What is software freedom day?

Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) to be held this year on 20th September 2008. Our goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in business -- in short, everywhere!

The non-profit company Software Freedom International coordinates SFD at a global level, providing support, giveaways and a point of collaboration, but volunteer teams around the world organize the local SFD events to impact their own communities.

What's on in Wellington?

This year Unlimited Potential, CWA New Media, New Zealand Open Source Society (NZOSS), SuperHappyDevHouse, WellyLUG, Cafenet, Catalyst IT and Sun Microsystems have combined forces to organise a local event to be held at the Wellington Convention Centre - Civic Suites 1 & 2 in Wellington from 12pm - 6pm.

There are two main parts to the schedule - an opensource barcamp and a hackfest. Register here and come along and celebrate Software Freedom Day by taking part. There will be free wifi, coffee all day at the venue, and pizza and beer as things wrap up at 6pm.

http://www.softwarefreedomday.org.nz/

Hackfest

Register for our hack fest -- so we know how many beers etc to find :-)

Come along and work on whatever you like, discuss what you're
building, and learn about free software projects that the Wellington
community contributes to.

You will need to bring your own laptop.

Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open
Source Software (FOSS) to be held this year on 20th September 2008.
Our goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about
the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government,
at home, and in business -- in short, everywhere!

The non-profit company Software Freedom International coordinates SFD
at a global level, providing support, giveaways and a point of
collaboration, but volunteer teams around the world organize the local
SFD events to impact their own communities.