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Celebrate Software Freedom Day in Boston!

Save the date!

On the afternoon of September 15, 2007, the Free Software Foundation and BinaryFreedom (http://binaryfreedom.info) 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

Location

 Encountro5
 33 Harrison Street, 5th floor
 Boston, MA 02131

It's in Chinatown. There is a 200 person capacity.

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	Demo and workshop 2
15:30 - 15:40	Break
15:40 - 16:20	Demo and workshop
16:20 - 17:00	Free software installation and assistance (including Rockbox for your portable music player)

More information

To do

Brainstorm ideas for format

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

Possible activities

Drupal for nonprofits workshop
Rockbox installs

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 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
 == Location ==
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 It's in Chinatown. There is a 200 person capacity.
+== 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.
+<table>
+<tr><td>13:00 - 13:30</td><td>Registration, refreshments, meet people</td></tr>
+<tr><td>13:30 - 14:00</td><td>Introduction to free software and Software Freedom Day</td></tr>
+<tr><td>14:00 - 14:40</td><td>Drupal for nonprofits workshop / One Laptop Per Child demo</td></tr>
+<tr><td>14:40 - 14:50</td><td>Break</td></tr>
+<tr><td>14:50 - 15:30</td><td>Demo and workshop 2</td></tr>
+<tr><td>15:30 - 15:40</td><td>Break</td></tr>
+<tr><td>15:40 - 16:20</td><td>Demo and workshop</td></tr>
+<tr><td>16:20 - 17:00</td><td>Free software installation and assistance (including Rockbox for your portable music player)</td></tr>
+</table>
 == More information ==
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 * http://fsf.org
 * http://gnu.org/philosophy
 == To do ==
-* Schedule IRC meeting (Tuesday, August 28?)
 * Brainstorm ideas for format
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 * 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 ==

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