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Call for proposals to host SFD Summit 2012

Digital Freedom International is proud to announce it will start co-organizing Software Freedom Days with One local team each year starting this year, and therefore we are inviting local organizers to submit proposals to host our upcoming SFD Summit around September 15th 2012.

The purpose of co-organizing such an event is to raise the profile of our celebrations while bringing a public space for discussions about the future of our movement. If you are interested in hosting the upcoming SFD Summit in September 2012 please submit a formal proposal to board (at) softwarefreedomday (dot) org before 1st July 2012 Sunday UTC 2359.

 

Celebrate Culture Freedom Day on May 19th 2012

Cultrue Freedom Day - May 19th 2012 Culture Freedom Day is just around the corner and it's not to late to decide to join the movement! Meant as an international day for Free Culture artists around the world to make themselves heard and known to the public we expect plenty of street concerts, gallery exhibitions and other local demonstrations of Free Culture work. For more information please visit the CFD dedicated website and don't forget to spread the word. Note that we've also made a countdown banner which code can be retrieved from our CFD wiki.
   

Celebrate Document Freedom Day on Marth 28 2012

Celebrate Document Freedom Day Document Freedom Day (or DFD) is a global day for document liberation. It is a worldwide event celebrating Open Standards and raising general awareness about the need for their adoption. DFD is actively redefining perceptions of Open Standards in media, public administration and educational institutions.

In 2012 Document Freedom Day will be celebrated for the fourth time and targeting more than 42 events. To make these plans a reality, DFD needs your support as a partner of Document Freedom Day 2012! Talk with your friends/regional groups, and think about activities and events that you could organise to promote Open Standards.

Digital Freedom International fully endorses the effort and the message behind DFD as it is tightly linked to FOSS goals and hope that we can encourage SFD teams to celebrate the event as well.

Happy DFD to all!
   

SFI becomes DFI!

Since October 2011 the SFI board has taken a few major decisions regarding its own future. First, all board members have expressed interest to remain on the board and therefore the same team will preside over SFI in 2012. As president for two consecutive years now I believe stability among the board is paramount to get things done and is something with which we have struggled a bit with in the past.
Stability should allow us to push our celebration and advocacy concepts to new heights. In order to reach those goals we had to widen the scope of our possible actions by changing our bylaws and adding a DBA (doing-business-as) name to our official organization registration. While the bylaws'final wording is still under review SFI has decided to operate under the name of Digital Freedom International. It is without a doubt that the Free Software movement has spread to new territories beyond the realm of software itself but intimately linked and equally important to Free Software. SFI, or from now on DFI, and the teams celebrating SFD have gradually taken note of this phenomenon over the previous years and need to adopt new strategies as both the audience and the subject matters are very spread in nature.
End of 2011 saw the SFI board validating an ambitious plan for 2012 and 2013 and this plan begins with our new (DBA) name: Digital Freedom International.

Let's wish us all the best in these new adventures!
   

SFD'11 Competition is on!

All organizing teams of a Software Freedom Day 2011 event are invited to submit their event report in order to participate in the Best SFD Event Competition 2011.

For the winning teams we have very amazing prizes! We are very proud to be able to offer in partnership with our sponsors, Lemote, a manufacturer of MIPS computers using only free software and free drivers. Lemote will provide 3 Yeeloong netbooks for the winners of 2011. Besides, the Free Software Foundation will be providing again Richard Stallman Essays and Richard will sign the book himself for the 2nd year. Big thank you to Lemote and the Free Software Foundation.

For the 2011 competition, three teams will be selected as usual by the Software Freedom International board and reading previous years winning entries should give you some inspiration (this was a free tip!).

Submission deadline is February 16th, 2012 (UTC 0500) and the winning teams will be announced in early April the latest. And of course the submission link itself which I shouldn’t forget to remind you about is at http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/cgi-bin/report.py . Join the competition now and good luck to all!

PS: We are very concerned about SOPA and have joined the strike as many others. SFD website will come back from the dark on 19th January.

   

SFD around the corner

2011 Software Freedom Day is approaching, are you ready yet?

To add to the collection of our Software Freedom Day music library (yeah we can call it a library now, we have two) we have another song named Free, A Song For Software Freedom to complement the excellent SFD song "Celebrate Software Freedom Day". Both songs are licensed under CC-BY-SA, so you should feel free to share it with your friends especially during the Software Freedom Day! A special thanks to Erwin Galang, Meric Mara, Deng Silorio and Karl Ramirez for the composition of those two very cool SFD songs!

And since we are discussing the day itself please do document your event, use the #softwarefreedomday tag, upload photos, make movies, blog, tweet (on identica of course!) and get ready for the SFD 2011 competition. While we haven't made any formal announcement yet we have some pretty exciting gifts again this year which we are sure will please all your team. Stay tuned!
   

SFD Countdown: 2 languages added!

Just wanted to let everyone knows that we have been able to add two new languages to the SFD Countdown: Spanish and Galician. You can find all the information to create the countdown in your own language here and the full usage manual here. Thank you for everyone participating in making SFD 2011 what it is!

So for the pleasure of the eyes now:

Celebra con nosotros el SFD este 17 de septiembre Celebra con nos o SFD este 17 de setembro
   

Faltam quatro semanas!

 

Celebrate SFD with us on September 17!Faltam agora cerca de quatro semanas até ao SFD e queríamos actualizar toda a gente quanto às excelentes novidades deste ano.

Estivemos a trabalhar arduamente para promover o SFD e providenciar formas simples de anunciar e atrair pessoas para os nossos eventos. Além dos badges que mostrámos à cerca de duas semanas temos agora um contador multi-língua que suporta todas as zonas de tempo. Actualmente nove línguas são suportadas (Inglês, Alemão, Português, Françês, Khmer, Sinhalês, Persa, Chinês simplificado e tradicional). É muito simples acrescentar uma nova linguagem caso preciso e está documentado.

Link para a página sobre como utilizar o banner:
http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/participate/countdown
Link sobre como traduzir:
http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/
Link para os badges promocionais:
http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Promote
Visto que estamos a falar sobre promoção gostaríamos de agradecer aos nossos parceiros nos média visto que temos alguns novos este ano, e mantivemos os antigos também. Em nenhuma ordem em específico estas publicações vão fazer publicidade ao SFD este mês e o próximo: Linux Magazine, Linux Journal, Ubuntu Users, Admin magazine e Smart Developer. É também importante agradecer aos nossos patrocinadores corporativos, que nos têm seguido já há uns largos anos e sem quem nós não conseguiríamos enviar todos aqueles pacotes às equipas ou ter o nosso sítio web em funcionamento: Canonical, Google, Qt/Nokia e Linode. E depois temos as pessoas de outros projectos de Software Livre e de Código Aberto a juntar-se à lista de organizações a celebrar o SFD como a FSF, a FSFE e, pela primeira vez este ano, FreeBSD e Joomla! Esperamos sinceramente que esta lista cresça ainda mais ao verem-nos a trabalhar juntos para providenciar oradores, juntar comunidades e providenciar mais conteúdo para ajudar a aumentar a qualidade de todos os eventos SFD.
Assim, considerando a cobertura dos média e todos os esforços promocionais que temos feito, deverão contar em ter visitantes a começar à procura de informação e eventos na sua área. É muito importante que actualize a página wiki da sua equipa providenciando pelo menos uma ideia sobre:

  • A localização do seu evento
  • Como contactar o seu grupo
  • Data e hora do evento
  • Qualquer informação extra como programa, como registar caso seja necessário, etc., irá obviamente ser muito útil para convencer mais pessoas a aparecer.
Outro ponto importante a destacar é que nós estamos a promover Software Livre independentemente do Sistema Operativo que está a ser usado, e isso significa que a Liberdade deve ser promovida em todas as frentes incluindo em Sistemas Operativos Livres. Para ajudá-lo quando estiver a distribuir distribuções não-livres de GNU/Linux e fazer esta informação ser processada facilmente nós escrevemos um aviso para ser inserido nestes CD/DVDs. O propósito é levar as pessoas a saber e ser cuidadosas como aquilo que instalam (ou compram) mesmo quando estão a usar GNU/Linux. O aviso (juntamento com um documento odf para imprimir quatro por página) pode ser encontrado aqui:
http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources/CdNotice
Nós pedimos encaredidamente aos organizadores de equipas a que usem este aviso quando distribuírem distribuições GNU/Linux não-livres (traduções disponíveis em Português e Espanhol).
Tanbém para o ajudar a planear, criámos um conjunto de páginas importantes onde poderá encontrar logotipos, slides, vídeos, templates, todos os ficheiros fonte de tudo o que conseguir encontrar no wiki e muitos mais links. Visite http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Marketing para encontrar uma lista destes. Nós continuamos a trabalhar para disponibilizar mais slides e ideias para as próximas semanas.
Outro factor a ajudar este ano é que nós começámos finalmente a traduzir o nosso site principal (o www - começámos a traduzir o wiki no ano passado). Todo este trabalho tem sido feito pela comunidade SFD e está a progredir lentamente. Esperançosamente iremos fazer muito mais conforme nos formos aproximando do SFD. Os planetas também foram actualizados eagora é muito fácil alternar de uma linguagem disponível para outra (note que nem todas as línguas têm um planeta, o planeta por omissão é o Inglês).
E visto que estamos a falar sobre traduções gostaríamos também de apontar para o facto de termos lançado duas listras de correio electrónico este ano para acompanhar a lista Espanhola existente: uma em Português e outra em Russo. Obviamente se estiver a falar uma dessas três línguas valerá a pena subscrever e dizer olá! Continuaremos a falar em Inglês e a disponibilizar actualizações nessa língua. E para todos os participantes da vossa equipa incentivamos também a que subscrevam pelo menos a lista sfd-annouce e sfd-discuss. A página informativa das listas de correio electrónico é aqui:
http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo
Se tiver alguma questão apareça nos nossos canais IRC (#sfd para Inglês ou #sfd-es para Espanhol) ou contacte-nos.

Obrigado a todos e boas preparações de SFD!

A equipa SFI
   

SFD2011 Schwag sent

While we haven't taken the time to blog much these past few weeks a lot of things happened and we will try to get back to that in upcoming posts. So right now we believe the important news is that all "team packs" have been shipped earlier this week both on SFI side and on Canonical side. All registered teams before August 2nd this year should start to receive the great stuff we have prepared for them. At SFI we are very pleased with all the feedback we received from both the team survey and from the SFD Marketing team and also from our sponsors and partners support which have made this possible. In total we packed and shipped almost 230 packages together with our local community. SFI has been generous enough as every year to invite us for dinner that same day!

A big thank you goes to Canonical for the CDs of course but also to Google, Qt/Nokia, Linux Magazine, Ubuntu Users, Smart Developer, Admin magazine and Linux Journal who has joined us this year. We are also pretty excited to have new FOSS projects doing their part to support and encourage SFD, such as FreeBSD and Joomla!.

For those who missed the deadline, subscribe to our announce or discuss mailing lists to get notified next year and rush to our artwork page to download all the source files and produce your own goodies!

HAPPY PREPARATIONS TO ALL!
   

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Celebrate SFD!

  • Step 1: Write Saturday 17 Sept. 2011 on your calendar
  • Step 2: Check out the interactive map to see if there's a team in your area
  • Step 2a: If there isn't a team, make your own
  • Step 3: Get out on the streets and celebrate software freedom!

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