Boston Software Freedom Day

Celebrate Software Freedom Day in Boston!

Save the date!

On the afternoon of September 15, 2007, the Free Software Foundation (http://fsf.org), BinaryFreedom (http://binaryfreedom.info) and Boston Free Culture (http://freeculture.org) are hosting a Software Freedom Day (http://softwarefreedomday.org) event in downtown Boston.

Please bring your friends and join us for talks, activities and outreach in support of software freedom. We'll be one node in a network of over 290 events worldwide, and it's not often we get the chance to make that kind of splash. It'll be a great chance to meet other hackers and activists in the area and to make plans for how we can work for software freedom on a concrete, local level.

Let us know that you can come by emailing info@fsf.org, and keep up-to-date or even help us plan the schedule at http://groups.fsf.org/index.php/Boston_Software_Freedom_Day.

Date: Saturday, September 15, 2007 Time: 1:00pm - 5:00pm

We'll have some refreshments and there is no charge to attend.

Bring your computers and portable music players for help installing and configuring free software on them, and for playing along with the hands-on demos!

Location

In Boston's Chinatown:

 encuentro 5
 33 Harrison Street, 5th floor
 Boston, MA 02131

Here's a map.

Activities

Some of what we have planned so far:

• GIMP tutorial and demo
• Drupal tutorial and demo
• OLPC demo and presentation
• OpenOffice.org demo and tutorial
• Bring your laptop for help with installing and configuring free software
• Bring your portable music player and install Rockbox
• Get a free gNewSense CD
• Network with other free software and free culture activists

Organizing Software Freedom Day 2007

Boston Software Freedom Day

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, free culture music and video, sign up to give lightning talks
13:30 - 14:00	Introduction to free software and Software Freedom Day (Joshua Gay and John Sullivan from the FSF)
14:00 - 14:40	Drupal for nonprofits workshop / Free Culture presentation
14:40 - 14:50	Break, music, video
14:50 - 15:30	GIMP demo (Ari Pollak, Debian GIMP maintainer) / OLPC Demo
15:30 - 15:40	Break, music, video
15:40 - 16:20	Benjamin "Mako" Hill (FSF board of directors) / OpenOffice demo
16:20 - 17:00	Free software installation and assistance (including Rockbox for your portable music player), music, video, keysigning, lightning talks

More information

• http://softwarefreedomday.org
• http://binaryfreedom.info
• http://fsf.org
• http://gnu.org/philosophy

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 (done)
• 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