[SFD-discuss] United Nations and Software Freedom Day

[Pia Waugh]

Hi all,

The Software Freedom International Board will be aiming for United Nations
recognition of Software Freedom Day as a day of international importance for
2008. We wanted to let you all know so that you can try extra hard to keep
track of the numbers and successes you have over Software Freedom Day, as it
will all contribute to our case in helping the world understand the
importance of Software Freedom.

If anyone would like to help us with this quest, please let us know, or even
reply to this post with your thoughts. We feel strongly that Software
Freedom underpins our basic human rights in a highly digital world, and so
want to help the UN understand and promote software freedom as a way to
maintain our human rights:

  http://softwarefreedomday.org/SoftwareFreedom

There are already United Nations projects that are strongly supportive of
FOSS such as IOSN (http://www.iosn.net/), UNESCO
(http://www.unesco.org/cgi-bin/webworld/portal_freesoftware/cgi/page.cgi?d=1)
and more, but SFD is as yet not a "Special Day" on their website
(http://www.un.org/events/) nor is Software Freedom spoken about officially,
something to work towards :)

Thank you all for your participation and in taking Software Freedom to your
communities!

Cheers,
Pia
 
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Software Freedom Day 2007                   http://softwarefreedomday.org/