Archive for March, 2010

Document Freedom Day 2010 in Spoleto, Italy

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Giunto ormai alla terza edizione, dopo il riuscito evento “sperimentale” al Centro Polifunzionale di Opera (MI), FSUGItalia si prepara a celebrare il DFD2010, tornado alla formula classica utilizzata durante tutti i vari SFD, ovvero, all’interno di una scuola.

L’evento si terrà presso i locali  del Liceo Scientifico Statale “A.Volta”, vicolo san Matteo 8,06049 Spoleto (PG), il 27 Marzo 2010 (e non il 31 come previsto da calendario internazionale, per venire incontro alla chiusura per vacanze pasquali delle scuole superiori).

Il Document Freedom Day è la giornata mondiale dedicata agli standard aperti per i documenti. L’evento è organizzato a livello internazionale dalla Free Software Foundation Europe (http://www.fsfe.org).

Con “standard aperti” si caratterizzano quegli standard, le cui specifiche sono aperte a tutti, e su cui tutti possono lavorare, interoperare, e collaborare, senza essere costretti ad affidarsi ad un unico monopolista detentore di uno standard “chiuso” (altrimenti definito “standard proprietario”). L’evento è indirizzato verso tutti gli standard per file digitali, quali musica, immagini, video, ma si concentra soprattutto sullo standard dei documenti. Ci sono una serie di valide motivazioni per portare ODF nelle scuole e farlo conoscere sia ai professori sia agli studenti, che vanno viste in confronto tra l’alternativa proprietaria e quella aperta.

Saranno previsti interventi mattutini di natura più teorica, ed interventi pomeridiani di natura più pratica.

Maggiori informazioni sull’evento, sul come arrivare, sul materiale ed i volantini sono  a disposizone nella sezione eventi del sito di FSUGitalia ( http://www.fsugitalia.org/eventi/doku.php?id=dfd:dfd10 )

Organizing a DFD activity? Get it done in 3 steps!

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Document Freedom Day is about local engagement. For that, we need your help!

If you and your friends or user group mates want to organize an activity in your home town, you can do that very easily, in just 3 steps.

1) Go to our team website, and check whether someone is not doing the same in your town. We want our campaigns to be as impacting as possible, therefore, joining efforts is a very good idea! If someone is already doing that, then you are already on the right track, and can skip steps 2 and 3.

2) At this point you should have got ideas on what to do. If you don’t, you can check our website. Talk to your friends, plan the activity, elect a coordinator and add information to our Teams Website. Subscribe to our teams’ mailing list.

3) Write a blog post about your activity, and send it to the list. We’ll publish it in our Document Freedom Blog, and help you to spread the word about what you will do.

If you need any additional help, contact us! We’ll be glad to help you!

In case you have no idea what this blog post is about, then you might want to visit our website: http://www.documentfreedom.org/

Document Freedom Day in Offenburg, Germany

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

FreieSoftwareOG is celebrating DFD by organizing a booth in front of a local computer shop, and distributing fliers on different topics: Document Freedom Day, Open Standards, Free Software, etc. They will also distribute Free Software live CDs, and have laptops running Free Software where customers from the shop can try out Free Software and Open Standards supporting applications.

Where?
They will be in front of Fun-Computer store
Marktplatz 19, 77652 Offenburg
Germany

When?
March 31st, from 9:00 to 16:00

More information, contact the organizers directly: kontakt -AT- freiesoftwareog -DOT- org

DFD 2010: Free your documents, save your information!

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Will you be able to read your documents 20 years from now? Every day, millions of computer users like you edit text and spreadsheets, take pictures and record audio and video. What if you couldn’t read your private letters anymore, or even open that album with pictures from your honeymoon? What if you couldn’t exchange those files with friends, because the software used by each one of you can’t talk to each other? To help you make your documents future-proof, we celebrate Document Freedom Day on March 31.

Any person can save documents in open document formats, which are based on Open Standards, and be sure that people will be able to read those files, independently of the software they use. Anyone can build applications that read and write files in these formats. The Internet was built upon Open Standards, and that’s why you see so much innovation online.

On Document Freedom Day, we will raise awareness for Open Document Formats and Open Standards by organizing activities all over the world together with partner organizations and volunteers.

During the whole month of March, we will spread the word on open document formats and Open Standards. We will publish information, talk to the press, tell our friends about it, and spread the DFD logo all over the Internet.

There are many ways to take part on this campaign, so pick one and join us:

  • Put a banner in your website, linking to DFD website. You can find banners in our Artwork Website.
  • Publish a blog post on Document Freedom Day, or Open Standards, and spread the word about the campaign. Send us      a link, and we’ll include it in the DFD website.
  • Use your microblog to spread DFD news and articles! Tag them using !dfd or #dfd2010
  • Organize an activity in your city on March 31st. For ideas on activities, check the Document Freedom Day website.
  • Donate money to DFD. Your contribution makes Document Freedom Day possible!
  • Become a partner organization. Contact our Campaign Team on how to do that.

Want to find out more about Open Standards?

Document Freedom Day is about helping you to really own your data. You shouldn’t be tied to particular applications for living your life in the digital world, and you shouldn’t have to use any specific software to deal with your government, your school or anyone else.

For more information on Document Freedom Day, visit our website: www.documentfreedom.org

Contact:

Fernanda Weiden
DFD Campaign Coordinator
Email: weiden -at- fsfeurope.org
Tel:   +41 76 4021866

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