[SFD-discuss] SFD 2008 - competition winners!

[Judy Okite]

CONGRATULATIONS!! to the winning teams and for the rest of us we have
almost a year to better our best. WATCH THIS SPACE :-)

Kind Regards,

On 11/26/08, Robert Schumann <robert at softwarefreedomday.org> wrote:
> * ***Dear SFD'ers,
>
> Following a highly successful SFD 2008 - with 50% more teams registered than
> in 2007 - we are pleased to announce the winners of the competition for the
> best event:
>
>    - FOSS Nepal Community (team leader Subir Pradhanang) - team report PDF
>
> 7.4MB<http://softwarefreedomday.org/Competition2008?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=FOSS_Nepal_SFD_08_report.pdf>
>    - SFD Nicaragua (team leader Leandro Gomez) - team report
> 1.6MB<http://softwarefreedomday.org/Competition2008?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=sfdnicaragua2008report.pdf>
>    - DabaweGNU (team leader Holden Hao) - team
> report<http://www.dabawegnu.org/Members/holden/software-freedom-day-2008>
>
> Congratulations to these teams, and many thanks to Subir, Leandro and Holden
> for leading their events and telling the world about their how it went!
>
> Each winning team will be receiving a prize of a *pair of OLPC
> laptops*<http://laptop.org/>
> .
>
> The winning entries were selected for the scope of their SFD activities, the
> number of people reached (particularly from the wider, non-technical
> community) and the quality of the reporting. However we received many high
> quality entries - a total of almost fifty submissions - and special mention
> also goes to:
>
>    - Guyana (team leader Vidyaratha Kissoon) - team
> report<http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/centralandsouthamerica/guyana>
>    - Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (Dev Anand Teelucksingh) - team
>    report <http://www.ttcsweb.org/articles/sfd2008/index.htm>
>    - freeIT (team leader Mylene Sereno) - team
> report<http://mylenesereno.blogspot.com/2008/09/software-freedomday-08-gensan.html>
>
>
> Thank you to all teams (over 500 teams in almost 90 countries) for their
> efforts in making SFD 2008 such a great success, and don't forget to put
> Saturday 19 Septermber 2009 in your calendars! To make sure you don't miss
> out on registration, make sure that you are subscribed to the SFD-announce
> mailing list <http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-announce>.
>
> Robert Schumann
> *Vice President, Software Freedom International*
>


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