Hi guys! SFD is very near and we wanted to send you all our thanks for going out and talking about Free and Open SourceSoftware to the people of your community. A lot of you have been involved in SFD since the early days and it is really nice for me to feel I know you (well I actually simply recognize an email address and sometimes we do have exchanged a few messages as well). For the new organizers let me tell you that SFD is like a big worldwide family where we meet every year during a short and intense period of time and make the best of it. Hopefully you will quickly feel at ease among us and come back next year to make another colorful and exciting SFD event in your area. So regardless of your background and experience in running SFD events we hope you will have as much fun and success tomorrow (some of you will celebrate SFD in a few days or weeks, this applies too of course). The SFI board will all be thinking of you and looking forward to seeing all the photos, videos and reading the reports you'll be submitting. Remember that the hash tag is #softwarefreedomday and we will be announcing the 2012 competition terms and prizes very soon. Thank you again and happy SFD! Fred