Software Freedom Day 2009
From our mailing list archive:
The Free and Open Source Alliance (FOSA.sg) would like to invite you to take part in Software Freedom Day Singapore 2009. We have a number of events lined up for you next month on September 18 and 19 at the Singapore Management University, Bras Basah and the National Library Building, Bugis, and we hope you’ll be able to join in.
We’ll have events all day on both days. On Friday (September 18), we’ll be organizing a series of talks at the NLB, providing an overview of setting up and using free and open source software in business, government and education, aimed primarily at a non-technical audience. Saturday (September 19) will see two simultaneous events: at SMU, we’ll have tutorial sessions on the use of open source tools and techniques, aimed specifically at a technical audience. At the same time, we’ll have booths set up at the National Library Building’s plaza to introduce members of the public to the benefits of open source, the wide range of powerful, reliable tools available for free, and to the participants, both companies and groups, involved in the open source community in Singapore. Event overviews are available at http://softwarefreedomday.sg/ ; detailed schedules will online as soon as they’re ready.
So this year it is going to be more grand than the previous year because it is going to be held at NLB 
linuxNUS definitely wants to be part of the action for SFD 2009. So a few of us did a quick brainstorm in IRC, and we came out with the following ideas:
- Showcase Compiz-Fusion
- Play our podcasts
- Setup some multiplayer FOSS games: Note need lots of manpower and resource… to be done only if there is sufficient manpower.
- Check with ComCen and Mozilla@NUS team on their involvement with Open Source
- Showcase what linuxNUS has been doing over the past few years to promote the cause in NUS
Currently, we already have a small ad-hoc team to get things moving. But more heads are definitely better than the few we have. So if you have any ideas, or would like to contribute to the linuxNUS’ SFD booth in terms of resources or manpower, please post in the comments 
Hi there,
I am harish from civil engineering. I’m interested in helping out
i am comfortable with linux on the desktop and also would be interested in helping out with the open source games.
how can i help out?
Sounds like a lot of great things to showcase.
Your proximity to ComCen and all things NUS will also help make the day much more grand.
Looking forward to having you at least on that Saturday of the Software Freedom Day 2009. Consider your team booked for that day. I will allocate a table for your exhibition, if you can quickly give us a description of the activities that you would like to showcase.
See http://foss-alliance.sg/sites/default/files/FloorPlan.odt for an example of what description we will need to help publicize your efforts.
Please email me and Gaurav with your activity description.
Looking forward to having you on Saturday at least. If you have more ideas, or would like to be more involved, we look forward to having you work much closer to us. Welcome aboard people!
kanggheekeong at raffles-education-corporation dot com
http://foss-alliance.sg/node/43
@Harish glad to hear your enthusiasm with this. What open source games do you play with anyway?
I was thinking of setting up some LAN gaming for a suitable game but am not sure if we can get the space and pcs for that :s Would you have any other ideas? Heh I don’t game a lot except for DOTA and some facebook games..
Recently just fiddle with Heroes of Newerth, though it is not Open Source. We are having a game night on Thur btw: http://linuxnus.org/2009/08/15/a-hon-y-night/
@Ghee Keong: Well we certainly hope that we are not biting off more than we can chew
Some of us will meet with Comcen and Moz@NUS folk within the next two days.
Let’s hope we can make a big bang.
div from comp sci here. Don’t rly game but can show off compiz fusion/emerald on the debian squeeze system i’m using right now…or anything else i can help with, ofc..
Hello Div,
Good to hear from you
What’s ofc btw? Please enlighten me.
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