Software Freedom Day 2009
Software Freedom Day 2009 was held at the Melbourne PC User Group rooms at Chadstone shopping centre on 19th September 09. Organised by Brianna Laugher, President of WikiMedia Australia, and Donna Benjamin, President of Linux Users’ Victoria, the event aimed to showcase the numerous free and open source software and hardware tools available for use.
The day saw numerous presentations, including;
- Wen Lin presented on how to use alternative operating systems such as Ubuntu on your netbook, and how to use Clonezilla for backup up and restoring your system
- Ben Sturmfels presented on the basic freedoms that open source software embodies
- Simon Hobbs provided an overview of using Drupal for building websites
- Minh Nguyen presented on programming with Python
- Daniel Jitnah presented on how to make the move to open source
During the day Andy Gelme, who’s heavily into open hardware and is involved with the Community Connected Hackerspace in Melbourne gave an hour and a half workshop on Arduinos, where we all got to program an Arduino. This was much easier than I had anticipated, as it only required a bsic knowledge of electronics, and some experience in C.
I ran two workshops during the day on WordPress;
A very big thank you to Multimedia Victoria, who generously supported the event, allowing hundreds of Open CDs containing free and open source software to be produced and distrubted.
thanks I never knew such a day existed.
I am glad it does though should make life a little easier
Hi Kathy,
Thanks for posting the event details.
Good job done by all
I was at your Advanced WordPress session, I later I forgot what was that social networking plug-in you highlighted for WordPress, but now I have seen your Slide Show on-line and see it was BuddyPress.
Thanks.
Thanks! and you’re welcome!
Best wishes with WordPress
Hi Kathy,
Sadly I now see that BuddyPress only works with WP MU.