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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 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
Use the Hashtag
- #sfdpta on Twitter and Identica
Get involved
Planning is now underway for SFD 2010.
Join our next SFD 2010 meeting on Tuesday, 10 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 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
- DAE_JA_VOO
- @tobykurien
- @AndroidZA
Distro Love Station
- @quintinza
OSS Gaming
PC's supplied!
- @lsdteam
Suggested games
- Enemy Territory
- Frozen Bubble
Warzone 2100 (Bennie Kahler-Venter to show)
Balanced Annihilation @hgeldenhuys
- ... (add what you want to show / play!)
Learner's Lab
- Andre Mciver (@mciverza)
- Qimo Linux Lab
Photo People
- @runlevelzero
- Ross Addis
Talks
- Not for personal gain talks. Add your topics below. (15 minutes!)
- Ubuntu Development - @stefanlsd
- Open Everything - @stefanlsd
<more!!!>
Swag
- LSD arranging with OSS vendors for promotional goodies
- - Canonical Onboard
- - Red Hat tentative
- - Zimbra tentative
Other
- Free Bandwidth compliments of Neotel
- I want a stand for the JAWUG people
- Let's Talk Geek (Show recording)
- We need a volunteer to contact Schools in Pretoria (we need them, CS Students)
Orgs helping us
- LSD (confirmed)
- Novell (confirmed)
- Jumping Bean (confirmed)
- Synaq (tentative)
- Obsidian (tentative)
- Neotel (confirmed)
- Samsung (tentative)
- Translate.org.za (confirmed)
- Mozilla Foundation (confirmed)
- Jawug (confirmed)
Wikimedia Chapter (DavidRichfield and other volunteers will be manning a stall.)
- Openstreetmap (confirmed)