Hackerspace Hong Kong

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In order to promote Hardware Freedom Day that was hosted on April 20, I went to visit the only hackerspace in Hong Kong, the DimSumLabs. We met some new geeky friends including Graham, a professor at PolyU and Manolis, web admin at DimSumLabs among other many things… We had a lot of great discussions and talked from 8pm until 2am. We ended up agreeing to host some events in PolyU together in the near future.

The following Saturday, we went to do site visit and talked more. Of course we also met with our old friend, Mathieu who just started a hacking group in Hong Kong and had a very great first event. His main occupation these days apart from his job, is to work on an improved input method for Hong Kongese. We also invited him to join Digital Freedom Foundation as a director as he is helping us coordinating and running some local activities in Hong Kong, which happen to be a requirement now. All in all it was a great week, not really a HFD event but definitely big steps forwards for us.

Hardware Freedom Day is launched!

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Digital Freedom Foundation is launching a new celebration around Open Hardware called Hardware Freedom Day (www.hfday.org) and which will be celebrated on April 20 2013 (one month before Culture Freedom Day). Please help us to promote the event by using our HFD countdown and banners.

Now if you’re involved in some ways with either your local hackerspace or some open hardware projects you should rush to the HFD wiki, create your event page, register your event and get a pack of cool stuff for your HFD event!

Please ask any question on the HFD mailing list.

Celebrate Hardware Freedom Day with us on April 20!

SFD Hong Kong 2012

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This year Fred and I attended Software Freedom Day at City University of Hong Kong. It was a great event with plenty of talks. We met the leaders of the Hong Kong FOSS communities, Haggen and Sammy. We also made some new friends in the persons of Mart, his girlfriend and Mathieu. Since Fred presented Culture Freedom Day to the audience, we got in touch with a contributor from Videotage which is a NGO promoting and presenting video and media arts in Asia. We will definitely do something together in the upcoming CFD 2013.

On top of all this we revealed an extra information regarding DFI activities which we will publicly announce in the coming weeks. Stay tune by either following the DFI website or our identi.ca account (http://identi.ca/dfi/)!

SFD around the corner!

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2012 Software Freedom Day is approaching, are you ready yet?

If you are planning to join a SFD event nearby, please check out this map! If you are organizing one yourself, please do document your event, use the #softwarefreedomday tag, upload photos, make movies, blog, tweet (on identica of course!) and get ready for the SFD 2012 competition. While we haven’t made any formal announcement yet we have some pretty exciting gifts again this year which we are sure will please all your team. Stay tuned!

Celebrate SFD with us on September 15!

SFD Countdown in 15 Languages

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Прославите са нама Дан слободе софтвера!15 сентября отмечайте SFD вместе с нами!Proslavite sa nama Dan slobode softvera!

Thanks to the community, the SFD countdown is now available in 15 languages which are: English– Catalan – Français – German – Chinese simplified – Persian – Portuguese – Arabic – Greek – Ukrainian – Estonian – Spanish – Serbian Cyrillic – Serbian Latin – Russian. If you would like to localize the SFD countdown to your language, simply follow the instruction here on http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown

It’s in fact very easy to help us promote Software Freedom Day! On top of placing this SFD countdown, you can also tell the world if you are organizing, attending, participating or speaking at a SFD event by placing one of these banners on your website / webpage / blog and link it back to http://www.softwarefreedomday.org.

Happy SFD event preparation!