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-------- Original Message -------- 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 Begin forwarded message: > *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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