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Photos of our Event

2009 DST/Pretoria Photos

Venue

Department of Science and Technology

Map to the Department PDF or Slippy map

Facebook

Look at 2010 Facebook Event

Invite

2009 PDF invite

Contact Information

• SFD Pretoria Lead : Karl Fischer
• Marketing Lead : Bennie Kahler-Venter
• Code Jam Lead : Walter Leibbrandt
• ZA OpenCD Lead : Jaco Kroon
• Distro Love Station Lead : Ludo Neethling
• Installfest Lead : Quintin van Rooyen
• Podcast Lead : Mark Clarke
• Photography Lead : Ross Addis

Marketing Team

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• Project Lead : Bennie Kahler-Venter
• Greg Eames
• Scott Ryan
• Kelso Todd
• Leonard Tleane

Pending Timeline

Lightning Talks

• 5 -13 Minutes per talk
• 2 Minute Setup per talk

• Please mail Initial draft Presentations by 14 September 2010 to kmf@floss.pro

• Mail Final Presentations by 16 September 2010 to kmf@floss.pro

• No Speaker slot will be allocated if a Presentation is not mailed by 16 September 2010

• 8 - 10 slots available pending of the time needed
• Lightin' Talks must not be to technical

Partners

• Department of Science and Technology

• Neotel

• Freedom to Innovate South Africa

• Freedom Toaster

• Joomla! Southern African Portal

• Jumping Bean

• LPI

• Linux Holdings

• Meraka

• Linux System Dynamics LSD

• Novell

• Obsidian

• One Laptop Per Child ZA

• OpenZA

• Translate.org.za

• Sun Microsystems

• Openstreetmap.org

• OpenSource Release Feed

• Learn Joomla!

• Slingshot Content Management

• Abrocha Engineering And Solutions

• Learn Drupal - Offering 10% off our courses for SFD!contact Joseph - 011-781 8014

• Meso ICT Solutions

Code Jam

• Project Lead : Walter Leibbrandt

This year we will also give back to the cause we are all celebrating, in the way that made Open Source software the great success it is today: development. Join us in improving Open Source software by contributing your time, code, bug fixes and/or anything that can help.

The exact structure of the event is currently still undecided. Contributions can come in many forms:

• Implementing a new feature
• Fixing known bugs
• Testing for new bugs
• Triaging existing bugs
• Translating projects

Because of the shear scope of possible contributions it is not easy to simply choose a project and a way in which to contribute to it. That's where you come in! We would like know how and to which project(s) you would prefer to contribute. Please add any suggestions you might have below, or send your suggestions to me (contact details below).

If you are interested in being part of this event, please add your name and e-mail address below:

Please don't hesitate to send me any comments, questions or suggestions. You can e-mail me (walter at translate org za), catch me on IRC (walterl on FreeNode) or leave your message on this page.

ZA OpenCD

• Project Lead : Jaco Kroon

Total 4.33GB worth of data on the disc. Full TOC available at ftp://ftp.is.co.za/mirrors/za-opencd/ and http://tlug.org.za/opencd/ - please prefer the ftp.is.co.za mirror.

Frets on Fire Showdown

Do you know Guitar Hero ? Frets on Fire is Open Source and Multi Platform what more do you need?

We'll have 3 play stations where you can test your skills!

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Distro Love Station

Help people that need some Linux and BSD Love

• Project Lead : Ludo Neethling
• Karl Fischer
• Walter Kruse - Fedora ?
• Hiren Patel
• Douglas Ulyate - Ubuntu
• Chris Geldenhuis - CentOS

• Ross Addis - Noodle

• Joon Radley (PC-BSD and FreeBSD)
• Quintin van Rooyen - Linux Mint
• Quintin Beukes - Ubuntu
• Leo Krüger - Gentoo / Ubuntu
• Kevin Coetzee - Gentoo
• Stephen Coetzee - Archlinux

• Tshepo Seema - OpenSuse 11

• add your name

Install Fest

• Project Lead : Quintin van Rooyen

Get Hands on help with your Linux install, People are dedicated to sit with you and Step-by-Step guide you through the whole process!

• Stephen Coetzee
• Kevin Coetzee
• Andrew Mc
• Dale Marshall
• Tshepo Seema
• Volunteer by adding your name to the list.

Distro's that will provisionally be available:

• Ubuntu - ISO Available (32bit)
• Kubuntu - No ISO yet
• Xubuntu - No ISO yet
• Ubuntu Netbook Remix - ISO Available (32bit)
• PCLinuxOS - No ISO yet
• Mandriva - No ISO yet
• Linux Mint - ISO Available (32 and 64bit)
• PC BSD - ISO Available (32bit)
• Fedora - No ISO yet

• OpenSuse - 11.1 (32 bit)

• CentOS 4.7 (32 bit)
• CentOS 5.3 (32 and 64 bit)
• Arch Linux - ISO Available (32bit)
• Gentoo - ISO Available (32 and 64bit)

If you have ISO's for any of these, or suggestions for additional distro's please mail Quintin

Podcast interviews for Open Tech Exchange

* Project Lead : Mark Clarke I would like to gather some material for the open tech exchange podcast. Will bring the video camera to get some footage to upload to youtube. If any community/project leaders want to talk about their project and how they are spreading open source in South Africa we would be keen to talk to you. Let me know.

Photography Team

• Team Lead : Ross Addis
• Jaco van der Schyff
• Khutšo Ngoasheng
• Fanie van der Walt
• Chris Geldenhuys
• Ian Galpin
• Ulrich Nordhoff

LPI Exams by Linux Holdings and Jumping Bean

Linux Holdings will be having LPI Exams as well Please contact Kin

Jumping Bean will be holding LPI exams too. Please contact Joseph on 011-781 8014- We are offering 10% off to anyone interested in writing the LPI exam on SFD!

Prizes and Goodies

• Win Prizes with our Frets on Fire Competition

• Swag / Freebies

• Geeko Building Competition!

Suggested Events

• Translation of Free and Open Source Software

• Distro Love Station - Any community helpers will be appreciated.

• Joomla!, Moodle and Chisimba installations, demonstrations, training and more (online or stand-alone)

• Bring your own CD's and Burn a Linux Distro on the Freedom Toaster !

• Have an IDEA please add it

Some guidelines to make SFD a positive celebration:

* AT ALL TIMES Comply to the Code of Conduct

• DO present the capabilities and practical benefits of FOSS.
• DO NOT pretend that FOSS is perfect for everyone or everything.
• DO have the ability to present FOSS ideology clearly and concisely to interested people.
• DO NOT beat uninterested people over the head with ideology; this will confuse and intimidate them. Instead...
• DO let the quality of the software speak for itself and its ideology.
• DO have demo machines present if possible.
• DO your best to connect people with a local FOSS community.
• DO provide contact information for your SFD team so people can subsequently contact you for more information.
• DO get contact information from interested and willing people, so you can proactively follow-up with them later.
• DO proactively follow-up with people who attend your SFD event.
• DO find and cooperate with other SFD teams in your area.
• DO start other SFD teams in your area - this is cooperation, not competition!

• DO NOT -- seriously -- DO NOT bash Microsoft or SCO or any other false Great Satan. Software Freedom Day is not about any individual companies or people; Software Freedom Day is a positive community celebration of Software Freedom.

Legend .

Contact

Karl Fischer

mail me

googletalk/jabber: kmf@floss.pro

skype: kmfischer

Archive

Last Year's Page http://softwarefreedomday.org/archives/2006/africa/RSA/pretoria

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