Next Saturday (September 20th) is Software Freedom Day:
Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Our goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about of the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in business — in short, everywhere!
There are various get togethers happening around the world to celebrate – here are all the UK ones. If you’d like to know more about free software, this video from Stephen Fry is a pretty nice start:
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Other things you might like to do include tracking down your local Linux User Group – who can help and advise you on any issues you are having – and actually installing some open source software on your computer. Here’s some quick suggestions:
- GIMP (image editing)
- Audacity (audio editing)
- PDFCreator (creates, er, PDFs)
- FIlezilla (FTP
- Firefox (browser)
- Thunderbird (email client)
- GNUCash (accounting)
- Scribus (DTP)
- Nvu – (WYSIWYG web page editing)
- RSSOwl (News reader)
- Pidgin (multi-protocol IM client)
- 7-Zip (archiving)
How else could you support or celebrate software freedom day?