Tag: Digital Freedom Foundation

Hardware Freedom Day is launched!

Posted on by Pockey Lam

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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

Posted on by Pockey Lam

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!

2012 SFD Team Packs shipped

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They’re finally off! Yes, you read well, all the SFD team packs have left DFI office and are now on their way to your event. All registered teams before August 12 this year should start to receive the great stuff we have prepared for them. In total we packed and shipped about 200 packages together with our local community. DFI has been generous enough as every year to invite us for dinner that same day!

A big thank you goes to Google, Canonical, Linode, Free Software Foundation, FSFE, Linux Magazine, Ubuntu Users, Smart Developer, Admin magazine, Linux Journal, FreeBSD, and Joomla!. We are also pretty excited to have new FOSS projects doing their part to support and encourage SFD, such as Creative Commons and Open Clipart .

For those who missed the deadline, subscribe to our announce or discuss mailing lists to get notified next year and rush to our artwork page to download all the source files and produce your own goodies!

HAPPY PREPARATIONS TO ALL!

Celebrate SFD with us on September 15!