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Thanks. On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 11:40 AM, sweemeng ng <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys/gals > Software Freedom Day registration is up. again on the same time of the year. > I really want you guys to do it this time. I have other focus this year. I > can help get place, but I also hope that you guys can get a better place. > Start a booth? > It would be good for all of us to show our commitment, and if done properly > we can spread the idea of a Free(dom) Software to Malaysian. Which is one of > the goal of the group > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Frederic Muller - SFI <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 9:00 PM > Subject: [SFD-announce] SFD 2011 registration is LIVE!!! > To: SFD announcements <[email protected]>, "Discussions about planning > for SFD (english)" <[email protected]> > > > Dear all, > > This is with a great pleasure (and small delay) that we are announcing > registration opening for SFD 2011! In fact some of you have already > started to create you wiki pages and participated in the soft opening > and registration testing that we started 2 days ago. Most bugs should > have been cleared out of the way and I remain available for any problem > you may encounter through email or on IRC (#SFD on freenode). > > Major highlights of the registration rewriting: > - I didn't get any help from anyone so it took more time (I am no developer) > - UTF-8 support, so all those South-American addresses we used to > struggle with because of corrupted letters should be problems of the past > - Better SFD Wiki URL check (I'd say 100% reliable now) > - Ported to python so I can 'maintain' it now > - The form asks for and matches SFD wiki login and email address which > will allow you to update map coordinates later (still need to code that > update bit) > - Fixed Open Street Map marker click offset > - Total event count on the global map page > - Easy integration with the current web site design, and any design. > That will make it easier for others to use it since we said we would > release the code (still needs to do some cleanup and documentation > writing though) > - Saves directly in CSV format making it a lot easier to handle that big > file at the end of the registration period. > > There are still one or two known issues (like the phone number format > only gets check on the server side, requiring you to refill the form if > you got it wrong - but we're working on it). > > Hopefully it should make the whole experience better and allow us to fix > or improve it based on the feedback we get. A special thanks goes to > Charles from Canada who spotted a very annoying address input bug and > Jean from Belgium who sent me an extensive report, and all the others > who participated. > > The other news for the year is that we are cash positive again and > goodies are in production as we speak. This year we have raised > sufficient funds to produce team packs for 200 teams (50% of last year > total registered events). > > I want to particularly thank our sponsors who are making this possible, > namely Canonical, Google, Nokia/Qt in China and Linode. We have also > attracted more media sponsors this year (from 2 to 5 in total now) where > we are running a A4/Letter size ad in the August/September edition for > most (some are quarterly magazines). In no specific order those are > Linux Magazine (long time partner), Linux Journal (yeah, welcome!), > Ubuntu User, Admin Magazine and Smart Developer. And we are still in > discussion with 2 or 3 other organizations. > > This year we also had a lot of back and forth with the Free Software > Foundation about the impact of distributing non-free GNU/Linux > distributions and pretending 'it is ok'. At the end proprietary software > remains proprietary be it an office application or a device driver. Our > objective is to educate the world about using high quality free and open > source software and that is what we should be doing. This is a long > topic and we will get back to it later this summer. > > Like last year there are about 10 days to goodies deadline (limited to > the first 200 teams and Canonical is still providing Ubuntu CDs), so > just go create a new team page under > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011 (not continent this year) and > fill that form on http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/cgi-bin/register.py > > Last but not least I want to thank all the new volunteers who have > joined the SFD global marketing team and are helping with global tasks. > One of the net outcome has been our new SFD logo for 2011 which we will > keep moving forward (thank you David, Jeff and Maxus Singapore) and the > multimedia DVD which we have finally managed to make (thank you Diego, > Marcos, Pockey). All artworks are available on > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Artwork and under a CC-BY license. > > And happy SFD preparations! > > Do subscribe to the discuss mailing list[1] if you haven't yet, read SFD > Planet [2] read our blog[3] to keep posted (or RSS feed[4] to it). > > Any question do let us know. > > The SFI Board > > ps: do check the SFD 2010 winners for inspiration and thank you to > Makerbot and FSF for the prizes. > http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/competition/winners-2010 > > [1]: http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > [2]: http://planet.softwarefreedomday.org (we also have Spanish, > Portuguese and German - URLs need to be updated) > [3]:http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/blog > [3]: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/blog?format=feed&type=rss > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-announce mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-announce > > > > -- > Just a random living organic computer code generator > -- Malaysia Open Source Software Conference 2011 MOSC2011 http://www.mosc.my/ Malaysia Open Source Conference 2012 (MOSC2012) http://portal.mosc.my/ LinuxMalaysia Network http://www.facebook.com/Bukan.Sekadar.Internet.Sahaja Harisfazillah Jamel -- To unsubscribe from and detail about this group http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information Malaysia Open Source Conference 2011 MOSC2011 http://blog.mosc.my/ and http://www.mosc.my/ Malaysia Open Source Conference 2012 MOSC2012 http://portal.mosc.my/
