Software Freedom Day Bazaar Wrap Up - Melbourne Town Hall - Sept 15th 2007
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Software Freedom Day 2007: Melbourne Town Hall |
We had a successful event at the Melbourne Town Hall in the CBD, lots of different people came along and got involved. People from Computerbank, Linux Users of Victoria (LUV), Aussiechix, Apple Users Society of Melbourne (AUSOM), Melbourne Juggling Club, Melbourne Linux Users Group (MLUG), Melbourne PHP Users Group, Melbourne Wireless and more!
In the lead up to the event we had articles in local news papers, were mentioned on RRR radio and had a community service announcement on Channel 31. Our event was also listed on several websites.
Around 200 people attended the event across the day. The juggling out the front helped attract some attention. Inside there were three main areas: kids and education, graphics, office and net, and a community area. many people were surprised at the range of free quality software available. The majority of the computers on display were refurbished computers from Computerbank.
Tux came along to help spruik our event, he was so popular he got mobbed with hugs. Some people enjoyed watching the Codebreakers and other short documentaries. Nicholas from AUSOM produced a really cool FOSS for the Mac CD with a flyer to accompany, around 30 copies were distributed. Linux Users of Victoria (LUV) volunteers handed out 2000 CD's (Ubuntu and the Open CD) in the city and outside the town hall.
A great day for Software Freedom in Melbourne. Many thanks to those who helped make it so.
Big thanks to our sponsors:
Software Freedom International (and sponsors) for organising the event at a global level,
Victorian Government for help with event costs including printing CD's, flyers and extra t-shirts.
Melbourne City Council for sponsored use of the town hall and staff,
Epicure Catering for help with organising the function and display boards,
Ida Chionh from A Wok on the Wildside for helping with publicity,
Community Media Services for organising and airing a community service announcement for the event,
Centre Stage.com Costumes for the penguin suit, and
Melbourne Wireless for providing access points.
Without your inputs the event would not be possible.
Big thanks to Team Computerbank Volunteers: Kylie, Jan, Rob, Tony, Barry, Ben, Lex, Allan, Jessica, Michael, David, John, Sarah, Bianca, Matthew, Adam, Cloud, Peter, Donna, Claudine, Ida, Ben B from Melbourne PHP, Linux Users of Victoria, Andrew, Grant, Jaymz and 5 more, Melbourne Linux Users group, Mark and 4 others, AUSOM volunteers, Nicholas and 2 others, plus members of the Melbourne Juggling club. Without your energy and effort we'd never be able to pull this event off.
Some photos can be found here as thumbs: http://vic.computerbank.org.au/Members/jan/sfd07 or here for a slide show: http://vic.computerbank.org.au/Members/jan/sfd07/zphotoslides.2007-09-18.1574238469/slide_show
More photos to come.
-- Team Computerbank