[SFD-discuss] Open documents in support of software freedom

[Alexjan Carraturo]

2009/3/20 Robert Schumann <robert at softwarefreedomday.org>:
> Software Freedom International, the worldwide organizer of the annual
> Software Freedom Day, encourages all SFD teams to support the Document
> Freedom Day 2009 (DFD 2009) celebration (http://documentfreedom.org/) on 25
> March 2009. DFD 2009 aims to raise awareness on the importance of accessible
> document formats and open standards in everyone's day to day activities.
>
> Open standards are agreed document definitions which are available to the
> public to review and use. They cannot depend on formats or protocols that
> are not open standards themselves. The definitions of these open standards
> are free from legal and technical restrictions that limit their use, and can
> be easily implemented in multiple environments - so they can be used on PCs,
> iPods, Playstations and whatever computing environments we'll be using in 50
> years time.
>
> Open standards protect governments, businesses and the wider community of
> computer users from vendor and data lock-ins. Such lock-ins obstruct users
> from exercising their full freedom in software and the information they
> access. Computers have only become part of daily life in the last twenty or
> thirty years, and yet already there are documents that, due to closed
> formats, we are unable to easily access using modern software.
>
> Software freedom will not be complete without open standards and open
> document formats. Together, they ensure that free and open source software
> can be created and developed to implement open standards to benefit millions
> of users worldwide.
>
> The Software Freedom Day and Document Freedom Day teams are united in
> advancing information and software freedom for everyone. Find out where your
> closest DFD 2009 team is by visiting the website
> (http://documentfreedom.org/) - and if there isn't one, why not plan your
> own event?

Free Software User Group Italia preparing the DFD 09 as a very big
event in Milan.

Look at site

http://www.dfdmilano09.tk

A lot of talk, presentation and project, and a special part on
Creative Commons, with concert. An we are at the second partecipation
ad the DFD.





>
> REFERENCE:
> Rick Bahague
> rick at cp-union.com
> Publicity officer, Software Freedom International
>
>
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