On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, you wrote: > On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 00:13 +0800, John Thng wrote: > > I wonder if there's any Software Freedom Day here before or not. > > http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/SoftwareFreedomDay2006 > > Cheers! in 2007 too I believe. >
Having done this in NZ for 3 + years now, it is my experience that at least one or two install fests should be held in the week after Software freedom day. This gives people involved on the day itself something to publizie and for those people who are interested in trying an immediate venue to go to. I also think that in a Singapore environment a semi-professional seminar event targeted at businesses would be fairly successful given some planning. However getting people to speak and making sure that the material being presented is relevant is always a hard task. For me the biggest problem is trying to not be too technical or picking a group of technologies that might only apply to a few people to talk about. Something that I feel would however go down well would be a 'Myth debunking, and TCO comparison session' for Small to Medium enterprises. The other big one is development processes for collaboration. Teaching development houses about the tools of FOSS development, and how these can improve productivity and cohesion in workplaces and projects. (i.e Wiki's RCS's and IRC/IM, as well as the slew of paste bin like stuff). This coupled with a good public presense and some backing from large electronic retailer chains in store on the day (and leading up through the week and week after) makes everything work nicely. I am not sure but Challenge I think would be the closest equivilent here to NZ/OZ Dick Smith Electronics, and they have always been supportive in the past (good free PR for them, freebies for us, freebies for them, and there customer service perception goes up). The other big issue that has been highlighted in the past in NZ is making sure that newbies know the support channels, (Primarily LUGS) and that these communities are willing to actually help. comments? Kind regards JoelW
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