[ubuntu-za] Share the Love this Software Freedom Day!

[Karl Fischer]

Hi Guys!

Software Freedom Day is happening on Saturday 18 September 2010,

Software Freedom Day (SFD) is an event held all over the world to
celebrate and raise awareness of free and open source software. Our
aim for SFD 2010 is to encourage the use of free software and promote
its philosophy by engaging with personal computer users, local
businesses, schools, government bodies and other groups. We provide a
friendly and accessible community to learn about and discuss free
software.

Where : Dept Science and Tech, Pretoria @ CSIR
When  : 18 September 2010
Times : 8:00 - 15:00
Price : Free of charge
Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=136339953064060

Come early for a Bargain Breakfast!
Refreshments will be on sale!

Free Bandwidth Sponsored by Neotel, 70 Computers sponsored by Mecer!

CodeJam :
CodeJam is focused on contributing to a OSS Project or starting your own.
To register your interest please click here :
http://tinyurl.com/sfdpta-codejam
CodeJam: Afrikaans translation sprint
As part of the CodeJam the GNOME Afrikaans team will be having a
translation sprint to help push up the translation figures for the
next release of Afrikaans GNOME.
You are more then welcome to visit, ask questions and find out how you
can become part of the team.

Android developer day :
You could win a Nexus One, Google sponsored a Nexus One as a Prize!
To register your interest please click here :
http://tinyurl.com/sfdpta-android

Talks are going to cover a wide amount of topics,
including
 - Ubuntu Development
 - Snake Wrangling, Get started with development in python
 - Plotting the HTML5 Landscape
 - Some things translators wish all programmers new about localisation
 - Drupal
 - Android
 - Building Open Source Communities in the Work Place

Games Stations :
30 Computes dedicated to Games!
Some of the Games include :
 - Enemy Territory
 - Frozen Bubble
 - Warzone 2100
 - Balanced Annihilation

Distro Love Station :
10 Computers with a Wide Range of Free and Operating Systems installed

Learner's Lab :
5 Computers with EduBuntu!

Photo Geeks that will document the event for us
- Ross Addis
- Henti Smith
- Jaco van der Schyff

Live Streaming and Podcasts provided by the "Let's talk Geek" gang
www.letstalkgeek.net

Orgs helping us
LSD, Novell, Jumping Bean, Neotel, Mecer, Translate.org.za, Jawug,
Wikimedia Chapter, Openstreetmap

If you use Twitter/identi.ca/Floss.pro please use this #sfdpta (
http://lanyrd.com/2010/sfdpta/ )

Please join us!

Karl

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Karl Fischer
@kmf everywhere