[Air-L] Fwd: Invitation to join the Document Freedom Day 2008

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

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>> 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
>>
>> -- 
>> Georg C. F. Greve                                 <greve at fsfeurope.org 
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jeremy hunsinger
Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research,  
School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu 
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