Boston Software Freedom Day

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

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

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