Palegoldenrod

Software Freedom Day is on the 15th of September 2007 (yes, that is this weekend!). To quote the Software Freedom Day site:

Software Freedom Day is a global, grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of software freedom and the virtues and availability of Free and Open Source Software. Local teams from all over the world organise events on the third Saturday in September. The most recent event involved over 200 teams from all over the world.

There are events happening near you – have a look on the site. Newcastle is actually going to be quite active (we’ve a great group of developers up here) so Amos and I will be wandering around at the Newcastle Uni event on Saturday, which should be pretty cool.

I am a supporter of open source software community, so I’m going to encourage you all to have a look at the Software Freedom Day events near you. If you don’t really know what Open Source software is – or even if you are a software user and not a developer – you should still check out the weekend. You will learn a lot, and will probably end up with some legally free (and cool) software to boot (I think the groups will be providing Ubuntu and some other bits and pieces where possible).

Hope to see all you Novocastrians there

Resources

• Software Freedom Day
• David Williams has written an IT Wire article about Software Freedom Day
• Newcastle’s page for Software Freedom Day