Registration for the Software Freedom Day 2008 in Dublin is now open!

Hello all,

The event will start at 11am on Saturday, September 20th. The location is [COLOR="Red"]The Digital Exchange, Crane St., Digital Hub, Dublin 8[/COLOR].

Please use the comments at ubuntu-ie.org to register your attendance and also if you have any suggestions or thoughts.

If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail me (byMeanMachine [at] googlemail [dot] com), Laura (laura [at] lczajkowski [dot] com) or ubuntu-ie mailing list

What can you expect?

Info stalls Ubuntu demo machines Talks by: Irish Free Software Organisation, Google Elevate Learning taking part as a supporter and sponsor of SFD 2008 in Dublin ...and more

Complete schedule to be published very soon!

[COLOR="Red"]*Timetable*[/COLOR]

Talks [approx. 30min. each]

11:00am Doors open - time to explore the venue 11:30am Paul O'Malley - What You Should Know About Software Freedom - from GNU to Ubuntu! 12:00pm Camara - "Who are we and what do we do? 12:30pm Glenn Strong (IFSO) - "DRM and Software Freedom"

1:00pm LUNCH

2:00pm John Looney - "Open Source Engineering in Google" 2:30pm Ciaran O'Riordan (IFSO) - "The Free Software Movement in 2008" 3:00pm Break 3:30pm Gareth Eason - "Free & Open Source Software: Why you want it!" 4:00pm Dermot McNally "The OpenStreetMap Project" 4:30pm Maciej Danielski - "Ubuntu Ireland"

Activities [Running all Day Long]

Info Stalls – PHP/Open Ireland/Open Street Map/IFSO/Digital Hub/Camara Ubuntu Demo machines running Games for Kids Ubuntu Installs Tours of Camara Elevate Learning

What a great day it was! :guitar:

For those of you who couldn't make it, here's a few pictures on my flickr