Fwd: [blore-linux] Software Freedom Day (Do join! Aug 28, 2004)

[Rakesh 'arky' Ambati]

FYI

--arky 
   
    
--- Frederick Noronha <fred at sancharnet.in> wrote:
> To: blore-linux at yahoogroups.co.in
> From: "Frederick Noronha" <fred at sancharnet.in>
> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 13:21:44 -0000
> Subject: [blore-linux] Software Freedom Day (Do
> join! Aug 28, 2004)
> 
> SFD Team Invites Other FOSS Orgs To Join Forces    
>  Author:  Admin 
>  Dated:  Tuesday, February 24 2004 @ 10:11 PM MST 
>  Viewed:  196 times   
> The SFD team has invited several prominent
> non-profit Free/Open 
> Source Software organizations and personalities to
> join with us in 
> our project.
> 
> The following open letter has been sent to the FSF,
> OSI, the Mozilla 
> Foundation, OSAF, OSDL, the Berkman Center, Knoppix,
> GNUWin, and 
> others. 
>
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> 
> SoftwareFreedomDay.org
> 
> August 28, 2004
> 
> Dear Sir or Madam,
> 
> I am writing to ask you to join us in celebrating
> Software Freedom 
> Day in 2004 and beyond. 
> 
> In an effort to step up the marketing effort for
> Free and Open Source 
> Software (FOSS), a small group of volunteers [1]
> have formed 
> softwarefreedomday.org with the aim of organizing a
> global 
> celebration of FOSS on August 28th this year [2]. We
> hope to involve 
> a large number of teams, comprised of LUG members
> and other 
> enthusiasts, all around the world. Our role will be
> to help 
> coordinate the event and provide the required
> infrastructure, 
> including a web portal, posters and fliers, and most
> importantly, 
> high quality (pressed) CDs with FOSS that the teams
> can give out to 
> the general public on Software Freedom Day.
> 
> Before we launch this concept to the community at
> large, we would 
> like to reach out to a few key groups and
> individuals in the FOSS 
> world, like yourself, to ask you to join us in this
> endevour. Though 
> we do hope to form a working relationship with you
> over time, for now 
> we can simply recognize our mutual goals. Thus we
> respectfully ask 
> for your endorsement of our effort; this project
> will enjoy even 
> greater success if the FOSS community unites around
> it.
> 
> For further information and to observe our project's
> progress, please 
> visit our newly assembled web portal, which will
> serve as the hub for 
> our collaboration in the months to come. We hope
> that creative souls 
> around the world will find varied and interesting
> ways of celebrating 
> FOSS, and that ultimately the public will join us in
> that celebration 
> too.
> 
> Sincerely yours,
> 
> Henrik Omma and Matt Oquist
> 
> ----------------------------------------
> 
> 1 Software Freedom Day is currently a joint venture
> of TheOpenCD.org 
> (http://theopencd.org) project and Greater Nashua
> Sustainable 
> Software (http://gnss.majen.net).
> 2 This will become an annual event to be held on the
> last Saturday of 
> each August. 
> Software Freedom Day: August 28th 2004
> www.softwarefreedomday.org
> contact at softwarefreedomday.org
> 
>  
> 
> 



	
		
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