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Hello, we meet monthly at the South Library ICT lab, 66 Colombo St, to share/discuss/promote/support FOSS*. | |
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Hello, we meet monthly at the South Library ICT lab, 66 Colombo St, to share/discuss FOSS. SFD has been our annual public activity promotion day since we started in 2004. |
SFD has been our annual larger FOSS promotion day since we started in 2004, as Team Christchurch SFD. |
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Do come say hi on 19 Sept and learn about software freedom! | * Do come say hi on 19 Sept from 10am and learn about software freedom, with Free and Open-Source Software! |
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== SFD20 Event Report == | |
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= Team Name = | * We significantly grew [[http://www.softwarefreedomday.org|Software Freedom Day]] attendance on that of the previous two years, which had been absolute minimal. |
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Describe what you do, confirm date and time and specify the address so people know where to go. | * We combined the activities of two community tech groups (one old, one new from 2020) to do this. * We discussed and confirmed systems for increasing continued FOSS community activity, combined. * We recognised the necessity to implement and focus on online conferencing capacity, as a constant feature of our meetings, e.g. https://bigbluebutton.org / http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/VideoConferencing etc (viz covid-19 limits and global convenience). * We acknowledged the significance of Minecraft culture as recreational, educational and social connecting tool, of interest for all age groups. * We planned towards growing meetings and adoption of a Hytale culture, to improve upon Minecraft's within two years, for SFD22: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hytale + https://hytale.com - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft * We hope to attract commercial FOSS service providers to our expo event and would expand or relocate our demonstration space accordingly. * Our SFD20 pix are added here: [[https://www.meetup.com/Chchtech/events/273085370/|https://www.meetup.com/Chchtech/events/273085370/]] == Ongoing Meetings == Our meetings twice monthly in person, and weekly online, are listed here: * First Wednesday night monthly 7.30pm-9.30pm - ref. http://www.infohelp.co.nz/glu.html & * Third Saturday afternoon monthly 12pm-4pm - ref. https://www.meetup.com/Chchtech/events/ & * Monday-Thursday weekly random night 7pm-10pm online - starting 30/9/20 https://www.meetup.com/Chchtech/events/273521930/ & next 7/10/20 https://www.meetup.com/Chchtech/events/273623883/ (at GNU/Linux Users online link) ... We look forward to meeting you for [[http://www.softwarefreedomday.org|Software Freedom Day]] 2021! Do join us. Many thanks. |
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(SFD page instructions, as supplied:) == Team Name == (Describe what you do, confirm date and time and specify the address so people know where to go.) = Team Christchurch SFD = ---- |
Freenix GNUz
Hello, we meet monthly at the South Library ICT lab, 66 Colombo St, to share/discuss/promote/support FOSS*.
SFD has been our annual larger FOSS promotion day since we started in 2004, as Team Christchurch SFD.
See our event poster here: http://www.infohelp.co.nz/sfd20.html
See our Meetup event here: https://www.meetup.com/Chchtech/events/273085370/
Find us also here: https://www.facebook.com/TeamChristchurchSFD
* Do come say hi on 19 Sept from 10am and learn about software freedom, with Free and Open-Source Software!
SFD20 Event Report
* We significantly grew Software Freedom Day attendance on that of the previous two years, which had been absolute minimal.
* We combined the activities of two community tech groups (one old, one new from 2020) to do this.
* We discussed and confirmed systems for increasing continued FOSS community activity, combined.
* We recognised the necessity to implement and focus on online conferencing capacity, as a constant feature of our meetings, e.g. https://bigbluebutton.org / http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/VideoConferencing etc (viz covid-19 limits and global convenience).
* We acknowledged the significance of Minecraft culture as recreational, educational and social connecting tool, of interest for all age groups.
* We planned towards growing meetings and adoption of a Hytale culture, to improve upon Minecraft's within two years, for SFD22: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hytale + https://hytale.com - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft
* We hope to attract commercial FOSS service providers to our expo event and would expand or relocate our demonstration space accordingly.
* Our SFD20 pix are added here: https://www.meetup.com/Chchtech/events/273085370/
Ongoing Meetings
Our meetings twice monthly in person, and weekly online, are listed here:
* First Wednesday night monthly 7.30pm-9.30pm - ref. http://www.infohelp.co.nz/glu.html &
* Third Saturday afternoon monthly 12pm-4pm - ref. https://www.meetup.com/Chchtech/events/ &
* Monday-Thursday weekly random night 7pm-10pm online - starting 30/9/20 https://www.meetup.com/Chchtech/events/273521930/ & next 7/10/20 https://www.meetup.com/Chchtech/events/273623883/ (at GNU/Linux Users online link)
... We look forward to meeting you for Software Freedom Day 2021! Do join us. Many thanks.
(SFD page instructions, as supplied:)
Team Name
(Describe what you do, confirm date and time and specify the address so people know where to go.)