Software Freedom Day 2009

Software Freedom Day 2009 is a couple of short months away, September 19, 2009. SFD also happens to be yours truly's birthday. So, this year I want to make this a big event in Kitchener, Ontario. I've already registered The Working Centre's Computer Recycling Project for the event which means we'll likely have a little swag and some posters for the event. I also have a verbal commitment from Marcel Gagne, award-winning Linux Journal Columnist , and author of several Linux books, to appear.

We've been working on putting Linux on iMac G3 computers, an area that seems to be sadly lacking in the community with the influx of multi-core PCs. We'll talk about our target market for these iMacs and the ups and downs of installing Linux on the G3.

We're also gearing up to give away several PIII systems running Ubuntu Linux, but we need a lot more donations to cover the numbers we'd like to give away. If you have a spare Pentium III lying around and you live in the Kitchener/Waterloo region please see The Working Centre link above for information about donating to this cause. Parts like SDRAM, hard drives, video and network cards are all also appreciated.

We'd also love to have more people interested in installing Ubuntu on these machines help out with the event. I'm looking specifically for someone with good communications and graphic design skills to create tutorials to help those who get the free Ubuntu computers learn to love Ubuntu.

We'll have dozens of OpenCD's on hand for Windows users who want to learn about Free Software.

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