= Software Freedom Day Pretoria, South Africa =
Software Freedom Day (SFD) is an event held all over the world to celebrate and raise awareness of ''free and open source software''. Our aim for SFD 2010 is to engage with and encourage personal computer users, local businesses, schools, government bodies and other groups to use free software and promote the [[http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html|philosophy]]. We provide a friendly and accessible community to learn about and discuss free software.

 * Where Dept Science and Tech, Pretoria @ CSIR
 * When 18 September 2010
 * Times 8:00 - 15:00
 * Free of charge
 * Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=136339953064060

== Get involved ==
Planning is now underway for SFD 2010.

Join our next '''SFD 2010 meeting on Tuesday, 3 August 2010 14:00 SAST at #glug.za on IRC''' via Freenode. If you have ideas or suggestions for how we can make this event bigger, brighter and better, please get in touch with [[http://www.facebook.com/karlfischer|Karl Fischer]] (on Facebook), on micro-blogging at http://floss.pro/kmf or simply chat with us at any time on IRC at #glug.za.

Topics for  the day include:

 * ... coming soon ...
 * ... coming soon ...

== CodeJam ==
 * @wasbeer

== Android developer day ==
 * RaZeaL
 * FrostyWolf359
 * DAE_JA_VOO 
 * @tobykurien
 * @AndroidZA

== Distro Love Station ==
 * @quintinza


== Learner's Lab ==
 * Andre Mciver 
 * Qimo Linux Lab

== Photo People ==
 * @runlevelzero
 * Ross Addis

== Other ==
 * Free Bandwidth compliments of Neotel
 * I want a stand for the PTAWUG people
 * Let's Talk Geek (will be there)
 * We need a volunteer to contact Schools in Pretoria (we need them CS Students)

== Companies helping us ==
 * LSD (confirmed)
 * Novell (confirmed)
 * Jumping Bean (confirmed)
 * Synaq (tentative)
 * Obsidian (tentative)
 * Neotel (confirmed)
 * Samsung (tentative)
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