Planned TTCS activities for Software Freedom Day in September 2009
The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (TTCS) celebrated Software Freedom Day (SFD) 2009 with a series of activities in September, including scheduled presentations with giveaways and demonstrations of various aspects of Free and Open Source Software. Admission was FREE and CDs/DVDs of Free and Open Source Software were give to all attendees. The activities involved outreach meetings involving booth displays at malls in Trinidad and Tobago as well as information sessions geared towards beginners, intermediates and software developers.
Booth Displays were done on
- Saturday September 5th, 2009 - outreach meeting at Gulf City, Lowlands Mall, Tobago
- Saturday September 12th, 2009 - outreach meeting at Long Circular Mall, Trinidad
Information Sessions were done oon
- Saturday September 19th, 2009 - "Open Minds, Open Source: For Beginners" at St Mary's College, Port of Spain
- Saturday September 26th, 2009 - "Exploring Open Source Possibilities: For Intermediates" session at St. Mary's College, Port of Spain
- Saturday October 3rd, 2009 - "Building with FLOS: Open Source for Developers" session geared for OSS developers
Promotional Material
Promotional material was generated for the events including a number of flyers and a press release. Newspaper ads (2" x 8") were also done for the three daily newspapers
TTCS Software Freedom Day Press Release
ttcs-sfd2009-press-release.pdf
TTCS Software Freedom Scheduled Presentations
ttcs-sfd2009-schedule.pdf
TTCS Software Freedom Day flyer
ttcs-sfd2009-flyer.pdf
Newspaper Ads placed in the three daily newspapers
SFD09Newspaperad2x8(fin)(neg).pdf
SFD09Newspaperad2x8(f).pdf
Booth Displays/Outreach meetings
Venue for Tobago : Gulf City, Lowlands Mall, Tobago on Sept 5th)
Venue for Trinidad : Long Circular Mall (available Sept 12th)
The boots displays involved three booths:
One table geared towards providing information about the TTCS and filling out membership forms (http://ttcsweb.org/jointtcs) online.
One tabled geared towards demonstrations of the OSSWIN Open Source CD
One table for the demonstration of Ubuntu and Netbooks
Members of the TTCS were able to distribute approximately 140 Ubuntu Cds, 140 OSSWin Cds, 250 Flyers and added 120 new members to our mailing list (see photos and videos section below).
Photos and Videos from SFD 2009 Events
Saturday September 5th, 2009 - outreach meeting at Gulf City, Lowlands Mall, Tobago
There was a good turnout ; we had 50 TTCS OSSWIN CDs & 50 Ubuntu CDs and towards the end, we had to burn 10 additional CDs and 5 additional
Ubuntu CDs to give out. 220 flyers were given out and it was estimated that up to 200 patrons visited the TTCS booth at Gulf City, Lowlands Mall.
Pictures from TTCS SFD booth in Tobago Sept 5, 2009 are on Flickr at http://bit.ly/4DVAsi and on our TTCS Facebook Fan Page at http://bit.ly/2y6ja1
The hard-working TTCS group who made the Tobago booth happen : http://www.flickr.com/photos/ttcs/3891335104/in/set-72157622259068670/
11 minute video : http://vimeo.com/6872527
Saturday September 12th, 2009 - outreach meeting at Long Circular Mall, Trinidad
At Long Circular Mall, distributed about 140 Ubuntu CDs, 140 TTCS OSSWin CDs and 250 Flyers.
Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/knowprose/3916752900/in/photostream/
Photos Facebook TTCS Fan Page : http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=109053&id=69526139067
Video : http://vimeo.com/7078070
Saturday September 19th, 2009 - "Open Minds, Open Source: For Beginners"
Facebook TTCS Fan Page : http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=111336&id=69526139067
Saturday September 26th, 2009 - "Exploring Open Source Possibilities: For Intermediates"
Photos on Facebook TTCS Fan Page : http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=111819&id=69526139067
Saturday October 3rd, 2009 - "Building with FLOS: Open Source for Developers"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/knowprose/tags/ttcs/
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