hi there, This kind of discussion shouldn't be in the marketing mailing list so I moved this discussion to sfd-discuss mailing list. As Marcos said you don't need to register the event in order to prepare or plan for your event. A lot of teams have already set up their wiki page under http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011/ Please stay tuned while the registration should be open shortly end of this week or early next week. You may not know that the old registration form has a lot of bugs so Fred has been working on a new script. Since he is not a developer and he has very limited help, so let's give him sometime to make us a Free Bug-free script for this year and the years to come. On 07/21/2011 09:17 PM, Marcos Marado wrote:

Hi there,

On Thursday 21 July 2011 14:14:25 endurance odion wrote:

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Good day I am glad to write you once more please I really need to know when registration of teams will start You can do it already. Just head to http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011/ and follow the link to your country, or, if it is not there, create it using the form in the bottom of that page.

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, and also I dont know if it is possible to get a covering letter or letter of introduction to enable me and my team source for sponsorship to organize the software freedom day this year to enable me and my team start organizing on time since the event is less than two months from now and we really need to make ours better than what we had last year thanks for your time I don't think we have any "sponsorship request template", but that would be a great idea.

SFI doesn't provide any letter to any local team to call for sponsorship. However, I have been organizing SFD events since 2007 in China, I believe as an organizer, what you need is to prepare a sponsorship proposal and send it to different companies and organizations that may be interested. The proposal can include: * Organizers introduction * What is SFD * Objectives of the event * When and where * target audiences and expected number * activities and schedule * potential speakers * estimated budget with breakdown * sponsorship options / package / benefits * contact info Hope it helps! All the best to your SFD event! Pockey Lam Director and Secretary Software Freedom International