SFD:

Kitchener-Waterloo Software Freedom Day

The precise location and details for this event are yet to be determined. It is being organized in part by The Working Centre and KWLUG

This year's festivities will be held on:

Saturday, 20 September 2014
10am-4pm
43 Queen Street South and 58 Queen Street South (Map)
Kitchener

This year will feature the following activities:

Confirmed Workshops

Programming with Scratch

facilitators: Lloyd Carr, Sergiane Nascimento, Raul Suarez

Scratch is a programming language and online community designed to get children programming and sharing their interactive creations. It is a visual language that can be used with a web browser on as an offline app.

From sequential instructions to conditionals and loops in an event driven environment, the "programmer" gets instant gratification of watching things happening in the screen.

This workshop will introduce participants to programming in Scratch. You can bring your own computer or use one of our lab computers.

Children are welcome to participate in this workshop if accompanied by an adult. Adults are welcome to participate as well!

Space for this workshop is limited, so those who pre-register will get first priority for participation. To pre-register, please email sfd at theworkingcentre.org .

Privacy and Security Tools

facilitators: Nick Guenther, Bob Jonkman

A year after Edward Snowden's whistleblowing of NSA activities, many people remain concerned about online privacy and surveillance. In this workshop, Bob and Nick will discuss and help you install some tools that can be helpful in increasing your privacy and security online.

This workshop will be most effective if you bring your own computer.

Space for this workshop is limited, so those who pre-register will get first priority for participation. To pre-register, please email sfd at theworkingcentre.org .

Confirmed Presentations

Open Source for Fun and Profit: Making a Career out of FOSS

presenter: Khalid Baheyeldin (http://2bits.com)

time: 10:30-11:30am

Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) has seen steady growth for the last two decades. Yet it is not obvious how one would go about making a career of out FOSS.

In this presentation, Khalid will recount his own experiences from the trenches on how to to do just that. He will discuss various options available to individuals in the context of the Drupal project.

Installfest

Our installfest will be held all day. Bring your computer and get some assistance in configuring or installing free software on your system (Windows, Mac or Linux). We can also help you install a GNU/Linux distribution on your computer (Xubuntu 14.04 by default, but other distros are available).

If you do not have a computer (or do not have a computer to spare for a GNU/Linux distribution) then computers will be available onsite for you to build and take home. These computers will cost $20 with a monitor or $0 without. The system specifications are: Pentium 4 3GHz, 1GB RAM, 40GB hard drive. We will help you put together your computer and install Xubuntu 14.04 on it.

Resources


Other Software Freedom Days in Kitchener-Waterloo


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