Celebrating information accessibility and raising awareness of Open Standards. Learn more.
Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for document liberation. It
will be a day of grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance
of Open Document Formats and
Open Standards in general.
Complementary to Software Freedom Day, we aim to have local teams all over
the world organise events on the last Wednesday of March. This is the forth
year that Document Freedom Day is happening, and we are again looking for
people around the world who are willing to join the effort.
DFD's main goals are:
- promotion and adoption of free document formats
- forming a global network
- coordination of activities that happen on last Wednesday of March, Document Freedom Day
Once a year, we will celebrate Document Freedom Day as a global community.
Between those days, DFD will be focused on facilitating community action and
building awareness for issues of Document Freedom and Open Standards. We hope
that you will join the DFD community.
20 April:
As you know, to close our 2012 edition of the
Document Freedom Day, we sent handcuffs to 100 politicians, and other public
personalities, asking them to consider the problem of the lack of use of
Open Standards, symbolised by "digital handcuffs".
05 April:
Document Freedom Day 2012 was a great success!
America, Asia, Africa and Europe celebrated together
Open Standards at
54 events. It is no doubt that DFD is growing and we believe that it will be
even more successful next year. So what about having look at what happened around the world on
28th of March? And what has the Pope to do with Open Standards? Read our detailed report to find
out.
29 March:
Today 12:00 UTC marks the end of Document Freedom
Day 2012. Thank you all for your motivation and efforts to celebrate
Document Freedom Day around the globe without borders! 52 events in 24
countries were registered and together we were able to raise awareness of
Open Standards in 19 different languages! All these registered events
covered a time-span of 21 hours dedicated to information accessibility -
from Japan to Colombia.
28 March:
The Free Software Foundation Europe awarded the Slovak Commission for Standardization of the Public Administration Information Systems and its working groups with the Document Freedom Award this week. The Commission was awarded for its long standing commitment and achieved results in the field of the Open Standards. The prize was presented on the occasion of Document Freedom Day, the international day of Open Standards.
28 March:
There are so many things happening at the moment. We are not able to
write a news entry for each event. If you want to have up to date
information, please take a look at our microblogging account
and follow the hash-tag "dfd" on status.net or twitter. Beside that we
still receive new events all the
time. Thanks alredy to all of you!
There are many ways to get involved on DFD 2011. You can help by:
- Putting a banner
on your website
- Writing a blog post
- Organising an event at your city
- Helping the campaign
financially
Are you organising an event?
Subscribe to our coordination mailing list!
Please send us information about your event!
Email us what, when, where,
who to contact and link to your activity!
If you like the Document Feedom Day campaign, consider donating to its
organiser: the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE).
You can contribute by all means of payment accepted by PayPal. PayPal
does not have setup charges, monthly charges, or gateway fees, it
does however take 1.9% + $0.30 USD of each transaction.
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