----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Oquist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 7:49 AM Subject: Software Freedom Day: August 28, 2004
> We are writing to ask you and your LUG to join us in celebrating Software > Freedom Day in 2004 and beyond. Please consider posting this to your mailing > list. Thank you. > > In an effort to step up the marketing effort for Free and Open Source > Software (FOSS), a small group of us have formed softwarefreedomday.org > with the aim of organizing a global celebration of FOSS on August 28th > this year. We will be handing out printed materials and CDs with good > quality FOSS, like TheOpenCD and Knoppix. We hope to involve a large > number of teams, comprised of LUG members and other enthusiasts all > around the world. Our role will be to help coordinate the event and > provide the required infrastructure, including a web portal, posters and > fliers, and most importantly, high quality (pressed) CDs that local > teams can give out to the general public on Software Freedom Day. > > We hope that you will be able to join us in organizing local events in > your area and in developing these ideas further in the months to come. > August may seem a long way off, but we have lots of work to do before > then. Please stop by our website, softwarefreedomday.org, for more > information and to share your ideas. If you would like to launch a team > in your area, please place a note in our forum, so that others can find > you and join up. > > Best wishes, > > Matt Oquist & The SFD Team > > Also see an article at OSNews: > http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6287 > --------------------------------------------------------- > SoftwareFreedomDay.org : > Celebrating Free Open Source Software in a Community Near You > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
