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Submission + - Happy Culture Freedom Day!

Submitted by Blug_fred on Friday May 17, 2013 @11:01PM

Blug_fred writes: For the second edition, today is the time to celebrate Culture Freedom Day. While not as popular as HFD or SFD, celebrating Free Culture involves finding Free Culture artists, inviting them to your place and having them perform, display or talk about what their creation(s). Of course you can always simply project a couple of Free Culture movies and launch a discussion about their business models. Either way you can find all the happening for today here on the map and we sincerely hope there will be something of interest near you.

Submission + - Happy Hardware Freedom Day (digitalfreedomfoundation.org)

Submitted by Blug_fred on Saturday April 20, 2013 @07:13AM

Blug_fred writes: For the first year the Digital Freedom Foundation (ex-SFI) is organizing Hardware Freedom Day. With 66 events worldwide split over 36 countries they are not yet covering the whole world but it is a good start. So if you have always been wondering about hacking your own stuff, be it a piece of wood or some more complex electronic gears then it is time to join an open door day type of event. Sixty-six events is definitely less that the total number of hackerspaces around the world and you can check for other events happening in a hackerspace near you if none are celebrating today. Hopefully they will join the movement next year. So don't lag and come out to meet people who share the same passion as you do!

Comment Re:420 day (Score 1) 22

by Blug_fred on Sunday March 10, 2013 @10:36AM (#43130727) Attached to: Celebrate Hardware Freedom Day 2013

Maybe you should start with "counting freedom day"?

Submission + - Celebrate Hardware Freedom Day 2013! (hfday.org)

Submitted by Blug_fred on Sunday March 10, 2013 @08:09AM

Blug_fred writes: The Digitial Freedom Foundation is proud to announce the first celebration of Hardware Freedom Day on Saturday April 20th, 2013. While registration has opened about a month ago and early registrants will receive free banners, posters and swags as long as they register before Friday 15th, anyone who registers is of course welcome to celebrate the Day! So get your hackerspace into order, your team members ready and showcase your best "Get Into Hacking workshop" to entice your neighbours to start. Still not lucky enough to be part of a hackerspace structure? Then use that day to meet people who will be willing to join you in the project!

Submission + - Bringing Free Software to a street near you. (softwarefreedomday.org)

Submitted by Blug_fred on Saturday September 15, 2012 @12:36PM

Blug_fred writes: It's that time of year again; the nights are drawing in, the leaves are beginning to turn, and literally hundreds of teams of dedicated F/OSS enthusiasts from around the world are preparing to hit the streets in celebration of Software Freedom Day 2012. In an effort to increase awareness of free and open source software among the general public, SFD teams will be standing around town centers and shopping malls, holding talks at schools and universities, giving demonstrations and handing out GNU/Linux and FOSS collections for Windows on CD. With money being tight and paranoia about malware and viruses at an all-time high, the time is right to help consumers switch to the myriad of quality open source applications available. If you would like to check for an SFD team in your area and consider attending, be it to help out or simply learn more about free software for yourself, there's an interactive map to help you find your way."

Submission + - First Culture Freedom Day in Lisbon, others next Saturday (culturefreedomday.org)

Submitted by Blug_fred on Friday May 11, 2012 @01:52PM

Blug_fred writes: The first ever Culture Freedom Day is happening right now and over a 2 days period in Lisbon, Portugal. Organized by Flausina with the participation of Creative Commons Portugal, and being celebrated one week earlier that the official date, this event brings an impressive program of concerts, documentary projections, debates and more. For others there is still time to find an event in your area (so far, eleven listed worldwide) or organize one yourself. If you're in Lisbon you definitely don't want to miss out, and if not, you can always hope someone will bring Free Culture celebrations to your doorstep.

Submission + - Power Saving Web Pages; Real or Myth? (pcstats.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 19, 2012 @01:26PM

An anonymous reader writes: Are dark webdesigns an energy saving alternative to a snow white Google? The theory is websites with black backgrounds save energy, based on the assumption that a monitor requires more power to display a white screen than black. Is this a blatant green washing ploy by Blackle.com, or an earnest energy saving tweak for a search tool we use every day? To find out, PCSTATS hooked up an Extech Power Analyzer to a 19" CRT and a 19" LCD and measured power draw — turns out there is a not insignificant difference...

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