Dear All, We had a nice time during Software Freedom Day. This took place at Mpelembe Secondary School Kitwe -Copperbelt, Zambia. We distributed the CD's to the schools/Teachers that attended this important day. The programme was attended by the following schools and Teachers: 1. ST Marcelline Secondary School (Kalulushi) - Bro. Maxwell Hibajene 2. Kabundi High School (Chingola)- Mr. Kampamba, Mr. Mfuta, Mr. Zimba, Mrs.Chileshe 3. Mukuba High School (Kitwe) - Mr. N. Musukwa, Mr. Mweemba, 4. Chamboli High School ( Kitwe) - Mr. Musanda, Miss. G. Nkumbwe 5. Helen Kaunda High School ( Kitwe) - Mr. Kapila, Mr. Mukuka 6. Mpelembe Secondary school (Kitwe) - Mr. Gonzalo, Mr. Simpande, Mr. Walinkonde. The day was important to us because we unvailed the contents of the Open CD. OFFICE AND DESIGN • OPENOFFICE.ORG (FULLY COMPATIBLE OFFICE SOFTWARE • SCRIBUS (CREATE PROFESSIONAL LOOKING POSTERS AND MAGAZINES • DIA (MAKE TECHNICAL DIAGRAMS AND FLOWCHARTS) • FREE MIND (COLLECT YOUR IDEAS WITH THIS MIND MAPPING SOFTWARE) • GANTTPROJECT (PLAN YOUR PROJECTS WITH THIS PROJECT MANAGEMANT SOFTWARE) • PDF CREATOR (MAKE PDF DOCUMENTS FROM ANY PROGRAM) • SUMATRA PDF (READ PDF FILES QUICKLY AND EASILY) INTERNET • MOZILA FIREFOX (SAFE, SECURE AND FAST WEB BROWSER) • MOZILLA THUNDERBIRD (MANAGE YOUE EMAILS BETTER THAN EVER • PIDGIN (TALK TO YOUR FRIENDS WHATEVER INSTANT MESSAGE CLIENT THEY USE) • KOMPOZER (CREATE WEB PAGES WITH NO KNOWLEDGE OF CODE) • RSSOWL (KEEP UP WITH YOUR FAVOURITE INTERNET NEWS FEEDS ON YOUR DESKTOP) • PROJECT GUTENBERG (WEBLINK) DOWNLOADS BOOKS AND OTHER TEXTS FOR FREE • WIKIPEDIA (WEBLINK) THE FREE ON-LINE ENCYCLOPEDIA ART AND GRAPHICS • GNU IMAGE MANIPULATION PROGRAM (EDIT DIGITAL PHOTOS AND CREATE GRAPHICS) • INKSCAPE (MAKE PROFESSIONAL LOOKING VECTOR GRAPHICS) • PENCIL (MAKE YOUR OWN CARTOONS) • BLENDER (3D GRAPHIC MODELLING, ANIMATION, RENDERING AND PLAYBACK) • TUXPAINT (DRAWING PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN AGES 3 TO 12) • OPEN CLIPART LIBRARY (A GROWING COLLECTION OF FREE CLIP ART) MULTIMEDIA • AUDACITY (RECORD, EDIT AND MIX MUSIC) • TUXGUITAR (COMPOSE YOUR OWN MUSIC) • INFRA RECORDER (BURN YOUR CDS AND DVDS) • CAMSTUDIO (RECORD YOUR ACTIONS ON A COMPUTER) • REALLY SLICK SCREENSAVERS (GREAT LOOKING SCREENSAVERS) SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS • NASA WORLD WIND (DISCOVER THE EARTH AND OTHER PLANETS) • GREENFOOT (MAKE YOUR OWN GAMES AND LEARN HOW TO PROGRAM) • GRAPHCALC (A GRAPHICAL CALCULATOR) • GUIDO VAN ROBOT (TEACH YOURSELF HOW TO PROGRAM) • ALICE (USE PROGRAMMING TO MAKE YOUR OWN 3D ANIMATIONS) • SCRATCH (MAKE ANIMATIONS AND SHARE THEM ONLINE) • CARMETAL (COOL MATHEMATICAL MODELLING TOOL) • MAXIMA (UNIVERSITY STANDARD COMPUTER ALGEBRA SYSTEM) • CELESTIA (EXPLORE THE UNIVERSE IN THREE DIMENSIONS) • STELLARIUM (A PLANET ON YOUR PC) • PHET ( FREE SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS AND TOOLS) GAMES • FREECIV ( CONTROL THE WORLD THROUGH DIPLOMACY AND CONQUEST) • FREECOL (DISCOVER THE NEW WORLD AND BUILD AN EMPIRE) • NUMPTY PHYSICS (USE PHYSICS TO SOLVE A VARIETY OF EXCITING MISSIONS) • TUX TYPING 2 (LEARN TO TYPE LIKE A PRO) • TUX OF MATH COMMAND (TEST YOUR MATHEMATICAL SKILLS) • WINBOARD CHESS (THE CLASSIC GAME OF CHESS) UTILITIES • GIMP TOOL KIT (GTK +) MULTI-PLATFORM TOOLKIT FOR CREATING GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES. • 7-ZIP (COMPRESS AND UNCOMPRESS FILES IN A WIDE VARIETY OF FORMATS) • CLAIMWIN (ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE WITH AUTOMATIC UPDATING) • HEALTHMONITOR (STATUS MONITORING TOOL FOR WINDOWS COMPUTERS) • ABAKT (SCHEDULE AND RUN BACKUPS OF YOUR DATA) • WORKRAVE (PREVENT AND RECOVER FROM REPETITIVE STRAIN INJURY (RSI) ADVANCED INTERNET • NOTEPAD ++ ( A FAST TEXT EDITOR WITH SOME ADVANCED FEATURES FOR CODING) • FILEZILA (A FAST AND RELIABLE FTP CLIENT AND SERVER) • HTTRACK (DOWNLOAD WEBSITES FOR OFFLINE VIEWING) • WINSCP (SFTP AND SCP CLIENT) • TIGHTVNC (SEE THE DESKTOP OF A REMOTE COMPUTER AND CONTROL IT) It was very overwhelming such that teachers discovered a lot about the open Cd. Advantages were highlighted on why teachers and schools should use Ubuntu Cd's. Finally iam thanking all the schools and teachers who took part in this wonderful and important event and also not forgetting the sponsors of the 100 Ubuntu Cd's, T-shirts, ballons, stickers. Without you, the event would have been unsuccessful. Regards Misheck Mutuzana Coordinator SchoolNET Zambia - Mufulira Branch Copperbelt Region Copperbelt Coordinator - Global Teenager project (GTP) Member: OERtn, e-brain, CSZ, OSZ, Itrainer, Project Implementation Team -ENEDCO Email: mutuzana@yahoo.com,mutuzana@gmail.com +260 955-418926 /966-418926/977-418926 --- On Tue, 9/22/09, sfd-discuss-request@sf-day.org <sfd-discuss-request@sf-day.org> wrote:
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1. SFD 2009 Pretoria: Thank you! (Karl Fischer) 2. Re: SFD 2009 Pretoria: Thank you! (Frederic Muller) 3. Inmensa Gratitud! desde Neiva - Huila - Colombia - Suramerica - Thanks you! (Jorge Eduardo Mari?o Indaburu) 4. Re: Don't wash the T-Shirts! or be careful (Frederic Muller) 5. Re: SFD 2009 Pretoria: Thank you! (Ross Addis) 6. Re: Don't wash the T-Shirts! or be careful (Matthias-Christian Ott) 7. Re: Don't wash the T-Shirts! or be careful (Frederic Muller) 8. Re: Don't wash the T-Shirts! or be careful (Jorge Eduardo Mari?o Indaburu)
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Message: 1 Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:03:23 +0200 From: Karl Fischer <kmf@fischer.org.za> Subject: [SFD-discuss] SFD 2009 Pretoria: Thank you! To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss@sf-day.org> Message-ID: <f7fabe790909210703v588fec4fo24117f68fca72257@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Hi There, We had a awesome day! I really believe that this year was a success!
Here some photos: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/gallery/2009/Pretoria-Gauteng-South-Africa
Karl
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Message: 2 Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:11:38 +0800 From: Frederic Muller <fred@beijinglug.org> Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD 2009 Pretoria: Thank you! To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss@sf-day.org> Message-ID: <4AB7899A.1060602@beijinglug.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Very nice pictures indeed. Seems like the event went really well!
I have a question though: what's in that orange kiosk (3 pcs apparently) that everyone seems so attracted to it?
Fred
Karl Fischer wrote:
Hi There, We had a awesome day! I really believe that this year was a success!
Here some photos: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/gallery/2009/Pretoria-Gauteng-South-Africa
Karl
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Message: 3 Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:38:58 -0500 From: Jorge Eduardo Mari?o Indaburu <jemarinoi@gmail.com> Subject: [SFD-discuss] Inmensa Gratitud! desde Neiva - Huila - Colombia - Suramerica - Thanks you! To: sfd-discuss@sf-day.org Message-ID: <cbb7c9f30909211138q73d1a24btcbf7d31dff8476c7@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Nuestra jornada fue todo un ?xito...que sinergia.. que calidez y calidad de evento..viva el Software Libre...el SL es pasi?n!! was a success!
Nuestras fotos (Here some photos):
http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/gallery/2009/Neiva_Colombia
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7498327@N07/sets/72157622295382977/show/with/39...
Con sentimientos de admiraci?n a todos!
Jorge Eduardo Mari?o Indaburu jemarinoi@gmail.com
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