So recently I posted about Software Freedom Day and it has been great to find now 14 groups around Australia who are interested in doing something on the day 😀 although not all of them are on the SFD wiki for Australia and I encourage anyone interested in doing something for the day to add your team there so we can have a rocking national day. I hope that SFD can become _the_ national day once a year when our community celebrates and looks to create a bridge to new people, one day a year when we all work together to give others the opportunities we’ve had 🙂 Ideas already on the table include giving out CDs (and the invaluable conversations that stem from that), installfests, holding LPI exams, a FLOSS booth at the local fete or market, talks and much more. It is going to be AWESOME!
The one I’m most excited about is a dude in Sydney who is keen to do a community centre installfest in one of Sydneys neediest areas. I went to the community centre monday night to help him convince them and demo Linux, and they were sooooo excited. Particularly when we booted into the Ubuntu liveCD in Arabic mode, it means they can teach the elderly in the area who sometimes have only basic english skills how to use a computer and give them opportunities. It was very cool!
So I put this challenge to the entire Aussie FLOSS community. What are _you_ going to do on Software Freedom Day? It is Sept 10, so you still have 2 months to organise something. I’m looking to possibly do t-shirts with the SFD and LA logos for all teams, so contact me if this is of interest to you. This depends on pricing, so if anyone knows someone cheap, let me know 🙂
Rock on Australia