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Thanks to the hard work of local groups around the world, Document Freedom Day 2013 was larger than ever, with 59 events in 30 countries. Several of these were celebrating for the first time, including Niger, Indonesia, and the United States. Open Standards are international by nature - they can be implemented by anyone, anywhere, and the more widely they're used, the more compatible society becomes. That's why Document Freedom Day's global reach is so important, and why it's so exciting to see it grow.

The German newspaper taz.die tageszeitung (TAZ) receives this year's Document Freedom Day award. With this award, the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) honour organisations that make exemplary use of Open Standards.

In 30 countries around the world, activists are celebrating Open Standards on today's Document Freedom Day, an annual campaign to promote Open Standards. More than 50 groups are hosting events around the world, from Brussels to Nicaragua to Taiwan.

Lawrence Lessig, Director of the Safra Center for Ethics, Professor of Law at Harvard and founder of The Stanford Center for Internet and Society, has recently expressed his support for Document Freedom Day (DFD).

Today event registration opens for Document Freedom Day 2013, March 27th. Local teams can add details of their activities to DocumentFreedom.org, and have them marked on the global campaign map.

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".

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.

Hoy a las 12:00 UTC se acaba el Document Freedom Day 2012. ¡ Gracias a todos vosotros por vuestra motivación y vuestros esfuerzos para celebrar el Document Freedom Day en todo el mundo, sin fronteras! Se han registrado 52 eventos en 24 países y junto hemos sido capaces de aumentar la conciencia de Los Estandares Abiertos en 19 idiomas diferentes! Todos estos eventos cubrieron un lapso de 21 horas que han sido dedicadas a la accesibilidad de la información - desde Japón hasta Colombia.

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!

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.

Hoy se inicia el Document Freedom Day 2012 a las 10:00 UTC, 00:00 UTC +14. El primero evento es en Nagoya, la tercera ciudad más grande de Japón. Después seguien eventos en Yuli (Taiwán) y Jakarte (Indonesia).

This year's DFD is approaching fast, and we can already say that we will have had a good year: More than 30 events have been registered in South-America, Africa, Europe, Asia, and Oceania. However, both we and you could do a lot better, and there is still time to register and organise an event. North-America, Africa, Oceania, and Asia desperately need more events. Also, while Central Europe is well covered, Europe's western, eastern, and northern parts could do with additional events. To organise an event, you can gather ideas from the highlighted events below, or take a look at our events page.

With Document Freedom Day coming up on Wednesday, FSFE is publishing an article by FSFE co-founder Bernhard Reiter. He discusses what makes a good data format, and argues that Open Standards are good, but that we need to push further still. His central question to data formats is "Can we make it simpler?" The article is currently in German, translations are welcome.

¿Sabe de algún político que de veras necesitaría aprender de Estándares Abiertos? ¿Ha intentado explicar la importancia de los estándares abiertos a su jefe, amigos, administración o servicio local, pero sin resultados? ¿Ayudaría el apoyo del exterior? ¡Por supuesto! Informe a nuestro equipo del DFD de su situación y le enviaremos un regalo gratuito e inolvidable a su contacto para ayudarle a conocer el poder de los Estándares Abiertos.

Európske združenie Free Software Foundation Europe, e.V., so sídlom v Berlíne udelí dňa 26.3.2012 o 9:30 na pôde Ministerstva Financií SR, slovenskej Komisii pre štandardizáciu ISVS a jej pracovným skupinám symbolickú cenu - Document Freedom Award, za ich viacročné úsilie ako aj dosiahnuté výsledky v oblasti presadzovania otvorených štandardov. Cena bude odovzdaná pri príležitosti dňa otvorených štandardov ako súčasť celosvetovej akcie Document Freedom Day 2012.

On 28th of March 2012, we will be running a campaign for document liberation - Document Freedom Day 2012. On this occasion, we would like to ask you for help in promoting its underlying idea by means of your art.

To make these plans a reality, we need your support as a partner of Document Freedom Day 2012! Talk with your friends/regional groups, and think about activities and events that you could organise to promote Open Standards. We would be happy to help you with ideas, prize-giving, and finding sponsors.

This year for the fourth time, the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) will assign the Document Freedom Award on the 28th of March 2012. With the Document Freedom Award, the FSFE and the FFII like to honor German institutes or enterprises that made an outstanding contribution for the spread and the use of Open Standards. The Document Freedom Award is granted each year during the Document Freedom Day, the international day to celebrate the importance of Open Standards

As you might have noticed, we are currently restructuring the website. The design was changed, as well as the front page and we updated our contact information.

Today the ARD internet platform Tagesschau.de will receive an award for the use of Open Standards at the "Document Freedom Day". The prize is awarded by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure e.V. (FFII) for offering the broadcasted shows also in the free video format "Ogg Theora".

Today, activists in 37 cities around the world are raising awareness for Open Standards and open document formats. In workshops, talks and other events, they are explaining why Open Standards and Free Software are crucial to a free and competitive information society.

La Fundación para el Software Libre Europa (FSFE) invita a personas, grupos de la comunidad e instituciones para celebrar de el Día de la Libertad de los Documentos (DFD) el 30 de Marzo. DFD es un día mundial para celebrar la importancia de Estándares y Formatos de Documentos Abiertos. Los Estándares Abiertos garantizan la libertad de acceso a sus datos, y la libertad para crear Software Libre que pueda leer y escribir datos en formatos específicos.