{"id":4829,"date":"2014-09-15T12:26:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T12:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=4829"},"modified":"2014-09-15T12:26:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T12:26:36","slug":"under-a-week-to-go-to-sfd-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=4829","title":{"rendered":"Under a week to go to SFD 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bristolwireless.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sfd_participating.png\" alt=\"Software Freedom Day 2014 banner\" width=\"116\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7924\" \/>It&#8217;s under a week to <a href=\"http:\/\/softwarefreedomday.org\/\">Software Freedom Day<\/a> (SFD) 2014, which is being held this year on Saturday, 20th September.<\/p>\n<p>SFD is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). The organisers&#8217; goal in this celebration is to educate the public all over the world about the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, government, in business and at home &#8211; in short, everywhere! <\/p>\n<p>Software Freedom International a non-profit organisation, coordinates SFD at a global level, providing support, give-aways and a point of collaboration, but volunteer teams around the world organise the local SFD events to involve their own communities.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone wishing to organise a local event, there&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.softwarefreedomday.org\/StartGuide\">handy start guide on the SFD wiki<\/a>, as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.softwarefreedomday.org\/Promote\">promotional materials<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you do organise an event, don&#8217;t forget to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softwarefreedomday.org\/cgi-bin\/register.py\">register<\/a> your event and team so the event can be added to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softwarefreedomday.org\/map\/index.php?year=2014\">2014 events map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Software Freedom Day was established in 2004 and first observed on 28th August of that year.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristolwireless.net\/2014\/09\/less-than-a-week-to-sfd-2014\/\">Reposted from Bristol Wireless<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s under a week to Software Freedom Day (SFD) 2014, which is being held this year on Saturday, 20th September. SFD is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). The organisers&#8217; goal in this celebration is to educate the public all over the world about the benefits of using high quality FOSS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[19,12,23],"class_list":["post-4829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source-software","category-tech","tag-free-software","tag-open-source","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4831,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829\/revisions\/4831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}