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Dallas Software Freedom Day 2013

From the website.

. . .
Software Freedom Day is a global celebration and education of why transparent and sustainable technologies are now more important than ever.
With over 200 teams in 60 countries participating, it is a fantastic event to get your schools and communities involved in.
. . .


Dates/Location

  • When:
    • Saturday, Sep 21rd, 2013 (the third Saturday of September).
  • Where:
    • Dallas Makerspace, 2995 Ladybird Lane, Dallas, TX 75229
    • MAP


Event Description

Event Description
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Fedora Representatives

Fedora Representatives
List the Fedora people here who are representing Fedora at this event including links to their personal wiki pages. When possible note the capacity in which each person will be representing the project. Some might be helping at the booth, others might be speaking, others might be running special Fedora activities at the event, etc.
# Name Capacity Comments
01 Jon Disnard Event owner, Booth Worker His First Ambassadorial Event
04 Your name here

Event Schedule

Event Schedule
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Ideas/Brainstorming

Ideas/Brainstorming
Use this section to brainstorm ideas about things to do at the event.


  • Jon will be doing Fedora-arm demo using Beagle Bone Black, Chromebook, and various other embedded platforms. Possibly giving a talk.


Important Deadlines

Event box should be on-site no later than Friday 20th. Please have the Event Box shipped by Monday 16th at the latest.



Event Budget

Event Budget
This event is funded from the OTHER section of the year 2013 budget (aprox $2000 in available non-travel funds). There is zero travel or hotel for this event, so the expense is logistical shipping and swag only, aka cheap.


  • Pins 50x
  • Pens 100x
  • Pressed DVD media 100x

Requesting Event box in ticket #343 (famnarequest)


Event Funding by the Fedora Project
This section is often used to approve funding requests. As such it needs to be as accurate as possible. After the event it is important to update this section to document the actual costs of the event for our tracking and to aid us in planning future budgets.

Travel Subsidy Requests

N/A


Event Report

Event Report
Please use this section to document and report about the event. Nice things to see in this section are blog posts about the event, pictures from the event, and anything else that might be valuable to showing the success of our participation in the event. If there were any "lessons learned" or problems that others might benefit from seeing please do include those here too. Some general information about report expectations can be found on the Event Reports page.