As every third Saturday of September, from OfiLibre we commemorate the Free Software Day. This year we celebrate the eighteenth edition, and it takes place tomorrow, September 18.

The Software Freedom Day is a public education event celebrated worldwide, aiming to spread the virtues of free software and promote its use. The initiative is organized by the Digital Freedom Foundation and sponsored by companies and organizations such as Canonical, IBM, Google, Free Software Foundation, or Creative Commons.

As an international event, it is organized by local teams distributed around the world, which hold the event in their city and propose activities. Lectures, workshops, debate tables, and InstallFests (workshops for installing free software and Linux operating systems) are usually held.

At OfiLibre, we collaborated in the 2019 edition as an organizing team. You can see the talks that were given in this post.

This year, our colleagues from the Free Software Office of the University of Granada, have celebrated this edition with some very interesting talks about how to participate in a free project, or how to release your code, in addition to installing Linux for free to users who wanted to attend in person. You can find the recordings of the talks in this link.

This is a global map of the different events registered in 2021, and here you can find those from previous editions. Due to the global pandemic, most lectures are being broadcast online and generally remain recorded and published openly.

So we encourage you to take a look at the talks that may interest you, and above all, to celebrate it in your daily life, using and recommending free software!

Happy Free Software Day!