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Filling Software Freedom day "Sugar on a Stick" CD & "Edubuntu 12.04.3 + OpenDisc 12.09" DVD
by Rodney Brown 10 Sep '13

10 Sep '13

For Software Freedom Day, I try to fill the media we write to give away For "Sugar on a Stick" Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-19-1, the CD will have 5-6Mb left, not enough for very much, but text and links in the Readme are small. I've assumed this CD may interest people with younger children. Suggestions are welcome. The DVD will be similar, I'll aim to fill it, maybe removing "Battle of Wesnoth" from the OpenDisc collection for it's 300Mb, but suggestions for links and text would be welcome. ../Win32-SFD-2013/ total 96M 1.8M Sep 10 21:37 Antikythera.045.pr 24M Sep 6 2012 BYOB 3.1.1 Setup.exe 16M Sep 6 2012 Pingus-0.7.6.exe 2.4M Sep 6 2012 pyglet-1.1.4.msi 20M Sep 9 08:43 python-3.3.2.msi 1.5K Sep 10 23:11 ReadMe.txt 34M Sep 10 00:23 ScratchInstaller1.4.exe du -sh .. 694M .. --Current ReadMe.txt-- This CD boots Sugar on a Stick, version 9 Avocado http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick (Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-19-1) The directory Win32-SFD-2013 contains other Free Software which is not part of Sugar on a Stick ==Windows installers in this directory== Antikythera.045.pr ameso — The Antikythera Mechanism on Squeak EToys http://www.spinellis.gr/sw/ameso/ EToys is an application on Sugar, but can be downloaded for Linux and Windows. BYOB 3.1 — Build Your Own Blocks (a/k/a SNAP!) http://byob.berkeley.edu/ The newer version now called Snap! is browser based running in Javascript Pingus is a free Lemmings(tm)-like puzzle game ... http://pingus.seul.org/ pyglet: a cross-platform windowing and multimedia library for Python. http://www.pyglet.org/ Python Programming Language 3.2.3 http://python.org/ Scratch 1.4 http://scratch.mit.edu The new release 2.0 is browser based requiring Flash ==Links: Other== Wikipedia: Category:Educational programming languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Educational_programming_languages Racket — programming language previously called DrScheme http://racket-lang.org/ SEUL.org — Simple End-User Linux, currently focusing on Linux in education, Linux in science http://www.seul.org/ Visual Transistor-level Simulation of the 6502 CPU and other chips! http://www.visual6502.org/ KhanAcademy Computer Science http://www.khanacademy.org/cs Software Freedom Day 2013 Melbourne http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2013/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/SFD --cut-- Last year's DVD ReadMe.txt --cut-- SFD Melbourne 2012 http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2012/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/SFDMel… OpenDisc 12.09 with some updates http://www.theopendisc.com/ Edubuntu-12.04.1 x86-64 live DVD http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/12.04/release/ Virus scanned with Microsoft Security Essentials on 2012-09-08 ... ==Windows installers in this directory== BYOB 3.1 — Build Your Own Blocks (a/k/a SNAP!) http://byob.berkeley.edu/ Intel 4004 - 35th Anniversary Project http://www.4004.com/ Pingus is a free Lemmings(tm)-like puzzle game ... http://pingus.seul.org/ pyglet http://www.pyglet.org/ Python programming language (2.7.3 & 3.2.3) http://www.python.org Racket programming language http://racket-lang.org/download/ The R Project for Statistical Computing (R Programming language) http://www.r-project.org/ SQLite http://sqlite.org/ Vim http://www.vim.org/ ==Suggested Firefox plugins== Adblock Plus NoScript ==Links: FSF== Philosophy of the GNU Project http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html The Right to Read: A Dystopian Short Story http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html ==Links: ODF== Rob Weir's Writings (on the ODF OpenDocument Format) http://www.robweir.com/blog/presentations-and-publications (2009-04-25 - Document Freedom Day)"Taking Control of Your Documents" http://www.robweir.com/blog/publications/Taking-Control.pdf http://www.robweir.com/blog/publications/Taking-Control.odt ==Links: Other== Guide to Open Source Software for Australian Government Agencies http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/guide-to-open-source-software/index.… KeePass Password Safe http://sourceforge.net/projects/keepass/?source=recommended KhanAcademy Computer Science http://www.khanacademy.org/cs Open Hardware http://openhardware.org/ SEUL.org http://www.seul.org/ The Go Programming Language http://golang.org/ Visual Transistor-level Simulation of the 6502 CPU and other chips! http://www.visual6502.org/ ==Links: Licensed Microsoft Software available for download - (non-Free)== Office Online File Converters and Viewers (Read Word documents) http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/office-online-file-converters-a… Microsoft File Checksum Integrity Verifier (MD5 and SHA1) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11533 Microsoft Security Essentials (anti-virus program) http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products/security-essentialsv --cut-- Linking David Wheeler's 2007 "Why Open Source/Free Software (...)? Look at the Numbers!" paper http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html and some others of that ilk is obvious. Other suggestions?

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Fwd: [LCA2013-Chat] LCA2014 Registrations now open!
by Bianca Gibson 10 Sep '13

10 Sep '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joshua Hesketh <snip> On behalf of the *linux.conf.au 2014* team we are pleased to announce that we have now started accepting early bird registrations. According to Luke John, organising director, “The start of registration represents the culmination of a lot of groundwork in planning for the conference and it's a real milestone to be at this point in the process”, “While there's still a lot to do, it's really starting to take shape now, and I'm quietly confident that we've got a great line up of speakers and topics and we are looking forward to an awesome conference”. Paul Del Fante also chipped in to offer encouragement for those of you who may feel a bit daunted by the distances. “It's Perth, it's Summer, we've got a fantastic Linux conference on, warm beaches, balmy evenings, city life, so come on over and share in our hospitality”. The *linux.conf.au 2014* early bird registrations will be open till 2013/10/13, but are for a limited number of places and may close earlier before we move on to the formal registration period, and we'd please ask anyone who registers during this time to keep an eye out for any minor issues or inconsistencies you come across. The *linux.conf.au 2014* Organising Team. http://lca2014.linux.org.au #lca14 <luke.john(a)osmahi.com> _______________________________________________ Chat mailing list Chat(a)lists.lca2013.linux.org.au http://lists.lca2013.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/chat_lists.lca2013.linux…

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Software Freedom Day 2013 : Free Software for a Free Society
by Lev Lafayette 08 Sep '13

08 Sep '13

Linux Users of Victoria and Free Software Melbourne Present... Software Freedom Day 2013 : Free Software for a Free Society Software Freedom Day is an international event celebrating of Free Software. Starting in 2004 in now hosts over a thousand events in over forty countries. The Melbourne event will be held on Saturday, September 21st, 9.30 to 17.00 at 110 Grey Street East Melbourne (Melbourne Unitarian Church hall) It's about 5 minutes from Jolimont Station , or a brisk 10 minute walk from Parliament station or West Richmond. There's plenty of parking at the site as well! Speakers 9.30 Introduction: Video Welcome from Dr. Richard Stallman 10.00 Andrew Pam, Content Creation with Free Software Tools 11.00 Pat Sunter, Free and Open Source In Public Decision-Making 12.00 Adam Bolte, Protecting Yourself Online 13.00 Lunch 14.00 Ben McGuiness, Pirate Party's Policy on Copyright and Patents 15.00 Kathy Reid, The Orgnisation of Free Software Communities 16.00 Lev Lafayette, Beyond Software - Steps Towards A Free Society Plus plenty of t-shirts, software and other paraphrenalia giveaways, videos and a free lunch (with open sauce). -- Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), GCertPM, MBA mobile: 0432 255 208 RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

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Keysigning party
by Ben Finney 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

Howdy all, We have been discussing the idea of regular GPG keysigning parties for our group. A keysigning party is an opportunity to efficiently use a gathering of people to perform the necessary steps in verifying the identity of GPG key holders <URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_signing_party>. There is a good site <URL:http://keysigning.org/> which is a repository of information on what a keysigning party is and, importantly, what people need to know in order to prepare and participate. I think we will use some middle ground between the “Sassaman” <URL:http://keysigning.org/methods/sassaman-efficient> and “Ad hoc” <URL:http://keysigning.org/methods/adhoc>>. Specifically, I think the party will be small enough to use Ad hoc, but the central point of contact to co-ordinate the participating keys will be helpful. Adam Bolte has offered to give more information and co-ordinate, but I'm happy to answer questions here too. -- \ “By instructing students how to learn, unlearn, and relearn, a | `\ powerful new dimension can be added to education.” —Alvin | _o__) Toffler, _Future Shock_, 1970 | Ben Finney

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[Fwd: [SFD-announce] SFD 2013 registration is now ON!]
by Lev Lafayette 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

Hi Freedom-lovers, Is the Melbourne Free Software Group interesting in taking up the role of organising Software Freedom Day this year? LUV has done it a few years in succession now, but it's really something that should be in the domain of Melbourne FS. All the best, Lev ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [SFD-announce] SFD 2013 registration is now ON! From: "Frederic Muller - DFF" <fred(a)digitalfreedomfoundation.org> Date: Sun, June 16, 2013 4:21 pm To: "SFD announcements" <sfd-announce(a)sf-day.org> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear all, It is with a great pleasure that we are opening registration for SFD 2013. The wiki has been prepared with the current localized languages available and some of the translations for the Frontpage still need to be updated. We are still finishing some of the design including the countdown which will start working 99 days before the event. As usual we are available for support through email on sfd-discuss or on IRC (#SFD on freenode). The deadline for registered teams to get the free goodies is July 21st which should give us enough time to ship everything everywhere. Simply create your team page under http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2013 (/country/city/team for most) and complete the form on http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/cgi-bin/register.py. All information and links are of course available from the SFD website. As usual artworks are available under http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Artwork and CC-BY licensed. Feel free to use, enhanced and eventually localize them. I want to particularly thank our sponsors who are making this possible, namely Canonical, Google, and Linode for the time being. Should your organization be interested to sponsor DFF to be able to send more goodies please get in touch with us. Note that there is a deadline to be listed on the magazine ads we run with our media sponsors, Linux Magazine, Ubuntu user, Admin, Smart developer and Linux Journal, which is around mid July or early August. We will be going through various changes in terms of blog location and ways to hear about us, the main reason being that we have moved our non-profit to Hong Kong and the requirements are a bit different than in the US. Besides we are a lot of projects going on and those require some changes. So let's get started and happy SFD preparations! The Digital Freedom Foundation Board ps: do check the SFD 2011 winners for inspiration and thanks again to Lemote and FSF for the prizes. http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/competition/winners-2011 [1]: http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss [2]: http://planet.softwarefreedomday.org (language specific planets available through the language switcher) _______________________________________________ SFD-announce mailing list SFD-announce(a)sf-day.org http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-announce -- Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), MBA, GCertPM mobile: 0432 255 208 RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

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