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Software Freedom Day

Wednesday, 2 September 2009, 4:10 pm
Press Release: Software Freedom Day

Software Freedom Day is an annual, global celebration of the use and development of free and open source software, open standards and open participation.

http://www.softwarefreedomday.org.nz/

This year, groups and companies around Wellington are coming together to organise another great event to be held on Sunday 20th September at the Wellington Town Hall and Michael Fowler Convention Center, from 9am to 5pm.

Come and take part in the hackfest, installfest, a makerfest, barcamp and techtalks! It is FREE to attend, along with the coffee and wifi!

We are introducing 2 new streams this year, a kids programme and a student programme, where we aim to give attendees the opportunity to participate in a variety of activies - from taking the first steps into programming or testing OLPC laptops in the kids programme, to hearing about what it's like to work in the industry or learning about how open source solutions can help enhance your job prospects in the students programme!

Registration is now open at the following link

http://softwarefreedomday.org.nz/Register

Many kind thanks are due to our existing sponsors of the event - NZOSS, Unlimited Potential, WellyLUG, SuperHappyDevHouse, OLPC, Amberdms, Ascent, CafeNET, CapitalE, Catalyst IT, CWA New Media, DigitalNZ, Egressive, iWantMyName, Morphoss, Mozilla, Novell, Openside, Ponoko, SilverStripe, Sun Microsystems and 3months.

We have also set up a Google Group for the event - you may subscribe to it at the following link

http://groups.google.co.nz/group/software-freedom-day-wellington

Come along and enjoy the day! Software Freedom Day Team

ENDS

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