Software Freedom Day 2010 in Melbourne is going to be completely EXCELLENT!
- When: Saturday 18 September, 11am-4pm.
- Where: State Library of Victoria, next to Melbourne Central.
- What: Speakers, workshops, a market hall with free software DVDs, games, kids’ area and hands-on hardware demos.
- How much: Free as in freedom AND free as in beer! :)
See http://www.sfd.org.au/melbourne/ for all the details. The speakers are going to be great. There will be two rooms, some 1 hour, some 30 minutes, and a great mix of the practical and the inspiring – backups, the multilingual web, writing games in Python, Creative Commons, setting up a blog in Drupal, a Wordpress workshop and much more. Senator Kate Lundy is the star attraction – be sure to register for her talk, registration is free.
We are doing our best to drum up media interest to get the word out to as many people as possible, and today Donna (LUV’s outgoing prez) was interviewed by Red Symons on ABC Melbourne’s breakfast show. It’s a great interview – have a listen and forward the link on to friends and family who might not know what this free software caper is about.
Now there is just one thing left… to make SFD a success, we need more volunteers! Volunteering on the day is a very easy way to support your local free software community, it only takes 2.5-5 hours — and you were going to come anyway, right? We need people to be welcomers, ushers, question-answerers, workshop helpers, registration checkers and exit surveyers.
So volunteer and support Melbourne’s best Software Freedom Day yet!
