Club Linux Coffs Harbour

I've just been notified of the eminent arrival of our Software Freedom Day Team Supplies. We need to come up with an event for this year. Any sugestions???

I've done it now. Had a few to drink and signed us up for SFD 2009. Does that me I have to organise every thing?

By the way it is on Saturday 19 September 2009. Have a bit of time for input ;-)

You all are inivited to the Software Freedom Day - Information and BBQ.
Come down and have a chat, debate, ask questions or have an afternoon out.

When: Saturday the 20th of September

Where: Park Beach Park (look for the orange balloons)

Start Time: 11:00am

Finish: When we all go home or you're standing there by yourself

BYO: If you want to eat and drink then you'll have to bring your own

Any questions then send us an email at paul[at]coffswifi[dot]net

See you there!

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.