Dear everybody,

We prepared 200 packs of goodies and we have around 140 teams registered so far.

That means we still have five days to get 60 teams! In order to do that we need your help to run a "SFD registration is on" campaign!

Would everyone try to find the contacts of all the local communities in your country and inform them about the SFD registration and ask them to organize and register a SFD event?

Let's keep track of the local communities list here: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/MarketingCommittee/CommunityList so we can reuse it for the coming years.  If you cannot edit the wiki page, please send me an email separately to tell me your wiki login name, I can add you in the MarketingGroup or feel free to send me the list so I can add it for you.

I drafted an email to send to local communities, please feel free to modify, localize and send to your local communities. Blogging and microblogging would be great too. I had already contacted 100+ local communities so far and contacting more, will update on the wiki list as next step.

With everybody's help, we can definitely bring SFD to more places, so let's do it!

If you have other ideas of how to promote SFD to potential organizers, please share them here, we can always do better!

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Register your SFD2011 event now
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If you plan to organize a Software Freedom Day (SFD) event this year, but haven't registered yet, you should definitely go to register as soon as possible to get some goodies on or before August 2nd!  SFD Goodies availability is subject to first come first served basis and each pack will include 3 t-shirts, 20 stickers, 10 tshirt transfer labels, 3 dvds, 20 balloons and a 2-meter long banner :-)

Registration is very easy, you just need to :

1) create a wiki page of your event under wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011, and then
2) go to http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/cgi-bin/register.py to submit your event information.

If you have any issue regarding registration, you may read our howto on http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CreateYourTeampage or contact us via email: sfd-discuss(at)sf-day.org or IRC: #sfd @freenode server.

If you wonder what is SFD or how to organize or participate in a SFD event? Please go to our website on http://www.softwarefreedomday.org and read our startguide on http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/StartGuide

If you already registered your SFD event, all the best to your preparation!

Please also help us to promote Software Freedom Day by placing a SFD web banner on your website / blog: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Promote and link back to your SFD event page or softwarefreedomday.org front page. Thank you!

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