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Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). The principles behind FOSS are underpinned by the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. You can read more about the four freedoms here.

The goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in business - in short, everywhere!

Chief Ninja Tim from MindKits will be there with bells on so you can all have a play around with an Arduino and get hands on.

We look forward to seeing you there and please make sure you come up and say hi - we're always keen to chat to other tinkerers.

Auckland Software Freedom Day Poster

I was sent this link to the 'SWAT Bot' (Thanks John) which I thought was pretty interesting.
Now, I'm usually interested in these links from the 'WOW, that's insanely complex' perspective but for this bot I found myself thinking 'WOW, what a simple solution to a complex problem. I may even be able hack one of these together from off the shelf parts'.

I thought I would share it with you and perhaps one day the New Zealand Police or swat will get these. At least they'd be able to throw them at criminals if they don't get their stun guns.