[SFD-announce] Software Freedom... in Oxford, and next week (fwd)

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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:20:46 +0200
From: Robert Schumann <robert at softwarefreedomday.org>
To: sfd-announce at sf-day.org
Subject: [SFD-announce] Software Freedom... in Oxford, and next week

The coordinators of Software Freedom Day are meeting in Oxford on 3 March this 
year - and supporters of FOSS are invited to come chat with us about software 
freedom in general and SFD in particular.

* DATE: Saturday 3 March 2007
* TIME: 1330 UTC onwards (till late afternoon)
* VENUE: Freud's Bar, Walton Street, Oxford (walking distance from bus and 
train stations)
* Maps and information about venue at the end of this email.[1], [2]

Please drop an email to info at sf-day.org if you're planning to come - so that we 
can work out (approximate) numbers.

== Background ==

Software Freedom Day is getting a professional makeover this year as Software 
Freedom International (SFI), the organisation behind this annual event, holds 
their first ever face-to-face board meeting.

The coordination of SFD in previous years has been undertaken by the board [3], 
consisting of members in Australia, Pakistan, Nigeria, UK, Denmark and USA, 
using IRC and email as their primary means of communication. Their coordination 
has supported teams all over the world in staging their own local events, which 
vary from giving away FOSS CDs to staging seminars to demonstrating FOSS to 
their communities.

After the overwhelming positive response for SFD 2006 (with close to 200 teams 
from all over the world registered) and the late delivery of support to some 
teams, the board has decided to shake things up and sharpen their strategy for 
bringing software freedom to the streets. Part of this has involved 
restructuring the board to enhance contact with teams, but we've also decided 
to sit down together and make some serious plans to grow SFD and further 
promote the spread of free software.

The SFI board will be meeting in Oxford from 1 to 3 March, and on our last day 
of meetings we wanted to invite members of the local FOSS communities - or even 
those just curious about SFD - to come for a few drinks, some food, and to 
share your thoughts with us. Please do come along if you're anywhere near 
Oxford, and find out about our new ideas for Software Freedom Day!

Our face-to-face meeting could not take place without the assistance of OSS 
Watch [5], the open source advisory service based at the University of Oxford. 
Many thanks to them, to our other sponsors, and to the teams that make SFD 
worthwhile.

Make sure you have Saturday 15 September in your diaries for Software Freedom 
Day 2007, and we hope to see you in person, in Oxford!

Robert.

[1] Freud's website: 
http://www.freudliving.co.uk/cgi-bin/shop/page.cgi?user_id=526&file=bars.html
[2] Google map to Freud's: http://tinyurl.com/2cenps
[3] SFI board: http://softwarefreedomday.org/sfi
[4] IBM: http://www.ibm.com/
[5] OSS Watch: http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/


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