[SFD-discuss] help
xolani Ndlovu
xolanimart at gmail.com
Mon Jun 11 10:09:21 EDT 2007
hie everyone my name is xolani i am in Bulawayo i have been following the
opensource movement for the past
three years heavily reading open source literature so i teamed up with a
friend to start an open source movement in Bulawayo (OPEN SOURCE
Bulawayo) its dead in Bulawayo so anyone who can help us please
do we are still at school so resources are problem please help
xolani
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> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:52:37 +0100
> From: "Robert Schumann" <robert at softwarefreedomday.org>
> Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] hello and t-shirt cost
> To: "Open discussions about SFD" <sfd-discuss at sf-day.org>
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> Hi Douglas,
>
> The sfd-announce list is generally pretty low-traffic, particularly when
> we're more than three months from SFD. Traffic will probably start to pick
> up soon, though....
>
> Regarding T-shirts, we're aiming to have the sales website up within about
> two weeks. Speaking entirely non-authoritatively, so don't quote me, I
> believe the T-shirt price may be around US$12. The small profit we make on
> selling the shirts goes to help us send supplies to all the teams around
> the
> world.
>
> Anyway, it's great to have you signed up and we hope you organise some
> great
> SFD events in North Carolina. Feel free to stay in touch with us and with
> other teams from around the globe via this mailing list.
>
> Robert.
>
> On 10/06/07, Douglas A. Whitfield <whitdoug at email.unc.edu> wrote:
> >
> > All,
> >
> > I just signed up for this list today since no messages have come out of
> > the sfd-announce since I joined it about a month ago. My group's site
> > is http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/teams/northamerica/ChapelHill. We
> > are looking to purchase about $100 of the t-shirts if the price is
> > right. I know the page says the shirts are being worked on, but do we
> > have an estimated cost?
> >
> > This group is a new group begun this spring, so this obviously our first
> > SFD. None of us had actually even heard of SFD until May 8th! We hope
> > we can get similar events started at other local universities (Duke and
> > NC State) as well as some other places we have ties (NCSSM and
> > Gardner-Webb University). Any questions, comments or concerns are very
> > welcome!
> >
> > Thank you,
> > --
> > Douglas A. Whitfield
> >
> > UNC SILS MSIS Class of '08
> > Cell: 919-360-0306
> > AIM: DouglasAWh
> >
> > Carolina Open Source Initiative Co-President
> > Carolina-opensource at listserv.unc.edu
> > http://www.softwarefreedomday.org
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> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:36:13 +0100
> From: "Robert Schumann" <robert at softwarefreedomday.org>
> Subject: [SFD-discuss] CDs to be dispatched to SFD teams
> To: "Team discussions about SFD" <sfd-discuss at sf-day.org>
> Cc: sfd-announce at sf-day.org, info at softwarefreedomday.org
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> The organisers of Software Freedom Day have been discussing making some
> changes to the supplies we will be making available to SFD teams this
> year.
>
> Last year we helped Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, send shipments
> of
> Ubuntu CDs to teams, and teams once again have the opportunity to request
> Ubuntu CDs when they register this year. We have also been intending this
> year to ship copies of The Open CD ( http://theopencd.org/), which was
> supplied to teams in 2005 - and when teams register this year, they are
> offered the opportunity to specify how many of The Open CD they would like
> to receive.
>
> However, for various reasons we would like to avoid shipping The Open CD
> this year. The major reason is cost: although the cost per team might only
> be US$10 or US$15, when you have hundreds of teams registered that becomes
> a
> lot of money. Software Freedom International (the organisation behind SFD)
> has very limited funds and we believe this is not an effective use of
> those
> funds.
>
> What we are proposing instead is to send teams
> 1. One CD or DVD containing open source documentaries, interviews, music
> and
> any other open resources we can get hold of
> 2. A single copy of The Open CD, which can be replicated by teams if they
> wish to distribute this software
> 3. ...as well as the usual T-shirts and a few other little items!
>
> Another part of the reason for this proposed change is to make available
> to
> teams (including teams in parts of the world where internet connectivity
> is
> not great) a set of resources that can be used to convey the message of
> software freedom (for example, interviews with some leaders in the FLOSS
> world). These resources could then also be used to put together your own
> documentary or shown at other software freedom events you may plan ( e.g.
> for a campus fair at your college, or an IT exhibition).
>
> Before making this change, we wanted to hear feedback from you, the team
> leaders and FLOSS enthusiasts from around the world. So please do get in
> touch with us to let us know what you think (about this change, and about
> our proposed team supplies) and ask any questions you may have. You can
> either chat with other SFD participants on the SFD-discuss mailing list
> (you
> need to be a member: join at
> http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss) or you can send your
> comments/questions direct to the SFI board at info at sf-day.org. We are
> specifically interested in
> 1. suggestions for resources to be put on the CD/DVD (which must be under
> an
> open license).
> 2. whether your team would have a problem using a DVD and you'd prefer a
> CD.
>
> Looking forward to hearing from you,
> Robert.
>
> PS - Three months left to go before SFD! How are your preparations going?
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> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:16:45 +0100
> From: Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <matthew at truthisfreedom.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] CDs to be dispatched to SFD teams
> To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss at sf-day.org>
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> On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:36:13 +0100, "Robert Schumann" <
> robert at softwarefreedomday.org> wrote:
> > Before making this change, we wanted to hear feedback from you, the team
> > leaders and FLOSS enthusiasts from around the world. So please do get in
> > touch with us to let us know what you think (about this change, and
> about
> > our proposed team supplies) and ask any questions you may have. You can
> > either chat with other SFD participants on the SFD-discuss mailing list
> > (you
> > need to be a member: join at
> > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss) or you can send your
> > comments/questions direct to the SFI board at info at sf-day.org. We are
> > specifically interested in
> > 1. suggestions for resources to be put on the CD/DVD (which must be
> under
> > an
> > open license).
> > 2. whether your team would have a problem using a DVD and you'd prefer a
> > CD.
>
> Sounds like a fair plan to me, I'm sure that there's a video of RMS
> talking about GPL/FOSS etc that's open source, also the recent BBC episode
> of CLICK (http://www.bbc.co.uk/click) mentions Ubuntu and other OSS (but
> I'm not sure how well it does this!)
>
> Would it be possible for the DVD to contain ISOs of Ubuntu, EdUbuntu,
> TheOpenCD, Knoppix, SLED[0] etc? That way we'd only need one disk and could
> get all the distros from it!
>
> I'm hoping to build some sort of freedom toaster for the event, so if I
> can just copy a load of ISOs from a disk to the HDD, that would be great!
>
> Cheers,
>
> M.
> --
> Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
> Lug-Master (http://www.thanet.lug.org.uk),
> Dad (http://www.helpmeimadad.com/),
> Ubuntu User( http://www.ubuntu.com/)
>
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:10:36 +1000
> From: Melissa Draper <melissa at meldraweb.com>
> Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] CDs to be dispatched to SFD teams
> To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss at sf-day.org>
> Message-ID: <466D49CC.2010803 at meldraweb.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> Robert Schumann wrote:
> > The organisers of Software Freedom Day have been discussing making
> > some changes to the supplies we will be making available to SFD teams
> > this year.
> >
> > Last year we helped Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, send
> > shipments of Ubuntu CDs to teams, and teams once again have the
> > opportunity to request Ubuntu CDs when they register this year. We
> > have also been intending this year to ship copies of The Open CD (
> > http://theopencd.org/), which was supplied to teams in 2005 - and when
> > teams register this year, they are offered the opportunity to specify
> > how many of The Open CD they would like to receive.
>
> So the version of TheOpenCD would be the 2005 version or would it be the
> current one?
>
> >
> > However, for various reasons we would like to avoid shipping The Open
> > CD this year. The major reason is cost: although the cost per team
> > might only be US$10 or US$15, when you have hundreds of teams
> > registered that becomes a lot of money. Software Freedom International
> > (the organisation behind SFD) has very limited funds and we believe
> > this is not an effective use of those funds.
>
> Why not have an option for teams to cover the shipping if they still
> want a batch? It would still be cheaper than buying them elsewhere? I
> for one would take this option if it were offered.
>
> >
> > What we are proposing instead is to send teams
> > 1. One CD or DVD containing open source documentaries, interviews,
> > music and any other open resources we can get hold of
> > 2. A single copy of The Open CD, which can be replicated by teams if
> > they wish to distribute this software
> > 3. ...as well as the usual T-shirts and a few other little items!
> >
> > Another part of the reason for this proposed change is to make
> > available to teams (including teams in parts of the world where
> > internet connectivity is not great) a set of resources that can be
> > used to convey the message of software freedom (for example,
> > interviews with some leaders in the FLOSS world). These resources
> > could then also be used to put together your own documentary or shown
> > at other software freedom events you may plan ( e.g. for a campus fair
> > at your college, or an IT exhibition).
> >
> > Before making this change, we wanted to hear feedback from you, the
> > team leaders and FLOSS enthusiasts from around the world. So please do
> > get in touch with us to let us know what you think (about this change,
> > and about our proposed team supplies) and ask any questions you may
> > have. You can either chat with other SFD participants on the
> > SFD-discuss mailing list (you need to be a member: join at
> > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss
> > <http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss>) or you can send
> > your comments/questions direct to the SFI board at info at sf-day.org
> > <mailto:info at sf-day.org>. We are specifically interested in
> > 1. suggestions for resources to be put on the CD/DVD (which must be
> > under an open license).
> > 2. whether your team would have a problem using a DVD and you'd prefer
> > a CD.
> >
> >
> >
> > Looking forward to hearing from you,
> > Robert.
> >
> > PS - Three months left to go before SFD! How are your preparations
> going?
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > SFD-discuss mailing list
> > SFD-discuss at sf-day.org
> > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss
>
> --
> Sincerely
> Melissa Draper
>
> http://www.meldraweb.com
>
> Phone: 0404 595 395
> (intl): +61 404 595 395
>
> P.O Box 1412
> Lavington, NSW 2641
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:25:22 -0400
> From: "Douglas A. Whitfield" <whitdoug at email.unc.edu>
> Subject: RE: [SFD-discuss] CDs to be dispatched to SFD teams
> To: "'Open discussions about SFD'" <sfd-discuss at sf-day.org>
> Message-ID: <D48F3DE094C7441E835CC8D58D74387A at dev.unc.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> We at COSI were looking forward to not buying the CDs ourselves, but the
> video idea is interesting because we were planning on partnering with our
> local Free Culture organization (http://freeculture.org/) and the Creative
> Commons license (or however the videos, etc. are licensed) would be of
> interest to them. Hopefully we can get some money for CDs from local
> sponsors. Dell is on board here, but we don't know for how much yet.
>
>
>
> Douglas A. Whitfield
>
>
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> _____
>
> From: sfd-discuss-bounces at sf-day.org [mailto:
> sfd-discuss-bounces at sf-day.org]
> On Behalf Of Robert Schumann
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 6:36 AM
> To: Team discussions about SFD
> Cc: sfd-announce at sf-day.org; info at softwarefreedomday.org
> Subject: [Spam:11.3] [SFD-discuss] CDs to be dispatched to SFD teams
>
>
>
> The organisers of Software Freedom Day have been discussing making some
> changes to the supplies we will be making available to SFD teams this
> year.
>
> Last year we helped Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, send shipments
> of
> Ubuntu CDs to teams, and teams once again have the opportunity to request
> Ubuntu CDs when they register this year. We have also been intending this
> year to ship copies of The Open CD ( http://theopencd.org/), which was
> supplied to teams in 2005 - and when teams register this year, they are
> offered the opportunity to specify how many of The Open CD they would like
> to receive.
>
> However, for various reasons we would like to avoid shipping The Open CD
> this year. The major reason is cost: although the cost per team might only
> be US$10 or US$15, when you have hundreds of teams registered that becomes
> a
> lot of money. Software Freedom International (the organisation behind SFD)
> has very limited funds and we believe this is not an effective use of
> those
> funds.
>
> What we are proposing instead is to send teams
> 1. One CD or DVD containing open source documentaries, interviews, music
> and
> any other open resources we can get hold of
> 2. A single copy of The Open CD, which can be replicated by teams if they
> wish to distribute this software
> 3. ...as well as the usual T-shirts and a few other little items!
>
> Another part of the reason for this proposed change is to make available
> to
> teams (including teams in parts of the world where internet connectivity
> is
> not great) a set of resources that can be used to convey the message of
> software freedom (for example, interviews with some leaders in the FLOSS
> world). These resources could then also be used to put together your own
> documentary or shown at other software freedom events you may plan ( e.g.
> for a campus fair at your college, or an IT exhibition).
>
> Before making this change, we wanted to hear feedback from you, the team
> leaders and FLOSS enthusiasts from around the world. So please do get in
> touch with us to let us know what you think (about this change, and about
> our proposed team supplies) and ask any questions you may have. You can
> either chat with other SFD participants on the SFD-discuss mailing list
> (you
> need to be a member: join at
> http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss
> <http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss> ) or you can send your
> comments/questions direct to the SFI board at info at sf-day.org. We are
> specifically interested in
> 1. suggestions for resources to be put on the CD/DVD (which must be under
> an
> open license).
> 2. whether your team would have a problem using a DVD and you'd prefer a
> CD.
>
> Looking forward to hearing from you,
> Robert.
>
> PS - Three months left to go before SFD! How are your preparations going?
>
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