[Linux-aus] SFD 2010 Report Team Limestone Coast

[Silvia Pfeiffer]

Sounds awesome! Congratulations! I know how hard it is to get ppl
interested on Software Freedom day and it sounds like you found a good
recipe.
Cheers,
Silvia.

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Robert Farrar <robert at secnet.net.au> wrote:
> 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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