Software Freedom Day - 28th August

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Gordon Darling

http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/

About Software Freedom Day

On August 28, 2004, we will celebrate the first annual Software Freedom
Day. On that day, we will make the world aware of the virtues of Free and
Open Source Software (FOSS), and encourage its widespread use. We will set
up stations in public places to give away informational fliers and CDs
with selected FOSS, including TheOpenCD and a Linux Live CD.

This is a global grassroots marketing campaign in which we are inviting
volunteers from around the world to participate. It will be up to the
individual teams to chose how they wish to organize their local PR
efforts. We will assist with bulk production of supplies, though the cost
of supplies must be distributed. Check our team pages to see if there is
already a team near you, or use this form to sign up to start one. We also
have a forum, a wiki, and mailing lists to help you stay informed.

Regards
Gordon
 
Gordon said:
http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/

About Software Freedom Day

On August 28, 2004, we will celebrate the first annual Software
Freedom Day. On that day, we will make the world aware of the virtues
of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), and encourage its widespread
use. We will set up stations in public places to give away
informational fliers and CDs with selected FOSS, including TheOpenCD
and a Linux Live CD.

This is a global grassroots marketing campaign in which we are
inviting volunteers from around the world to participate. It will be
up to the individual teams to chose how they wish to organize their
local PR efforts. We will assist with bulk production of supplies,
though the cost of supplies must be distributed. Check our team pages
to see if there is already a team near you, or use this form to sign
up to start one. We also have a forum, a wiki, and mailing lists to
help you stay informed.

Regards
Gordon
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Sounds like a great idea. Will you have a listing of sites? I would
love to attend one.
 
Sounds like a great idea. Will you have a listing of sites? I would
love to attend one.
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Closest I can come to finding more info is
http://softwarefreedomday.org/wiki/index.php/Team_Pages

The link to UK sites (for example) regrettably only lists three sites and
the USA link <http://softwarefreedomday.org/wiki/index.php/United_States>
only lists around a dozen sites. Wish I'd known about this before. I'm
going to try to drum up more activity locally through the Local Linux
Users Group (though the Free Software concept isn't exclusively Linux) for
next year.

Regards Gordon
 
Closest I can come to finding more info is
http://softwarefreedomday.org/wiki/index.php/Team_Pages

The link to UK sites (for example) regrettably only lists three sites
and the USA link
<http://softwarefreedomday.org/wiki/index.php/United_States> only
lists around a dozen sites. Wish I'd known about this before. I'm
going to try to drum up more activity locally through the Local Linux
Users Group (though the Free Software concept isn't exclusively
Linux) for next year.

Regards Gordon
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Thanks, Gordon. I hope this is a big success. Lots can be done with
freeware these days. It ought to be more fully utilized.

Best.
 
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