Summary
What happened during DFD2010? On March 31st, hundreds of people all over the world celebrated DFD and raised awareness on Open Standards.
Activities
For DFD2010, some volunteers did remarkable activities to promote Document freedom. Here are some excerpts from our DFD Blog.
Europe
Austria
In Vienna there is one radio station providing ogg-streams: ORANGE 94.0, an independent free radio station.
So a small group of fellows put on their newly made “rOGG on!” shirts, grabbed their perfectly designed DFD-cake and went over to the radio station of ORANGE 94.0 to congratulate them for their good work, and celebrate the DFD together.
They were received with a very warm welcome by the nice people at ORANGE 94.0 - including the news that they’ve taken the DFD-award as a reason to upgrade the bandwidth of their ogg/vorbis live stream!
Germany
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Berlin
Dr. Günter Müchler, program director, receives the award.
Fellows of the FSFE and from FFII celebrated DFD2010 with a tart and an award for DeutschlandRadio for streaming their radio shows in Ogg-Vorbis.
“At the moment it is the only public radio station I know that provided Ogg vorbis streams. [...] While Dietmar Timm, head of Dradio Wissen, made sure everybody got something from the tart; Egbert Meyer, managing director for the online services of Deutschlandradio, said “We feel more honoured through that prize than for a Grimme Prize.” That was quite a statement”
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Offenburg
FreieSoftware OG had an information-booth in front of a collaborating computer-store and went to show Free Software live and handing out some leaflets, CDs and flyers. They also informed customers and people outside on the market-place about Free Software and open standards.
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Rheinland
FSFE Fellows from Dusseldorf and Cologne went to the Deutschland Radio in Cologne to hand over some special gifts as a little thank-you for providing Ogg Vorbis audio documents. See the pictures they took.
Romania
In front of the Minister of Culture.
To celebrate Document Freedom Day, a group of enthusiasts from Romania got out on the streets of Bucharest in a beautiful spring day, armed with a flag and the "We can't read your documents!" slogan, trying to make their voice heard trough a few photos realized in the front of a number of buildings of the Public Administration.
Slovenia
Fellows from FSFE in Slovenia celebrated DFD2010 in Ljubljana.
Despite heavy rain and some shenanigans including our cake, the court's security x-ray scanner and several people giggling, the cake reached its destination safe and sound. There we met the representatives of the Supreme Court — Alenka Jelenc Puklavec, (temporary) president of the Supreme Court; Janko Marinko, secretary of the Supreme Court; Gregor Strojin, head of the PR office; Bojan Muršec, director of the Centre for Informatics and head of the open source and open standards projects.
What followed was a full hour of chatting while eating (our) cake and supping (their) coffee not only about the importance of open standards, but — what we honestly did not expect — a deeper insight into how important these are to the courts, their painful experience with closed formats that stopped being supported, how hard they fought to be able to use open formats and open source solutions. What was really touching was how much dedication these people (as well as the Supreme Court's former president Franc Testen and others) have put into this. It showed that the biggest hurdle for the migration to open standards along with some open source solutions was neither finiancial nor technical nor practical, but solely pressure from the politics and the business side.
Latin America
Brazil has once more participated in DFD with activities. The NGO Espirito Livre has organized a conference at the FAESA Auditorium. 4Linux has organized a web conference with John “maddog” hall, president of Linux International, Jomar Silva, ODF Alliance representative in Brazil, and Clarisse Coppetti, Vice-President of Technology at Caixa Econômica Federal, one of the largest government banks in Brazil.
Africa
South Africa’s Department of Arts and Culture (that’s a national ministry to the non-South Africans) has held a celebratory hour in honor of DFD. Aslam writes
The Dept of Arts and Culture in the unit called National Language Services, uses the Deja vu Font so that they can translate into all South African languages. Some SA languages require diacritics. We celebrated DFD at the Department who are keen to take this further and would like to host a large event next year. We also had members from the State Information Technology Agency. The CIO said a few words about the importance of preserving our heritage and how technology should assist this and not hinder it.
Along with the cake we had given everyone the recipe for the cake and had a short discussion on what would be needed for us to preserve the know how and the recipe document itself so that we could enjoy it for the next 20 years on Document freedom day.
The vision of the Department of Arts and Culture is to develop and preserve South African culture to ensure social cohesion and nation-building.
Asia
- In Hanoi, Vietnam, people from the Linux and Free Software Center organized a booth at the Francophone Institute for Informatics, inside Hanoi's Polytechnic campus.
- In Japan, the initiative MyOpenArchive organized an event to explain why Open Standards matters for archives, as they guarantee sustainability to our documents and files.
Many other activities were organized around the world, thanks to many groups of volunteers.
Articles
English
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OpenSource.com: Introduction to Document Freedom Day, by Ruth Suehle, 23 Mar 2010
We've entered a time in which we store far more digitally than we do on paper. Our descendants will have to seek their history--government records, birth and death certificates, financial and property transactions--through the previous generation's digital formats.
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OpenSource.com: Making Public Records Public: Why open formats are essential for sharing and preserving government data., Chander Kant, 23 Mar 2010
Open format through which it can be shared, repurposed, archived, and retrieved without risking obsolescence, unintended technological limitations, or requiring the use of proprietary applications. The format of the data determines the value of the resource and the extent to which it can be analyzed and repurposed.
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OpenSource.com: ODF: Setting the standard for office documents in the public sector, Marino Marcich, 29 Mar 2010
Historically, electronic documents and the file formats in which they are encoded – you've heard of the more common ones these days, such as .doc. .pdf. .wpd and, in the case of the OpenDocument Format (ODF), .odt for text documents – were closely linked to the application in which they were created. Each word-processing application had its own file format, making document exchange and collaboration between users of different office applications (or even between different versions of the same application!) next to impossible.
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OpenSource.com: Document Freedom Day: Passion and politics, Karsten Gerloff, 31 Mar 2010
Standards have the reputation of being a dry topic. But Document Freedom Day is inspiring lots of passion and creativity around the world. Volunteer groups from the Free Software scene are using this international day to draw their communities' attention to a topic that most people outside the technology world hardly ever think about.
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OSOR.EU: Groups in eleven EU member states participate in Document Freedom Day, Gijs Hillenius, 23 Mar 2010
In at least eleven EU member states, groups promoting the use of open standards and open source software, are preparing for Document Freedom Day, 31 March. With workshops, presentations and demonstrations, they aim to make computer users aware of open formats for electronic documents. Many groups will focus on public administrations and governments.
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Paths to Document Liberty in the Translation Market, 24 Mar 2010
With a set of software tools we have, for the time being and the majority of cases, secured our freedom to write and program our own documents. For this freedom we are even willing to pay the price of some proprietary software licenses. But is that enough to keep abreast of ever new imposition of proprietary formats, e.g. for translation memory or collborative editing?
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Document Freedom Day 2010 in The Netherlands, Sander Marechal, 29 Mar 2010
This year in The Netherlands in conferencecentre "Het Brandpunt" in Baarn, the former residence of the Dutch queen, we will have five speakers who will talk about the importance of open documents and open standards for the Dutch government.
German
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Heise Online: "rOGG on!": FSFE zeichnet Radiosender für Nutzung von Ogg Vorbis aus, 24 Mar 2010
Die Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) hat das Deutschlandradio und das österreichische Radio Orange 94.0 für die Nutzung und Förderung offener Standards in der Gesellschaft mit dem Document-Freedom-Day-Preis 2010 ausgezeichnet, weil die Sender ihre Sendungen als Live-Stream im offenen Ogg-Vorbis-Format anbieten. Gemeinsam mit dem Förderverein für eine freie informationelle Infrastruktur (FFII) wird der Preis in Form einer Torte mit der Aufschrift "rOGG on!" am 31. März an die Sender übergeben.
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Linux Magazin: Document Freedom Day, Florian Effenberger, 30 Mar 2010
Freie Formate und offene Standards sind der Grundstein für die digitale Zukunft. Machen Sie mit!
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Linux Magazin: FFII und FSFE an Deutschlandradio: "rOgg on", 1 Apr 2010
Zum Document Freedom Day haben Deutschlandfunk, Deutschlandradio Kultur und Radio Orange aus Wien Ehrungen der beiden Organisationen Free Software Foundation Europe e.V. (FSFE) und Förderverein für eine Freie Informationelle Infrastruktur e.V. (FFII) erhalten.
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Pro Linux: FSFE zeichnet Radiosender für die Verwendung von Ogg Vorbis aus, 24 Mar 2010
Deutschlandradio und Radio Orange erhalten von der Free Software Foundation Europe den Document Freedom Day-Preis 2010 für die Nutzung und Förderung offener Standards in der Gesellschaft.
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Gulli: Document Freedom Day am 31. März 2010, 25 Mar 2010
Nächste Woche Mittwoch findet mit Unterstützung der FSFE, OpenOffice.org und anderen Organisationen erneut der Document Freedom Day statt.
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Golem: FSFE ehrt Radiosender für Verwendung des freien OGG-Formats, 24 Mar 2010
Auf dem diesjährigen Document Freedom Day sollen die deutschsprachigen Radiosender Deutschlandradio und Radio Orange in Wien mit dem Document-Freedom-Day-Preis 2010 ausgezeichnet werden. Der Preis wird jährlich für den Einsatz offener Standards verliehen.
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NetzPolitik: Befreie deine Dokumente: Document Freedom Day am 31. März 2010, 24 Mar 2010
Fotos, Texte, Musik – alles bewahren wir digital auf. Aber wie lange werden wir diese Dateien öffnen können? Werden die Formate auch in fünf oder zehn Jahren noch unterstützt werden, oder enden unsere Archive und Musiksammlungen als digitaler Sondermüll?
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Silicon: Offene Formate oder Marktstandards?, 1 Apr 2010
"rOGG on!" - Berlin ist eine Microsoft-Festung, die nur zu gerne von Bundesländern mit Open-Source-Keulen gestürmt würde.
Other languages
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Portuguese, Computer World: Dia da liberdade de documentos é comemorado nesta quarta, 31 Mar 2010
Iniciativa defende importância de padrões de documentos abertos.
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Portuguese, Vooz: Dia Mundial da Liberdade dos Documentos , 31 Mar 2010
Hoje é Dia Mundial da Liberdade dos Documentos (DFD, Document Freedom Day). Pessoas em diferentes cidades de todo o mundo se mobilizarão para sensibilizar o público geral sobre a importância de Padrões e Formatos de Documentos Abertos – ODF (Open Document Format). Os documentos que usam padrões abertos podem ser acessados independente de aplicativos proprietários.
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Spanish, InforMate: Día de la Libertad de los Documentos 2010 , 29 Mar 2010
El Día Mundial de la Libertad de los Documentos es una iniciativa llevada adelante por organizaciones del campo del acceso al conocimiento, la no discriminación y el software libre en todo el mundo.
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Romanian, Business magazin: O campanie si un manifest, 6 Apr 2010
Formatele si standardele deschise reprezinta o garantie a longevitatii documentelor si, implicit, a informatiilor pe care acestea le poarta. Cand e vorba de interactiunea intre administratie si cetateni, reprezinta si o forma de respect.
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French, April: Agenda numérique, lettre à la Commission européenne, 31 Mar 2010
En ce jour du « Document Freedom Day » l'April apporte son soutien à Neelie Kroes et a écrit aux commissaires européens Joaquín Almunia Mira (compétition), Michel Barnier (marché intérieur), Antonio Tajani (industrie) et bien sûr Neelie Kroes (stratégie numérique).
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Greek/English, Public Intervention document freedom day, 31 Mar 2010
Today, on the occasion of the international Document Freedom Day, the Association of Greek Users and Friends of Free Software / Open Source Software and Free Software Foundation Europe take the occasion to request from the Greek Government the immediate, comprehensive and mandatory adoption of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) and other Open Standards for the Greek public sector.
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Greek/English, Document Freedom Day 2010 , 28 Mar 2010
The subject matters everyone in the community and the Association of Greek Users and Friends of Free Software (GREEKLUG) will show the way how it's going to happen. If you want to help the effort, join us sending an email to info at greeklug dot gr. The Association is an official partner of Document Freedom Day and will tell you how to help.
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Slovenian, STA, Napoved dogodkov v Sloveniji in mednarodne dejavnosti Slovenije v sredo (paid access), 31 Mar 2010
Na današnji dan se obeležuje svetovni dan prostih formatov, katerega namen je javnost opozoriti na pomen odprtih datotečnih formatov in odprtih standardov na splošno. Uradno se je ta dan prvič obeležilo leta 2008, letos pa bo prvič posebno praznovanje organizirano tudi v Sloveniji.
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Slovenian, MMC RTV Slovenija: Prosti datotečni formati: "berljivi" še desetletja po nastanku,
Vrhovno sodišče RS si je prislužilo torto Svet zaznamuje dan prostih formatov, ki uporabnikom omogočajo nemoteno izmenjevanje računalniških datotek, ne glede na format ali aplikacijo, s katero so bile ustvarjene.
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Slovenian, Dnevnik: Po svetu se danes obeležuje dan prostih formatov, 31 Mar 2010
Na današnji dan se obeležuje svetovni dan prostih formatov, katerega namen je javnost opozoriti na pomen odprtih datotečnih formatov in odprtih standardov na splošno. Uradno se je ta dan prvič obeležilo leta 2008, letos pa bo prvič posebno praznovanje organizirano tudi v Sloveniji.
Blogs
- The DFD Blog
- Julia Klein for DFD
- DFD 2010: rOGGing at ORANGE 94.0
- German: Der DFD in Wien, Offenburg, Berlin, Köln, Düsseldorf
- French: La Deutschland Radio fête le Document Freedom Day
Twitter & Identi.ca
We used the hashtags #dfd2010 and the !DFD group to promote Document Freedom Day on Twitter and Identi.ca:
- http://identi.ca/tag/dfd2010
- http://identi.ca/group/dfd
- http://twitter.com/#search?q=dfd2010
- http://twitter.com/#search?q=dfd
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