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     <p newsteaser="yes">Karlsruhe, 28 March 2012 -  1&amp;1, GMX and WEB.DE
     receive the German Document Freedom Award for the use of Open Standards.
     The prize is awarded by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and the
-    Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure e.V. (FFII) for
+    Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure e.V. (FFII). 1&amp;1 is awarded for
-    automatically adding XMPP to their e-mail addresses. The prize is awarded
+    automatically adding XMPP for all customers of their mail services. Hence, every e-mail address at web.de or gmx.de can be used to chat, independent from the use of a special chat-client.<br/> The Document Freedom Award  is awarded annually on the occasion of Document Freedom Day - the international day for Open Standards. Last years winners include <a
-    annually on the occasion of Document Freedom Day for the promotion of Open
-    Standards. Last years winners include <a
       href="/news/2011/news-20110330-01.html">tagesschau.de</a>, <a
       href="/news/2010/news-20100324-01.html">Deutschland Radio</a>, and the <a
       href="http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release-de/2008q1/000124.html">German
@@ -22,8 +20,8 @@
     Office</a>.</p>
 
     <p>In Karlsruhe FSFE and FFII handed over a certificate and the Document
-    Freedom Award- cake to Jan Oetjen, CEO 1&amp;1 Internet Portals, and Tino Anic
+    Freedom Award-cake to Jan Oetjen, CEO of 1&amp;1 Internet Portals, and Tino Anic
-    and his team, who are responsible for this functionality. The Extensible
+    with his team, who are responsible for this functionality. The Extensible
     Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP, previously called Jabber) is an <a
       href="/projects/os/os.html"> Open Standard</a> communication protocol
     used for chatting. A <a href="http://xmpp.org/xmpp-software/clients/">
@@ -35,7 +33,7 @@
     <p>"Unlike closed services such as Facebook and Skype, 1&amp;1 has provided
     open connectivity with the rest of the Jabber/XMPP network for many years.
     They are to be commended for supporting truly free communication using
-    Internet standards." says Peter Saint-Andre, Executive Director XMPP
+    Internet standards." says Peter Saint-Andre, Executive Director of the XMPP
     Foundation.</p>
 
     <p>Like 1&amp;1, everyone can set up an XMPP server and enable it to
@@ -53,8 +51,7 @@
     functionality. But they disabled the XMPP server feature to connect with
     other XMPP servers. This way Facebook and MSN are restricting their users
     to their own service: You are only allowed to talk with people who also
-    have an account at their service and surrendered their data. Use XMPP and
+    have an account at their service and surrendered their data. By using free XMPP clients instead, you give your friends the freedom to decide which software and which provider
-    give your friends the freedom to decide which software and which provider
     they want to use and trust!", says Matthias Kirschner, FSFE's German
     Coordinator.</p>
 
@@ -69,6 +66,7 @@
     interoperable and do not rely on lock-in effects to convince their
     customers."</p>
 
+<p>Background information:</p>
     <ul> 
       
       <li>Press pictures of the award ceremony are available on <a
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     </ul>
 
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+<p>Other activities and events in Germany during Document Freedom Day 2012:</p>
+		<ul>
+		<li><a href="http://documentfreedom.org/2012/events/#event-20120328-30">Countdown to Document Freedom Day by the Piratenpartei Baden-Württemberg</a> </li>
+		<li><a href="http://documentfreedom.org/2012/events/#event-20120328-41">Awarding a DFD-cake for the city of Vienna to the ambassador in Berlin by the Green parliamentary group</a> </li>
+		<li><a href="http://documentfreedom.org/2012/events/#event-20120328-03">Information booth about Open Standards and Free Software in the public library in Offenburg</a> </li>
+		<li><a href="http://documentfreedom.org/2012/events/#event-20120328-28">Lectures and dicussions about open standards and their usefullness in the Chaosdorf in Düsseldorf</a> </li>	
+		<li><a href="http://documentfreedom.org/2012/events/events.en.html">All other activities during DFD around the globe</a></li>
+		</ul>
 
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