Happy Software Freedom Day!

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Software Freedom Day is a global celebration of free and open source software (FOSS) and related subjects, an annual worldwide
celebration of Software. This Saturday, September 19th, is the twelfth annual Software Freedom Day, an international celebration of our favorite thing: free software!  

The goal of this day is to educate the worldwide public about good quality free and open source software (FOSS) in education, at the government and in business. Teams of volunteers organize every year worldwide in their local area activities to educate the public about these technologies. Software Freedom Day's are being organized every year since 2004 and was first observed on 28 August of that year. About 12 teams participated in the first Software Freedom Day.

Since that time it has grown in popularity and while organizers anticipated more than 1,000 teams in 2010 the event has stalled at around 400+ locations over the past two years, representing a 30% decrease over 2009. Since 2006 Software Freedom Day has been held on the third Saturday of September, it has occasionally coincided with International Talk Like a Pirate Day.

As in past years, the Free Software Foundation encourages the free software community to spend this holiday introducing a friend to free software. Free software is worth celebrating every day, but we hope you find a way to make Software Freedom Day 2015 extra special. Submit a bug report, teach a friend, or spend some time hacking on your own free software.

As always; Happy Software Freedom Day!