what a freedom...

And so saturday saw me and my friends running for Pretoria to one of the main events about Software Freedom Day in the country.

It was all good and educational too. Lots of people came, but I must say most of them where either well informed geeks or those who've been to the event before. I was hoping to see more people who want to know more about FOSS etc.

However, it was all great as Eric and I distributed Ubuntu cd's, The OpenCD Project cd's, GEEK t-shirts(courtesy of Babelgeek), Go-OpenSource pens and caps. We shared to the best of our knowledge information about FOSS projects like Ubuntu and Kolab in particular. I'm sure over 300 cd's were handed out...:)

I also noticed there were people from as far as Central Africa, the DRC(Democratic Republic of Congo) and my friends one from Mozambique and one from Nelspruit. School children were also there to learn how FOSS can empower them.

It was hectic. Although I was at the Impi Linux stand, I was able to go meet Friedel and Dwayne at Translate.org.za. Myself and this guys have been translating and spreading the gospel of 11 South African languages on our software for a year or so but have never met in person until this day. It was nice to introduce my friends and other people to the project and I managed to make a few translations of the TuxPaint in Sesotho ... There were other people who wanted to take part in translations, notably Sindisiwe (proudly code-named BSB). BSB hope to see you a lot in translations and we are there to guide anytime :)

Met with the Joomla South African guys as well not to forget. I hope to get myself into that space of FOSS soon as well.

The most interesting thing about our SFD this year was that Microsoft also had a stand. Well i dont have details of what they were showing people but they were there and welcomed :)

eish there was a lot happening and I was always on my feet and it feels great to actually bring people closer to their freedom.