Posts Tagged ‘Software Freedom Day’
Software Freedom Day 2009
The 2009 Software Freedom Day (SFD) took place on Saturday 19th September. The Linux Users of Victoria group organized the celebration at Chadstone Shopping Centre, Melbourne, Australia. I have uploaded some photos taken during the day to picasa. Brianna Laugher has uploaded more photos. Here’s a news item at iTWire about the SFD celebration in [...]
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These are notes of a talk I delivered during Software Freedom Day 2009 at Chadstone Shopping Centre, Melbourne, Australia. Slides are also available. This talk requires no previous experiences with programming. After covering some basic principles of programming, these principles are then demonstrated using the Python programming language.
What’s a program?
When you start programming, you are [...]
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Software Freedom Day 2008
The 2008 Software Freedom Day event in Melbourne, Australia was held at The Hub@Docklands. The event started off with a breakfast for volunteers
followed by the setting up of the venue itself
A number of people from various organizations delivered talks during the day. Among them include
Tyson Clugg from Melbourne Wireless
Colin Jacobs from Electronic Frontiers Australia
Kat Clancy [...]
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Tags: computer algebra system, education, Linux, open source software, Sage, Software Freedom Day
