In Slovenia, people are also celebrating Document Freedom Day. The new Fellowship Group is going to the Supreme court to thank them. Indeed, the Supreme Court, which also manages the IT for all the courts in Slovenia, publishes lots of documents for public use. The Sodna Praksa gives access to all court decisions since 1992.

Matija Šuklje explains: “Since it is of paramount importance that all these archives should be accessible by anybody as well as be in tact and readable for many generations to come, the courts decided that open standards and open formats are the only way to reach that goal. Along with that they made great use of open formats (ODF consisting of zipped XML files) as well as free software (OpenOffice amongst others) to automate many tasks. The Supreme court expressed a great gratitude that their work has been noted by the FSFE Fellowship group Slovenia and agreed to participate in the DFD celebration in the evening as well.”

The DFD celebration will begin at 18:00 in Kiberpipa/Cyberpipe and will consist of a few short (cca. 30 minutes) lectures on the matter and an open table where anybody will be able to ask and discuss open documents and open standards. After that we will continue to party with some refreshments and snacks — there might be another cake there as well

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