[clue-announce] Fwd: SFD Registration, and a bit more...

[David L. Anselmi]

Here's an update from the SFD people.  I haven't gotten any takers on helping to organize or promote 
anything beyond installfest for SFD.

I'm pretty sure that our "team" is registered so don't worry about that.  I think I asked for only 
10 Ubuntu CDs (but a month before 10.10 comes out that should be enough).

If you've never contributed to Free Software, please take a look at the links below and see whether 
you could imagine yourself implementing/coordinating any of the ideas.  All contributions are 
welcome, no matter how small.

I don't intend to use this list again to ask for help so please contact me directly or on clue-admin.

Thanks!
Dave

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	SFD Registration, and a bit more...
Date: 	Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:43:24 +0800
From: 	Frederic Muller - SFI <fred at softwarefreedomday.org>
To: 	anselmi at anselmi.us



Dear SFD Team leaders (or members),

You're receiving this email as you registered on our SFD wiki. This is a
one time email to clarify a few things and let you know of our current
efforts.

*First* we are seeing a few team pages which do not have an associated
registration with it. Registration is done by filling the form at
http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/register.html . Filling this form will:
1. Enable you to get a team marker on the SFD team map so people can
easily locate your event. Team map is located at:
http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/map.shtml

The markers and team listing points directly to your event wiki page on
the SFD Wiki.

2. Until today you can ask for free Ubuntu CD by filling the form. We
will be lose on the cut off date this year as we have a little bit more
flexibility. But it will be August 1st or 2nd at most. So register today
if you haven't done so yet.

And please for the teams who did create a wiki page and didn't register
yet, do fill the form (I'm saying it twice just in case you missed the
first time ;-) ).

*Second*, team pages are supposed to be independent from the location
(city or region) page to allow for more than one team per location and
to make it clear for people wanting to attend an event. We have added
categories so teams and regions can get automatically listed. It is very
important to keep the "CategoryTeam" at the bottom of your team page so
you can be listed on this page as well:
http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CategoryTeam

*Third*, we're putting some work together with the FSF and FSFE and some
team leaders to share with you artworks, tips, topics and ideas for your
event. You should definitely take a look at those pages which are a work
in progress. You are of course highly encouraged add your own ideas
(that's the purpose of a wiki). We're as well trying to keep track of
where "we" post information about SFD, so please add your own
contributions there. So the pages worth a visit are:
http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/StartGuide
http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Artwork
http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Marketing/EventSlogans
http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Marketing/FOSS101
http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources

Read only but worth a read as well: "lessons learned from the past" with
a big thank you to the Christchurch team, NZ for its documentation efforts.
http://archive.softwarefreedomday.org/lessons/

*Forth*, you can of course communicate with other teams. We currently
have a mailing list for this, sfd-discuss, in English and one in Spanish
planning-es. Mailing list registration link is here:
http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo .

We're working on getting a forum that would support both type of
communication (mailing list and forum).

We also have an IRC channel on Freenode called #sfd. Web link here:
http://softwarefreedomday.org/content/irc-chat else any IRC client will
work.

Expect more to come over the weeks until SFD in September.

Thank you very much for your participation and happy preparations!

Frederic Muller
SFI Board