Software Freedom Day in Boston, and beyond
This is just a quick note so everyone knows:
We’re organizing a Software Freedom Day Celebration. The Day is a event celebrated across the globe. It started as an installfest, and we love the enthusiasm behind the event.
We want to know: what are you doing for the day?
I want to give a special thanks to Máirín Duffy for speaking! Her efforts with the Fedora Design Ninjas are a huge inspiration to us, from the way we organized Build It, to the planned Starling bounties, to driving proposed changes to the volunteer opportunity finder.
Here’s our plan:
9/17 OpenHatch hosts Software Freedom Day
Software Freedom Day is a free-of-cost, community-oriented event being held in Cambridge, Massachusetts at 1000 Massachusetts Ave, from 10am – 5pm on September 17th. The goal of the event is to help people in the Boston area recognize and join existing local free software-related communities. If you’ve been trying to learn more about free software generally, or have been wondering how to build up your free software project, this event is for you!
Máirín Duffy from Red Hat and Fedora is our keynote speaker. Thanks to the Free Software Foundation, Cambridge College and Open Invention Network for their sponsorship!
More details here and sign-up:
http://openhatch.org/wiki/Software_Freedom_Day_2011_Boston
One more thing: Thanks to John Sullivan at the Free Software Foundation for posting Deb’s “Local Does Compute” post: http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/sfd-2011-local-does-compute