Phoenix Software Freedom Day Team - Call for Volunteers

[Dennis Kibbe]

On Monday 23 July 2007 12:05:50 am Derek Neighbors wrote:
> Dennis,
>
> On 7/22/07, Dennis Kibbe <dennisk at linuxquestions.net> wrote:
> > Software Freedom Day is September 15th and a small group of us are
> > working on
> > organizing an event.
> >
> > The purpose of Software Freedom Day is to celebrate F/OSS software around
> > the
> > world and to educate the public in the advantages of F/OSS. So far there
> > are
> > over 140 teams registered for SFD 2007.
> >
> > We've made some initial contacts and have registered the team at the
> > website.
> > You can find the wiki here:
> >
> > http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/northamerica/AZ/Phoenix
> > SoftwareFreedomDay
> >
> > Please consider joining the Phoenix Team and helping in any way you can
> > by sending an email to dennisk--at--member.fsf.org with the subject line
> > SFD 2007.
>
> It just so happens that SFD is the same day as Desert Code Camp [0] being
> held at UAT.  Would it be possible to make SFD a part of the Desert Code
> Camp?  It would be nice as there will likely be lots of computer people
> there that may not know much about Free Software.  I thought I saw that the
> Installfest was going to try to happen during that time as well (though I
> could be wrong).
>
> --
> Derek
>
> [0] http://www.desertcodecamp.com/

Code Camp is a possible venue and would be easy to do I think. The one 
objection I've heard is that we would be "preaching to the choir." Whether 
that is true or not I don't know.

Anyone have an opinion? What percent of those attending Desert Code Camp would 
benefit from hearing the Free software message?

The ASU Dept. of High Performace computing has expressed an interest in 
hosting SFD-PHX 2007, but I wonder what kind of turn out to expect on a 
Saturday on campus. What if everyone is at Code Camp? <g>

I know the ASULUG InstallFests haven't been well attended.

Any venue other than Code Camp will require advertising.

Dennisk