[kwlug-disc] Software Freedom Day planning

Bob Jonkman bjonkman at sobac.com
Fri Aug 17 21:24:59 EDT 2012


On Wednesday I got a box of Ubuntu CDs from Darcy for redistribution at 
SFD.  So that's taken care of.

Do we have publicly available contact information for SFD? I see 
Kitchener has a page on the SFD site at 
http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2012/Canada/Kitchener but it doesn't 
seem to link to anything.  The page at http://theworkingcentre.org/sfd 
still redirects to the 2011 SFD report...  Can we get something on the 
KWLUG site too?  Yes, I'll volunteer to do this, but someone has to feed 
me details (times, speakers, agendas, software, swag) and grant me 
access to the SFD site. I've already got a login on the KWLUG site.

I've put SFD on http://watcamp.com/ and arbitrarily set the time from 
10:00am to 3:00pm.  Let me know if that's not correct.

--Bob.


On 12-08-13 10:24 PM, lloyd carr wrote:
>
> In case you missed it also, I am willing to help out too.
> I am planning a presentation on making your own freedom by writing 
> your own software.
>
>> On Sun, 12 Aug 2012, John Kerr wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 09:36:25 -0700 (PDT)
>>> From: John Kerr <jkerr0102 at rogers.com>
>>> Reply-To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
>>> To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Software Freedom Day planning
>>>
>>> Hi
>>
>> In case you missed it I am willing to help out.
>> I am planning in (my head so far) a presentation on the economics of FS.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>> Let's make an appeal at the social
>>
>> ?
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
>>
>>
>> Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good 
>> example. - Mark Twain
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
>>
>> ==================================
>> John Eddie Kerr | Guelph, Ontario ==================================
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca>
>> To: kwlug-disc at kwlug.org Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2012 9:59:44 PM
>> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Software Freedom Day planning
>>
>>
>> This is the second (and possibly final) call-out for assistance. We
>> have gotten one offer of help so far, but I do not think that is
>> enough to pull this together.
>>
>> Let me know by Sunday, please. We will be making a decision Monday
>> afternoon, I think. You won't have to devote your life to this, but a
>> few more hands would make for lighter work. If it matters, in our best
>> year we got about 75 people coming to the event. (I think our
>> next-best year was something like 45 people.)
>>
>> - Paul
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 02:43:11AM -0400, Paul Nijjar wrote:
>>>
>>> So Software Freedom Day is Sept 15 this year (which again conflicts
>>> with the Royal Medieval Faire, thanks for asking). We have had
>>> Software Freedom Day events for the past few years in
>>> Kitchener-Waterloo, either hosted at The Working Centre or at
>>> Kwartzlab.
>>>
>>> I don't think that Working Centre has the capacity to shoulder
>>> all of the organizing this year. We might be able to host, but it
>>> takes a fair amount of additional work: - doing publicity
>>> - organizing and scheduling talks
>>> - preparing swag like CDs/DVDs
>>>
>>> So how can we make this happen?
>>>
>>> 0. We could get a group of organizers together now, who will commit
>>> some time to making this event happen.
>>>
>>> 1. If it helped, we might think about changing the Saturday to a week
>>> earlier or later. This is no doubt Forbidden, but if it helped us
>>> organize something then it might be worth the heresy. Would you be 
>>> able and willing to help? If so, respond to me personally
>>> or build up some excitement by responding to the list. I think a group
>>> of 4-5 dedicated organizers could make the day a real success.
>>>
>>> - Paul
>>>
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