"The international celebration of Software Freedom Day will come to Greenville, SC on Saturday, 15 September 2007. The Upstate Carolina Linux Users Group is sponsoring an all-day event with open source software demonstrations, instruction, and freebies..."

On September 15, 2007, 1 month from today, there will be a very positive outreach to the masses by an organization that believes in the freedom of software.

September 15th marks Software Freedom Day, the world's largest celebration and outreach effort about why transparent and sustainable technologies like Free & Open Source Software are so important.

September 15, 2007 is going to be celebrated the world over as Software Freedom Day(SFD). SFD is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).

What do you plan to do on this year’s Software Freedom Day? I plan to do the following in the coming days leading up to September 15:

"...OpenFest is an idea for a celebration, which should exceed the boundaries set by differences and morals. Let there be a day each year in which we, the upholders of free software all over the world try to make this a day when all people could get in touch with the freedom on the Internet, with the freedom of open source software, with free software..."

"Once software users freedoms are protected the methodology that we know as Open Source becomes possible and its advantages become apparent. But without the guiding principles of Free Software the neccessity and direction of Open Source cannot be accounted for. Open Source has no history or trajectory, it cannot account for itself or suggest which tasks are neccessary or important.

One of the key proponents of open source software within the South African government, the department of science and technology is joining in this year’s Software Freedom Day celebrations with a dedicated programme on OSS during its Insite show this week.

Software Freedom Conservancy welcomes Git as its newest member. Git joins twenty-three other Conservancy members, who receive the benefit of aggregated non-profit status available to all Conservancy member projects. Conservancy and the Git leadership are excited to announce that Git is now a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy.

" The idea of open source is that allowing users to change and redistribute the software will make it more powerful and reliable. But this is not guaranteed. Developers of proprietary software are not necessarily incompetent. Sometimes they produce a program which is powerful and reliable, even though it does not respect the users’ freedom.