Planning for Software Freedom Day 2010 - Saturday 18th September
Planning is now underway for the 2010 event in Melbourne. If you have ideas or suggestions for how we can make this event bigger, brighter and better, please get in touch via @sfd_melb on Twitter or #sfdmelb on IRC via freenode, or via Linux Users' Victoria - http://www.luv.asn.au
Thank you to everyone for the 2009 event
A very BIG thank you to everybody who participated in Melbourne's part of this global event in 2009. We had an outstanding day meeting new people and introducing FREE software for all operating systems, Linux, Windows and MAC OS. We answered loads of questions ranging from "does Linux..." tech savvy to very basic 'how do I...", and got an amazing response from Chadstone Shoppers
Got a disc and want to know more??? Come along to our next LUV workshop - the Linux Users of Victoria meet on the third Saturday of every month ... so that's October 17 ... at the Hub in Docklands 17 Waterview Walk. Just like the software, it's a FREE non-discriminatory, very welcoming event for people of all ages. Just look for the big rabbit... and just like Neo, follow it.....
http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/melb
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Software Freedom Day 2009: Chadstone Shopping Centre |
Chadstone Shopping Centre - Melbourne, Australia
Software Freedom Day 2009 in Melbourne - Saturday 19th September!
Software Freedom Day is a global, grassroots effort to tell people about the virtues and availability of Free and Open Source Software.Melbourne's various Free and Open Source Software groups join the global celebration for Software Freedom Day with a series of Free Talks on various aspects of the technology and communities that support it. Melbourne's celebration is proudly supported by the Victorian Government.
We've put together a great program of talks and workshops at the Melbourne PC User Group premises, located in Chadstone Shopping Centre, the largest shopping complex in the Southern Hemisphere. There's a large theatre there for talks about the world of Software Freedom, and a small computer lab where we will run workshops and free and open source software demos.
Time |
Room 1 |
Room 2 |
Lab |
11.30 |
Installing Linux on your netbook - Wen Lin |
Why is Free Software important? - Ben Sturmfels |
Introduction to Wordpress - Kathy Reid |
12.00 |
Moving to open source software - Daniel Jitnah |
Beginning programming with Python - Minh Nyugen |
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12.30 |
How to back-up using Clonezilla - Wen Lin |
Squeak - Tansel Ersavas |
Basic hardware hacking with Arduinos - Andy Gelme |
1.00 |
Image editing basics with GIMP - Andrew Thornton |
Scratch - Tony Forster |
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1.30 |
Firefox including why and how to make it better - Joseph Wojciechowski |
Build your own website with Drupal - Simon Hobbs |
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2.00 |
Practical version control - Duana Stanley |
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Advanced Wordpress - Kathy Reid |
2.30 |
Lightning Talks! |
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3.00 |
Image editing with Inkscape - Donna Benjamin |
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3.30 |
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Media
Inkscape workshop - slides
Venue - Melbourne PC, Chadstone Shopping Centre
Level 2, Chadstone Place Chadstone Shopping Centre
Demonstrations
There will also be demonstrations of various open source operating systems, software and linux friendly hardware in the venue’s atrium all day. Come and check out what free open source has to offer for your home/office.
Contact
For more information about this years event contact kattekrab at gmail.com
Social Networking
Twitter: http://twitter.com/sfd_melb - account is sfd_melb if you want to follow it
Help us collect statements about Software Freedom Day in as many languages as we can! MultiLingualSFD