Software Freedom Day update

[Ted Roche]

Ted and Bill (Sconce)'s next excellent adventure will be the Software  
Freedom Day event at the Hopkinton Town Library [0] on Saturday  
September 16th, 10 am - 2 pm. Volunteers, participation,  
contributions would be welcomed!

The international organization [1] will be supplying us with 40  
Ubuntu disks to pass out.

Novell [2] will be shipping us some materials on SuSE.

Redhat [3] will provide some disks and - what else? - red hats.

We plan to burn copies of the OpenCD [4] (we hear that v4 is Real  
Soon Now), OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 [5] installs for Windows and Mac,  
OpenOffice.org Extras, and some matching datasheets (what's an  
OpenCD? What's OpenOffice.org?)

Open Office Premium (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ooop) was  
released on 24-Aug; I'll be grabbing that and evaluating it this week.

Bill and I are still forming plans for what exactly to show. We'll  
bring along a couple of machines, with the intention of showing off  
FOSS on our machines. We'll probably also bring some CD-Rs in case we  
run out of pre-made disks. We'll have some internet connectivity at  
the event, but really don't want to count on it.

We've invited a number of Hopkinton-based organizations: the SAU, the  
Contoocook-Hopkinton Business Association, the town offices. We've  
posted the events in the local papers - the Bow Times and Concord  
Monitor, and posted the event to NHPR. If time and materials allow,  
we'll put up posters and handouts in the next two weeks.

There's lots more we could do, if we had more volunteers to do it.  
Anyone interested?

1. We'd welcome folks to show up with a computer and show what they do.

2. We could use writers and proofreaders and printers to help us put  
together some handouts.

3. If anyone knows of good handouts for OO.o, OpenCD, FOSS, LAMP,  
etc., please send along some links.

4. If anyone wants to bring along a BoxO'Joe and donut holes, I don't  
think anyone would object.

[0] http://www.hopkintontownlibrary.org
[1] http://www.softwarefreedomday.org
[2] http://www.novell.com/linux
[3] http://www.redhat.com
[4] http://www.theopencd.org
[5] http://www.openoffice.org/

Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com