On Thursday 09,September,2010 06:34 PM, Frederic Muller - SFI wrote:
Dear SFD team members and supporters,
So with a bit more than a week to SFD some of us are wondering how you're all getting ready for your event.
<snip> Hello Frederic Muller and all SFD organizers and participants, Things here in Singapore are a bit hectic! Tomorrow (Friday, 10 Sept) is a national holiday for Hari Raya Puasa. We'll be taking a bit of a breather, then back to work on Saturday for the final week before the event. Our web site is coming along nicely, but we would like to spruce it up a bit in the next day or two. You can take a look at it here: http://softwarefreedomday.sg We plan to adapt some of the graphics from the SFD site and modify them to give us a more colorful banner. We also hope to add more exhibits. Right now we have 10 exhibitors, and we hope to get close to our limit of 20 by next week. I'm happy to receive any feedback from you about the site or the event. Here's wishing you all a fun and fulfilling SFD 2010! Regards David Rigby
Wish us all a happy SFD!! All the best from Saigon, Vietnam. There will be 2 SFD in Vietnam this year, one in our capital Hanoi and another one (which is mine :D) in Saigon, our biggest city. And the coolest thing is... we're gonna organize a visioconférence between Hanoi and Saigon!!! If that idea works out, we may contact other teams in nearby countries such as China, Singapore, Thailand, etc. for SFD next year... Anyway, good luck to us all!!! An Nguyen from SaigonLUG, Vietnam. @Fred, Pockey: Thank you very much! You are doing a great job with SFI team!! See ya! ;-) @C David Rigby: Good luck wih Singapore SFD, All the best from the FOSS buddies in Vietnam. :-D
On Thursday 09,September,2010 08:04 PM, An Nguyen wrote:
Wish us all a happy SFD!! All the best from Saigon, Vietnam.
There will be 2 SFD in Vietnam this year, one in our capital Hanoi and another one (which is mine :D) in Saigon, our biggest city. And the coolest thing is... we're gonna organize a visioconférence between Hanoi and Saigon!!! If that idea works out, we may contact other teams in nearby countries such as China, Singapore, Thailand, etc. for SFD next year...
Anyway, good luck to us all!!! An Nguyen from SaigonLUG, Vietnam.
@Fred, Pockey: Thank you very much! You are doing a great job with SFI team!! See ya! ;-)
@C David Rigby: Good luck wih Singapore SFD, All the best from the FOSS buddies in Vietnam. :-D
Thanks, An Nguyen! Feel free to send me some details about the web conference hookup if you get a chance. Our network connection at our venue may be a might slow, but I've got a 3G wireless modem and a web cam. I'd be happy to play too! Cheers and Happy SFD Vietnam!! C David Rigby
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So cool! An! let us know how it work and we can definitely adapt the same concept in China or other country :) For us, here we will host the SFD in Shantou University by Linux Association on September 19, Sunday (change of date due to Nanking Massacre). The whole afternoon, we plan to have exhibitions in outdoor area to demonstrate different free software like openoffice.org, GIMP, Inkscape, Blender... and GNU/Linux systems like Debian, OpenSuse, Ubuntu, Federo...... In the evening, we will have 4-5 presentations in a hall. Fred and I will be speaking of course~ Happy SFD preparation ^^ Pockey On 09/09/2010 08:04 PM, An Nguyen wrote:
Wish us all a happy SFD!! All the best from Saigon, Vietnam.
There will be 2 SFD in Vietnam this year, one in our capital Hanoi and another one (which is mine :D) in Saigon, our biggest city. And the coolest thing is... we're gonna organize a visioconférence between Hanoi and Saigon!!! If that idea works out, we may contact other teams in nearby countries such as China, Singapore, Thailand, etc. for SFD next year...
Anyway, good luck to us all!!! An Nguyen from SaigonLUG, Vietnam.
@Fred, Pockey: Thank you very much! You are doing a great job with SFI team!! See ya! ;-)
@C David Rigby: Good luck wih Singapore SFD, All the best from the FOSS buddies in Vietnam. :-D
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How great is this day going to be.... Melbourne's going crazy... we're rocking this city and waking people up to what's possible with FOSS! Donna Benjamin had an interview on ABC radio this morning and has another one scheduled on Sunday, Pia Waugh's calling in to the interview as well. We've got Senator Kate Lundy coming down to speak about Gov2.0 (BIG THANKS TO PIA), Rami Olwan from Creative Commons, an Android developer to show people how to make mobile phone apps, somebody setting up a home studio plus plus plus... we are ready and really looking forward to it. Here are two of the interviews: http://www.cpod.org.au/download.php?id=4432 http://blogs.abc.net.au/files/software-freedom-day.mp3 Will be great to connect with other cities on the day. Dale. <http://blogs.abc.net.au/files/software-freedom-day.mp3> On 9 September 2010 22:33, Frederic Muller - SFI < fred@softwarefreedomday.org> wrote:
It's really nice to hear from you. So how are you doing with your conquest towards the north? I remember last time even had plans to come over and rule Beijing? ;-)
I think having a FOSS solution and be able to deploy visio conference between nearby events would be cool. We've been thinking of doing pre-recorded greeting messages as well, but I'm really not sure what to say. maybe next year as well.
Are you still in touch with progfou (Jean-Christophe) from Hanoi LUG? He was pretty motived as well.
Pia (former SFI president) has some nice videos on youtube I was told. Unfortunately we poor Chinese souls cannot view them...
Happy SFD to both teams!
Fred
On 09/09/2010 08:04 PM, An Nguyen wrote:
Wish us all a happy SFD!! All the best from Saigon, Vietnam.
There will be 2 SFD in Vietnam this year, one in our capital Hanoi and another one (which is mine :D) in Saigon, our biggest city. And the coolest thing is... we're gonna organize a visioconférence between Hanoi and Saigon!!! If that idea works out, we may contact other teams in nearby countries such as China, Singapore, Thailand, etc. for SFD next year...
Anyway, good luck to us all!!! An Nguyen from SaigonLUG, Vietnam.
@Fred, Pockey: Thank you very much! You are doing a great job with SFI team!! See ya! ;-)
@C David Rigby: Good luck wih Singapore SFD, All the best from the FOSS buddies in Vietnam. :-D
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Frederic Muller <- SFI <fred@softwarefreedomday.org>> writes:
So with a bit more than a week to SFD some of us are wondering how you're all getting ready for your event.
[…] [I should probably post a detailed report in both Russian and English on our Web site, but just for now, I'm posting it to the mailing lists.] What we've done? • We've discussed the event a bit, both face to face, and via the local LUG forum, e. g.: http://altlug.ru/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=5350 • We've agreed on four computer-related reports at our event! • We've got a Web site (http://sfd.am-1.org/) and a mailing list for our event (sfd-discuss at sfd.am-1.org; not to be confused with /The/ SFD-discuss) running! • We've also got QR-codes for the respective URI's (http://sfd.am-1.org/img/), but I'm not sure whether those will be used. • We've corresponded to one of the local computer-related magazines and they're going to publish a pointer to our event! • We've got some CD's and images with some GNU/Linux distributions. (Thanks again for 20 × Ubuntu 10.4 CD's!) • We've agreed that we'll have about 30 copies of our event's poster or so, to be placed at all the local universities, and probably some schools. (The poster design is still in progress. Should be ready next Monday.) • We're also going to have some small (10 cm × 7.5 cm = 4" × 3" or so) give-aways pointing to our event. (Still in progress.) What we've not. • In order to estimate the number of participants and to know the interests of the public better, we've started a (completely optional) registration. Unfortunately, there weren't too much people registered so far. • There's still some uncertainty regarding the equipment and software that will be available at the display room. • I still hope to come up with a suitable FreeDOS kit, in order to show the folks that Free Software comes in all the sizes! (Re. the last one: I've found the EGAint game for DOS, developed in 1989, and, well, it comes under GNU GPL v1! Unfortunately, a quick Google scan didn't reveal its home page or sources.) -- FSF associate member #7257
Frederic Muller <- SFI <fred@softwarefreedomday.org>> writes: On 09/09/2010 10:33 PM, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
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• We've corresponded to one of the local computer-related magazines and they're going to publish a pointer to our event!
Today, I saw the pointer in the magazine. […]
• We've agreed that we'll have about 30 copies of our event's poster or so, to be placed at all the local universities, and probably some schools. (The poster design is still in progress. Should be ready next Monday.)
• We're also going to have some small (10 cm × 7.5 cm = 4" × 3" or so) give-aways pointing to our event. (Still in progress.)
The posters and the reminders are printed, but some are still on the shelf.
What we've not.
• In order to estimate the number of participants and to know the interests of the public better, we've started a (completely optional) registration. Unfortunately, there weren't too much people registered so far.
That sounds really cool. From my experience posters and flyers in university really attracts people the day of the event. I've never thought of doing online registration but you're right that it's always a real challenge to get an estimation of the crowd before hand.
Based on the last year's experience, we expect around 50 participants or so. However, we've «better» press coverage this year, so I'd not be surprised with higher numbers. However, we still need to have some «meter» of the public interests.
Nice initiative for the mailing list. Is it just for your event, or could it be used for all Russian (i'am assuming it's in Russian language) teams?
As the list is currently low-traffic, I've nothing against using it for any SFD-related discussions in Russian. However, please note that all the software is maintained solely by yours truly, and I don't consider myself a reliable service.
Else we could probably set up a Russian mailing list on SFD servers,
This looks like a better solution.
but we would need someone to moderate and stimulate it.
Depending on the traffic volume, I may be able to moderate it, though I'd prefer not to do it alone.
I've seen a few teams from Russian but not all of them registered at http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/register.html and therefore they don't get to have a marker on the SFD map.
BTW, is there a way to update the marker location? It was set to the then-anticipated «gathering point», and it was later shifted some 50 meters or so. (There will be all the relevant pointers at both places, anyway.) Or, could someone provide me a quick guide on how to add an OSM-based map to our site (or wiki page)? […] -- FSF associate member #7257. SFD in Barnaul: http://sfd.am-1.org/
participants (7)
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An Nguyen -
C David Rigby -
Dale Dickins -
Frederic Muller - SFI -
Ivan Shmakov -
Michael Andriantsoavina -
Pockey Lam