Hi Pia, The following are from CP-Union-lead Philippine Team for SFD 2008. (I think we have three separate teams celebrating on different venues). SFD Team Philippines Members: Computer Professionals' Union, Txtpower.Org, Philippine PHP Users Group, Bayan Muna, UnPLUG, Imus Internet Cafe Association, Asia Source Pilipinas http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/asiaandmiddleeast/Philippines/SFD2008 a. On the 17th of Sept - we are scheduled for a dialogue with legislators of the philippine congress. b. on the 20th of Sept - Rep. Teddy Casino of Bayan Muna Party list is joining us on SFD to express support and push for the FOSS Bill passage in the House of Representatives. c. We are expecting more than 1,000 students from Univ of makati alone. d. The morning session of SFD will be streaming on the web. A local TV channel (NBN TV) with web streaming capability committed to put the event online. e. The web streaming will allow at least 2 satellite provincial events to join the main event in Makati City. f. Our bandwidth is sponsored by Globe Telecoms (one of the 3 telco in the country) e. for our build-up, CP-Union is launching tomorrow the Software Freedom Tour in one of the university in the capital. It will be a series of visits to campuses. So far, we already have 3 campuses to visit. g. Below are links to PRs and news coverage already. g.1 http://www.cp-union.com/content/software-freedom-tour-celebration-kicks-trai... g.2 http://www.cp-union.com/content/one-nation-unity-software-freedom-celebratin... g.3 http://technology.inquirer.net/infotech/infotech/view/20080905-158897/Group-... this all for now from the Philippine team led by the Computer Professionals Union Rick www.cp-union.com On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 6:21 AM, Pia Waugh <pia@softwarefreedomday.org>wrote:
Hi all,
Software Freedom International will be doing a press release early next week about SFD 2008 (as will several of our sponsors). I wanted to give the community a chance to:
a) post to the list any amazing preparations, or expectations for the event. Any big names participating, or Government announcements?
b) give everyone a chance to update their event pages before we get some press. We already are seeing a much greater build up of website interest this year than last year, and it looks like we may hit 500 teams this year, with over 400 already registered and many more expected!
c) do your own press releases. We are almost 2 weeks out, so get out to the local radio, newspapers, and other media for the final build up of interest and participation!
Thanks all and happy planning!
Cheers, Pia
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