Software Freedom Day

[Simon Andrews]

Dear All,

I've finally got provisional confirmation that we will have a pitch in  
the Market square for a Software Freedom day event on the morning of  
19th September (next Saturday).

For those of you who haven't been to one of these events previously  
it's a really fun morning where we grab people coming to the market  
and give out free CDs and tell them all about linux / open source  
software.  Once people figure out that you're not trying to sell them  
anything they're usually really receptive to the idea.

Can I please therefore ask you to upgrade the pencil notes in your  
diaries to pen, and to reply to this message to let me know if you can  
come along to help and what times you can make.

We normally run the stall from a bit before 9am until ~1pm.  I can  
supply tables plus a gazebo if the weather's not great, but I'll need  
help throughout the morning, and especially when setting up / taking  
down the stall.

Things we have already:

	A few (very brightly coloured) t-shirts (first come first served!)

	Various stickers / posters / badges

	A load of ubuntu CDs

	A few balloons


Things which would be good to have:

	A few laptops running linux for demonstration purposes

	Any other linux based hardware to display

	More balloons (preferably helium filled!)

	Any relevant posters to brighten the place up

	A load of OpenDisc discs (http://www.theopendisc.com/).  We had some  
of these last year and they went like hot cakes - I'll happily burn a  
load, but if others could do some too that would be great.

	Leaflets explaining opensource (I've got the one from last year which  
I can update, but if anyone knows of any good sources or wants to  
write something that would be good).

	Anything else people can think of...

If you can help out with any of these items please shout.

Hopefully we can get enough people to turn out to make this years  
event as successful as it has been for the last couple of years.

TTFN

Simon.