Guía de Inicio para el Día de la Libertad del Software - DLS
Esta guía de inicio está diseñada para presentarte al Día de la Libertad del Software - DLS y para proporcionarte algunos consejos e indicadores para organizar tu propio evento de equipo de DSL. Si tienes preguntas por favor inscríbete y usa la lista de correo de los equipos o escribe en el formulario de contacto. Puedes interactuar también con nosotros en la sala #sfd en irc.freenode.net (vínculo dírecto del IRC, vínculo del chat web) si quieres cruzar ideas u obtener más consejo.
Formar un Equipo Local de DLS puede ser una experiencia efectiva de construcción comunitaria divertida para su grupo local de usuarios y para su comunidad. El Día de la Libertad del Software es un día de salir al alcance inspirar a los que nuevos con los valores de Libertad del movimiento de Softwre Libre a traves de actividad de tu elección. ¿Existe algo relevante localmente a tu país o región que requieres expresar? ¿Hay una gran historia de éxito local que queres decir?
El Dia de la Libertad del Software es tu oportunidad de estar unido con la comunidad entera del Software Libre en lo que estamos juntos: la Libertad.
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How can I celebrate Software Freedom Day?
There are two primary ways to celebrate SFD:
- Join a local SFD Team and help make their SFD event a success.
- Make your own SFD team!
SFD will be most effective if we keep some target groups in mind:
- Families
- Government
- Small Business
- Big Business
- Schools and Colleges
Steps to build your team
Read the CodeOfConduct page and see if you can agree!
Sign up for the SFD-announce mailing list. This is a low bandwidth announce mailing list only. Team discussions happen on the sfd-discuss list which you are also encouraged to join.
Create a team page on this wiki below your Continent/Country to prepare - you will need to sign up or log in to be able to edit pages. Please make sure you read the instructions for creating a new team page.
Make a shortcut of your team page if you want.
Register your team. If you register before the deadline (see the Registration page) then your team will receive some goodies to help you make your event awesome!
Check out the competitions page for ways your team can win great prizes! Make sure you also keep up to date with the mailing list for announcements and to share information with other teams.
- Report on your event and we'll have an easy report webform for you to fill in after the event!
The average SFD event usually requires only one or a few organisers to share the workload and ensure the event is in hand. You can often recruit helpers from:
- GNU/Linux User Groups
- Special Interest Groups (Programming Languages, Distributions, Applications, etc. )
Universities & schools
- Computer clubs
- Families and friends
- Companies (Developers, Marketing departments, etc.)
We have found that the event can bring the local groups together as well as grow the community as a whole. The number of helpers required depends on the sort of activity you choose, but generally, the more the better. That way people have a good time and it also becomes a social event. If your volunteers enjoy themselves, they will pass on a good vibe and offer to volunteer next year too
Remember, we are all volunteers so it is a matter of what we can, when we can Always remember to thank your volunteers and make sure they have a good time.
What should we do?
Be creative! You can organise any kind of SFD event you want. Your organising team can find a location / time to have a few meetings to brainstorm / discuss about the event:
- Set your goals like objectives, target audiences, scale, style, theme
- Event timing (should it be a morning, afternoon, evening or a whole day event? why?)
- Who can be the Master of Ceremony, host or speakers?
- What should be included as contents
- Others
But just to get you started, here are a few ideas some people have had:
- Have a FOSS picnic or BBQ
- Run a booth at a market, fair or computer day
- Get together with schools, universities and other people who can benefit from Free Software
- Run a competition, best FOSS developed music, graphics, short video
- Set up simple public booth and hand out CDs.
- Run some demo machines in a public space and show off your FOSS
- Hold installation workshops and combined FOSS installfests in schools, businesses or other areas
- Hold a seminar on IP, Free Culture, Patents, etc
- Have a cultural event - food, drink, music (jam session? - "open-source music").
- Organise an expo to highlight local FOSS success stories
You may also set a theme for your event / activity, we have a wiki page for team leaders to share your ideas here
Budgeting
Depending on the sort of activity and scale of your event, you may need to set a budget for the event. It's good to prepare a budget plan and find ways to finance it, there are usually a few ways:
- Sponsorship from Free Software Friendly Companies
- Donation from members of local communities and computer clubs
- Sharing cost among the participants
If you plan to raise fund, it's good to prepare a proposal clearly specify the event details suggested as below and then approach different Free Software companies / organisations.
- Objective of the event
- Target audiences
- Messages to be delivered
- Date and venue
- Activity scale and form
- Estimated budget plan
- Benefits of sponsorship / donation
Promoting the event in advance
It is very important to communicate the event to your target audiences, there are a lot of ways just to name a few here:
- Posters and flyers: Download the poster design from here (tbc), put your event details, print them out and post them in selected places two weeks before the event
- Announcement in different websites and mailing list: e.g. GNU/Linux User Groups, Computer Clubs, Interested groups, Colleges and Universities
- Press release: if you have connection with local press of your country / city, approach them, either send them a press release to build awareness of your event before and after the event or host an interview if possible. Otherwise, you can always approach local technology / IT related journalists to do so. You may want to contact them to make them come to the event.
- Social Networking: Status.net, Identi.ca, Twitter, Facebook, etc.
- Word of mouth: ask around to bring friends, families and co-workers to the event
Preparing for the day
Below is a basic checklist that should cover most events that you would plan on running:
- Got your volunteers organised?
- Your venue is well prepared? Have microphones? Video Projectors? White Screens? Whiteboards? Notice boards? Network?
- Do you need insurance for your event? (some people can look to larger organisations to help out with this. Ask around)
- Do you have schwag to hand out? CDs, flyers, balloons? Anything shiny that will give you the chance to engage in discussion. We are proud to be able to offer to teams free materials to help you look and be great on the day!
SFI encourages you to distribute any Free/Libre Open Source Software. Please keep in mind that what you distribute should be pleasantly usable by your target audience.
- Have you liased with any other SFD teams in your region or country? Sometimes this can help with pooling resources and having a stronger all round effort
- Do you have have decent signs prepared so people can find/recognise your event?
- Do you have signs to tell participants how to tag, twitter, etc.?
- Do you have a board to allow participants to write down what they feel about the event?
- Is your event in an easy to find place that is useful to reach out to a broad new audience?
On-site management
According to experiences, there are a few things you may want to pay attention during the events.
- Documenting the whole event by pictures or video and share them in different channels, it is suggested to tag the pictures to "softwarefreedomday"
- Interviewing audiences to get feedback of the event (as sometimes paper surveys may not get the same result)
- Others would be the temperature, ventilation, sound level of the speakers, noise control from audiences
After the event
- You may want to gather those materials that can be reused for the next event.
- Of course you have to indulge yourselves with a good meal to talk about the feeling of the event together with the other volunteers, saying thank you to all the volunteers are very important as well.
- Encourage those volunteers / yourself taken pictures during the event, ask organizers and audiences for their feedback, post them in websites and / or blog about it so that we can reach out even more people
- Send a press release to different press
- Send thank you letter and report summary to sponsors, speakers and supporting organizations
Check out the competitions page for ways your team can win great prizes! Make sure you also keep up to date with the mailing list for announcements and to share information with other teams.
Report on your event! You can create your own team gallery, and we'll have an easy report webform for you to fill in after the event.
Summarize the event experience, share them with our mailing list here so that we can put them into this StartGuide to make it more complete
Useful Documents, Templates, Files and Examples
- Sponsorship proposal template
- Presentation
- Press release
- Event report
Credits
All the pictures in this page were taken by SFD teams from different countries under the license of Creative Commons! A big thank you to all of them / you! Remember to tag yours to softwarefreedomday