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<title>Radio stations granted awards for using Open Standards</title>
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<h1>Radio stations granted awards for using Open Standards</h1>
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<p>Berlin/Vienna March 24. The Free Software Foundation Europe
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awarded Deutschlandradio and Radio Orange with the Document Freedom Day 2010 Prize
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for using Open Standards and promoting them in society. FSFE's German
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team together with the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
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(FFII) will present the DFD cake displaying "rOGG on!" in Berlin
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and Cologne to Deutschlandradio. The Austrian DFD cake goes to the
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Vienna-based station Radio Orange 94.0.</p>
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<p>Deutschlandradio and Radio Orange provide live streams of their programmes in
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OGG Vorbis format. Open Standards like OGG Vorbis enable data transfers between
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software of different vendors. By allowing
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data to be transmitted independent of any particular software vendor, they leave
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users free to use different types of hardware or software.</p>
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<p>The Xiph.org foundation designed the OGG Vorbis format as a patent-free alternative to
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MP3 for compressing audio files. In contrast to proprietary formats, Open
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Standards can be easily used with Free Software. This makes Open Standards
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indispensable to the media, administration, companies, organisations, and
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PC users.</p>
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<p>FSFE is pleased that both radio stations set standards for the freedom of
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their listeners by using Open Standards.</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.dradio.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/1148330/">Deutschlandradio press release</a></li>
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<li>Deutschlandradio received their awards on March 31st at 3:00pm simultaneously in Berlin and Cologne:</li>
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<li>Deutschlandradio Kultur, Hans-Rosenthal-Platz, 10825 Berlin</li>
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<li>Deutschlandfunk, Raderberggürtel 40, 50968 Köln</li>
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<li>Radio Orange 94.0 is to receive their award on March 31st at 5:30pm in Vienna:</li>
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<li>Radio Orange, Klosterneuburger Str. 1, A-1200 Vienna</li>
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<li><a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/DFD-2010-BCV">press pictures of the awards (avaiable from 31 March 6:30 pm onwards)</a></li>
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<li>For more information about the use of OGG Vorbis see the <a href="http://www.fsf.org/resources/formats/playogg/de">PlayOgg website of our sister organisation</a>.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2>Document Freedom Day</h2>
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<p><a href="http://www.documentfreedom.org/">Document Freedom Day (DFD)</a>
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is a global day for document liberation and Open Standards. Since 2008, it
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is celebrated annually on the last Wednesday of March. Over the past years, more than
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200 teams of volunteers in over 60 countries have been imparting the value of Open
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Document Formats and Open Standards to others.</p>
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<translator>Andreas Aubele</translator>
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