[Linux] Software Freedom day

[Stan Fields]

On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:24:35 -0400
"Adam Glass" <adamglass@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Must register by 31 July!!!
So I suggest register today organize tomorrow.


> 
> 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

Food is always good, can we get a spot in a park/school-yard ... ?
Hot dogs would not be very dear, along with free cd's of open source
products.


>    - Run a booth at a market, fair or computer day

Flea Market, strip mall?
Radio stations are out with their vans at car dealers, maybe in union
with one of them?

>    - 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?

As we said in the Army "do something, even if its wrong".
> 
> --Adam
> 
> > > http://softwarefreedomday.org/
> 

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