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<title>FSFE - News - Introducing Document Freedom Day - 26 March: A global day for document liberation</title>
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<h1>Introducing Document Freedom Day - 26 March:<br />A global day for document liberation</h1>
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<p class="background">Introducing Document Freedom Day<br />
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26 March: A global day for document liberation<br />
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Sign up your DFD team today!.</p>
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<p>The Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for Document Liberation
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with grassroots action for promotion of Free Document Formats and Open
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Standards in general. The DFD was initiated and is supported by a group
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of organisations and companies, including, but not limited to, the Free
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Software Foundation Europe, ODF Alliance, OpenForum Europe, IBM, Red Hat
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and Sun Microsystems, Inc.</p>
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<p>On 26 March 2008, the Document Freedom Day will provide a global
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rallying point for Document Liberation and Open Standards. It will
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literally give teams around the world the chance to "hoist the flag":</p>
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<p>A "DFD Starter Pack" containing a flag, t-shirt, leaflets and stickers
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is in preparation and is planned to be sent out in the first weeks of
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March to the first 100 teams that sign up. Sixteen teams already signed
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up during the preparation phase of the DFD prior to this release. Sign
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your team up now!</p>
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<p>"We're proud to support this global effort to encourage open and
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inclusive information exchange," said Marino Marcich, Managing Director,
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OpenDocument Format Alliance. "Document freedom means creating,
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exchanging, and preserving your electronic documents without having to
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buy software from a particular vendor."</p>
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<p>"Data lock-in and subsequent vendor lock-in are some of the most severe
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issues users are facing today," says FSFE president Georg Greve. "Yet
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most people only realise this connection when it is too late and they
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have effectively lost control over their own data. We are supporting the
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Document Freedom Day to help raise awareness for this issue by starting
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with something that affects pretty much all users of computers: text
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documents, spreadsheets and presentations."</p>
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<p>"Free document formats and open standards are important elements in the
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continued expansion of the global open source community," said Tom
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Rabon, executive vice president, Corporate Affairs at Red Hat. "Red Hat
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strongly supports Document Freedom Day and encourages participation by
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all who look forward to the day when documents are controlled by those
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who own them, not necessarily by those who create the technology to
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access those documents."</p>
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<p>Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer, Sun Microsystems stated, "As I
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explained in my paper "<a href="http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dhb29vwq_3dzb2cs"
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title="Simon Phipps paper - Freedom to Leave">Freedom to Leave</a>", it's fundamental in the
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emerging market for people to be free to use any software they desire to
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handle their data. I fully support the goals of Document Freedom."</p>
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<p>Alexandre Oliva of the Free Software Foundation Latin America (FSFLA)
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comments: "When you save your documents using a Free Open Standard
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format such as ODF, you're also saving your own future, ensuring your
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continued ability to access, decode and convert their contents."</p>
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<p>Graham Taylor Director of OpenForum Europe: "OpenForum Europe applauds
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the announcement of Document Freedom Day. The whole essence of
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'openness' is captured by the right of users, citizens,
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governments... to be able to freely access and exchange documents today
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and in the future. Nothing gives greater meaning to the prevalent danger
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of lock-in to proprietary solutions, and for the need for Government to
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act now."</p>
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<p>About the Document Freedom Day:</p>
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<p class="aboutfsfe"> The Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for Document
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Liberation. It is a day of grassroots effort around the world to
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promote and build awareness for the relevance of Free Document Formats
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in particular and Open Standards in general. The DFD is supported by a
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large group of organisations and individuals, including, but not
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limited to Ars Aperta, COSS, Esoma, Free Software Foundations Europe
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and Latin America, IBM, NLnet, ODF Alliance, OpenForum Europe, OSL,
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iMatix, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, Inc., The Open Learning Centre,
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Opentia, Estandares Abiertos.</p>
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The list of DFD supporting groups can be found at<br />
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<a href="http://documentfreedom.org/Who"
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title="List of DFD supporting groups">http://documentfreedom.org/Who</a>
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<p class="aboutfsfe">
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The list of DFD teams is available at<br />
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<a href="http://documentfreedom.org/Category:Teams"
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title="List of DFD teams">http://documentfreedom.org/Category:Teams</a>
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</p>
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<p class="aboutfsfe">
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Further information:<br />
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<a href="http://documentfreedom.org"
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title="Document Freedom Day">http://documentfreedom.org</a>
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<p>Contact:</p>
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contact at documentfreedom.org<br />
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Graham Taylor graham at openforumeurope.org<br />
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Ivan Jelic jelic at fsfeurope.org<br />
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Kerri Catallozzi kcatallo at redhat.com<br />
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Marino Marcich mmarcich at odfalliance.org<br />
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Marko Milenovic milenovic at fsfeurope.org<br />
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Terri Molini terri.molini at sun.com<br />
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FSFLA info at fsfla.org<br />
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