This year three DFD groups will have a joint activity in Berlin, Cologne, and Vienna. I will not yet tell you all the details but let me say: There will be a winner of our price in Germany and one in Austria, the price will be a DFD tart, there will be lot of fun, and we will rOGG.

The topic of those three groups will be the Open Standard for
audio OGG Vorbis. The groups already translated Playogg.org into German and sent it to our sister organisation FSF for publication on the website.

In Berlin and Cologne the groups will meet at about 14:45. Exact times and places will be announced on the mailing lists below. So everybody interested to participate in one of those cities, please contact:

• berlin@lists.fsfe.org for the Berlin activity,
• rheinland@lists.fsfe.org for the Cologne one, and
• vienna@lists.fsfe.org for the Vienna activity.

You can be sure that you will have a lot of fun and that you do something good for Open Standards and Free Software. We will keep you informed.

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).

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 )

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/

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

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

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

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

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