Re: Software Freedom Day

[Lefty <lefty shugendo org>]

Was there a public naming of "traitors" and "enemies" this year....? I was hoping someone videotaped it this time around...

On Sep 23, 2010, at 4:43 PM, John Sullivan wrote:

> "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
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