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-training-marathon
g.2 http://www.cp-union.com/content/one-nation-unity-software-freedom-celebrating-software-freedom-day-2008-philippines
g.3 http://technology.inquirer.net/infotech/infotech/view/20080905-158897/Group-to-start-SMS-campaign-for-open-source-bill

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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