Happy software freedom day, and may the source be with you. The day started with a talk on how to write a scalable, simple and small program using linux terminalgnu by mr. Wondering where we find all of these days, or if they re even real. On september 18 each year, people all over the world celebrate software freedom day. It is the biggest event existing concerning free software. Sep 15, 2012 the 5th annual software freedom day nyc will take place on saturday september 15, 2012 from 6. The software freedom law center invites counsel, developers, enterprise users, and other members of free and open source software foss communities to join us once again for our free annual conference to explore legal issues surrounding foss, held at columbia law school on friday, november 2. Software freedom day free printable 2020 monthly calendar. September 19, 2020 software freedom day is one of the worldwide celebrations held by digital freedom foundation dff, an npo that focuses on promoting free software, open hardware, and access to knowledge via technology. The new york celebratory event will be held this year at itp, nyus school for the interactive telecommunications program, located at 721 broadway at waverly place. The local event on this day in hamburg, germany is similar to other conferences, providing a program with some talks and an.
This anniversary is annually observed on february 1. Software freedom day sfd 2015 events mozilla discourse. Dec 04, 2017 software freedom day 2018 is observed on saturday, september 16, 2018. Sep 19, 2009 software freedom day is a worldwide celebration of foss free open source software that aims to enlighten computer users who do not know about the foss alternatives. Digital freedom foundation dff is a nonprofit organisation that acts as the official organiser of software, hardware, and other freedom days, and is the legal body that handles donations, sponsorship contracts, and accounting. National freedom day is an observance in the united states that honors the signing of a resolution that proposed the th amendment of the nations constitution on february 1, 1865. The depth of the presentations and the comfort of the attendees surprised me. Our goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about the benefits of using highquality foss in education, in government, at home, and in business in short, everywhere. The celebration of the day aims in increasing awareness about free software, its virtues and thus encouraging its use. Abraham lincoln, who was the president at the time, signed the resolution to outlaw slavery. A bunch of free software enthusiasts have banded together to host a software freedom day event for south africa on the wits campus software freedom day is. Software freedom day is a celebration of free software organized by digital freedom foundation. The event was a great success in terms of number of stalls, new contacts gained and valuable discussions that we.
Jul 21, 2011 the celebrate software freedom day song is a collaborative effort of the authors who are members of sfd. Software freedom day is a global, grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of software freedom and the virtues and availability of free and open source software. Software freedom day 2011 show more 97 photos 161 views. About software freedom day sfd is a worldwide celebration of free and open source software foss. The goal of hardware freedom day is to celebrate the spirit of open hardware and make more people aware of using and contributing to free and hardware projects. Since that time it has grown in popularity and every year we have more than 300 events organized by over 100 cities from the world. Sep 17, 2016 over a hundred registered events across the world for software freedom day 2016. Software freedom day is an outreach day where you can inspire newcomers with the values and quality of free software and communicate the broader issues of software freedom through a variety of activities of your choice. The goal is to educate the public about the benefits of. Software freedom day observed the third saturday of september. Software freedom day is a global celebration of freeopen source software foss. Software freedom day puducherry gnulinux users group.
Sfd is a public education effort with the aim of increasing awareness of free software and its virtues, and encouraging its use. Our own software uses copyleft licenses by defaultits just one of the ways we put the user in control. The 5th annual software freedom day nyc will take place on saturday september 15, 2012 from 6. It was previously organised by the free software foundation europe.
Thanks, everyone involved for reminding us how active, creative and inspiring the free software movement is. We are celebrating software freedom day in bengaluru this 19 september 2015. Open source for sustainable job creation and cyber security. Seven ways to celebrate software freedom day pcworld. Find more about software freedom on our about page. Events themselves varies between conferences explaining the virtues of free and open source software, to workshops.
Description sliit malabe is organising a software freedom day event with industry renowned speakers with the help of mozilla campus club of sliit and. Hardware freedom day is an annual celebration organized by the digital freedom foundation. Software freedom day 2020 sep 19, 2020 cute calendar. The team has celebrated and initiated events since 2008 in the philippines and this. Software freedom day 2018 national and international days 2020. Find out the date, when is software freedom day 2018 and how many days until software freedom day 2018 with a countdown clock. Software freedom day in international calendar calendarlabs. Software freedom day september 19, 2020 anydayguide. Software freedom day 2018 to be celebrated tomorrow. Software freedom day was organized by linux accra user group under the theme. The most recent event involved over 200 teams from all over the world. Software freedom day in 2019 is on the sunday, 15th of sep 9152019. A major part of the celebration included a few sessions and stall competitions.
Software freedom day sfd is a worldwide celebration of free and open source software foss. Software freedom day 2018 is observed on saturday, september 16, 2018. For this day it is hoped that people across the globe will be holding events and passing out free software cds to. Software freedom day september 15, 2019 happy days 365. The objective of the event is to learn more about the free and open source. September 21 is a significant day for those of us who work and play in the world of free and open source software floss. Software freedom day sfd celebrates this important role of foss in making this change happen globally.
Free software melbourne and linux users victoria are celebrating the 16th annual software freedom day celebrations in melbourne and were going to be hosting a series of talks about using free and open source software in the real world. Many thanks to our sponsors and supporters without whom we could not make such an event happen. Software freedom day free software foundation working. Dear friends,greetings from free software foundation tamil nadu,fsftn celebrated software freedom day 2k18 the previous sunday 23. Sep 20, 2015 software freedom day is an worldwide event where free software activists enthusiasts all over the world will spread the word on free software to the public by hosting public stalls and celebrations.
Lead by dale dickens, and with massive contributions from. Software freedom day is an annual observance that falls on september 15 this year. Software freedom day 2019 humanrights and technology. National freedom day in the united states time and date. Software freedom day sfd is an annual worldwide celebration of free software organized by digital freedom foundation. Software freedom day 2015, bengaluru the centre for.
Media in category software freedom day the following 18 files are in this category, out of 18 total. Our goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about the benefits of using high quality foss in education, in government, at home, and in business in short, everywhere. This page provides resources which your software freedom day team may find useful. Celebrating software freedom day 2015 fedora magazine. Freedom events and solutions is one of the best jobs ive ever had.
Each year, sfd events are organized by volunteers in dozens. Since the formal founding of the movement in the 1980s, industry professionals and advocates under the banner of software freedom have been reclaiming the cyberspace in a compelling effort towards democratizing technology through free open source software foss. The best software freedom day in the world and how you can. Digital freedom foundation dff is a nonprofit organization now based in hong kong whose primary function is to coordinate software freedom day all around the world, all contributors to the success of sfd volunteer their time. Software freedom day is an international celebration with events organised by volunteers all over the world. Since 2006 software freedom day has been held on the third saturday of september and this year we are celebrating today, 15th september, 2018. About 12 teams participated in the first software freedom day. Screenshot from sfd website software freedom day sfd, which celebrates the use of free and open software, is just around the corner on september 17. Software freedom day is an worldwide event where free software activists enthusiasts all over the world will spread the word on free software to the public by hosting public stalls and celebrations. Dhurba, president of nepal engineering association nea. Normally wordcamps are 100% focused on wordpress, but in light of software freedom day, the wc pdx organizers, in conjunction with the wordpress foundation, would like to extend an invitation to all free software. Sfd is a public education effort with the aim of increasing awareness of free software and. Its a day when free software developers and users raise awareness in their local community of the benefits software freedoms bring. Software freedom day 2019 is observed on saturday, september 21, 2019.
This annual celebration supports grass roots efforts to educate the public on the virtues of foss and also to encourage its use. We are happy to announce you that we are celebrating this year too. It is celebrated to educate the public about the benefits of using high quality foss in education, in government, at home, and in business in short, everywhere. Local teams from all over the world organise events on the third saturday in september. Software freedom day is 20 september open source initiative. For this day it is hoped that people across the globe will be holding events and passing out free software cds to passers by.
Centre for internet and society, 194, 2nd c cross, domlur 2nd stage, bengaluru 560071. Software freedom day takes place on september 19, 2020. This weekend marks the annual celebration of software freedom day, and south africa will once again be participating with an event of its own on saturday, 20 september 2014. Sep 18, 2014 this is the eleventh year of software freedom day, and people are holding events in almost 100 countries. On 19th september, 2015 the 11th annual event software freedom day was celebrated by the groups of software communities. Software freedom day pulug, chandigarh home facebook. I will participate in a local software freedom day event in my area.
Software freedom day is a worldwide celebration of free and open source software foss. Dfd 20 was the largest ever with 60 events in 30 countries. Its september, and that means its time for software freedom day. Forming a local sfd team can be a fun, effective community building experience for your local user group and community. This program was graced by the deputy minister of communication, hon. Software freedom day celebrate software freedom day. Software freedom law centers 14th anniversary fall. When is software freedom day national and international. The software freedom day in general is am event taking place worldwide, every year on the third saturday in september. Video and audio recordings are available the software freedom law center invites counsel, developers, enterprise users, and other members of free and open source software foss communities to join us once again for our free annual conference to explore legal issues surrounding foss, held at columbia law school on friday, november 1st, 2019. Software freedom day in 2020 is on the tuesday, 15th of sep 9152020.
The program get kicked off by the presentation of mr. This year, software freedom day 2018 is being organized by open source ascol circle osac and department of csit amrit campus on 15th september at amrit campus. Do you know if other communities in india will have something similar, the software freedom day is a global event, maybe we can coordinate between several communitiescountries to do some consistent activities using firefox hello, for example. Sep 28, 2019 since the formal founding of the movement in the 1980s, industry professionals and advocates under the banner of software freedom have been reclaiming the cyberspace in a compelling effort towards democratizing technology through free open source software foss. Software freedom day free software foundation working together for free software skip to content, sitemap or skip to search. Pu linux users group pulug will be hosting its 9th edition of sfd. For its fourteenth edition the digital freedom foundation is happy to celebrate software freedom day. Each year, software freedom day sfd events are organized by volunteers in dozens of cities worldwide. Software freedom day 2020 is observed on saturday, september 19, 2020. Federal university oyeekiti fuoye university software. Celebrate 2019 software freedom day nosk, ncit bca notes.
Thats itfeel free to use, study, modify, distribute and share free software. Sfd was established in 2004 and was first observed on 28 august of that year. On the third saturday in september each year, people all over the world celebrate software freedom day. And in 2018, software freedom day is observed on saturday, september 16, 2018. On software freedom day, teams of enthusiasts hold local events to educate their local communities, supported. The event is being celebrated with the slogan open source for multidisciplinary integration. Software freedom day sfd is an annual worldwide celebration of free software. Software freedom day is an annual celebration held on the third saturday in. Nov 10, 2015 software freedom day sfd is a worldwide celebration of free and open source software foss. The software freedom law center invites counsel, developers, enterprise users, and other members of free and open source software foss communities to join us once again for our free annual conference to explore legal issues surrounding foss, held at columbia law school on friday, november 2, 2018. The goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about the benefits of using high quality foss in education, government, at home, business, and everywhere.
Sep 26, 2018 software freedom day what is this day. Over the year weve notice that this double registration process creating a wiki page and then filling the registration form is a bit. Software freedom day 2018 is observed on saturday, september 15, 2018. On consideration, i think the locos event served the purpose of software freedom day quite well. First software freedom day was observed on 28 august of 2004. Hundreds of teams around the globe organize events celebrating software freedom day each year, so theres a good chance theres one near. The primary goal of this celebration is to educate the public about the beneficial facts of using a high quality free and open source software in the realm of education, government, and business.
If youre a hard working individual and always wanted to be your own boss, they will not only train you on how to do it, but they will give nothing but positive reinforcement, love, and honesty. Software freedom day 2018 national and international. Dfd is funded by donors and partners which vary from year to year. Sfd is a worldwide celebration of free and open source software foss. Freedom events is a family of hardworking individuals who not only want to grow. Jan 19, 2012 the software freedom day event in melbourne, 2010, was judged to be one of the three best software freedom day events in the world 1. The fsf is a charity with a worldwide mission to advance software freedom.
Global celebration of information accessibility and open standards. We are celebrating software freedom day at puducherry since 2011. In the past decade, free and open source software foss has become one of the major catalysts in increasing transparency by lowering the barrier to access the best software technologies. Software freedom day is a public education effort to increase awareness about the virtues of free software and to encourage its use. Its a day when free software developers and users raise awareness in their local community of the benefits that software freedoms bring. Unlike some of the more open or larger events, the loco only reached a relatively small number of people. To understand the concept, you should think of free as in free speech, not as in free. The first hardware freedom day was held on april 20, 20.