[act-ma] 9/15 Celebrate Software Freedom Day in Boston!(update)

[Charlie Welch]

  Celebrate Software Freedom Day in Boston!

Save the date!

On the afternoon of September 15, 2007, the Free Software Foundation 
(http://fsf.org), BinaryFreedom (http://binaryfreedom.info) and Boston 
Free Culture (http://freeculture.org) are hosting a Software Freedom Day 
(http://softwarefreedomday.org) event in downtown Boston.

Please bring your friends and join us for talks, activities and outreach 
in support of software freedom. We'll be one node in a network of over 
290 events worldwide, and it's not often we get the chance to make that 
kind of splash. It'll be a great chance to meet other hackers and 
activists in the area and to make plans for how we can work for software 
freedom on a concrete, local level.

Let us know that you can come by emailing info at fsf.org, and keep 
up-to-date or even help us plan the schedule at 
http://groups.fsf.org/index.php/Boston_Software_Freedom_Day.

Date: Saturday, September 15, 2007 Time: 1:00pm - 5:00pm

We'll have some refreshments and there is no charge to attend.

Bring your computers and portable music players for help installing and 
configuring free software on them, and for playing along with the 
hands-on demos!

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    Location

In Boston's Chinatown:

 encuentro 5
 33 Harrison Street, 5th floor
 Boston, MA 02131

Here's a map 
<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=33+Harrison+St.%2C+Chinatown%2C+MA>. 


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    Activities

Some of what we have planned so far:

    * GIMP tutorial and demo
    * Drupal tutorial and demo
    * OLPC demo and presentation
    * OpenOffice.org demo and tutorial
    * Bring your laptop for help with installing and configuring free
      software
    * Bring your portable music player and install Rockbox
    * Get a free gNewSense CD
    * Network with other free software and free culture activists

Organizing Software Freedom Day 2007

*Boston Software Freedom Day*

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    Schedule

The event will go from 1:00pm to 5:00pm. This is subject to change, 
please check back for updates, or subscribe to this page.

13:00 - 13:30 	Registration, refreshments, meet people, free culture 
music and video, sign up to give lightning talks
13:30 - 14:00 	Introduction to free software and Software Freedom Day 
(Joshua Gay and John Sullivan from the FSF)
14:00 - 14:30 	Drupal for nonprofits workshop / Free Culture presentation
14:30 - 14:40 	Break, music, video
14:40 - 15:10 	GIMP demo (Ari Pollak, Debian GIMP maintainer) / OLPC Demo
15:10 - 15:20 	Break, music, video
15:20 - 15:50 	Benjamin "Mako" Hill (FSF board of directors) / 
OpenOffice demo
15:50 - 16:20 	Six, 5-minute lightning talks
16:20 - 17:00 	Free software installation and assistance (including 
Rockbox for your portable music player), music, video, & keysigning.

-- 
Chris Fernandez (http://rek2.binaryfreedom.info)
FSF member #697 (www.fsf.org)
BinaryFreedom Founder (http://www.binaryfreedom.info)
gNewSense Developer.(http://www.gnewsense.org)
Stop the Wars coalition (http://www.stopthewars.org)
Socialist Party USA (http://www.spboston.org)
Democratic socialists of America(http://www.dsausa.org)
Digital revolution, socialism and CopyLeft!
Free Speech!
Free Software!!!!!!
Take back the NET from corporate gangs!(http://www.eff.org)