SOFTWARE FREEDOM DAY
The Linux Users' Group of Davis, California, will be
participating in 2008's Software
Freedom Day event, Saturday, September 20th!
LUGOD will have a table set up at the
Davis Farmer's Market,
which takes place in downtown Davis. Drop by to try out Linux, ask
questions, get software CDs, and more!
Central Park
4th and C Streets
Davis, California 95616
(View on Google Maps)
What Is It?
Software Freedom Day is a global, grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of software freedom and the virtues and availability of Free and Open Source Software. Local teams from all over the world organise events on the third Saturday in September. The most recent event involved over 200 teams from all over the world.
LUGOD has participated in this event in previous years:
2004, 2005,
2006
2007.
How to Help
If you'd like to help out for this year's event, please post a message
to our event coordination mailing list,
'vox-outreach' or contact
root@lugod.org.
More information on our hands-on demos, and on our
participation in this year's Software Freedom Day event can be
found on our demo project page.
Planning for 2008
News:
- Sept. 20 - SFD went great! Thanks to Alex, Scott, Tony and
an unexpected Tim Riley for coming to staff the booth!
See photos.
- Sept. 19 - See you bright and early tomorrow morning!
- Sept. 17 - Alex and Tony burned more discs. The totals are listed
below. Scott Miller will be making a manifest for some of the CDs, and
Tony Cratz will be making a flyer for the following week's Installfest.
- Sept. 12 - Alex has burned a set of discs for the event.
- August 29 - Alex has offered to donate a plastic 4'x3' table
to LUGOD, in time for SFD.
- August 17 - Jessica actually can't make it. Jimbo has provided
us with a canopy.
- August 12 - Alex, Jessica and Jimbo have offered various
bits of help and supplies (see below). Thanks guys!
- August 11 - We received a small set of Ubuntu discs from
Canonical (not the 50 we asked for, but...). If you can help burn CDs,
please let us know whether you need blank discs. We have plenty of
jewelboxes (thanks to Lee Welter).
- July 23 - We've registered with SFD08, but it was too late to
get goodies (t-shirts, CDs, etc.).
We've therefore signed up with Ubuntu's ShipIt,
requesting 50 Ubuntu 8.04 discs. We should also
burn some discs ourselves, whether we get
ShipIt discs or not. We've also sent a note to the Davis Farmers Market
about getting a table there.
What We'll Have:
- Discs - Having software discs (Linux distros, Linux live CDs, and
open source software for Windows and Mac) is a good idea.
We received a small set of Ubuntu 8.04's from
Canonical's "ShipIt". Alex Mandel and Tony Cratz also burned some discs.
See disc list below.
Alex also said he thinks he'll be able to burn discs on demand at the
event.
- Table - We need to supply our own table for a booth at
the Farmers Market (see the
booth info page at the Farmers Market website)
Alex is donating a table to LUGOD. Scott Miller can provide a cover.
- Canopy - Having a canopy to keep volunteers and equipment out of
the sun (or rain) is useful.
Jimbo loaned us his; Bill Kendrick has it.
- Chairs - We also need to supply our own chairs.
Alex can lend chairs.
- Computers - Laptops work well for events like this.
Alex and Bill can provide laptops.
- Volunteers - People to help set-up, staff the booth,
and break-down are needed.
(Setup begins at 7am, and the market runs from 8am to 1pm.)
Volunteers are listed below.
- Hand-outs - We need to photocopy handouts
(such as these) and
any new event flyers, to give people.
Bill has printed and copied handouts.
- Register with Farmers Market - Need to print, fill out,
and mail or fax the registration form so we can participate at the FM.
Bill sent this in mid-August
Disc List:
As of 2008-09-17, the total is:
- Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop (x30)
- Ubuntu 8.04 Alternate (x5)
- Xubuntu 8.04 Desktop (x10)
- FSuite Intel (x5)
- FSuite PPC (x2)
- OpenDisc (x10)
- OpenDiscEdu (x25)
- Osswin (x25)
2008 Volunteer Schedule:
7am-8am
(setup) |
8am-9am |
9am-10am |
10am-11am |
11am-12pm |
12pm-1pm |
1pm-2pm
(cleanup) |
Bill Kendrick
Alex Mandel
Scott Miller
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Bill Kendrick
Alex Mandel
Scott Miller
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Bill Kendrick
Alex Mandel
Scott Miller
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Bill Kendrick
Alex Mandel
Scott Miller
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Bill Kendrick
Alex Mandel
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Bill Kendrick
Alex Mandel
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Bill Kendrick
Alex Mandel
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