SFI is a non-profit company based in the USA whose primary function is to coordinate Software Freedom Day all around the world. All contributors to the success of SFD volunteer their time. Find more about Software Freedom on our about page.
What is Software Freedom Day
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 -- in short, everywhere! The non-profit company Software Freedom Internationalcoordinates SFD at a global level, providing support, giveaways and a point of collaboration, but volunteer teams around the world organize the local SFD events to impact their own communities.
Objectives
- to celebrate software freedom and the people behind it
- to foster a general understanding of software freedom, and encourage adoption of free software and open standards
- to create more equal access to opportunities through the use of participatory technologies
- to promote constructive dialogue on responsibilities and rights in the information society
- to be inclusive of organizations and individuals that share our Vision
- to be pragmatic, transparent, and responsible as an organisation
SFD Competition 2007 (http://softwarefreedomday.
The 2007 Software Freedom Day competition was largely based around the best Software Freedom Day events from around the world! Teams had to prepare and submit an entry and in 2007 we received some amazing submissions. Below are both the top 3 winners as well as some highly commended entries.
All these entries represent incredible efforts to take Software Freedom to the general public and the Software Freedom International board thanks all participants for their efforts. Thank you! You do your countries, and our community proud!
Many thanks also to the sponsors of our 3 One Laptop Per Child computers, Google and OLPC, which will be sent to the 3 winners. All winners and highly commended participants will receive certificates.
SFD Competition 2007 Winners
In no particular order, the following entries demonstrated diverse participation, excellent media coverage, photos, weblinks, videos and other recording of the event. They also were particularly innovative, successful, and a great example of what Software Freedom Day is all about. Congratulations to our SFD 2007 competition winners!
FOSS Nepal Community
An incredible event including distribution of FOSS, social events, talks, college visits (to educate the educators and students about software freedom) and even a Software Freedom vigil!
http://wiki.fossnepal.org/
SFD Nicaragua 2007 Team
http://softwarefreedomday.org/
Beijing Software Freedom Day (China)
http://sfd.beijinglug.org/
Highly Commended Entries
The entries below were all highly commended for many different reasons. Some were highly locally relevant to their communities, some were quite innovative, all were worth while granting the status of Highly Commended and publishing for the broader community to enjoy and celebrate! Congratulations to you all and again many thanks for your efforts!
- Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society - Online report http://www.ttcsweb.org/
- SFD Tunisia - Online report http://www.sfdtunisia.org/
Additional Entries of Note
- Linux User Group in Bamenda Cameroon - Online report http://www.njahbisoli.org/
- Inaugural Mount Gambier Software Freedom Day (Australia) - Online report http://softwarefreedomday.org/
teams/europe/macedonia/skopje/ sfd2007report - Skopje SFD 2007 (Macedonia) - Online report http://softwarefreedomday.org/
teams/europe/macedonia/skopje/ sfd2007report - Inetsys team (SFW-07), Hubli (India) - This entry was regrettably too late to include (Sept 15 was the deadline), however we felt it was a great event & worthy of note. Online reporthttp://signalspot.com/
software-freedom-week-07/
shucks....that was close kartik!:)
but there's always a next time!..Great job u guys!
Regards,
Tauheed Ahmed
JMI,New Delhi
This was one of the many similar responses i got !
Note: This info was sent by Pia Wough SFI Chair, www.softwarefreedomday.org
http://softwarefreedomday.org/Competition2007/Winners
