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Dublin - Event Notice
Thursday January 01 1970

Software Freedom Day

category dublin | sci-tech | event notice author Thursday September 18, 2008 18:47author by harcesz - ubuntu-ie Report this post to the editors

SFD comes to Dublin!

Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Our goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about of the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in business -- in short, everywhere! The non-profit company http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/sfi coordinates SFD at a global level, providing support, giveaways and a point of collaboration, but volunteer teams around the world organize the http://ubuntu-ie.org/ to impact their own communities.
SFD logo
SFD logo

The event will start at 11am on Saturday, September 20th. The location is The Digital Exchange, Crane St., Digital Hub, Dublin 8. more information can be found at http://ubuntu-ie.org/

Activities Running all Day Long

* Info Stalls – PHP / Open Ireland / ILUG / OpenStreetMap / IFSO / Digital Hub / Camara
* OpenStreetMap will be running a Mapping Party from the venue, with the opportunity for others to join in and put another piece of Dublin on the world map.
* Ubuntu Demo machines running
* Games for Kids
* Ubuntu Installs
* Tours of Camara

Talks:

[approx. 20min. each]

11:00am Doors open - time to explore the venue

11:30am Paul O'Malley - "What You Should Know About Software Freedom - from GNU to Ubuntu!"

12:00pm Camara - "Who are we and what do we do?"

12:30pm Glenn Strong (IFSO) - "DRM and Software Freedom"

1:00pm LUNCH

2:00pm Gareth Eason - "Free & Open Source Software: Why you want it!"

2:30pm Ciaran O'Riordan (IFSO) - "The Free Software Movement in 2008"

3:00pm BREAK

3:30pm John Looney - "Open Source Engineering in Google"

4:00pm Dermot McNally - "The OpenStreetMap Project"

4:30pm Maciej Danielski - "Ubuntu Ireland"

6:30pm Refreshments at the Longstone Pub

Related Link: http://www.ubuntu-ie.org/

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Ubuntu-ie (organiser)

author by Anonpublication date Fri Sep 19, 2008 20:32author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Looking at the website in the related link, it looks like you may need to register for this event

 
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