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On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Paul Sutton <zleap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > -------- 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 Personally I think it is now too late to organise any significant event ourselves. Sorry. lol. :-) However, I would be up for a road (or train) trip to a bigger SFD event. Anyone else interested? Note that I am just about to start a new job doing shift work. As yet i dont know if i have SFD day free.... best wishes roly -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq