For everybody's information! A list of UK based teams for Software Freedom Day can be found here:
http://maitri.ubuntu.com/softwarefreedomday/wiki/index.php/United_Kingdom Pass on to your linux user groups and any other interested parties M -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Henrik Nilsen Omma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Ubuntu local community team (LoCo) contacts > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Ubuntu and Software Freedom Day > Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 13:54:52 +0100 > > Hello LoCo Teams and other Ubuntu fans, > > September 10th is international Software Freedom Day [1], which is a > global celebration of free and open source software (FOSS). Ubuntu > already plays a central role in the event in that the official CD > distributed by teams around the world (TheOpenCD v3) contains a Live CD > based on Hoary [2]. Canonical has sponsored the SFD server and > production of the CDs. Various Ubuntu team members are also directly > involved in the event. Mako and I are on the governing board of SFD and > Jeff is involved in organising Australian teams. > > Community support is vital in developing a superb OS (testing, > documentation, MOTUs, etc.), but development is only half the job. To > encourage people to use free OSes such as Ubuntu and its derivatives, we > must also engage in promotion. In theory it should be an easy sell: we > have a great system that we are giving away for free! However, the > marketing resources spent on promoting proprietary systems are vast and > will only increase with the pre-hype around Vista. > > We have the opportunity of using a distributed marketing model though, > and directly engaging people. I'm sure all of you are already spreading > the word amongst friends, but it is also possible to reach larger groups > of local people through organised events. SFD is a nice opportunity for > LoCo teams to join with other FOSS advocates and create some real > momentum on a specific day. It is conceived of as a broad initiative of > free and open source software advocates, reaching across distributions, > projects, operating systems and continents! We have teams registered in > places like Nepal, Burundi, Peru and Bangladesh, in addition to the more > traditionally high tech regions of Europe and North America. > > Many teams already have plans well under way, so if there is one in your > area, you might want to hook up with them to see how you can help. If > not, you can easily start a team in your area any time. Check the SFD > forum and wiki for existing teams [3]. We've had over 200 team > registrations so far and we are sure that at least 100 of these will > stage outreach events on the day. I'm sure many of you will have ordered > and received official Ubuntu CDs already. If you still have some left on > Sept. 10th you might want to meet up with a local team and hand them > out :) > > - Henrik > > [1] http://softwarefreedomday.org/ > [2] > http://www.theopencd.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=68&Itemid=1 > [3] http://maitri.ubuntu.com/softwarefreedomday/wiki/index.php/Team_Pages
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