[Year 12 IT Apps] Software Freedom Day 2010 - Saturday 18 September

[Donna Benjamin]

Just two weeks now!  

Can you please help us spread the word?  Tell your students? 
Perhaps you could add a note to the school newsletter? 

This Software Freedom Day event promises to be our best yet!
http://www.sfd.org.au/melbourne/ 

When?  11am - 4pm on Saturday 18 September
Where? State Library of Victoria
       Cnr Swanston & Latrobe Sts
       Melbourne

       In Experimedia and the Conference Centre

We've got a huge program lined up. 

The day is free but space is limited in sessions, 
so sign up for a seat at http://sfdmelb2010.eventbrite.com/ 

Talks (45 mins)
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Senator Kate Lundy is speaking on Gov2.0
Rami Olwans is coming from QLD to speak about CreativeCommons
We've got Paul Took from RedHat on Open Source in the Enterprise.
Andrew Cunningham from VicNet speaking about the Multi-Lingual Web
and Ben Sturmfels kicks off the day by explaining Free Software.

HandsOn Workshops (1.5hrs)
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Wen Lin - intro to OpenOffice
Sarah Stokey and Kathy Reid - intro to Wordpress
Donna Benjamin - intro to Inkscape

Short talks, panels & seminars (25 mins)
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Android - Nick Burton
How to be anonymous on the internet - Andrew Thornton
Using Open Source Software at Home - Daniel Jitnah
Sugar - Editing is always on - Tony Forster
How to back up your GNU/Linux system - Alec Clews
Drupal Basics (Set up a blog in minutes) - Brian Gilbert
PyWeek (Writing games in Python) - Richard Jones
The Future of Internet Censorship - Colin Jacobs
Cultivating Networks - Donal O Duibhir

The Bazaar
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In Experimedia - Melbourne's Free Software community come together to
share what they know, what they do, and who they are.

Please join us!

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Software Freedom Day 2010                 http://sfd.org.au/melbourne
A world wide celebration of                 State Library of Victoria
Free and Open Source Software   Cnr Swanston & Latrobe Sts, Melbourne
and the community behind it.        11am - 4pm, Saturday 18 September
  Supported by Vicnet, The Victorian Government & Linux Australia