Hey Guys - do we want to do something for Software Freedom Day as a LUG?<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br>
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Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:28:07 +1000<br>
From: Pia Waugh <<a href="mailto:pia@softwarefreedomday.org">pia@softwarefreedomday.org</a>><br>
To: SFD discussion list <<a href="mailto:sfd-discuss@sf-day.org">sfd-discuss@sf-day.org</a>><br>
Subject: [SFD-discuss] Software Freedom Day 2008!<br>
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Hi everyone!<br>
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The time has come to start planning your Software Freedom Day event for 2008!<br>
We will be opening registrations in mid May and increasing the number of team<br>
packs (shirts, CDs, balloons and such) to 300, so make sure you keep an eye out<br>
and register as soon as you can! We have a new board with new members (details<br>
at <a href="http://softwarefreedomday.org/sfi" target="_blank">http://softwarefreedomday.org/sfi</a>). A warm welcome to Fred and Peter!<br>
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This years event will be September 20th, 2008 (please ignore the header of the<br>
website, it will be changed as soon as possible).<br>
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Last years event<br>
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Last year we had an amazing event, with over 330 teams from over 90 countries.<br>
There were around 3000 participants reaching over 40,000 members of the public.<br>
Around 40,000 FOSS CDs were handed out, including Ubuntu, the Open CD,<br>
Mandriva, Fedora, Kubuntu, Debian, Suse, Knoppix, and more!<br>
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The SFD events including installations of FOSS, demonstrations, conferences,<br>
presentations, radio, courses, some even used the day to collect food for<br>
disadvantaged families! The three events that won "best 2007 SFD event" were<br>
FOSS Nepal Community, SFD Nicaragua 2007 Team & Beijing Software Freedom Day<br>
(China). Congratulations all! Their event reports can be found here<br>
<a href="http://softwarefreedomday.org/Competition2007/Winners" target="_blank">http://softwarefreedomday.org/Competition2007/Winners</a>.<br>
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Last year a lot of universities participated, however some schools also got<br>
involved, which was great to see. Loads of user groups always get involved to<br>
help get the word out about Software Freedom. There was excellent media<br>
coverage from many teams in many languages so great job everyone!<br>
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Planning<br>
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The Software Freedom International team have been getting everything on track<br>
for Software Freedom Day 2008. Firstly thank you to you all for your great<br>
ideas and feedback from last year. It has helped us create a plan for this year<br>
which should see Software Freedom Day grow even more, particularly in the<br>
education sector. We will be providing more resources to teams, including a DVD<br>
with video and presentation content that teams can use or mashup on the day.<br>
We'll also be providing the OpenDisc (the new Open CD project) and more<br>
resources to teams such as artwork, templates and other useful resources. We<br>
hope that you all put stuff on the wiki to share with other teams and start<br>
emailing the list with your ideas and lessons learnt.<br>
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We are hoping to have over 500 teams participate in Software Freedom Day 2008,<br>
and we should all try to reach a grand total of 100,000 members of the public!<br>
Start thinking about what is the most appropriate way to take Software Freedom<br>
to your community. Perhaps it is a stall at a festival, perhaps a computer<br>
literacy course using FOSS, perhaps some presentations at a local school or<br>
university. Get ideas for your SFD event planning from the Start Guide here<br>
<a href="http://softwarefreedomday.org/StartGuide" target="_blank">http://softwarefreedomday.org/StartGuide</a>.<br>
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As per an email late last year, we are keen to get more translations of SFD<br>
content and information. We are in the process of setting up some<br>
infrastructure to facilitate this so stay tuned for more information about<br>
translations.<br>
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New infrastructure<br>
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We are in the process of setting up new infrastructure as we migrate to a new<br>
hosting environment donated by Linode (<a href="http://linode.com/" target="_blank">http://linode.com/</a>). This will increase<br>
our control over the SFD website and mailing lists such that we can avoid<br>
downtime, and also add new functionality. In the short term we will be doing a<br>
site redesign, a moin moin upgrade (the wiki), and some mailing list migration.<br>
We'll make sure this is as seamless as possible for you all.<br>
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We are going to make reporting and registering much easier this year, with a<br>
few changes including a world map as the mechanism to find events rather than a<br>
list by continent. This will mean team pages will be<br>
<a href="http://softwarefreedomday.org/" target="_blank">http://softwarefreedomday.org/</a><teamname> rather than a really long URL as has<br>
been the case in the past. Thanks to everyone for their suggestions on this!<br>
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We'll also be adding a "planet" to SFD, to aggregate blogs from our community,<br>
a new online shop and more to be announced soon.<br>
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Thanks<br>
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Thank you to last years sponsors, to the rest of the SFI board, and finally,<br>
thank you to you all for helping take Software Freedom to the world! We are<br>
looking forward to seeing what teams come up with for next year, and we will be<br>
supporting you all as much as we can!<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Pia<br>
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Software Freedom Day 2007 <a href="http://softwarefreedomday.org/" target="_blank">http://softwarefreedomday.org/</a><br>
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