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To: "A closed discussion list for UK LUGMasters." <<a href="mailto:lugmaster@mailman.lug.org.uk">lugmaster@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>><br><br type="attribution">This may be of interest to your LUGs.<br>
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From: Frederic Muller - SFI <<a href="mailto:fred@softwarefreedomday.org">fred@softwarefreedomday.org</a>><br>
Date: 23 July 2011 14:00<br>
Subject: [SFD-announce] SFD 2011 registration is LIVE!!!<br>
To: SFD announcements <<a href="mailto:sfd-announce@sf-day.org">sfd-announce@sf-day.org</a>>, "Discussions about<br>
planning for SFD (english)" <<a href="mailto:planning-en@sf-day.org">planning-en@sf-day.org</a>><br>
<br>
<br>
Dear all,<br>
<br>
This is with a great pleasure (and small delay) that we are announcing<br>
registration opening for SFD 2011! In fact some of you have already<br>
started to create you wiki pages and participated in the soft opening<br>
and registration testing that we started 2 days ago. Most bugs should<br>
have been cleared out of the way and I remain available for any problem<br>
you may encounter through email or on IRC (#SFD on freenode).<br>
<br>
Major highlights of the registration rewriting:<br>
- I didn't get any help from anyone so it took more time (I am no developer)<br>
- UTF-8 support, so all those South-American addresses we used to<br>
struggle with because of corrupted letters should be problems of the past<br>
- Better SFD Wiki URL check (I'd say 100% reliable now)<br>
- Ported to python so I can 'maintain' it now<br>
- The form asks for and matches SFD wiki login and email address which<br>
will allow you to update map coordinates later (still need to code that<br>
update bit)<br>
- Fixed Open Street Map marker click offset<br>
- Total event count on the global map page<br>
- Easy integration with the current web site design, and any design.<br>
That will make it easier for others to use it since we said we would<br>
release the code (still needs to do some cleanup and documentation<br>
writing though)<br>
- Saves directly in CSV format making it a lot easier to handle that big<br>
file at the end of the registration period.<br>
<br>
There are still one or two known issues (like the phone number format<br>
only gets check on the server side, requiring you to refill the form if<br>
you got it wrong - but we're working on it).<br>
<br>
Hopefully it should make the whole experience better and allow us to fix<br>
or improve it based on the feedback we get. A special thanks goes to<br>
Charles from Canada who spotted a very annoying address input bug and<br>
Jean from Belgium who sent me an extensive report, and all the others<br>
who participated.<br>
<br>
The other news for the year is that we are cash positive again and<br>
goodies are in production as we speak. This year we have raised<br>
sufficient funds to produce team packs for 200 teams (50% of last year<br>
total registered events).<br>
<br>
I want to particularly thank our sponsors who are making this possible,<br>
namely Canonical, Google, Nokia/Qt in China and Linode. We have also<br>
attracted more media sponsors this year (from 2 to 5 in total now) where<br>
we are running a A4/Letter size ad in the August/September edition for<br>
most (some are quarterly magazines). In no specific order those are<br>
Linux Magazine (long time partner), Linux Journal (yeah, welcome!),<br>
Ubuntu User, Admin Magazine and Smart Developer. And we are still in<br>
discussion with 2 or 3 other organizations.<br>
<br>
This year we also had a lot of back and forth with the Free Software<br>
Foundation about the impact of distributing non-free GNU/Linux<br>
distributions and pretending 'it is ok'. At the end proprietary software<br>
remains proprietary be it an office application or a device driver. Our<br>
objective is to educate the world about using high quality free and open<br>
source software and that is what we should be doing. This is a long<br>
topic and we will get back to it later this summer.<br>
<br>
Like last year there are about 10 days to goodies deadline (limited to<br>
the first 200 teams and Canonical is still providing Ubuntu CDs), so<br>
just go create a new team page under<br>
<a href="http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011" target="_blank">http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011</a> (not continent this year) and<br>
fill that form on <a href="http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/cgi-bin/register.py" target="_blank">http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/cgi-bin/register.py</a><br>
<br>
Last but not least I want to thank all the new volunteers who have<br>
joined the SFD global marketing team and are helping with global tasks.<br>
One of the net outcome has been our new SFD logo for 2011 which we will<br>
keep moving forward (thank you David, Jeff and Maxus Singapore) and the<br>
multimedia DVD which we have finally managed to make (thank you Diego,<br>
Marcos, Pockey). All artworks are available on<br>
<a href="http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Artwork" target="_blank">http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Artwork</a> and under a CC-BY license.<br>
<br>
And happy SFD preparations!<br>
<br>
Do subscribe to the discuss mailing list[1] if you haven't yet, read SFD<br>
Planet [2] read our blog[3] to keep posted (or RSS feed[4] to it).<br>
<br>
Any question do let us know.<br>
<br>
The SFI Board<br>
<br>
ps: do check the SFD 2010 winners for inspiration and thank you to<br>
Makerbot and FSF for the prizes.<br>
<a href="http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/competition/winners-2010" target="_blank">http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/competition/winners-2010</a><br>
<br>
[1]: <a href="http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss" target="_blank">http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss</a><br>
[2]: <a href="http://planet.softwarefreedomday.org" target="_blank">http://planet.softwarefreedomday.org</a> (we also have Spanish,<br>
Portuguese and German - URLs need to be updated)<br>
[3]:<a href="http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/blog" target="_blank">http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/blog</a><br>
[3]: <a href="http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/blog?format=feed&type=rss" target="_blank">http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/blog?format=feed&type=rss</a><br>
<br>
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