Welcome to the Community Free Software Group.
CFSG is a not-for-profit organization serving individuals, groups and communities through Free Software education and implementation.
NEWS:
June 2011 — Forest Mars presents Designing for the Web… with Git
January 2011 — Wikimedia turns 10 years old. At the birthday celebration Forest Mars presents Information Doesn't Want To Be Free (it wants to be $4.95)
August 2010 — CFSG hosts OMGWTFBBQ, a garden party and barbeque for proponents & developers of Free Software.
March 2010 — Forest Mars presents Drupal makes me hAPI: Open source social publishing architecture, a discussion of the Drupal content management system, at the New York Linux Users Group general meeting.
September 2008 — Dave Williams speaks on Free Software and Education at the New York City Software Freedom Day '08 event.
September 2007 — Selso DaSilva presents his talk Making A Movie With FOSS at the Long Island Linux Users Group.
April 2007 — CFSG assists the Action for Progress social services organization in converting their Houston Street Day Care Center computer lab to Free Software, using the Edubuntu GNU/Linux operating system.
November 2006 — CFSG is registered with the New York City Vendor Enrollment Center. As an official provider of services to city agencies including the Department of Education we have partnered with the Lower Manhattan Arts Academy (LoMA) to present workshops in Free Software-based Audio Editing and Graphic Design.
June 2006 — CFSG participates in the AAFE Youth Technology Showcase, where workshop participants demonstrate the subjects they've learned and show off the computers they built.
March 2006 — Another PC Garage at the Norfolk Street Center of Asian Americans for Equality. Thanks to AAFE, Data Conversion Laboratory, and The Oxygen Network for their generous donations of equipment.
January 2006 — CFSG is recognized as a tax-exempt public charity under sections 501(c)(3) and 509(a)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code.
December 2005 — Participants at CFSG's Blender workshop at the Asian Americans for Equality Community Center show off their work to visitors at the annual open house.
October 2005 — CFSG presents an after-school workshop on 3D Animation at the Asian Americans for Equality Community Center. Selso Da Silva teaches participants how to design and animate characters using the Blender modeling and animation studio.
November 2004 — The second PC Garage workshop is held at Grand Street Settlement.
July 2004 — Community Free Software Group, Inc. announces our incorporation as a New York State Not-for-Profit Corporation. Special thanks go to Alex Pilosov for his support and assistance. Joe Maffia joins the Board of Directors as Treasurer, and Richard M. Stallman adds his support as an Honorary Director.
June 2004 — Grand Street Settlement hosts a CFSG project for residents of their Lower East Side community. This workshop, conducted by Stephen Lynch, reviewed Information Technology tools and techniques using Free Software.
March 2004 — Marco Scoffier presents a demonstration of GNU/Linux audiovisual applications at Flux Factory, a nonprofit collaborative arts organization in Long Island City, Queens. The workshop is part of Flux Factory's Technology Initiative.
February 2004 — The Community Free Software Group, the Three Jewels Outreach Center, and Asian Americans for Equality present The PC Garage — restoring, customizing and tuning your PC with Free Software.
January 2004 — CFSG attends the grand opening of the new Asian Americans for Equality Community Center and Residence at 111 Norfolk Street, New York.
June 2003 — Marco Scoffier, Selso DaSilva, Dave Williams, and Stephen Lynch discuss creating a new organization dedicated to promoting and advocating Free Software through community education and service.
The most fundamental way of helping other people is to teach people how to do things better, to tell people things that you know that will enable them to better their lives.