[Commons-l] Fwd: [Icommons] Fwd: Invitation to join the Document Freedom Day 2008

[Brianna Laugher]

Hello,

A Document Freedom Day is planned in late March, similar to Software
Freedom Day. I imagine some people here may be interested.

Presumably this is not the "first official accouncement" yet (so,
still don't treat as public info yet)...

cheers,
Brianna

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Heather Ford <heather at icommons.org>
Date: 10 Feb 2008 08:49
Subject: [Icommons] Fwd: Invitation to join the Document Freedom Day 2008
To: icommons at lists.ibiblio.org

remember please not to distribute this publicly just yet - its in the
prep phase -

Best,
Heather.

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Georg C. F. Greve" <greve at fsfeurope.org>
Date: 08 February 2008 12:03:23 PM
To: greve at fsfeurope.org
Subject: Invitation to join the Document Freedom Day 2008


Dear colleagues,

advocating Free Software towards various people and groups is often made
more difficult by their legacy of data lock-in. Migration to some seems
a choice of gaining their freedom by losing all their old data, and in
too many cases that is unfortunately true enough.

The logical answer to this are Open Standards that give everyone the
freedom to use, study and implement them. But most people don't know
much about this issue and generally don't take care to save their data
in ways that allow them to choose and live in freedom.

There has been some debate about this through the years, with particular
focus around the Open Document Format (ODF) due to current events.

In this group, people have been discussing the idea of a "Document
Freedom Day" for some time - and FSFE's Serbian team now jumped at the
possibility and took initiative for the Document Freedom Day, which will
advocate freedom of data in the area that everyone has a direct
relationship to -- documents -- to raise awareness about the principles.

The Document Freedom Day is planned as a complimentary activity to the
Software Freedom Day - so the two are placed six months apart: The first
Document Freedom Day will be held 26 March 2008.

The message of the DFD will be focussed on benefits of freedom in data
and formats, specifically the Open Document Format (ODF) and the
relevance of Open Standards.

You can find the (still rudimentary) web site at

    http://www.documentfreedom.org

and you are very much invited to join this effort as an organisation and
get personally involved.

If you know others who might have an interest in this activity, please
feel free to also invite them. But please avoid blogging about this
before the first official announcement, as we would prefer to add some
more information first.

With best regards,
Georg

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Georg C. F. Greve                                 <greve at fsfeurope.org>
Free Software Foundation Europe                 (http://fsfeurope.org)
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Heather Ford
iCommons Executive Director
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The iCommons Summit: 29 July - 1 August 2008, Sapporo, Japan

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