Software Freedom Day
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Software Freedom Day (SFD) is an annual worldwide celebration of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS). SFD is a public education effort, not content only to celebrate the virtues of Free and Open Source Software, but also to encourage its use to the public benefit.
SFD was established in 2004 and was first observed on August 28, 2004 when over 70 teams participated. Since that time it has grown in popularity as more than 300 teams from over 60 countries celebrated on the second SFD, held on September 10, 2005. The primary sponsor for 2005-2006 is Canonical Ltd, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution.
Software Freedom Day is now the third Saturday of each September. For 2006, SFD will be September 16th.
Software Freedom International
This is a non-profit organisation, that acts as the official organiser of the event, and allows organisers to take donations and enter into sponsorship contracts and to order and ship materials using official accounts. It has announced plans to seek tax-exempt status, to make donations deductable. To distinguish it from the event itself, the parent organisation has been called 'Software Freedom International' (SFI).
Major decisions concening SFD are made by the SFI board of directors, which is currently comprised of:
- Henrik Nilsen Omma (President), of TheOpenCD project
- Matt Oquist (Treasurer), a Tufts University graduate student
- Phil Harper, of TheOpenCD project
- Joe Olutuase, of Knowledge House Africa
- Frederick Noronha, Goa SFD Team
- Sidsel Jensen, DKUUG
- Benjamin Mako Hill, of Debian and Ubuntu
- Pia Waugh, of Linux Australia
Volunteer efforts are needed in many other sectors too, including local (national or regional) coordinators, sponsorship coordinator, wiki/website maintainers, media campaign people, etc.
External link
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