[Linux-aus] SFD 2010 Report Team Limestone Coast

[Robert Farrar]

A big thank you to Linux Australia for providing us with a huge amount
of schwag for our Software freedom Day 2010 event.

Our event was a huge success, see below for a copy of our report that was
sent off to SFD international Board.

For those people that wish to see the full report&  media that we submitted
SFD International Board, it can be downloaded from:-

http://ftp.lsclug.org/SFD2010_report_and_media.zip

Thanks once again for your support.

regards,

Robert Farrar
co-ordinator
Team Limestone Coast
Software Freedom Day 2010




*Software Freedom Day 2010*

*Limestone Coast Report
*

Software Freedom Day 2010 for Team Limestone Coast, Mount Gambier, SA, 
Australia was a huge event this year, it turned out to be by far the 
biggest & most successful event that we have held for Software Freedom 
Day in our 4 year history of holding these events.

Leading up to the day, some of our members were able to discuss Free 
software and the event on our local Radio station, which added to the 
existing interest within the community.

On the day, we had a group of 8 volunteers to help out, including local 
teachers and IT professionals. The event was held in the IT area of the 
new state of the art Community Library. We were open from 10:00am until 
3:30pm, and we had people lining up to get into the venue when we arrived!

Our focus this year was on the following:-

* Open Source Gaming
* Office and Productivity Applications
* Home Networking
* MythTV and XBMC based media centers..

People were able to wander around the various stations on the day, and 
discover some of the Free software on offer. As in previous years, 
OpenOffice and the Gimp were favourites, along with the GPL'd games such 
as Neverball. Our volunteers were on hand to answer questions on a range 
of topics, explaining the purpose of the event and handing out schwag to 
the younger visitors. Due to the overwhelming interest from the 
community, at some points over the day there were line-ups to get into 
the event of over 30metres.

Hundreds of CDs and DVDs containing TheOpenDisc and Ubuntu were given 
out, along with information on how to safely access more great Free 
software on the Internet.

The day was enormously successful, we had well over 500 (the Library 
estimated 1000, based on door count) people come in over the course of 
the day, and we were all very pleased with the turnout from the 
community in support of our event this year.

We also had a heap of schwag provided to us by Linux Australia to give 
away on the day, a huge thank you goes out to Linux Australia, we put it 
all to good use & made up show bags to give away to the crowds of people 
that attended this year.

In consequence of the successful day, the local radio station (5SE-963 
AM) has expressed interest in broadcasting a regular show around Free 
software & we have also put together a FOSS CD/DVD package & book that 
is available for loan from our new Library, we are also doing the same 
for all of our Primary & Secondary Schools around our region (47 
Schools), these packages will be updated each year inline with Software 
Freedom Day, giving residents & students of our region access to the 
latest of FOSS software.


Team Limestone Coast

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