Posted on September 13, 2009 by by MADinMelbourne

Chadstone Shopping Centre – Melbourne, Australia

Software Freedom Day 2009 in Melbourne – Saturday 19th September!

Software Freedom Day is a global, grassroots effort to tell people about the virtues and availability of Free and Open Source Software.Melbourne’s various Free and Open Source Software groups join the global celebration for Software Freedom Day with a series of Free Talks on various aspects of the technology and communities that support it. Melbourne’s celebration is proudly supported by the Victorian Government.

We’ve put together a great program of talks and workshops at the Melbourne PC User Group premises, located in Chadstone Shopping Centre, the largest shopping complex in the Southern Hemisphere. There’s a large theatre there for talks about the world of Software Freedom, and a small computer lab where we will run workshops and free and open source software demos.

Time	Room 1	Room 2	Lab
11.30	Installing Linux on your netbook – Wen Lin	Why is Free Software important? – Ben Sturmfels	Introduction to WordPress – Kathy Reid
12.00	Moving to open source software – Daniel Jitnah	Beginning programming with Python – Minh Nyugen
12.30	How to back-up using Clonezilla – Wen Lin	Squeak – Tansel Ersavas	Basic hardware hacking with Arduinos – Andy Gelme
1.00	Image editing basics with GIMP – Andrew Thornton	Scratch – Tony Forster
1.30	Firefox including why and how to make it better – Joseph Wojciechowski	Build your own website with Drupal – Simon Hobbs
2.00	OpenOffice – Jessica Smith	Practical version control – Duana Stanley	Advanced WordPress – Kathy Reid
2.30	Lightning Talks!
3.00			Image editing with Inkscape – Donna Benjamin
3.30

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