"What are we doing today Brain? Taking over the world like we always do."
Awesome, I’ve just had a GP2X donated to give away as a lucky door prize at Software Freedom Day Sydney! Rock! It arrives today/tomorrow so I’ll get to check it out in the flesh as it were.
The prizes will be drawn last thing in the afternoon, and you have to be there to get a chance, so come along to SFD Sydney, at UNSW on Saturday!
Only a few more days to go and the Software Freedom Day Sydney event has awesome speakers, workshops, giveaways, and more!
Oh and we are going to have a special going away lunch party for Bruce Badger who is soon going away to the UK for a while. Bruce has been a strong community member for ages and we are going to miss him, so come along to see him off over lunch.
Where: UNSW – the main hall in the new law building (G04)
When: Saturday 16th from 10am till 5pm
Who: Anyone interested in technology or/and freedom
Cost: Free
Details: http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/oceania/au/sydney
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Workshops
You really you you’ve made it when you get your own blame site.
“Why? Because it’s always Pia’s fault.”
Thanks John! 🙂
About Software Freedom Day:
“You just need to Google the blogosphere to get a taste of the growing excitement across the planet.”
When I gave this quote, what I really meant was the blogosfear. Thanks Benno!
These last four weeks have been pretty crazy. I haven’t had a moment to really catch up on anything, but I’m slowly getting there so for people waiting on me please keep being patient 🙂
First there was two weeks on the road. A week in Canberra talking to Government people, universities, corporate types and of course community people about FOSS. I’m putting together some pretty interesting documents which should get some good support from Australian Government Agencies, so stay tuned for that.
Then I helped run a seminar for ASK-OSS and spent a few days in Brisbane running the same conference up there. Both events were a lot of fun and very interesting. It was great to meet Dan Ravicher who is a great speaker, and his partner Alex who is a street smart lawyer defending the rights of disadvantaged people in New York! Alex was a very cool lady to meet! It was wonderful to meet with Mark Webbink again, I hope everything is going ok Mark.
Then this last two weeks, I’ve been sick. ‘The flu with my RSI starting to play-up again’ sick. Not very nice, particularly when one has soooo much to do!
I had loads of wonderful people from SLUG come around on the 26th and pitch in to help pack up all the global Software Freedom Day team packs for shipping on Monday. It was a great day, and we packed up basically 150 packages in just under a day. Many thanks to all those people (plus Jeff and Sridhar) 😉 who put in a champion effort!
What else. We’ve had teams register late for Software Freedom Day almost every day, so it looks like there will be over 200 teams this year, and it is only the third year! I’ve got an event running in Sydney which has technologists, journalists, politicians and culturalists giving talks, as well as some useful workshops so it should be a lot of fun for anyone in Sydney who can come along 🙂 And I’m chatting to Alice Brennan today from Triple J about covering Software Freedom Day on HACK, the week day afternoon news on Triple J (and one of my favourite radio shows). More details on that when I know.
Phew! What are we doing today, Brain? …
Thank you, thank you, thank you Stewart for bringing my attention to dosbox. I used to love all my old dos games, and now I finally get access to them again.
Hooray Alleycat!
I got some good coverage from Linuxworld about SFD (thanks Liz!) which is a pretty good article.
What are you doing for SFD2006?
I was very excited to be nominated by Brenda Aynsley for the Pearcey Award for Young Achievers. I’m not sure exactly what they are looking for, but if I am awarded it I’ll be one of two women to ever get it 🙂 I’m pretty happy just to have been nominated and I hope that I get a chance to get up and talk about how FOSS has helped me have all the opportunity in the world to do great things alongside great people.
Rock on 🙂
Very recently I was voted the President of Software Freedom International, the group behind the well known Software Freedom Day. I’m pretty excited about this, and keen to get next years event firmly in the sights of more people all over the world. The rest of the board which consists of cool FOSS people from all over the world is on the SFD SFI page.
This years Software Freedom Day is shaping up pretty well, with over 140 teams participating all over the world, including 15 Australian teams and 7 teams in New Zealand. I think we are doing pretty well for such small countries 😉 I’m organising the Sydney event which is looking to be fantastic! More details on that soon 🙂
While I was in Canberra, one of things I did was meet up with Alli and finally meet the famous four-legged Dan. It was a wonderful albeit short visit, and Alli let me have a ride 🙂 I used to own horses and really miss riding so it was awesome fun! He was a little cheeky but I had him going over a few jumps. Then Alli put him through his paces beautifully 🙂 Thanks Alli!!