LASTYEAR: Software Freedom Day 2008

Saturday 20th September Wellington Town Hall 12noon – 6pm.

2008 included a hackfest and open source bar camp at a central location in Wellington city.

Hackfest included an installfest by the Wellington Linux User Group, demonstrations of open source software, and hacking on a opensource projects by SuperHappyDevHouse.

The open source bar camp attracted open source industry leaders and adopters to discuss and celebrate open source software.

Official welcome by MC Nathan Torkington.

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This year Unlimited Potential, CWA New Media, New Zealand Open Source Society (NZOSS), SuperHappyDevHouse, WellyLUG, Cafenet, Catalyst IT and Sun Microsystems have combined forces to organise a local event to be held at the Wellington Convention Centre - Civic Suites 1 & 2 in Wellington from 12pm - 6pm.

There are two main parts to the schedule - an opensource barcamp and a hackfest.

Organisers set up at 10am, and people started arriving from 10:30am. The official welcome was at noon. This concluded with a summary at 6pm, followed by beer & pizza, and final packup in the hackfest area about 10pm.

Video of the introductions

Summary

220 people showed up for Software Freedom Day.

An installfest provded cds, demos, and help with debian, ubuntu, redhat/fedora, free bsd and open solaris installation and configuation. Open office cds also handed out.

in the demo space there was strace, zsh, olpc and more impromptu demos during the day

at the hackfest, lotsa couches and a barrista making coffee while people working on opensource code.

the Wellington "Friends of OLPC" set up a testing session on hackfest couches, and they tested the latest build.

In the town hall, 3 rooms and 2 alcoves were set up for simulaneous barcamp session.

Topics were:

Photos

Barcamps

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Barcamp programme

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Barrista in the hackfest couch area

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Adding to the impromptu session programme for the barcamp

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Installfest media

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Hackfest

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Lotsa eeepcs turned up at the hackfest

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OLPC Friends in testing

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Welly LUG installfest

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Installfest helper

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The zsh demo

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Anecdotes from Blogs

The highlights for me were seeing the Open Solaris Student Packs for the first time that I’ve been involved in over the last couple of months, a zsh(1) demo, and an excellent discussion about on NZOSS. Glynn Foster]

So I spent a decent chunk of my saturday at Software freedom day, and it was well worth it.... It was a really well organised event, with a really good turnout. There were 2 streams running simultaneously, the barcamp and the hackfest. I started off going to a session in the barcamp that was about “Starting a Free Software project” combined with people from Silverstripe talking about their experience releasing under the BSD License. ..... ... checking out a new git clone of Koha to my wifes laptop. Note to self do this before the hackfest next time. ........barcamp and to a session on Xapian , a very promising sounding fulltext indexing engine.... Chris]

I learnt alot about Xapian (which looks really good) and in another we talked about distributed source control and other things (but mainly focused around Git).....The hackfest area seemed to be really lively those couple of times I did go through Andy]

Early afternoon sessions on Copyright and the Economics of Open Source depressed the hell out of me. Fortunately, a bloke called Gordon Anderson has been demonstrating his mash-up of meshblock census data and Google Earth. This is one hell of a public policy tool. Will de Cleene]

I spent the day hacking on Mahara. I added an "online users" block. To add this, I had to add a 'last access' time to each user, but so far the average Mahara request does no database writing, and I was keen for it to stay that way. Nigel]

attending this thing finally inspired me to get linux working as the primary OS on my macbook over the weekend; and so I did; the wireless don't hardly work and the fonts are crap but my heart is light and pure [Reed Wade]

some local tweets

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