Registration for the Software Freedom Day 2008 in Dublin is now open!

The event will start at 11am on Saturday, September 20th. The location is The Digital Exchange, Crane St., Digital Hub, Dublin 8.

Please use the comments at ubuntu-ie.org to register your attendance and also if you have any suggestions or thoughts.

What can you expect?

Talks [approx. 30min. each]

11:00am Doors open – time to explore the venue
11:30am Paul O’Malley – What You Should Know About Software Freedom – from GNU to Ubuntu!
12:00pm Camara – “Who are we and what do we do?
12:30pm Glenn Strong (IFSO) – “DRM and Software Freedom”

1:00pm LUNCH

2:00pm John Looney – “Open Source Engineering in Google”
2:30pm Ciaran O’Riordan (IFSO) – “The Free Software Movement in 2008″
3:00pm Break
3:30pm Free & Open Source Software: Why you want it!”
4:00pm Dermot McNally “The OpenStreetMap Project”
4:30pm Maciej Danielski – “Ubuntu Ireland”

Activities [Running all Day Long]

Info Stalls – PHP/Open Ireland/Open Street Map/IFSO/Digital Hub/Camara
Ubuntu Demo machines running
Games for Kids
Ubuntu Installs
Tours of Camara

Canonical Joins The Linux Foundation

On Monday the 18th of August 2008, The Linux Foundation announced, that Canonical (the commercial sponsor behind one of the most popular Linux Distributions – Ubuntu) has joined the Foundation.

“The Linux Foundation occupies a critical, non-commercial function in the use and popularization of Linux around the world. We’ve always seen the Linux Foundation’s value and are pleased to now become an official member and support its activities. We look forward to working with them to continue the march of Linux in all areas of computing,” said Matt Zimmerman, Ubuntu program manager and CTO, Canonical.

Read the official announcement by The Linux Foundation

More news on Canonical becoming a member of The Linux Foundation.

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