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  ![Try SFD FOSS with us on 27.9.2025](https://digitalfreedoms.org/images/2023/12/09/ilovesfd.png) Try SFD FOSS with us on 27.9.2025

  Calendar  [Software Freedom Day](https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/events)   Date   27.09.2025     Location    [ Sydenham Community Centre ](#dp-location-1392)    Url  [ www.infohelp.co.nz/sfd25.html ](http://www.infohelp.co.nz/sfd25.html)

##  Description

## SFD South Christchurch

27 Sept 2025

**International Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) Festival**

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FOSS demonstration & Installfest, free software sharing, <br></br>PC refit tuition, internet security, AI safety and more.<br></br><br></br>10am to 5pm at Sydenham Community Centre. <br></br>More information: [<a href="http://www.infohelp.co.nz/sfd25.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">http://www.infohelp.co.nz/sfd25.html</a>|SFD25]
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**SFD25 workshop on Christchurch FOSS culture / user opportunities:**

10am - 5pm: Free Software, secure online systems and future-proofing

**Free tickets** / advertising we have in place:

<https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2025/software-freedom-day-25/christchurch>

<https://facebook.com/events/s/software-freedom-day-25/1289783849491849/>

<https://endof10.org/> - see our Event (SFD25) and Place of monthly meetup:

**GNU/Linux Ōtautahi Workshops** - <https://www.infohelp.co.nz/glow.html>

<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gnulinux-otautahi-workshops-tickets-1554325682959>

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**Event Report**

Seven hours of public attendance to FOSS promotion and support completed.

 0. Our main achievement was getting doors open again, after three years' absence from SFD celebrations.

The suspension had been due to several factors, mostly the CoViD pandemic era lockdowns closing public events, while permanent changes at our local library long-term venue made regular demonstration space there unavailable.

Much has changed in the ICT space over those three years, especially the trend towards remote work, diversified platforms, social fragmentation and isolation. So it remains to be seen if SFD events could ever return to the level of support they had in the earlier 2000s. Globally, organisation of SFD has also diminished, e.g. our event archives begun in 2004 have been lost.

1. We've found, tested and proven a very suitable new SFD venue.
2. Our advertising worked, someone new came to participate (via eventfinda).
3. We showcased, used and compared a good range of GNU/Linux distributions, with free/open-source software on top - Bazzite for Fedora and RedHat, GIMP, Newelle AI interface, pop!\_OS, Ubuntu, Debian and Ubuntu-MATE, apps &amp; updates, command line interface tools - top, apt, MC, sudo, su, ls -la, etc.

![sfd25 christchurch nz 1 scaled.5](https://digitalfreedoms.org/images/new_zealand/sfd25-christchurch-nz-1-scaled.5.jpg)

![sfd25 christchurch nz 2 scaled.5](https://digitalfreedoms.org/images/new_zealand/sfd25-christchurch-nz-2-scaled.5.jpg)

![ai safe computing scaled.5](https://digitalfreedoms.org/images/new_zealand/ai-safe-computing-scaled.5.png)

##  Location information

###  [ Sydenham Community Centre ](https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/component/dpcalendar/location/1392#year=2025&month=09&day=27)

  Street  Hutcheson Street 25    City  8023 Christchurch    Country New Zealand   Url  [ https://www.cinch.org.nz/categories/a-z/h/527/entries/4666 ](https://www.cinch.org.nz/categories/a-z/h/527/entries/4666)