SFD Competition 2011
Digital Freedom International is one more time very proud to announce the winners of the 2011 SFD Best Event Competition! For its sixth edition the competition is seeing a very high number of remarkable entries and choosing three winners out of all the submissions was not an easy task. This year we have extended the voting committee to members of the marketing team. The DFI board would like to particularly thank Marcos Marado and Buddhike Kurera from Portugal and Sri Lanka respectively, for the seriousness with which they have undertaken this new responsibility.
Another interesting fact of 2011 is the amount of celebrations we had in the Philippines (29 for a population of 92 millions) and the quality of those events. Indeed we have seen more and more participations year after year in this region of the world and it seems each team is learning from their past making each year better than the previous one. Africa has also impressed us quite a bit, with much more professionaly organized events accross the continent in whole. Again we have seen the same teams coming back to celebrate SFD but also a few newcomers who didn't do bad at all neither.
As usual we have hand picked a special gift for the three winning teams and this year they will be receiving a Lemote Yeelonng netbook architectured around the Loongson CPU (which will enable them to improve application support on this platform and run only Free Software) as well as the book "Free Software Free Society: selected essays by Richard M. Stallman" signed by the author himself (if the winning teams didn't distribute any non-free Linux distribution).
So without further ado let us introduce this SFD 2011 Best Event competition winners in no particular order.
8layerstech
- Reach 2500 people
- Great press coverage: TV interview
CP-Union
SFD 2011 organized by CP-Union reached a thousand participants and they had increased participation of volunteer speakers, 30 speakers on 34 various topics. There are also a wealth of new topics this year like Processing, Indie Video Games, OpenStreetMaps, Scrum Dev and Agile Methodology using FOSS among others. Well done to the FOSS Nepal team!
Read the full report here
SFD Tunisia
Following the success of Sfax SFD’2010 organized by the IEEE ENIS Student Branch and the success of the first TunAndroid anniversary organized by TunAndroid community in June 2011, both teams cooperate and co-organized SFD Tunisia 2011, the event reached over 350 people and attracted participation from the Tunisian secretary of state for technology as well as leaders in the Free Software field like Google, Ubuntu Tunisia, Mozilla Tunisia, SecuriNets, just to name a few. A great job by the team and congratulations!
Read the full report here
Highly Commended Entries
The entries below were all highly commended for many different reasons. Some were highly locally relevant to their communities, some were quite innovative, all were worth while granting the status of Highly Commended and publishing for the broader community to enjoy and celebrate! Congratulations to you all and again many thanks for your efforts!