Hi! As Bob mentioned the date is only a recommendation. In fact finding a date that will work for anyone everywhere in the world every year is impossible. Each community has either local celebrations, religious ones, or conflicting events. It is ultimately the decision of the team leader (and his team I suppose) to pick the date that works best for him in his environment. And for sure he'll know better than we do. Just make sure that you clearly state the date in your wiki page and on all your material so people don't show up on the wrong date ;-) For information we organized our SFD one month late in Cambodia last year too as SFD official date was conflicting with a big Buddhist celebration. I hope that gives us enough information to pick a date that will work for you. Happy SFD! Fred On 08/02/2015 03:08 AM, Bart Lidofsky wrote:
I do realize that Software Freedom Day is an attempt to create a world-wide connection. But I do have a question:
Is an event that may be a week off from the actual date, but will get hundreds of attendees, as opposed to an event that will get virtually no attendees, outside the spirit of the date? This is NOT a rhetorical question. A group I belong to went for the latter instead of the former for several years, and has become quite discouraged as a result. There are several major town festivals in my area, but they are a week off one way or the other. I would like to set up a table at a town festival, and am therefore interested in whether it would be just a random Software Freedom demo, or could it be considered a Software Freedom Day event.
Bart
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