= 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 [[http://www.softwarefreedomday.org|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 planned systems for increased ongoing 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 * 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, coming soon) are listed here: first Wednesday night monthly 7.30pm-9.30pm - http://www.infohelp.co.nz/glu.html & third Saturday afternoon monthly 12pm-4pm - https://www.meetup.com/Chchtech/events/ & Monday-Thursday random week nights online 7pm-10pm, details t.b.c. ... We look forward to meeting you for [[http://www.softwarefreedomday.org|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.) = Team Christchurch SFD = ---- CategoryTeam2020