[ubuntu-za] ♥ Saturday is Software Freedom Day 2009 ♥

[LordFoom]

It's also International Talk Like A Pirate Day!

Does that make it Talk Like A Software Pirate Day? ;)

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Karl Fischer <kmf at fischer.org.za> wrote:
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> Hello Happy People!
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> Software Freedom Day is a yearly event organised by the Open Source
> Community, The Department of Science and Technology has hosted the
> Gauteng event for the past 4 Years.
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> Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open
> Source Software (FOSS). Our goal in this celebration is to educate the
> worldwide public about of the benefits of using high quality FOSS in
> education, in government, at home, and in business
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> This year it's on Saturday September 19
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> Things we'll be doing
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> Distro Love Station - Get Information on your Distro!
> Install Fest - Helping you to Install and Configure on your Hardware!
> Frets on Fire Showdown - The Most Interactive Music Game you'll *EVER* play!
> Podcasts and Photos ... people want to document the event in different ways!
> Talks : Sun, Novell, Sita FPO, Floss.pro, LSD, Joomla, Jumping Bean
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> Companies involved this year :
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>  * Joomla! Southern African Portal
>  * Jumping Bean
>  * LPI
>  * Linux Holdings
>  * Meraka
>  * Linux System Dynamics LSD
>  * Novell
>  * Obsidian
>  * OpenZA
>  * Translate.org.za
>  * Sun Microsystems
>  * Openstreetmap.org
>  * OpenSource Release Feed
>  * Learn Joomla!
>  * Slingshot Content Management
>  * Abrocha Engineering And Solutions
>  * Learn Drupal
>  * Meso ICT Solutions
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> We also have 200 Computer Science Students attending
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> Please Join us and share the love!
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> Karl
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> Karl Fischer
> SFD 2009 : http://is.gd/2zsH7
> www : http://floss.pro
> jid : kmf at floss.pro
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