hi all, i was in cameroon and i am now back in switzerland. with friends we have create linux users groups in bamenda, limbe and yaounde. these groups want to participate, but they cannot register. they ask me to register. i made a registration for CameroonBamenda http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/CameroonBamenda i just want to point out, that it is difficult for people in africa to participate especially they must go to internet cafe to make the contact, it is expensive and sometimes the connection so bad, that we work one hour for nothing, because the connection is lost or there is no electricity. the group in bamenda participate last year http://www.njahbisoli.org/lugb/free_software_day1.html and will try to do it this year too. the group in limbe is still struggling to make the registration michel Pia Waugh a écrit :
Hi all,
Registrations close on July the 15th for the free Software Freedom Day team pack. The first 300 teams registered for SFD will receive a pack with tshirts, stickers, balloons, badges, FOSS CDs and some resource CDs to help their day be awesome. We already have 220 teams registered and the event is almost two months away!
For those of you who have registered and need to change any of the details on the SFD world map, please let us know. If you have let us know, please remind us and we'll get straight onto it :)
We are putting up a shop again like last year, and hope to have that up within the week. Teams can then purchase additional tshirts if they choose. The artwork for the shirts and stickers are online here so you can always make your own :)
http://softwarefreedomday.org/Artwork/2008?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=t-shirt-test.png
Good luck with your planning everyone! I recently helped run a FOSS stand at a very large Australian education expo and this year people are more open to the value and importance of FOSS and software freedom than ever before!. So each of you can make a real difference in your communities and in the world. Many countries are moving towards using software for Government processes like voting and for services, so it is vital we create a baseline expectation of openness, transparency and freedom in software and ultimately in life.
Cheers, Pia