- SFD The purpose of this document is as a resource for anyone thinking of hosting a project. At the time of writting the author doesn't feel that SFD is a project that warrants community support, however the resources provided are of use to community.
- Promotion
- Promotional Material
- Give away media
- CDs
- SFD is said to be providing these
- Stickers
- Everyone who comes should be given a name sticker with SFD and we should write their name on the sticker. This will also help to aid secrity.
- Business Cards
- I propose a business card size calandar for 2007 on one side and SFD logo and FOSS logos on the front in full colour.
- Brochures / Posters
- I propose that posters be sponsored. I can customise posters for sponsors as we print them. Both colour and black and white posters can be produced up to A3 size. I propose A6 to A3 version
- Display Posters
- Tasks
- Task: Get CDs and brand them with Chc, NZ stickers and inserts.
- Task: Create Stickers per proposal
- Task: Design business cards per proposal
- Task: Design Brochures / Posters
- Raffel
- I propose the production of a raffle. This is fantastic marketing and also a way to generate more revenue. The winner will be published on the web site.
- Tasks
- Task: Design and print Tickets
- Task: Distrubute to memebers to sell
- Task: Draw
- Arrange
- Do Draw
- Advise Winner
- Business Card Prize Pool
- An oldie but a goodie... A gold fish bowl for visitors to put their business card in to go in a prize draw to win. I propose finding a sponsor for a prize.
- Tasks
- Task: Get a goldfish bowl
- Prize Draw
- Concept: Users will be given a numbered card when they arive. To be elegiable for the draw they have to register with their number on the web site.
- FLOSS
- Candy FLOSS - we call our FOSS FLOSS... a candy floss stand would be a fun idea.
- Draws: I propose getting the mojor or some such to do the prize draw and record it to a media file that users can view.
- Media Release
- Radio
- TV
- News Papers
- Tasks
- Task: Need to write a press release in plain english.
- Task: Collect list of contacts
- Task: email media release
- Advertising
- Community News Papers
- Press
- TV
- Radio
- Tasks
- Task: Get list of contacts and rate cards
- Task: Prep an explination
- Fundraising
- Sponsorship
- Princinple sponsors
- In adtion to the 'what you get' principle sponsors also get branding on all communications that go out via email.
- Packages
- Personal Packages
- What you get
- Posters - with your branding, eg Firefox A3 poster with your logo on display on the day.
- Website profile - each sponsor gets a web page profile on our web site
- Web Ads - each sponsor get a banner ad on our web site
- Business Packages
- Cost
- Personal Packages cost $25
- Business Packages cost $50
- Principle sponsor package costs $500 with a limit of 5 principle sponsors
- Posters will cost $2.50 each for full colour and laminated on front side.
- Product Sales
- Merchendise
- Calendars for 2007 - Don will mock something up.
- Posters - ideas and designs please
- Raffles, Competitions, Draws
- Display Material
- Product Posters
- Each of the 7 displays will have product posters. We will be looking for sponsors for each of those. Eg, I expect to see a poster for Firefox with a big firefox logo with our SFD logo on the left side and a sponsors logo on the bottom right with Software Freedom Day and the date written along the top. These posters will be printed in full colour. The sponsor will be given the poster and a certificute following the event. Posters could also be laminated. We need to make a complete list of OSS applications and systems that we can get logos for.
- Displays
- Web Browsers
- Server Systems
- Spam Control
- Content Publishing
- File Serving
- Mail Programs
- Office Applications
- Communications Systems
- Skype
- Astrisks
- Wireless Systems
- Internet Service Delivery
- Multimedia
- Graphic Applications
- Presentations
- Don Gould - Community Wireless
- Don Gould - Why Open Source
- Security
- Benefits
- Tasks
- Task: Call for presenters
- Task: Peer review presentations
- Event Web Site
- Meeting Time Table
- Prize Draw Registration
- Domain / URL
- Identity
- Explination
- We need to put together some plain english
statements about what SFD is so that everyone
can become confident in explaining it to others.
- Open source softare is all around you... most people just don't know it's there.
- What is Open Source?
- When you purchase a cake from the super market you don't know what's actually in it. The cake manfacture doesn't give you the recepie with the cake. This doesn't worry to many people when it comes to cakes but it does worry us in the software community. Source Code is to software what a recepie is to a cake.
- OSS is software written by the computer software community for the global community - you!
- Why do we care?
- Not everyone is as honest as you are. What you consider a lie others in other clutures consider honest.
- Why do we write Open Source Software?
- Lots of reasons, some times it's just for fun. Challenges are fun and it's a challenge to write a really good bit of software and then see just how many people you can get using it! For some it's because they wanted a bit of software to do a job better than something they were already using. Educational reasons, one of the best ways to learn to do something is simply to do it. Linux is used in Universities as a teaching tool. To teach students about how a computer operating system works you have to have an open operating system that they can learn from.
Cost savings are a big issue. If it's going to cost your orginisation $24 million dollars to purchase enough licences to give everyone of your users a wordprocessor then you might consider paying your own programmers to write one for you - and this is exactly what has happened in some counteries around the world.
- Trust!
- The only way you can be sure that a bit of software doesn't have 'back doors' in it is to publish the receipie and then let the user cook it them selves.
- Some Facts...
- There are many examples of computer crimes where programmers have put back doors in to software to explit gains that you didn't agree to. This isn't someone elses problem... it happens in New Zealand and it happens all the time.
- Back Doors
- Open doors are both left in software by mistake and on purpose. As a software community we're concerned about finding them and getting them closed. Have you ever tried to motivate a corporate company to fix something that is going to cost them revenue and cost them to fix? In the software community we do it all the time. It's one of the reasons there are so many viruis on the internet all hacking into your Microsoft Windows boxes. When someone finds a hole the community simply publishes a program to highlight it's existance.
- Like you, I can only speculate about why some back doors are left open in software. Many in the software community feel there should be no back doors, even for what you might consider as a socially valid reason.
- Why do we give Open Source Software away for free to the community?
- Why aren't more people using it? Why isn't everyone using it?
- Marketing, awareness... err, actually you are, you just don't know it.
- Last year it was reported that 70% of the worlds web servers (the computers that hold the web pages you look at) were running Apachie, the worlds leading Open Source Web Server.
- Most people use what they're given and or what they're sold or recommended. Traditional commerical providers haven't promoted and recommended OSS because they don't make any money by selling it, because they can't sell it to you.
- Perception of value, most of us accept that something is worth what we pay for it. If we want a bit of anti virus software then we perceive it's only as good as the amount of money we pay for it. Is a more expensive car better than a free car? For the most part the answer is yes... The fact that this isn't true in the computer software industry is something that most of us just don't know.
- The Future of OSS and Software in General
- Software is a very interesting phnomonam. Critical Mass of code
- Why do we use FLOSS?
- In the internet service delivery community we simply ended up with no choice if we wanted to delivery a platform at a cost that you could afford. Reliability, Speed,
- Benefit / Features
- What is SFD about?
- This is a day where we education the public community about FLOSS
- Awareness
- Education
- People will change to our way of thinking once they understand the true benefits of doing so.
- Explain the buying pattern to poeople... people have to go thur stages before they purchase things, there are 7 steps... now if I could just remember what they are.
- Community Contact
- We need to start contacting people in the community with details of the day...
- Schools
- Government
- Business
- Associations
- Printing companies
- University
- Polytech
- Also out of our region
- Mailing List
- Contact List
- List of people we need to advise about SFD, eg media orginisations
- Attendie List
- List of people to be followed up.
- Software Bif List
- Computer Society
- Green party
- Software Freedom Information Day
- Case Studies
- Success Stories
- Real world applications
- Support
- Community Support
- How you can support OSS
- Benefits
- Iegal
- It's all legal and it's always legal.
- Cost
- There are never any upgrade costs
- Application Availbitity
- The Licence
- Did you know...
The licence agreement on other OSS are often not transferable.
Sell your PC and the new owner is now running unlicenced software.
- Issues
- Picking the bullet proof applications
- At The Event
- Security
- Web Cams
- I propose setting up web cams on as many machines as possible to record the day. As we will also have a security issue these web cams can be used to add security.
- Following the event we can put web cam footage on our web site for fun.
- Tasks
- Task: Get list of people with web cams and laptops setup.
- Supporters
- Don Gould - Think Community Networks / Think Design Print / Bowenvale Communications
- I am willing to provide the service of my businesses for creative requirments. We will present a price list of printing of materials such as posters etc. We will also arrange web hosting and a domain name, however the project will have to pay direct costs. We will also provide accounting and billing thru the Think Community Networks accounts.
