Club Linux Coffs Harbour

We have submitted a team for Software Freedom Day 2008. Its going to be low key this year...not too taxing. We will obtain some Ubuntu CDs plus the Ubuntu Educational add-on to send out to secondary schools throughout the region. It will also be accompanied with other resources that can be used in the class room.

If you would like to get involve please contact me at paul[at]coffswifi[dot]net

Just a thought for this years SFD. It would be good to get a list of all the platforms and applications people in the club use. Plus feedback on there usability. Would be helpfull in promoting SFD. i.e. Our members use this software instaead of...and it performs...against the propierty equivilent.

It would also be a good resoure for the club members - I have a few questions on various applications and I don know if anyone uses them.

Here are the slides for those presentations which used slides this year.

This is the third year that Coffs Harbour has had a Software Freedom Day event. Each event so far has been in a different, progressively larger, venue and featured presentations and demonstration computers for people to play with, and of course sharing of free software.

Some people were asking for Free Software for MACS on SFD

check this out - and add your own here if you find some more

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/

Below is a very tentative schedule. Unless maked as confirmed the time, topic, and/or speaker is subject to change. While each timeslot is 30 minutes long (assuming roughly 20mins + 10mins for questions), there's no absolute requirement for anybody's talk to go that long, so I'd like to stress that there will be plenty of opportunity for people to do a 5-10min "lightning" demo of something, so please consider volunteering for this. Preparation is optional. It's amazing how easy it is to fill the time.

Below is the press release I sent out to the usual suspects this afternoon. If you think I may have missed somebody, let me know at the email address below.

I made up some simple posters of inspirational quotes to hang around the room on Software Freedom Day. Feel free to suggest your own; here's what I've come up with so far:

Here's a preliminary flyer for Software Freedom Day, in various formats. Print it out, spread it around. If you like, have a go at improving it (the SVG format can be edited in Inkscape). We hope to produce a version with the schedule of presentations for the day, but that's dependant on us having some presentations, so go here to volunteer to help with that.

I'll be bringing a couple of demo PC laptops and a Mac laptop along, any suggestions what distro's to put on them?

I was thinking of Ubuntu on the Mac, Sabayon on one of the PC's and something else  on the other lappy? Edbuntu? Slax? FreeBSD? I'm not sure if they all fit strictly under the FSF banner.

Maybe we could: