Here's a copy of the press release I cooked up for SFD. Thanks to
Bill Poliquin at GotInk4U(*) it was sent out to ~17,000 e-mail recipients
today. If it isn't raining too hard on Saturday you might want to
stop by(**). Feel free to stop by regardless! And help out if you
wish.
-Bill (and Janet and Mark and Ted and Roseann and Bill)
(*) Good folks. I get all my toner/inkjet supplies there, and computer
stuff too. They get it about Linux, and although few customers ask
them for a Linux box they've been putting OpenOffice.org on every
machine they build...
(**) For heckling, if nothing else, since Ben sez he's going to
be there.
Software Freedom Day comes to Nashua
Nashua, New Hampshire
Mark this coming Saturday (September 15th) in your calendar.
It's Software Freedom Day, an international celebration of free
software, and of the principles which make it possible. These
are the same principles which make science possible, and
literature, and mathematics: the ability to share what we write.
Although many people may not have heard of free software, almost
everyone has used it. More than half of all Web sites are powered
by free software (Apache, and Linux); many people are taking
advantage of the best Internet browser available (Firefox), and
it's free software; the best office suite available (OpenOffice.org)
is free software, and better still, OpenOffice.org creates its files
in a reliable format (an international standard, ISO 23600), which
ensures that what you write will be readable around the world -- and
perhaps more importantly, will be readable five or ten or a hundred
years from now.
Free software is not shareware. Free means free as in freedom, not
as in free lunch -- it means that there is no catch, no hidden pitch to
send in money later. You are free to share this kind of software with
as many friends as you want (just as we are free to share it with you),
and you are free to change the software to suit your needs.
On Software Freedom Day teams get together all over the world to
celebrate free software. Our local Souhegan Valley Team, which has
participated each of the past three years, will this year be handing
out CDs, discussing free software, and (for as long as they last)
sharing milk and cookies next to the Nashua Airport, in the little
parking lot on Charron Avenue. Saturday morning, September 15th,
09:30 AM till 2:00PM or so. In case of rain the fine folks at
GotInk4U (themselves users of free software) have offered us shelter
-- they're directly away from the runway in the plaza.
Drop by! Get your own copy of Firefox, OpenOffice.org, Firefox,
7Zip, PDF Creator, and more -- free (in both senses). You can
download any and all of these from the Internet, but the SFD
worldwide team has packaged them on a CD to save you the trouble.
(P.S. The cookies are in the oven. Chocolate! --Bill)
Bill Sconce, Lyndeborough
Janet Levy, Lyndeborough
Mark Boyajian, Pepperell
Ted Roche, Contoocook
Roseann Day, Amherst
Bill Poliquin, Nashua
Ben Scott, Dover
For more information visit:
http://softwarefreedomday.org
http://theopencd.org
___
gnhlug-discuss mailing list
gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
