hie everyone my name is xolani i am in Bulawayo i have been following the opensource movement for the past three years heavily reading open source literature so i teamed up with a friend to start an open source movement in Bulawayo (OPEN SOURCE Bulawayo) its dead in Bulawayo so anyone who can help us please do we are still at school so resources are problem please help xolani On 11/06/07, sfd-discuss-request@sf-day.org <sfd-discuss-request@sf-day.org> wrote:
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1. Re: hello and t-shirt cost (Robert Schumann) 2. CDs to be dispatched to SFD teams (Robert Schumann) 3. Re: CDs to be dispatched to SFD teams (Matthew Macdonald-Wallace) 4. Re: CDs to be dispatched to SFD teams (Melissa Draper) 5. RE: CDs to be dispatched to SFD teams (Douglas A. Whitfield)
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Message: 1 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:52:37 +0100 From: "Robert Schumann" <robert@softwarefreedomday.org> Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] hello and t-shirt cost To: "Open discussions about SFD" <sfd-discuss@sf-day.org> Message-ID: <d58237a20706110152y7f33d592u7f56c6f3a079c822@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Hi Douglas,
The sfd-announce list is generally pretty low-traffic, particularly when we're more than three months from SFD. Traffic will probably start to pick up soon, though....
Regarding T-shirts, we're aiming to have the sales website up within about two weeks. Speaking entirely non-authoritatively, so don't quote me, I believe the T-shirt price may be around US$12. The small profit we make on selling the shirts goes to help us send supplies to all the teams around the world.
Anyway, it's great to have you signed up and we hope you organise some great SFD events in North Carolina. Feel free to stay in touch with us and with other teams from around the globe via this mailing list.
Robert.
On 10/06/07, Douglas A. Whitfield <whitdoug@email.unc.edu> wrote:
All,
I just signed up for this list today since no messages have come out of the sfd-announce since I joined it about a month ago. My group's site is http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/teams/northamerica/ChapelHill. We are looking to purchase about $100 of the t-shirts if the price is right. I know the page says the shirts are being worked on, but do we have an estimated cost?
This group is a new group begun this spring, so this obviously our first SFD. None of us had actually even heard of SFD until May 8th! We hope we can get similar events started at other local universities (Duke and NC State) as well as some other places we have ties (NCSSM and Gardner-Webb University). Any questions, comments or concerns are very welcome!
Thank you, -- Douglas A. Whitfield
UNC SILS MSIS Class of '08 Cell: 919-360-0306 AIM: DouglasAWh
Carolina Open Source Initiative Co-President Carolina-opensource@listserv.unc.edu http://www.softwarefreedomday.org
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Hi Xolani, <quote who="xolani Ndlovu">
hie everyone my name is xolani i am in Bulawayo i have been following the opensource movement for the past three years heavily reading open source literature so i teamed up with a friend to start an open source movement in Bulawayo (OPEN SOURCE Bulawayo) its dead in Bulawayo so anyone who can help us please do we are still at school so resources are problem please help
It is great to here you are excited about FLOSS! To start a new community I highly recommend using Software Freedom Day as a launch event o get people interested and get the group going. Plan with your friend to run some sort of public event, perhaps at a University or school, and try to get lots of young people to come along. Make sure you register as a team so we can send you some tshirts, CDs and other goodies to help make your event look fantastic! For more ideas on running an event, check out the Start Guide at: http://softwarefreedomday.org/StartGuide And for more ideas about starting a new community, check out: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Linux_PR/newlug.html http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html Hope that helps, good luck in spreading software freedom to Bulawayo! Cheers, Pia -- Linux Australia http://linux.org.au/ "Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains." - Jean Jacques Rosseau
Hi Xolani, Don't assume that it is dead, its only dormant waiting for you to wake it up. First I would contact people from http://zwlug.sourceforge.net/ and make call for an organization meeting for the SF-day.. Find africasource participants (http://tacticaltech.org/africasource) they could direct you to interesting contacts. Plan the meeting ahead, at least 3 weeks, send email to everyone you know, ask them to forward it. Repeat the message often. Contact universities, those are often the best place to start to meet GNU/linux users... Hope it helps Le dimanche 17 juin 2007 à 21:32 +1000, Pia Waugh a écrit :
Hi Xolani,
<quote who="xolani Ndlovu">
hie everyone my name is xolani i am in Bulawayo i have been following the opensource movement for the past three years heavily reading open source literature so i teamed up with a friend to start an open source movement in Bulawayo (OPEN SOURCE Bulawayo) its dead in Bulawayo so anyone who can help us please do we are still at school so resources are problem please help
It is great to here you are excited about FLOSS! To start a new community I highly recommend using Software Freedom Day as a launch event o get people interested and get the group going. Plan with your friend to run some sort of public event, perhaps at a University or school, and try to get lots of young people to come along. Make sure you register as a team so we can send you some tshirts, CDs and other goodies to help make your event look fantastic!
For more ideas on running an event, check out the Start Guide at: http://softwarefreedomday.org/StartGuide
And for more ideas about starting a new community, check out: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Linux_PR/newlug.html http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html
Hope that helps, good luck in spreading software freedom to Bulawayo!
Cheers, Pia
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