[wellylug] Fwd: [SFD-announce] Software Freedom Day 2008!

[Brent Wood]

FYI

--- Pia Waugh <pia at softwarefreedomday.org> wrote:

> Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:28:38 +1000
> From: Pia Waugh <pia at softwarefreedomday.org>
> To: SFD announce <sfd-announce at sf-day.org>
> Subject: [SFD-announce] Software Freedom Day 2008!
> 
> Hi everyone!
> 
> The time has come to start planning your Software Freedom Day event for 2008!
> We will be opening registrations in mid May and increasing the number of team
> packs (shirts, CDs, balloons and such) to 300, so make sure you keep an eye
> out
> and register as soon as you can! We have a new board with new members
> (details
> at http://softwarefreedomday.org/sfi). A warm welcome to Fred and Peter!
> 
> This years event will be September 20th, 2008 (please ignore the header of
> the
> website, it will be changed as soon as possible).
> 
> Last years event
> ================
> 
> Last year we had an amazing event, with over 330 teams from over 90
> countries.
> There were around 3000 participants reaching over 40,000 members of the
> public.
> Around 40,000 FOSS CDs were handed out, including Ubuntu, the Open CD,
> Mandriva, Fedora, Kubuntu, Debian, Suse, Knoppix, and more!
> 
> The SFD events including installations of FOSS, demonstrations, conferences,
> presentations, radio, courses, some even used the day to collect food for
> disadvantaged families! The three events that won "best 2007 SFD event" were
> FOSS Nepal Community, SFD Nicaragua 2007 Team & Beijing Software Freedom Day
> (China). Congratulations all! Their event reports can be found here
> http://softwarefreedomday.org/Competition2007/Winners.
> 
> Last year a lot of universities participated, however some schools also got
> involved, which was great to see. Loads of user groups always get involved to
> help get the word out about Software Freedom. There was excellent media
> coverage from many teams in many languages so great job everyone!
> 
> Planning
> ========
> 
> The Software Freedom International team have been getting everything on track
> for Software Freedom Day 2008. Firstly thank you to you all for your great
> ideas and feedback from last year. It has helped us create a plan for this
> year
> which should see Software Freedom Day grow even more, particularly in the
> education sector. We will be providing more resources to teams, including a
> DVD
> with video and presentation content that teams can use or mashup on the day.
> We'll also be providing the OpenDisc (the new Open CD project) and more
> resources to teams such as artwork, templates and other useful resources. We
> hope that you all put stuff on the wiki to share with other teams and start
> emailing the list with your ideas and lessons learnt.
> 
> We are hoping to have over 500 teams participate in Software Freedom Day
> 2008,
> and we should all try to reach a grand total of 100,000 members of the
> public!
> Start thinking about what is the most appropriate way to take Software
> Freedom
> to your community. Perhaps it is a stall at a festival, perhaps a computer
> literacy course using FOSS, perhaps some presentations at a local school or
> university. Get ideas for your SFD event planning from the Start Guide here
> http://softwarefreedomday.org/StartGuide.
> 
> As per an email late last year, we are keen to get more translations of SFD
> content and information. We are in the process of setting up some
> infrastructure to facilitate this so stay tuned for more information about
> translations.
> 
> New infrastructure
> ==================
> 
> We are in the process of setting up new infrastructure as we migrate to a new
> hosting environment donated by Linode (http://linode.com/). This will
> increase
> our control over the SFD website and mailing lists such that we can avoid
> downtime, and also add new functionality. In the short term we will be doing
> a
> site redesign, a moin moin upgrade (the wiki), and some mailing list
> migration.
> We'll make sure this is as seamless as possible for you all.
> 
> We are going to make reporting and registering much easier this year, with a
> few changes including a world map as the mechanism to find events rather than
> a
> list by continent. This will mean team pages will be
> http://softwarefreedomday.org/<teamname> rather than a really long URL as has
> been the case in the past. Thanks to everyone for their suggestions on this!
> 
> We'll also be adding a "planet" to SFD, to aggregate blogs from our
> community,
> a new online shop and more to be announced soon.
> 
> Thanks
> ======
> 
> Thank you to last years sponsors, to the rest of the SFI board, and finally,
> thank you to you all for helping take Software Freedom to the world! We are
> looking forward to seeing what teams come up with for next year, and we will
> be
> supporting you all as much as we can!
> 
> Cheers,
> Pia
>  
> -- 
> Software Freedom Day 2007                   http://softwarefreedomday.org/
> 
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