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<title>Liberate your documents!</title>
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<h1>Liberate your documents!</h1>
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<h2>Document Freedom Day 2010</h2>
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<p>
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Today is Document Freedom Day 2010. For the third time, groups all over
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the world are celebrating open document formats and Open Standards. They
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are raising awareness for how a technical issue impacts our day- to-day
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lives.
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Activities are taking place in many countries. In Germany and Austria,
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radio stations are receiving awards for offering streams in the open Ogg
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Vorbis format. In Slovenia, the country's highest court is commended for
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its use of the ODF format for text documents.
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In Romania, activists have been busy pointing out to public
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administrations that "I can't read your documents". In Johannesburg, South
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Africa, the Department of Arts and Culture will hold a celebration to mark
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DFD. In the Brazilian city of Vitoria, the group Espirito Livre is
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organising a conference on Free Software and Open Standards.
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Document Freedom Day coordinator Fernanda Weiden says: "It is great to see
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so many volunteers with a passion for freedom in technology. These people
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care deeply about the way that software and standards affect their lives,
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and they are taking the initiative to make sure that others can enjoy the
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same freedoms as them."
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Computer users, companies and public administrations are storing huge
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amounts of information in electronic form. If this happens in a format
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that can only be read by software from a single vendor, the information
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will eventually be lost.
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Open Standards, such as ODF for office documents or Ogg Vorbis for music,
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can be read and written with many different applications. They give users
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freedom of choice, since they work on any application on any platform or
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operating system.
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"Open document formats make sure that your valuable information doesn't
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turn into digital toxic waste with your next upgrade to a new software",
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says Karsten Gerloff, President of the Free Software Foundation Europe.
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"Whether it's your personal emails or your pension records in a government
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agency, it's important to think ahead. Will the software you're using now
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still be around in ten years' time? If the answer is no, make sure that
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your data is saved according to Open Standards."
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The DFD team will gather information and reports from this year's
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activities, organise them and publish them on the DFD web pages.
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://www.documentfreedom.org">Document Freedom Day campaign
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page<br />www.documentfreedom.org</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.documentfreedom.org/Category:Teams">List of
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participating groups</a></li>
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<li><a href="/news/2010/news-20100324-01.html">German,
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Austrian Radio stations honoured for their use of Ogg Vorbis</a></li>
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<li>Document Freedom Day 2010 is coordinated by <a
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href="/">Free Software Foundation Europe</a>. Participation
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is open to everyone, and groups are organising events independently.</li>
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