Sarawak, Malaysia

We will be going to organize the SFD 2008 on the 20th September 2008 (Saturday), therefore we would like members to volunteer to help out on that day with the planning and preparation of the event.

Some useful links:

• Our discussion thread at our forum

Also, please visit our other colleagues/teams in other part of Malaysia:

• Kuala Lumpur

• UiTM Shah Alam

To do

Here are some of the items / tasks to be done:

• Register ourselves as a team with SFD  –  Done @ 2008-06-02

• Contact all parties involves  –  Done @ 2008-09-01

• Finalizing the venues / locations  –  Done @ 2008-09-06

Location(s) for the event

We need to source for location to celebrate the SFD 2008, which must be strategic for public to approach, ask questions, hands-on, etc. Can be at few different locations (or cities) throughout Sarawak.

Here are some venues within Sarawak:

• Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Kuching)  –  Canceled

• Curtin University, Sarawak Campus (Miri)  –  Confirmed

Publicity

We need some publicity on the event to attract the crowd. Here is what we have in mind at the moment:

• do press release to major locals newspapers, magazines, etc earlier (a week or two) to announce and introduce about the SFD 2008 as well as the activities of the day

  • Eastern Times  –  Done @ 2008-09-06

  • Borneo Post  –  Done @ 2008-09-06

Activities

Activities for the day are:

• InstallFest on various open source OSes as well as software (firefox, openoffice.org, etc)

• demo machines for public to hand-on with various open source OSes and software

• Q&A session with public on various open source questions

• Talks to public on various open source topics

Sponsorships & partnerships

• Novell Malaysia -> freebies

• SFI -> SFD related materials (balloons, stickers, shirts, etc)

• Canonical -> Ubuntu related materials (CDs, stickers)

Organiser

Kuching Open Source Community or also known as KuchingOSC is a community-driven effort for sharing knowledge, promoting the awareness and pushing the adoption among its members and the public on free and open source software (FOSS) as well as open standards. The main goal of this community is to promote FOSS and open standards among its members and the public in Malaysia, mainly Sarawak.

visit our website at http://www.kuchingosc.org/, and feel free to drop by to our forum at http://forum.kuchingosc.org/.

Contacts

We can be reached via e-mail at sfd [at] kuchingosc [dot] org

Previous Years

• 2007 - This is our first Software Freedom Day (SFD) celebration at Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia which is organized by Kuching Open Source Community in collaboration with Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS). We are celebrating the SFD on 12th September 2007 (instead of 15th Sept due to fasting/Ramadan month) at the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology (FCSIT), UNIMAS.