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Subject:        [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: [SFD-announce] 4 weeks to go
Date:   Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:08:08 +0100
From:   Alan Pope <alan@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To:       UK Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:     UK Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



FYI


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> *From:* Frederic Muller - SFI <fred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:fred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> *Date:* 22 August 2011 19:05:36 GMT+01:00
> *To:* SFD announcements <sfd-announce@xxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:sfd-announce@xxxxxxxxxx>>,  Open discussions about SFD
> <sfd-discuss@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:sfd-discuss@xxxxxxxxxx>>
> *Subject:* *[SFD-announce] 4 weeks to go*
> *Reply-To:* sfd-discuss@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:sfd-discuss@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Dear all,
>
> we have now about 4 weeks left to SFD and I wanted to update everyone
> on all the great things which are happening this year.
>
> We have been working hard on SFD promotion to provide easy ways to
> advertise and attract people to your events. On top of the badges we
> showcased about 2 weeks ago we now have a multi-lingual countdown
> counter supporting all time zones. Currently nine languages are
> supported (English, German, Portuguese, French, Khmer, Sinhalese,
> Persian, Chinese simplified and traditional). It is very easy
> to add a new language should you need it and even documented.
> Link to countdown usage page:
> http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/participate/countdown
> Link to translation howto:
> http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/
> Link to promotion badges:
> http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Promote
>
> Since we are talking about promotion we would like to thank our media
> partners as we have a few new ones this year, and we have kept the old
> ones too. In no specific order those publications will advertise for SFD
> this month or the next: Linux Magazine, Linux Journal, Ubuntu Users,
> Admin magazine and Smart Developer.
> It is also important to thank our corporate sponsors who have followed
> us for quite a few years now and with whom we wouldn't be able to send
> those team packs or have our website up and running: Canonical, Google,
> Qt/Nokia and Linode.
> And then we have the people from other Free and Open Source projects
> joining the ranks of organizations celebrating SFD such as the FSF, the
> FSFE and newly stepping in this year, FreeBSD and Joomla! We sincerely
> hope this list will grow longer as everyone sees us working together on
> providing speakers, joining communities and providing more content to
> help raise the quality of all SFD events.
>
> So considering the press coverage and all the promotional efforts we're
> working on you should expect visitors to start looking for information
> and events in your area. It is very important to update your team wiki
> page providing at least an idea about:
> - Your event location
> - How to contact you or your group
> - Date and time of your event
> - Any more information such as schedule, registration info if any, etc
> will of course be very helpful to convince people to drop by.
>
> Another important point to highlight is that we are promoting Software
> Freedom regardless of the operating system being used and that means
> this freedom should be promoted on all fronts included on Free OSes. In
> order to help you out when distributing non-free GNU/Linux distributions
> and make this information process easy we have written a notice to be
> inserted into such CD/DVDs. The purpose is to let people know to be
> careful with what they are installing (or buying) even when using
> GNU/Linux. The notice (together with an odf document to print 4 per
> sheet) can be found here:
> http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources/CdNotice
> We strongly ask for team organizers to use this notice when distributing
> non-free GNU/Linux distributions (translations available in pt and es).
>
> Also to help you with planning we have set up a few important pages
> where you can find logos, slides, videos, templates, all source files of
> whatever you can find on the wiki and plenty of more links. Head to
> http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Marketing to find a list of those.
> We will continue working on providing more slides and ideas in the
> coming weeks.
>
> Another helping factor this year is that we have finally started to
> translate our main website (the www one - we started with the wiki
> guides last year). All this work has been done by the SFD community and
> is progressing slowly. Hopefully we will get more done as we get closer
> to SFD. The planets have also been upgraded and it is now very easy to
> switch from one available language to another (note that not all
> languages have planet, default is English).
>
> And since we are talking about translations we would also like to point
> out that we have launched 2 new mailing lists this year to complete the
> existing Spanish one: one in Portuguese and one in Russian. Obviously if
> you're speaking one of those 3 languages it's probably worth subscribing
> and saying hi there! We will continue to speak English though (haven't
> found the language learning pill yet) and provide updates in that
> language. Mailing list info page is here:
> http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo
>
> Should you have any question either pop up on our irc channels (#sfd for
> English or #sfd-es for Spanish) or mail us back.
>
> Thank you all and happy SFD preparations!
>
> SFI Board
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> SFD-announce mailing list
> SFD-announce@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:SFD-announce@xxxxxxxxxx>
> http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-announce

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