, the Open Education Week (http://www.openeducationweek.org/ ). Having something somewhat less related like HFD during the same rough time is however acceptable. Of course we could maybe do HFD, CFD and then EFD. I wonder how EFD would fare in May/June though, when all the northern hemisphere is either trying to finish their curriculum before the exam, preparing for the exam or... gone away from school ;-) Now with all this is mind how would you think of a better approach to our scheduling? Thanks a lot. Fred On 11/27/2013 11:52 PM, Paulo Henrique Santana wrote:
Hello Fred,
Great! Unfortunately here in Brazil from January to February the schools are on holiday. Maybe to 2015 we can talk about a date later (after february) to EFD.
Best regards,
2013/11/27 Frederic Muller - DFF <fred@digitalfreedomfoundation.org>:
Dear all,
We are launching a new celebration as announced in August, around Open Educational Resources and Free Educational Software called Education Freedom Day [1] which will be celebrated on January 18th, 2014 (Saturday). The registration just opened and follow our other events process with a wiki page creation [2] and then registration [3]!
The date has been chosen as mid school year in order to somewhat make an update on any project an education institution has been involved with, and look at what to deploy the next school year. There are nowadays hundreds of resources which we will try to list (a few of them at least) in our wiki [4] which goes from specific tuition to complete solutions depending on what your focus is. Some involve software, some don't (except for the materials to follow). We hope that you will be able to gather as many educators/teachers/professors as possible and make them discover OER communities and the immense possibilities that goes together with them.
EFD support questions will be handled on the efd mailing list[5] or efd IRC channel #efday @ Freenode.
Thanks a lot and happy EFD!
---- The Digital Freedom Foundation Board
[1] http://www.educationfreedomday.org/ [2] http://wiki.educationfreedomday.org/2014 [3] http://www.educationfreedomday.org/cgi-bin/register.py [4] [5] http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/efd-discuss
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