All around the world, teams of volunteers are organizing events to celebrate Document Freedom Day and raise awareness about Open Standards. Their message is simple: we want to communicate and to work together effectively. This message is addressed at companies like radio stations, or public bodies, administrations and government services.

In South Africa, people will share a cake at the Department of Art & Culture. In the Republic of Moldova, the Software Libre group will inform students and professors at the Technical University of Moldova about the importance of Open Document Formats. In Greece, the Association of Greek Users and Friends of Free Software will organize an event inside the University of Macedonia, what’s more they will send an Open Letter to public Institutions about Document Freedom Day.

We know that one of the advantage of Open Standars is that they guarantee sustainability to our documents and files. So this is not a surprise that the Japanese initiative MyOpenArchive is a promoter of DFD. MyOpenArchive advocates in favour of open access, and self-archiving for academic papers in Japan.

Finally, the Free Software team of OpenOffice.org, which uses the OpenDocument Format (ODF), are promoting the event. Alexandro Colorado, OpenOffice.org Spanish Community Manager is also giving an online conference to explain the benefits of Document Freedom.

Don’t miss tomorrow,  I’ll tell you more about what our fellows are doing in Slovenia!

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