[ubuntu-za] [Fwd: Ubuntu and Software Freedom Day]

[Jan Groenewald]

Hi

On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 06:59:57AM +0200, Craig Adams wrote:
> Many teams already have plans well under way, so if there is one in your 
> area, you might want to hook up with them to see how you can help. If 
> not, you can easily start a team in your area any time. Check the SFD 
> forum and wiki for existing teams [3]. We've had over 200 team 
> registrations so far and we are sure that at least 100 of these will 
> stage outreach events on the day. I'm sure many of you will have ordered 
> and received official Ubuntu CDs already. If you still have some left on 
> Sept. 10th you might want to meet up with a local team and hand them 
> out  :)

I would like to suggest: AIMS (www.aims.ac.za) could possibly offer a
venue for a great Software Freedom Day event. I am not at liberty to
offer this at no cost, but if I drum up some support first, we can
start talking details, and I can ask AIMS to perhaps sponsor the venue
itself; we could look for funding for other costs (flying some speakers
here, food, etc). It is a great venue too (near the beach).

We could include promotion of Canonical, Ubuntu, with talks on What is
FOSS, its role in African education, government and business.  Tuxlabs
could be demo'd. High profile speakers? Mark Shuttleworth?  We might be
able to invite ministers (of education, scitech, etc. these have spoken
at AIMS events before? But let's aims lower at first :) We can perhaps 
have ubuntu installations not only demo'd but practiced by 50 people,
or maybe just used on our computers. (Nice large screens and fair
internet). We have some contacts with SAAO, clug, etc. All those could
get involved.

I don't want to compete with other events in Cape Town though...
so I'm reading the wiki now. I will need some others to help organize
it if we want it to be a super event. I see the Cape Town team shows no
plans except Jonathan Carter as a contact and two other team members. Do
you have plans yet? Before I start adding to the wiki I thought I'd post
here for some discussion.
[ http://sfdza.ossn.co.za/index.php/Main_Page ]
[ http://maitri.ubuntu.com/softwarefreedomday/wiki/index.php/Cape_Town ]

[ On 1 September 50 new postgraduate students arrive at AIMS. They are
from all over Africa, and again, potentially will spread Ubuntu to
20 or 30 African Universities.  We can invite schools, university
students, or entrepreneurs around Cape Town. ]

regards,
Jan
-- 
   .~.
   /V\     Jan Groenewald
  /( )\    www.aims.ac.za
  ^^-^^