SFD News from 2005

SFD motion in the Scottish Parliament

The Scottish Parliament congratulates the organisers of Software Freedom Day for working to highlight the Free and Open Source Software movement.It further notes that a Software Freedom Day event will take place in Edinburgh on Saturday 10 September 2005 at which members of the public will be able to try free and open source software such as Ubuntu, OpenOffice and Firefox for themselves. Read the official motion.

nepalnews.com writes:200 plus groups from over 60 countries are participating in the second annual Software Freedom Day on September 10 to showcase the excellent range of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and demonstrate how it can be used to save money and gain freedom in every sector of the information society. Read more at nepalnews.com

By Anna Badimo - Tuesday, 06 September 2005

Linuxchix Africa will be participating in the Software Freedom Day celebrations planned for the 10th September 2005. Several studies have shown that not only are there few women in ICT, there are even fewer women with FOSS and Linux skills, especially when one looks at the technical side and at Africa in general. Our strategy for addressing these challenges has been to work in partnerships with existing organisations to mainstream gender into their programs and to build capacity for women, either by organising training workshops ourselves or by sending them to various training workshops. We are also continuously raising FOSS awareness amongst women, especially high school and university students. Read more...

By Michael Herman - The Press, 17 September 2005

..one day ahead of the second annual Software Freedom Day (SFD). Launched last year as a grassroots effort to educate people around the world about free and open-source software, Christchurch, New Zealand, once again had an SFD team on the ground and was joined by a Wellington team to represent New Zealand's computer users. Sponsored internationally by Canonical, the distributors of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, local sponsors included InfoHelp Services, The Computer Broker, the local chapter of the GNU/Linux Users group and Avonmore Tertiary Academy... Read more from GNU archives.