Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). The principles behind FOSS are underpinned by the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. You can read more about the four freedoms here.
Our goal in this celebration is 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!
http://softwarefreedomday.org.nz/
What's on in Wellington?
This year Unlimited Potential, WellyLUG, SuperHappyDevHouse, DigitalNZ, Catalyst IT, the New Zealand Open Source Society (NZOSS), CWA New Media, and OLPC are coming together to organise another great event in Wellington.
Location: Wellington Convention Centre
Date: Sunday 20th September 2009
Time: 9am - 6pm
Come and take part in the hackfest, installfest, a makerfest, barcamp and techtalks.
The event will again be hosted by Nat Torkington, and you can find out more about the exciting events scheduled for the day on our events page, and our kids programme and student programme pages.
There will be free wifi courtesy of cafeNET and coffee all day, with lunch and afternoon tea provided. After things wrap up at 5pm there will be a networking session at a yet to be disclosed location nearby.
Follow SFD on twitter @WLGSFD and tag your tweets #sfdwlg09!