Who's organizing Software Freedom Day?

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That’s too bad. Obviously, you’ll need to be able to answer the questions that remained unanswered the previous time. You know what to prepare towards. I guess it’s not that easy to find partners in the close vicinity?

I notice from your profile that you’re running a computer repair company. I can imagine that being a slight conflict of interest.

The closest hackerspace is in Montpellier, if I looked correctly. That’s not crazy far, but still quite a distance to team up with. Did you consider a computer revival party? Where you help people install Linux on their computers and they then end up with a working device again?

If I’m right, there’s a lot of poverty in that area of France. Cost savings and longer life span of a computer and the software may be more compelling arguments here.
Would I be wrong, and you have a wealthy audience… then you can indeed shift your focus on privacy and vendor lock-in. The ecological aspect comes in play if you think about getting rid of them.
Maybe you can team up with some of the partners on this page:

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I am quite lucky, yes I run my own computer business, but for this I was ready to work under the scheme for free, just for residents of our village.

I had hoped for sucess, as living in a naturist village, we are in principal eco friendly and follow ideas like this, but not always the case.

For world clean up day

Last year there were 30 of us on the island wandering round picking up rubbish and trying to clean after the summer.

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I’ve organized a few Software Freedom Day events at my local library after my local Linux Users Group disbanded. Our local group had impressive events with good turn outs. My events had a fairly small turn out. It was a lot of fun for the people who did attend. However, SFD events and number of people attending is dwindling yearly in the US. It would be nice to reverse the trend. I think it would be fun to do something virtual like some of the online users groups do. We could just get together and talk about our favorite Open Source software. I enjoy finding out about new FLOSS programs I don’t know about and finding new use cases for FLOSS favorites. Anyone else interested in participating in something of that nature?

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