Software freedom day 2012

Software freedom day is a worldwide celebration of free and open source software foss. The hlug international software freedom day event will be taking place on saturday september 15th 2012 at all saints church, high st. Software freedom day is over for another year and our event at allsaints in hereford proved to be a great day. Free software can retrofit the first law of robotics into the robots we call cell phones, but those who control the robots dont want freedom inside. At the hackathon, eben moglen delivered a speech in which he reflected on the past ten years of freedombox and the projects future. Description annual celebration of software freedom day. To create your team page find your country and cityregion or create one if it does not exist yet. Federal university oyeekiti fuoye downloads sfd2012. Software freedom day in 2020 is on the tuesday, 15th of sep 9152020.

Software freedom day 2012 celebrated in nepal software freedom day 2012 was successfully celebrated in more than 10 places in nepal. A report on software freedom day 2012 puducherry gnu. Software freedom day 2012 in vienna fsfe supporters vienna. At a conference dedicated to the theme of free software in a free society, confirmed speakers include jon lawrence of electronic frontiers australia. Mozilla reps software freedom day philippines 2012. Software freedom day will come with a free lunch with open sauce. About software freedom day on the third saturday in september each year, people all over the world celebrate software freedom day. Few people realize how important open source software is, but it is used mainly on computer servers to provide access to all of the data that are accessed on the internet and on most corporate computing networks. Linux users of victoria and free software melbourne is hosting software freedom day in melbourne. This site runs on wordpress, a totally free content management system and blogging platform and is hosted on servers that run linux, a totally free operating system. Imag3584 software freedom day 2012 in hanoi nguyen.

We are still deciding on a venue but it will be in pretoria, midrand or jozi. Firefox for web developers and debug using firebug will be presented on the event. Software freedom day which is celebrated worldwide every year was successfully conducted in petit seminaire hr. The open it lab joined nearly 300 other teams from over 60 countries around the world in celebrating the 2012 software freedom day last saturday. The database running in the background, mysql, is also free, as are many of the plugins and bits of code that shape.

Hi shinga77, yeah, we are busy planning software freedom day for the 15 sep 2012. Hope number nine the hotel pennsylvania, nyc sunday, 2012 july 15. This is the first time i was participating as well as volunteering for sfd. There will be plenty of free software available, as well as copies of the opendisc. The goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about the benefits of using high quality foss in education, in government, at home, and in. In this post i share about my experience about sfd. Software freedom day sfd is an annual worldwide celebration of free software. It was organized in butwal, pokhara, madi, hetauda, birtanagar, jhapa, dharan, kavre, amrit campus and sap falcha. Presented a stall on ruby at software freedom day 2012.

Sfd is a worldwide celebration of free and open source software foss. The open it lab celebrates software freedom day 2012 it. The sfd was organized by puducherry linux users grouppuduvailug along with. Software freedom day is a yearly celebration of software freedom that aims to educate the public about the value and importance of software freedom.

This way we will be able to keep oversight of where a team is located and others will be able to find a team in proximity more easily. Software freedom day sfd is a worldwide celebration of free and open source software foss. Software freedom day celebrate software freedom day. It is a public education effort with the aim of increasing awareness of free software and its virtues, and encouraging its use. Sfd is a public education effort with the aim of increasing awareness of free software and its virtues, and encouraging its use. Software freedom day is an event which is conducted every year all over. Software freedom day 2012 in vienna on saturday 15 th september the fsfe fellowship group vienna held an information booth in viennas most prominent shopping street. Software freedom day 2012 report hlug herefordshire. Profit made them, profit runs them, and they hurt us every day. Software freedom day is a worldwide celebration and promotion of free software, open source software and related technologies. Melbourne is one of many cities around the globe that will mark software freedom day next sunday, september 15.

Software freedom day, a celebration of open source software and freeware, is held every september. Media in category software freedom day the following 18 files are in this category, out of 18 total. Our goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about the benefits of using high quality foss in education, in government, at home, and in business in short, everywhere. Software freedom day in international calendar calendarlabs. This year our event will be familyfocussed with kids activities, workshops and free facepainting. December 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message software freedom day logo software freedom day sfd is an annual worldwide celebration of free software organized by digital freedom foundation.

Mozilla reps software freedom day 2012 leyte philippines. On saturday, 15 september 2012, the entire world will be celebration software freedom day 2012 sfd. Vaishnav college, arumbakkam chennai on 15 sep 2012. Software freedom day 2012 celebrated in nepal prakash. The local celebrations are being organised by linux users of victoria and free software melbourne. A lot of time and preparation went in to making sure it was as successful as last year, and it paid off. We are now practised at setting up the space and the earlybird hlug members who arrived first to arrange tables and chairs and ensure cables were safely tucked away were fortified by the excellent coffee served in the allsaints cafe. Although it was one of just 4 registered events taking place in the uk, software freedom day is a global event. Date is saturday, sep 15, 2012 20120915 the third saturday of september quick brain dump contact. Its a day when free software developers and users raise awareness in their local community of the benefits that software freedoms bring. Free software melbourne will be hosting a games area, the one laptop per child project will be present, as will the raspberry jam group.