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. Each event is left to local teams around the world to organize. Events themselves varies between conferences explaining the virtues of Free and Open Source Software, to workshops, demonstrations, games, planting tree ceremonies, discussions and InstallFests

The primary sponsor from the start was Canonical Ltd., the company behind Ubuntu. Other sponsors are: DKUUG, Google, Red Hat, Linode, Nokia and now MakerBot Industries Remember Ubuntu? Canonical Ltd. is a UK-based privately held computer software company founded and funded by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth to market commer cial support and related services for Ubuntu and related projects. Although struggling, it is still there. 2017 saw it focus its attention of the profitable parts of the busi ness and turned a modest $21 million in 2017.

Remember Ubuntu? Canonical Ltd. is a UK-based privately held computer software company founded and funded by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth to market commer cial support and related services for Ubuntu and related projects. Although struggling, it is still

2017 saw it focus its attention of the profitable parts of the busi ness and turned a modest $21 million in 2017.

Hobbit day

Hobbit Day is used for September 22 in reference to its being the birthday of the hobbits Bilbo and Frodo Baggins. Bilbo was born in the year of 2890 and Frodo in the year of 2968 in the Third Age (1290 and 1368 respectively in Shire-Reckoning.)

Tolkien Week is the week containing Hobbit Day.

Due to the discrepancies between the Shire calendar and the Gregorian calendar there is some debate about when to celebrate Hobbit Day, since the actual birthday would be between September 12 and 14 the Gregorian calendar, as explained in the appendices of The Lord of the Rings

The Fellowship of the Ring opened with a celebration of Bilbo’s birthday. It was a large party with food, fireworks, dancing and much merriment. Some Tolkien fans celebrate by having parties and feasts emulating the hobbit’s parties. Other fans celebrate by simply going barefooted in honor of the hobbits, who don’t wear shoes.

Some schools and libraries use this as an opportunity to pique interest in Tolkien’s work by putting up displays and hosting events.