Subject: Software Freedom Day, "Souhegan Valley Team"
Newsgroups: gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug
Date: 2007-09-13 21:15:40 GMT (1 year, 42 weeks, 1 day, 17 hours and 29 minutes ago)
Here's a copy of the "press release" I cooked up for SFD. Thanks to Bill Poliquin at GotInk4U(*) it was sent out to ~17,000 e-mail recipients today. If it isn't raining too hard on Saturday you might want to stop by(**). Feel free to stop by regardless! And help out if you wish. -Bill (and Janet and Mark and Ted and Roseann and Bill) (*) Good folks. I get all my toner/inkjet supplies there, and computer stuff too. They get it about Linux, and although few customers ask them for a Linux box they've been putting OpenOffice.org on every machine they build... (**) For heckling, if nothing else, since Ben sez he's going to be there. ________________________________________________________________________ Software Freedom Day comes to Nashua Nashua, New Hampshire Mark this coming Saturday (September 15th) in your calendar. It's Software Freedom Day, an international celebration of free software, and of the principles which make it possible. These are the same principles which make science possible, and literature, and mathematics: the ability to share what we write. Although many people may not have heard of free software, almost everyone has used it. More than half of all Web sites are powered by free software (Apache, and Linux); many people are taking advantage of the best Internet browser available (Firefox), and it's free software; the best office suite available (OpenOffice.org) is free software, and better still, OpenOffice.org creates its files in a reliable format (an international standard, ISO 23600), which ensures that what you write will be readable around the world -- and perhaps more importantly, will be readable five or ten or a hundred years from now. Free software is not "shareware". "Free" means free as in freedom, not as in free lunch -- it means that there is no catch, no hidden pitch to send in money later. You are free to share this kind of software with as many friends as you want (just as we are free to share it with you), and you are free to change the software to suit your needs. On Software Freedom Day teams get together all over the world to celebrate free software. Our local Souhegan Valley Team, which has participated each of the past three years, will this year be handing out CDs, discussing free software, and (for as long as they last) sharing milk and cookies next to the Nashua Airport, in the little parking lot on Charron Avenue. Saturday morning, September 15th, 09:30 AM till 2:00PM or so. In case of rain the fine folks at GotInk4U (themselves users of free software) have offered us shelter -- they're directly away from the runway in the plaza. Drop by! Get your own copy of Firefox, OpenOffice.org, Firefox, 7Zip, PDF Creator, and more -- free (in both senses). You can download any and all of these from the Internet, but the SFD worldwide team has packaged them on a CD to save you the trouble. (P.S. The cookies are in the oven. Chocolate! --Bill) Bill Sconce, Lyndeborough Janet Levy, Lyndeborough Mark Boyajian, Pepperell Ted Roche, Contoocook Roseann Day, Amherst Bill Poliquin, Nashua Ben Scott, Dover For more information visit: http://softwarefreedomday.org http://theopencd.org