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!

And while we’re 2 weeks within the opening of SFD 2012 registration a lot of things are happening. First we saw an amazing 100 teams registered from 47 countries! We are currently producing team packs for 200 SFD teams. The packs will be delivered to teams that registered on or before July 15th on a first come first served basis. If you haven’t registered your SFD event yet, simply create your team page  and complete the registration form. All information and links are of course available from SFD website.

Another good news is that three excellent proposals were received for the upcoming SFD Summit, we (DFI) are currently reviewing those proposals and asking clarifications to the respective teams emails hopefully we can announce the location in the coming week!

The SFD countdown is now available in seven languages which are 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 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.

All the best to your SFD event preparation!

We are about 3 months away from Software Freedom Day, it’s probably the right time to resume our marketing committee IRC meeting. It is a monthly meeting hosting on the 2nd Sunday (UTC 1400) of the month. You may use http://www.timeanddate.com/ to convert to your local time. Our first meeting will be on July 8th (Sunday). Agenda can be found on http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/MarketingCommittee/Agenda

We are open for anybody who is interested to help spread the word for SFD or FOSS! If you are interested in marketing SFD, you should also join our marketing mailing list here.

First meeting schedule

• Date: July 8th (Sunday)
• Time: UTC 1400
• Channel: sfd-marketing
• Server: Freenode
• Agenda: Here