Software Freedom Day

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Welcome to Software Freedom Day Online!

*On August 28, 2004, we will celebrate the first annual Software Freedom Day.* On that day, we will make the world aware of the virtues of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), and encourage its widespread use. We will set up stations in public places to give away informational fliers and CDs with selected FOSS, including TheOpenCD http://theopencd.sunsite.dk/ and a special all-free version of Knoppix http://www.knoppix.net/.

This is a global grassroots marketing campaign in which we are inviting volunteers from around the world to participate. It will be up to the individual teams to chose how they wish to organize their local PR efforts. We will assist with bulk production of supplies, though the cost of supplies must be distributed.

Check our team pages to see if there is already a team near you, http://softwarefreedomday.org/wiki/index.php/Team_Pages or use this form http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/staticpages/index.php/TLSignup to sign up to start one.

We also have a forum http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/forum/index.php and mailing lists to help you stay informed. We hope you will join the celebration! http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/staticpages/index.php/mailinglists

We have set up a wiki http://softwarefreedomday.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page that will contain all the team pages so that team members can set up and maintain their own information. Matt has made a team sign-up page http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/staticpages/index.php/TLSignup where new team leaders can register their team and provide contact information. We would ask that even established teams take a moment to fill in this form so we have some standard contact information on all the teams.

We have now settled on an official approach for the supplies we will provide to teams Software Freedom Day. We have always felt that it is important to have a professional appearance on the items that we give to the public, so we decided early on to help the SFD teams attain such professional quality materials. The exact form this would take has evolved during the planning process, and we can now present this year's for provision of the materials.

*"Free Software Flooding" in Macedonia* http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/users.php?mode=profile&uid=6

http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/index.php?topic=GeneralFree/Libre Software Macedonia http://www.freesoftware.org.mk/ have recently distributed 1000 CDs, half and half TheOpenCD and Knoppix, to help promote FLOSS. Here's the trick, the event was held outside the conference hall, in Skopje, where Microsoft's "Vizija" (Vision) conference was taking place, in short, Wonderful