Re: Software Freedom Day

[John Sullivan <johns fsf org>]

"Bradley M. Kuhn" <bkuhn ebb org> writes:

> > >       On 08/30/2010 09:57 PM, Paul Cutler wrote:
> > >
> > >         GNOME did a press release for Software Freedom Day
> > >         (http://softwarefreedomday.org/) last year.   This year it's
> > >         Sept. 18th
> > >         - do we have any plans to celebrate SFD?
> > >
> > >         Anyone want to volunteer to organize the press release and
> > >         participation?
>
> Stormy wrote:
>
> > > We could also put a banner up on gnome.org <http://gnome.org> and
> > > Planet GNOME just on Sept 18th.
> > >
> > > If anyone has time/inclination we could do a GNOME Software Freedom
> > > Day banner, if not Software Freedom Day has several we could choose
> > > from: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Artwork
>
> Brian Cameron wrote at 23:33 (EDT) on Friday:
>
> > It might be nice to touch base with the FSF and see if there might be
> > an interest in putting together a joint banner.  With GNOME 3 around
> > the corner, it might be a good time to highlight the upcoming desktop
> > and highlight it as a cool new component of the GNU ecosystem.
>
> John Sullivan <johns fsf org> (cc'd) is probably the right person at FSF
> to coordinate with on stuff like this.  If not, he can surely direct you
> to the right person at FSF.

My apologies for not reacting quickly enough on this; we ended up having
our hands full trying to get our own action together for SFD.

However, it would be great to coordinate on something for next year.

Also, as a general point, if you ever think there are important GNOME
announcements that we could be promoting, let us know at
campaigns fsf org, or me directly. We try to keep an eye out ourselves
as well, but we would love to include anything like that in our Free
Software Supporter monthly newsletter (about 32,000 subscribers right
now). Other channels like blogs posts on fsf.org could be appropriate
too.

Thanks,
-- 
John Sullivan
Free Software Foundation
Manager of Operations