What's on in Auckland?
We want to celebrate Software Freedom Day so much that we have two events running this year!
Date: Friday 16th September 2011
Time: 4pm-6pm
Cost: Free! Location: Albany Senior High School Features: Drinks, nibbles and open e-learning
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Date: Saturday 17th September 2011
Time: 10am - 4pm
Cost: Free! Location: Orion Cafe, Cnr Mary & Enfield Streets, Mt Eden, Auckland - Map Features:
- Kids:
- one laptop per child and Sugarlabs - bring your children along and they can play with the famous laptop designed specifically for children for learning; bring a USB and we can give you the software for home; see the prototype for the new XO-1.75
- Learn Scratch - "Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art - and share your creations on the web. As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively."
- RepRap - the self-replicating free desktop 3D Printer with Vik Olliver - http://reprap.org
- Distributions:
- Learn about and even take home OpenSUSE 11.4 and Mageia 1 with Graham Lauder of OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ
- Fedora CDs and help available with Steven Ellis - Solution Architect at Red Hat
- Ubuntu CDs and help available
- R and LaTeX with tuxkid
- ... have something to feature? get in touch by registering
Presentations:
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The Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill
- ... have something to present? get in touch by registering
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Thanks to sponsors:
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