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Revision as of 13:19, 7 September 2007
Organizing Software Freedom Day 2007
Contents
Schedule
The event will go from 1:00pm to 5:00pm. This is subject to change, please check back for updates, or subscribe to this page.
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Registration, refreshments, meet people |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Introduction to free software and Software Freedom Day |
| 14:00 - 14:40 | Drupal for nonprofits workshop / One Laptop Per Child demo |
| 14:40 - 14:50 | Break |
| 14:50 - 15:30 | GIMP demo (Ari Pollak) / Other Demo or workshop |
| 15:30 - 15:40 | Break |
| 15:40 - 16:20 | Mako Hill / Other demo and workshop |
| 16:20 - 17:00 | Free software installation and assistance (including Rockbox for your portable music player) |
More information
For Organizers
To do
Please put your name next to a task when you take it.
- Brainstorm ideas for format
- List more groups to contact
- Contact groups on list
- Distribute flyers on campuses (binaryfreedom)
- Confirm speakers for Drupal presentation (binaryfreedom)
- Confirm speakers for OpenOffice presentation (binaryfreedom)
- Confirm speakers for GPLv3 presentation (johns)
- Confirm lead for Rockbox install (johns)
- Confirm lead for OLPC demo / presentation (jgay)
- Get refreshments together (binaryfreedom)
- Get FSF sales and membership table together (deborah)
- Get parking info
- Test projector -- do we have a screen and projector?
Advertising the event
Send announcements to
- FSF members (done)
- FSF mailing list (done)
- fsf.org/events
- Free Culture Boston?
- Binary Freedom Boston?
- Debian Boston?
- Drupal Boston
- BLU
- Perl Mongers
- PHP group
- Students coming back to school
- Boston Greens
- Other political groups
Making a flyer
- Date / Time
- Location
- SFD logo
- Blurb about free software
- Blurb addressing students
- Address for wiki page with schedule
Possible speakers
- Chris F., Binary Freedom
- John Sullivan, FSF campaigns mananger
- Joshua Gay, FSF campaigns manager
- Joshua Ginsberg, FSF sysadimn
- Benjamin Mako Hill, Troublemaker, FSF Board Member
