Dear team leader, wiki page maintainers,

I would like also to encourage people not to use the city page to describe your event. Here is why:

• This is usually a shared page between all teams, so it should point to each team/event page
• If so far there is only you, maybe it would be nice to allow another team to register and put their link on that page
• Do not assume only you is interested in celebrating SFD in your city, you might be surprised to find other communities
  
• Administration: having city pages with only team listing will allow us to easily move the pages for 2011, if there is a lot of stuff related to your event it will make the work a lot more difficult for us
• If your team name is the city name, then just add SFD before or after the city name and you've got yourself a new team name separate from the city name. ;-)
  

Also please remember to:

• Keep the CategoryTeam tag at the bottom of your team page so it gets listed in http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CategoryTeam
• Keep the CategoryRegion tag in the city page, and CategoryCountry tag in the country page so location pages get automatically indexed making the wiki navigation a lot easier. This will help new team leaders and visitors to easily figure out if there is an event in their location and prevent from creating a double entry for the same location
• Register your team at http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/register.html . This will enable your team to:
• Be officially registered
• Let us have a contact name and email in the event we need to interact
• Have a location marker and be listed on the SFD2010 Map at http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/map.shtml
• Make it easier for visitors to find your team giving them a graphical navigation tool
• Make our community appear well coordinated to the press and visitors

Should you have an problem with the registration form, the wiki or updating your marker location or other information on the SFD 2010 map page please do contact us through the discussion mailing list or the contact form on http://www.softwarefreedomday.org .

Note that currently the registration script has issues with anything that is not ASCII character in the URL. So no éèáàã, etc in the page name please, but in the page content no problem. We're currently working on fixing that.

Thank you very much and happy preparations.

Fred
SFI Board