freedom day

DFD: "Today, activists in 37 cities around the world are raising awareness for Open Standards and open document formats.

In workshops, talks and other events, they are explaining why Open Standards and Free Software are crucial to a free and competitive information society."

Apparently all of the folks with an ounce of PR sense in the State Department were busy responding to Wikileaks issues.

That's about the only explanation I can come up with for why the State Department still decided to push forward with its announcement that it will be hosting UNESCO's 'World Press Freedom Day' next May, right as it's been attacking Wikileaks left and right for showing how a free press really works.

Stop: "These are only a few of the many resources that you can use to understand how important DFD is for you, even if, personally, you don't care at all about computers.

The rest of this page, instead, explains how even a job offer from one of the greatest enemies of Document Freedom, Microsoft, proves the same point."

LXer.com: "Document Freedom Day 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"

Free Software Foundation: "Will you be able to read your documents 20 years from now? Every day, millions of computer users like you edit text and spreadsheets, take pictures and record audio and video.

What if you couldn't read your private letters anymore, or even open that album with pictures from your honeymoon?"

FSF.org: "At the Women in Free Software Summit and the Boston celebration of Software Freedom Day 2009, FSF kicked off a new video testimonial campaign.

See how it went, and help support the campaign by submitting a video response to these questions!"

Groklaw: "On 19 September, we celebrate Software Freedom Day. At tomorrow's Boston gathering, I will have an opportunity to thank the Free Software Foundation on behalf of Sugar Labs for their support.

I will also have a chance to tell the story of Sugar, our efforts to help children learn to learn and learn to love and exercise their freedom."

Free Software: "With the Software Freedom Day fast approaching, the Free Software Foundation and communities across the world are planning their activities and are preparing to celebrate and promote Free Software in their region.

Joining your local community and partaking to its activities is strongly suggested; however, here are some ideas for individual promotion of Free Software:"