[Linux] Software Freedom day
Adam Glass
linux@flux.org
Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:24:35 -0400
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Hi Stan,
Sounds good if we have the volunteers. As I recall, we found out about this
at the last minute last year and only got a couple of volunteers. Then we
discovered, the hard way, that we cannot do presentations at the big chain
book stores. These days you are only allowed to do so if you are the author
of a book they sell.
On the web site you pointed out, I see that this year's Software Freedom Day
is scheduled for September 15, which is a Saturday. That's plenty of
advance notice.
Also on the site there's a Getting Started guide. One section of the guide
is called What should we do? They say to be creative, and then give the
following suggestions:
- Have a FOSS picnic or BBQ
- Run a booth at a market, fair or computer day
- Get together with schools, universities and other people who can
benefit from Free Software
- Run a competition, best FOSS developed music, graphics, short video
- Set up simple public booth and hand out CDs.
- Run some demo machines in a public space and show off your FOSS
- Hold installation workshops and combined FOSS installfests in
schools, businesses or other areas
- Hold a seminar on IP, Free Culture, Patents, etc
- Have a cultural event - food, drink, music (jam session? -
"open-source music").
- Organise an expo to highlight local FOSS success stories
What would we do?
--Adam
On 7/28/07, Stan Fields <stan@gate.net> wrote:
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> Adam,
>
> I think we should do something for this event, see their web site for
> details.
>
> http://softwarefreedomday.org/
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> Stan The Computer Man
> aka: Stan Fields
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Hi Stan,<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Sounds good if we have the volunteers. As I recall, we found out about this at the last minute last year and only got a couple of volunteers. Then we discovered, the hard way, that we cannot do presentations at the big chain book stores. These days you are only allowed to do so if you are the author of a book they sell.
</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>On the web site you pointed out, I see that this year's Software Freedom Day is scheduled for September 15, which is a Saturday. That's plenty of advance notice.
</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Also on the site there's a Getting Started guide. One section of the guide is called What should we do? They say to be creative, and then give the following suggestions:
</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; "><ul><li>Have a FOSS picnic or BBQ<span class="anchor" id="line-47"></span></li><li>Run a booth at a market, fair or computer day
<span class="anchor" id="line-48"></span></li><li>Get together with schools, universities and other people who can benefit from Free Software<span class="anchor" id="line-49"></span></li><li>Run a competition, best FOSS developed music, graphics, short video
<span class="anchor" id="line-50"></span></li><li>Set up simple public booth and hand out CDs.<span class="anchor" id="line-51"></span></li><li>Run some demo machines in a public space and show off your FOSS<span class="anchor" id="line-52">
</span></li><li>Hold installation workshops and combined FOSS installfests in schools, businesses or other areas<span class="anchor" id="line-53"></span></li><li>Hold a seminar on IP, Free Culture, Patents, etc<span class="anchor" id="line-54">
</span></li><li>Have a cultural event - food, drink, music (jam session? - "open-source music").<span class="anchor" id="line-55"></span></li><li>Organise an expo to highlight local FOSS success stories</li></ul>
</span><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>What would we do?</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>--Adam</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 7/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Stan Fields</b> <<a href="mailto:stan@gate.net">stan@gate.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Adam,<br><br>I think we should do something for this event, see their web site for<br>details.<br><br> <a href="http://softwarefreedomday.org/">http://softwarefreedomday.org/</a><br>--<br>Stan The Computer Man<br>aka: Stan Fields
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