Talk:Software Freedom Day 2010

Work Schedule

• Peter Smith: (Fedora experience)
• Steve Rainwater: 11am-7pm (Ubuntu experience)
• Cam Cairns: 11am-7pm (Ubuntu experience)
• Jason Henriksen: 11am - 3pm
• Ian Lim - part of the day

Ideas / Notes

Dallas Green Festival - this event is the same day as ours from 9am - 2pm and will probably attract some of the same crowd. We should plan for afternoon/evening to allow people to hit both events if they want.

• Drinks
  • How about providing soft drinks? we can either charge or offer a tip jar
  • bags of ice
  • cups
  • soft drinks

ToDo List

• Need to make sure we have a projector ready (maybe Paul?)
• Set up our team at SFD Wiki and Location map
• Arrange official support swag (e.g. Ubuntu CDs and SFD stuff)
• Contact FSF to see if we can get FSF swag this year
  • Our FSF contact is freedeb (aka Deborah Nicholson)
• Contact RedHat to see if they'll provide any CDs or swag
  • Our Fedora contact is inode0 (aka John Rose), send him a reminder if needed
  • Fedora resource (swag) kit requests
• send email to DFW Perl Mongers list
• Line up whatever talks, demos, entertainment we can get
• Set location
• Notify local user groups and special interest groups
• Notify University groups
• Announce where ever possible
• Steal underpants
•  ?
• Profit!

Presentation Ideas

• Apache Lamp
  • Apache LAMP meetup Group
  • Jul 28: Emailed Apache LAMP meetup admins
• Blender (free software graphics program)
  • Blender website
• Computer security (why free software is secure)
  • DC214 Dallas DefCon Group
  • Jul 28: Emailed DC214
  • Jul 30: Isac Balder said our request was forwarded to their mailing list
• DFWFreeNet presentation (DFWFreeNet)
• Drupal Open Source Content Management Software
  • Dallas Drupal User Group
  • Drupal Website
• ease of installation of GNU/Linux vs Windows on same hardware
• Fedora GNU/Linux
  • Fedora Ambassadors
  • DFW Fedora Ambassador
  • Jul 26: talked to inode0 on fedora irc, he passed request to internal list
  • Jul 27: Adam Miller of Huntsville, TX may be able to help
  • Jul 27: David Duncan of Austin, TX may be able to help
  • Aug 24: talked to inode0 again, added our event to Fedora Event wiki
  • Aug 24: email Adam and David again, re-requested help getting Fedora swag
  • Sep 13: send a final reminder re-re-requesting Fedora swag...
• free alternatives to commonly used proprietary software
• GNU/Linux in general
  • NTLUG
    • Jul 27: Patrick R. Michaud let us know NTLUG meeting is on SFD
    • I've had no luck trying to contact these groups. Can't find an email address and have gotten no response in IRC. If anyone knows a way of contacting them, please make them aware of this event and ask them to contact us.
    • Announcement emailed to discussion list PeterS 15:33, 13 September 2010 (CDT)
  • FWLUG
    • Making an account on their discussion list in order to announce. PeterS 16:09, 13 September 2010 (CDT)
• HP
  • Jul 28: Paul Bouchier can speak on HP's use of free software for server management
• OpenSolaris, or other Non-GNU/Linux Unix topics
  • DFWUUG
  • Jul 28: emailed DFWUUG
• Open Source
  • Open Source User Group
• Perl
  • DFW Perl Mongers
  • Jul 26: email sent to mailing list requesting participation
  • Jul 27: Nick Perez can do a short talk
  • Jul 27: Patrick R. Michaud can do a short talk
  • Sep 13: Sent reminder
• PHP
  • DallasPHP
  • Sep 13: contacted DallasPHP group via meetup.com
• Python
  • Dallas Fort Worth Pythoneers
  • Jul 28: email sent to DFW Pythoneers meetup admin
  • Jul 28: Brad Allen forwarded our request to their mailing list
  • Sep 13: Send reminder
• Robotics and free software
  • a demo of some robots would be cool
  • Dallas Personal Robotics Group
  • Jul 28: Dale Wheat can speak on Arduino and/or robots
• Ruby
• Smart Phone freedom comparison
• What is free software, how is different from open source, proprietary sw, etc.