15 September 2007

Tentative Venue:
UP College of Engineering Theatre

Other Venue:
Regional celebrations with live videocasts.

Discovering Software Freedom
Software Freedom Day 2007 (Sign-up here)

Organizer:
Computer Professionals' Union, www.cp-union.org

Co-organizers:
Philippine Linux Users' Group
Software Freedom Philippines
Txtpower.org
University of the Philippines Linux Users' Group

Sponsors (We need sponsors to cover some expenses):
Velortis Technologies & Consulting
(Please email rick.bahague at cp-union dot org for coordination)

Event Contact:
rick dot bahague at cp-union dot org

"Software Freedom Day is a global celebration and education of why transparent and sustainable technologies are now more important than ever. With over 200 teams in 60 countries participating, it is a fantastic event to get your schools and communities involved in. Go along to your local event or start your own event and meet a wide range of people, all working together to help ensure our freedoms are maintained by the technologies of tomorrow."
- http://softwarefreedomday.org/SoftwareFreedom

Programme of Activities
Go here to know more

For advertisements:
We will use Sacha Chua's teaser during SFD 2005:

Tired of formatting your parents' computer to get rid of spyware and virues?

Want your kids to learn more about computers instead of just playing games?

Get loads of fantastic. feature-packed. free software that does exactly what they need.

See different demonstrations and try out the Free software.

Burn copies of Free Software. Try it out at home.

Press Coverage
Read feature and news articles written about previous Software Freedom Day celebrations.

Our SFD Experience
We have written short assesments during the past celebrations. In 2005, CPU organized the 2nd SFD with about 200 participants - students, enthusiasts, geeks. We even have Mandrake developers joining us before they proceeded to Australia. The Philippine Daily Inquirer and Manila Bulletin wrote articles about the event.

In 2004, we also organized the very first SFD. This was participated by users and newbies in free and open source software. Businessworldonline introduced CPU and SFD to the public on that year.

In 2006, University of the Philippines Linux Users' Group organized the event. UnPLUG won a community award for deployment from Software Freedom International.

Other Ideas or Want to join us?
Email: rick.bahague at cpunion.org

Who are we?
The Computer Professionals' Union is a volunteer-based organization advocating freedom of information from monopoly control. We are free software advocates supporting different NGOs on their technical needs. For more information about our projects visit http://www.cp-union.org. CPU has been organizing the worldwide Software freedom day in the Philippines since its very first anouncement on August 2004 and on 2005.

What we need?
Volunteer speakers, volunteers... volunteers ... Send your intentions to participate to rick.bahague at cp-union.org
Donations and financial support for logistics and food for volunteers. Inform rick.bahague at cp-union.org.

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