Hardware Freedom Day is an international campaign coordinated by the Digital Freedom Foundation, and organized by groups all over the world. This campaign's main goal is to inform technology users about Free Hardware and Free Software that is being used in the process of making and programming Free Hardware. Both these concepts are about respecting user freedom of using hardware for any purpose, study it, modify it, adapt it, and then redistributing the modified version of it.
Event
On 20 april 2013, starting 14:00, Fundația Ceata is celebrating Hardware Freedom Day.
Program
Por the purpose of promoting hardware freedom, there will be recorded, and then published under free licenses, at filme.ceata.org, presentations and demos on this day's topic.
The mission of Fundația Ceata
The mission of Fundația Ceata, the Free Software Movement, the history of Ceata community, the reasoning behind this event and the importance of Free formats. How to help Fundația Ceata.
Tiberiu C. Turbureanu is the founder and the president of Fundația Ceata, and a Free Software programmer and activist.
Free Linux kernel drivers
Presentation about Linux kernel drivers freedom status, about the advantages of them being free, and about the ways users and developers can contribute promoting and developing free drivers.
Presentation aid is available (only in romanian, for now) in the free formats GNU zip and PDF. Source code is written using TeX.
Cornel-Florentin Dimitriu is a volunteer member of Fundația Ceata, passioned about electronics, building and maintaining computers systems (especially about choosing the right platform / motherboard for every project), electric vehicles, GNU/Linux operating systems and Free games.
Searching for free hardware - Identifying hardware that works with free software
Guide about how to identify hardware on which you may run completely free operating systems and other completely free software.
Presentation aid is available (only in romanian, for now) in the free formats GNU zip and PDF. Source code is written using TeX.
Cornel-Florentin Dimitriu
gEDA PCB Demo
Short demo about designing a printed circuit board, based on a simple electronic schematic.
Cornel-Florentin Dimitriu
Promote
Organisations or individuals who want to publish, at filme.ceata.org, under free licenses, recordings of presentations around this event's topics, please contact Fundația Ceata.
About us
În conformity with its Constitution, Fundația Ceata is a nonprofit organization which aims to liberate the Romanian users from restrictions in arts and technologies, in compliance with the current Romanian Law.
Ceata is an active community with almost 5 years long history, which has operated as informal group from June 10th 2008 to February 15th 2013, when Fundația Ceata has been incorporated. At the launch event of Fundația Ceata on February 22nd 2013, Richard Stallman himself has given a speech.
Unfortunately, Fundația Ceata is the only Romanian organization aligned with the Free Software philosophy. Although it encounters many obstacles in growing the Free Software Movement in Romania and the Republic of Moldova, Fundația Ceata organizes many events like this one, and develops Free works (software, articles, pictures, recordings), and persuades organizations and individuals to release their works under Free licenses, through continuous activism efforts.
Fundația Ceata has its headquarters in Bucharest, but it has two local teams of volunteer members, Ceata-CJ and Ceata-MD, and aims to extend its local team network in other counties of Romania and abroad, where Romanian communities exist.
For more information about the activity of Fundația Ceata, please visit ceata.org. For Free articles about Free arts and technologies, please visit Fundația Ceata's online publication, fii-liber.ro.
Contact us
To get in contact with Fundația Ceata, you can use any of the e-mail addresses bellow:
- President: tct@ceata.org
- Council: ceata-consiliul@liste.ceata.org
- Main mailing list: ceata@liste.ceata.org
Donate
We need financial support to succeed in all that we intend to do to win users' freedom. If you have the means, please make a one time donation or become a supporting member of Fundația Ceata.
Another way of donating is by redirecting 2% of your income tax to Fundația Ceata.
All the works on this page has been published in 2013 by Fundația Ceata and its collaborators under the Free license Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 • The HTML page along with the CSS style has been developed by Răzvan Vasilachi, Cornel-Florentin Dimitriu and Tiberiu C. Turbureanu, and published by Fundația Ceata in 2013 under the Free license GNU AGPLv3+ • The logo of the „Harware Freedom Day” project is a trademark of the Digital Freedom Foundation
