Document Freedom Day Blog » DFD09 http://blog.documentfreedom.org Blogging for document freedom! Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:40:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Thank you for being part of DFD09! http://blog.documentfreedom.org/2009/03/thank-you-for-being-part-of-dfd/ http://blog.documentfreedom.org/2009/03/thank-you-for-being-part-of-dfd/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:09:47 +0000 admin http://blog.documentfreedom.org/?p=48 inde 2010

Thanks to our great community, Document Freedom Day 2009 was celebrated around the globe on March the 25th. We are working on activity reports which will summarize DFD09 activities. Stay tuned :)

]]> http://blog.documentfreedom.org/2009/03/thank-you-for-being-part-of-dfd/feed/ 0 Today is DFD ’09, global day for document liberation http://blog.documentfreedom.org/2009/03/today-is-dfd-09-global-day-for-document-liberation/ http://blog.documentfreedom.org/2009/03/today-is-dfd-09-global-day-for-document-liberation/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:40 +0000 admin http://blog.documentfreedom.org/?p=36 A great global community is gathering today to celebrate the second Document Freedom Day. After a successful 2008 celebration, Document Freedom Day teams all over the world are joining efforts to raise awareness for Document Freedom and Open Standards.

In a world where records are increasingly kept in electronic form, Open Standards are crucial for valuable information to outlive the application in which it was initially generated. The question of Document Freedom has severe repercussions for freedom of choice, competition, markets and the sovereignty of countries and their governments.

“We are happy to see our community getting bigger this year”, says Ivan Jelic, DFD Coordinator. “We expect large variety of activities organized by DFD teams, from speeches and informative events, to university document liberation or open standard promotion in local governments.”

The DFD team will do its best to gather all the information about this year activities, organize them and publish on DFD web pages. If you have material about local document liberation activities, please send mail to: contact AT documentfreedom.org

How you can get active

The Document Freedom Day is a collaborative effort.

You can make a difference by linking to http://documentfreedom.org, generate your own artworks or use the ones available at http://documentfreedom.org/Artwork

You could also print out some of the DFD leaflets at http://www.documentfreedom.org/Artwork#Leaflet and give them to your co-workers, family or friends. And if you feel creative, consider taking pictures or small video testimonials that show the world what Document Freedom means to you!

About the Document Freedom Day

The Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for Document Liberation with roughly 250 active teams worldwide. It is a day of grassroots effort around the world to promote and build awareness for the relevance of Free Document Formats in particular and Open Standards in general.

Document Freedom Day is supported by a large group of organizations and individuals, including, but not limited to ANSOL, Ars Aperta, BrOffice.org, COSS, Esoma, Estándares Abiertos, FFII, Free Knowledge Foundation, Free Software Foundation, Free Software Foundation Europe, Free Software Foundation Latin America, Funambol, Google, IBM, NLnet, ODF Alliance, Open Forum Europe, Open Source Initiative (OSI), Opentia, OSL, iMatix, Red Hat, Sun, The Open Learning Centre.

The list of DFD Teams is available at: http://documentfreedom.org/Category:Teams

]]> http://blog.documentfreedom.org/2009/03/today-is-dfd-09-global-day-for-document-liberation/feed/ 3 Announcing Document Freedom Day 09 / DFD Blog now online http://blog.documentfreedom.org/2009/02/announcing-document-freedom-day-09/ http://blog.documentfreedom.org/2009/02/announcing-document-freedom-day-09/#comments Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:03:40 +0000 admin http://blog.documentfreedom.org/?p=10 After a successful DFD08, the community is gathering for a second time to celebrate a global day for document liberation. Teams across the planet will join their efforts on 25th of March and send a strong message of Document Freedom and Open Standards.

Being part of DFD is easy. Our list of countries and cities may help you find a team near you to join. In case there are no teams at your place or near you, we encourage you to invite others to join you in creating one to organize local activities to become part of the global event. You can do this by filling out the form on our “Join” page.

If you registered a team last year, please edit your page and let the world know about your plans for DFD09. In order to be listed on our DFD09 page (where all the teams with planed activities will be listed), edit your page and add [[Category:DFD09]] at the bottom.

We would also like to let you know about the DFD Blog, which will allow us to interact and network even better. The blog is already online at blog.documentfreedom.org and will soon be supplemented by a planet. So this would be a good time to add it to your RSS feeds, and start spreading the news.

About the Document Freedom Day

The Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for Document Liberation. It is a day of grassroots effort around the world to promote and build awareness for the relevance of Free Document Formats in particular and Open Standards in general. The DFD is supported by a large group of organisations and individuals, including, but not limited to Ars Aperta, COSS, Esoma, Free Software Foundations Europe and Latin America, IBM, NLnet, ODF Alliance, OpenForum Europe, OSL, iMatix, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, Inc., The Open Learning Centre, Opentia, Estandares Abiertos.

The list of DFD supporting groups can be found http://documentfreedom.org/Who

The list of DFD teams is available at http://documentfreedom.org/Category:Teams

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