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Today's Topics:

1. A real SFD planet (Frederic Muller - SFI) 2. Goodies update (Frederic Muller - SFI)

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Message: 1 Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:25:17 +0800 From: Frederic Muller - SFI <fred@softwarefreedomday.org> Subject: [SFD-discuss] A real SFD planet To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss@sf-day.org> Message-ID: <4E3E59FD.2080406@softwarefreedomday.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

Dear all,

While team packs are being packed and we're running after the few team leaders who provided us a PO Box instead of a street address we're also continuing improving our web infrastructure, providing better features or translations. A few members of our community have provided a lot of help this year and have helped us to achieve things we've been longing for years.

One thing which has been discussed since end of last year was refactoring of the SFD Planet (previously on http://planet.softwarefreedomday.org) and providing additional languages.

After fighting with the technical details and getting bits of translations here and there we are not very please to announce that the planet is fully integrate into our main website and that the language switcher at the top of the page allows to go from one planet to another one automatically.

It also saves us a lot of work in maintenance as those pages template used to be manually generated.

So to every SFD team leader out there, if you do have a blog and are not on SFD planet of your language please do send us your feed, an hackertgotchi or a photo of yourself (we'll do the hackergotchi for you).

Also note that in order to start a new language we need at least 3 feeds and a bit of translation help.

Thank you and happy preparation!

Fred ps: oh and yes, the planet link is now : http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/community/sfd-planet rss feeds haven't changed

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Message: 2 Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:35:37 +0800 From: Frederic Muller - SFI <fred@softwarefreedomday.org> Subject: [SFD-discuss] Goodies update To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss@sf-day.org> Message-ID: <4E3E5C69.2080106@softwarefreedomday.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

Hi again!

As we clearly stated at the registration opening only the first 200 teams registered before August 2nd would get a team pack (this is a financial and logistic limit). It turns out we had about an extra 23 teams who registered before the deadline.

So for those teams who registered passed the 200 mark but still were able to provide an address we are very happy to announce that Google has provided us with extra funding and we'll be able to ship the team supplies for you too!

I'm personally very excited by the goodies this year. Thanks to the marketing team feedback we have iron-transfer stickers to make your own T-Shirts. It's a lot lighter and cheaper and allows us to provide somehow 'more t-shirts' for everybody. The design also matches our new website design and uses the new logo made by Jeff Lim, and we love it.

I did my own t-shirt and I was so happy to wear it. One thing the SFI board was afraid of with iron-transfer technology was the quality. Well I think we managed very well on that end.

So a big thank you to Google, a big thank you to you for making SFD happen every year and Happy SFD.

Please do help us to spread the word, use our banners here http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Promote , blog, microblog, etc . We'll have a countdown counter up soon as well.

Fred ps: goodies will start shipping early next week. howto: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/TshirtLabels

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