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!

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!

Based on last year feedback from teams who failed to receive their packs on time we had to advance the deadline for getting the SFD goodies to ship earlier. This year deadline is in 5 days and therefore we already started production of most of the package content already. Today we have just collected the balloons and stickers. We kept the same design with our one-year old SFD logo provided last year by Jeff Lim from Maxus Media & Software Pte. Ltd. of Singapore and licensed CC-BY attribution to SFD. We however increased the printing dimensions on the balloons and decided to go for a colorful set making them available in orange, blue, green, pink and yellow. We hope those will provide more colors and joy to your event and reflect positively on the audience. Of course we couldn’t just tell you, we also had to show you, so here is a quick shot taken outside of those balloons.

For those thinking of organizing a SFD event in your area but not registered yet, the deadline is on July 15th, so hurry up!

Thanks to the community, the SFD countdown is now available in nine languages which are Greek, Persian, Portuguese,  Arabic, Catalan, English, French, German and Simp. Chinese. 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! 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!