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Submit your report now! Join the competition and win great prizes! Software Freedom International is proud to announce the Best Event Competition 2011 and encourage every registered SFD team to join! This year we've the fully Free and Open Source netbooks Lemote Yeeloong  and Richard Stallman Essays as prizes. Wait no more, submit your report now!
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Software Freedom Day is everywhere! SFD is a yearly celebration for Software Freedom! Every year there are thousands teams organizing Software Freedom Day in different countries and cities.

Check the map to find out the SFD event(s) around your area.

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What is Software Freedom Day? Software Freedom Day is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Our goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in business -- in short, everywhere!
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Thanks to our sponsors and supporters! SFD is a global event with over 100 countries participating. By supporting Software Freedom Day, not only are you helping get the word out about why sustainable and trustworthy systems are important, but you are aligning your company with others involved in the rapidly growing FOSS market.

Thanks to all the sponsors and supporters!
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It's FUN to organize Software Freedom Day Organizing SFD event can be a lot of fun! In this site and its wiki, you will find a lot of guidelines and resources that can probably help you to set up your team and organize a Software Freedom Day event.

Happy Software Freedom Day!
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Software Freedom, underpinning your human rights In a time when our lives are increasingly dependent on technologies, it is important we take the time to consider the impact of technology on our lives, and the importance of ensuring technology isn't used to limit us, but rather to take us further along a path of opportunity, innovation and freedom for all people.
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Celebrations are still happening!

This year a few SFD teams have had to reschedule their event for various reasons and checking the SFD map should be definitely done in conjunction with checking the team list on the wiki and each specific team page.

For people who have already celebrated SFD it is now time to prepare for the SFD competition or getting further involved with all the free software your discovered at your local event! In doubt simply drop us an email on our mailing list and we'll happily try to assist you. Note we also have a Spanish, Portuguese and Russian speaking mailing lists.

Check the list!

Submit your report now!

SFI is proud to announce the launch of SFD 2011 Best Event Competition. We encourage every registered SFD teams to join the competition!

Simply submit your report on or before Feb 16th 2012 (UTC 05h00), you will have a chance to win the fully Free and Open Source Yeeloong netbook sponsored by Lemote and the book Free Software Free Society: selected essays by Richard M. Stallman signed by the author! Big thank you to Lemote and the Free Software Foundation.

The details of the competition can be found on this page. Join the competition and good luck to all!

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  • 1. Join a local SFD team
  • 2. Make your own SFD team
  • 3. Encourage local schools to host SFD

Is there a SFD event nearby?

Software Freedom Day is an event with hundreds of teams from all around the world running local events to help their communities understand Software Freedom. One way of joining SFD is to join an existing SFD event. Check to see if there is already a team registered in your area. If there is one, you can always join them and help them to make their events successful. It's FUN to join SFD!

Helps are always in need to organize SFD :) you can help to design marketing materials, spread the words out, decorate the venue, take photos, demonstrate or present about Free Software in the event, etc. Feel free to check out the team map to find the SFD team in your local area!

Check out SFD locations now!

SFD StartGuide can definitely help you out!

If you want to form a team and run an event, simply check out the SFD StartGuide (contributed by SFD team leaders), start pulling your team together and planning today! Perhaps there was an event in your area in previous years, you can definitely contact them and ask them to help!

All teams simply register online to be part of Software Freedom Day. Get your team leader to create your team page and then register the team. Make sure you update your SFD team wiki page so people can find you. If you have any problem of creating a team or organizing a SFD event, please feel free to join our IRC channel: #sfd-on-freenode or our mailing list at sfd-discuss (at) sf-day.org.

Register your event here!

SFD@schools

Why don't you get your local school or college talking about Free Software this Software Freedom Day! Giving a talk to students, teaching a class, providing demonstrations of Free Software, showing films about Free Software, and handing out Free Software CDs are all great ways of engaging young people.

Free Software is a major part of most workplaces and provides the core of the world's most popular websites. Young people are greatly affected by the software that they use, and SFD is a great way to reach them. Contact your local educational establishment and ask them about paying a visit. Since SFD falls on a Saturday, try to make an appointment for a day either side of the weekend.

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How did SFD begin?

Software Freedom Day (SFD) was initiated by a group of FOSS believers, Matt Oquist, Henrik Omma and Phil Harper with the idea of distributing The OpenCD to everyone.

The idea of SFD is for everyone without a vested interest in proprietary software to unite and educate the world about the ideals of Software Freedom and the practical benefits of Free Software. August 28th, 2004, was the first ever Software Freedom Day.

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IRC Channel: #sfd @freenode

You want to share your ideas or experiences with other SFD teams? Welcome to join our Web IRC Chat and mailing lists here !

Who is SFI?

Software Freedom International (SFI) is run by a Board of Directors who meet regularly with an IRC conference to discuss various topics pertaining to regular activities of SFI and SFD.

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Software Freedom International (SFI) is the non-profit organization at the origin of SFD. SFI handles sponsorship contracts, official team registrations, sending out schwags to teams, the annual Best SFD Event Competition and many other things. Hundreds of teams around the world manage the local celebration and help to send out a global message. So do drop by and attend an SFD event nearby!

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