[Fsuk-manchester] Re: Document Freedom Day (DFD) on Wednesday, 31st March 2010

[Michael Dorrington]

Today is "Document Freedom Day" <http://www.documentfreedom.org/>!

Take this an opportunity to tell any supplier of non-free document
formats or non-free standards you encounter today that you would like
them to use open document formats and open standards. And tell friends
about the day and why its goals are important. This is what I will be doing.

The FSF have an article about the day,
"Why I'm rejecting your email attachment"
<http://www.fsf.org/news/why-im-rejecting-your-email-attachment>.

Regards,
Mike.

Michael Dorrington wrote:
> Its "Document Freedom Day" on Wednesday, 31st March 2010.
> 
> Website: http://www.documentfreedom.org/
> Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Freedom_Day
> FSFE: http://fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20100302-01.en.html
> 
> Its aim is:
> 
> "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."
> 
> Open document formats and open standards are very important to free
> software for interoperability. For example, the FSF have a campaign on
> the OpenDocument format <http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/>.
> 
> What can we do on Wednesday?
> 
> * We could point out the need for open document formats to the supplier
> of any closed document format we encounter during the day.
> * We could do "tell a friend" about the need for open document formats
> and open standards.
> * Get the word out there about the need for open document formats and
> open standards on websites, blogs, social networking, etc.
> 
> Other ideas?
> 
> Regards,
> Mike.