Month of September Software Freedom Day (SFD) is an annual worldwide celebration of Free Software organized by the Digital Freedom Foundation (DFF). SFD is a public education effort with the aim of increasing awareness of Free Software and its virtues, and encouraging its use.
SFD was established in 2004. Since 2006 Software Freedom Day has been held on the third Saturday of September. ber Remem Each event is left to local teams around the world to . is organize. Events themselves varies between conferences Canonical Ltd m co explaining the virtues of Free and Open Source Software, privately held nde to workshops, demonstrations, games, planting tree cer- company fou ican en emonies, discussions and InstallFests South Afr rth to Shuttlewo rt and The primary sponsor from the start was Canonical cial suppo and Ltd., the company behind Ubuntu. Other sponsors are: for Ubuntu DKUUG, Google, Red Hat, Linode, Nokia and now Makerstrug Bot Industries Although there.
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