Software Freedom Day 2009

Date: 19th September 2009 (Saturday)
Venue: Swinburne University of Technology, Sarawak Campus
Time: 9.00am to 5.00pm
Website: http://wiki.kuchingosc.org/
Organizer: Kuching Open Source Community | http://www.kuchingosc.org/

Talks / Seminars

1. Introduction to FOSS & SFD09

Speaker:
Time: 9.00am - 9.30am
Duration: 30 minutes
Location:
Synopsis:

2. Linux for Human Being: Ubuntu

Speaker: someone (Canonical Ltd)
Time: 9.30am - 10.30am
Duration: 1 hour
Location:
Synopsis:

3. Linux for Enterprises

Speaker: Ong Tee Kok, General Manager, Novell Malaysia
Time: 10.30am - 11.30am
Duration: 1 hour
Location:
Synopsis:

4. The Government Open Source Initiatives

Speaker: Harisfazillah Jamel, RnD Team Lead, Malaysia OSCC MAMPU
Time: 2.00pm - 3.00pm
Duration: 1 hour
Location:
Synopsis:


Training / Workshops

1. How To: OpenOffice.org

Speaker: Harisfazillah Jamel, RnD Team Lead, Malaysia OSCC MAMPU
Time: 10.30am - 11.30am
Duration: 1 hour minutes
Location: Lab

2. Ubuntu Installation and Customization

Speaker: someone
Time: 1.30pm - 3.00pm
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Location: Lab

3. Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux Installation

Speaker: someone
Time: 3.30pm - 5.00pm
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Location: Lab


Booths

1. Ubuntu Malaysia

2. Novell SUSE Linux


Contests / Competitions

1. Poster designs

Start: 1 September 2009
Closing: 12 September 2009
Submission: E-mail to sfd09-contest@kuchingosc.org
Prizes:
1. Netbook / Laptop?
2. 160GB Portable hard drive
3. 8GB Pen Drives
C. 2GB pen drives (x 5 consolidations)
Details:
Open to individuals from local educational institutions. Must be designed using open source tools (Gimp, Inkscape, OpenOffice.org, etc) and released under open source licenses.

2. ??


Facilities

1. Hall

2. Computer Labs

3. PA Systems


Sponsorships

1. Venues

Swinburne University

2. Facilities

Swinburne University

3. Monetary

Kuching Computer Business Association (KCBA)
Sarawak Convention Bureau (SCB)
MDec

4. Publicity

5. Prizes

Dell Malaysia ?
HP Malaysia ?

6. Foods & Beverages

7. Others

Hive (with some publicity) - confirmed


Publicity

1. Newspaper

Eastern Times
Borneo Post
Utusan Sarawak

2. Web banners

3. Forums, planets, mailing list, social networks

Saberkas.net
Facebook
Digg.com

4. Poster, brochures, leaflets

local educational institutions


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