SFD Philippines 2011 Report

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Software Freedom Day Philippines

Software Freedom Day Philippines is part of the global SFD celebration of free and open source software. It carries SFD's mission to "educate the worldwide public about the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in business -- in short, everywhere!"

From 2004 at the University of the Philippines (UP), 2005 at Polytechnic University of the Philippines, 2007 at the DOST - Advanced Science and Technology Institute, 2008 at the University of Makati, 2009 at the University of Santo Tomas (UST), 2010 at UP and for 2011, again at UST - the Philippine Celebration of Software Freedom Day introduced Free and Open Source Software to a wide number students, enthusiasts and common computer users.

The FOSS community shares its role in advancing the Filipino people's right to freedom of information in this year's SFD celebration, with the theme "FOSS: Enabling Freedom of Information". The event included parallel plenary sessions on topics and issues regarding FOSS in the morning, followed by breakout sessions in the afternoon featuring introductory trainings on FOSS applications and concepts.

SFD 2011 PREPARATIONS
SFD would not be impossible without the the network of students, enthusiasts and organizations that volunteered to give talks, produce visual materials, hosted meetings, invited schools and accomplished all the logistical needs imaginable.

1st Meet-up | July 2, 2011, CPU Labs, 14 attendees
2nd Meet-up | August 7, 2011, CPU Lab, 20 attendees

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September 3, 2011, UST Engineering Laboratory, 34 attendees
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August 21, 2011, UST Engineering Laboratory, 18 attendees
UST-CSS (UST Computer Science Society) head volunteers attended the SFD Manpower Meet-up.

UST-CSS being the host organizer, we discussed about venue reservation and other logistics updates.

Irog, a third-year Computer Science student, together with some other classmates were also part of the SFD 2009 organizing team. They shared their SFD 2009 experiences that contributed helped us out with the planning.

We designated team heads that were oriented about the preparations and their tasks on the event proper.

Pre-SFD Burn Fest | September 14, 2011
Volunteers from the Taguig City University gave hands to reproduce Ubuntu CDs from Software Freedom International and offline Wikipedia from Wikimedia Philippines which will be distributed on the event.

These student volunteers were really used to sleep deprivation (projects, theses... student life! :D) They burnt copies of Ubuntuand offline Wikipedia overnight!

The kids formed “SFI – SFD!” using the CD sticker labels. They're creative with their spare time, huh? :)

CPU Team Preparations | August 18 – September 13, 2011
Reiko and Gladys drafting the event programme.

Mabel writing the programme draft as they finalize details of the event.

Drafted details were posted around the office walls which became our temporary wallpapers! :)

Almondz reigned the office table, preparing the certificates for the speakers, organizers and participants.

Reiko almost halved herself while helping in admin operations and handling the online registration at same time (notice that she's in front of a desktop unit, but seems like she holds a laptop under. :D)

Jed was busy doing the freedom wall's layout. He's always excited to make design for stuffs. Thus, how happy he was when the tarpaulin arrived. He's proud of his output. :)

The Team – the night before the big day! Preparing the event must-haves, finalizing everything.

Prints and Design

Registration ticket upon entrance for online registered participants

Registration form for walk-in participants

Poster

Tarpaulin

Freedom wall

Organizer's ID

SFD2011 T-shirt, logo designed by Marwin Portugal and shirt designed by Jed dela Cruz

Swag

CPU SFD 2010 souvenir pins and SFD 2009 T-shirts

Office of Congressman Teddy Casiño, Bayan Muna, House of Representatives, FOSS Bill documents

SFD bookmarks

WikiMedia Philippines brochures

WikiMedia Philippines and Wikipedia Offline CDs and souvenir fans

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH pens, brochures, paper clips, peppermints

Mozilla Foundation stickers, tattoos, pins, pens, lanyards

Mozilla Tarpaulin

Software Freedom International CDs (Ubuntu, OpenDisk, FreeDistro, FreeCulture), stickers, labels, balloons, t-shirts

Speakers' and Participants' Event Kit

Prizes and Give-Aways

ACTUAL EVENT (September 17, 2011)
REGISTRATION

The registration was set to open at 8AM. An hour before, we already started receiving text messages from participants that they're stranded at the university gate. Reason: Hundreds of students lining up for SFD!

The online registration was very helpful. We were able to save time because instead of each participant writing their info, they just need to give their tickets which they received upon registering online.Everybody wears smile in the registration lanes.

Though we have warned that walk-in participants may not be ensured of seats, a lot of them still came to the event. They have been willing to stand up the whole time just to witness this year's SFD celebration.

PLENARY SESSION (AMV Hall)
Opening Ceremony Masters of ceremony Gaddi (Groupaid) and Greg (UST) gave a brief history of the previous SFD celebrations organized by the Computer Professionals' Union.