According the Wikipedia, the "plan for the GNU operating system was publicly announced on 27 September 1983."  Coincidentally, Google celebrates its birthday on September 27.  This year GNU turns 25 and Google turns 10.

I wonder why they picked the 20th instead of the 27th?

I will work on getting SCC to honor Software Freedom Day for those people who don't want to stray too far away from Scottsdale.

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:39 AM, der.hans <PLUGd@lufthans.com> wrote:
moin moin,

several different Free Software groups, including PLUG, are working to put
on a Free Software conference on Free Software Day, 2008Sep20.

The event will be in the Valley. We would like someplace near downtown
Phoenix as it would be somewhat geographically centered for the metro
area.

I'm told theres an ASU/UofA/NAU joint campus near Central and Roosevelt.
tgen might also be involved in all that.

Anybody have contacts there that could help us determine if we could use
the facility and if it would fit our needs?

We have approval from UAT, which is great. Many thanks to UAT for all they
do for PLUG and the community. We would prefer downtown Phoenix rather
than Tempe, which is the only reason I'm asking.

We do need to make a decision really, really soon, so if you can help with
this please let me know.

ciao,

der.hans
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