[open-science] Fwd: [okfn-discuss] Document Freedom Day - March 27th 2013

Wed Feb 27 16:48:14 UTC 2013

We've offered to advertise this for free on our data and software journals,
and would be happy to be involved in any activities OKFN might organise.

Brian

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On 27 February 2013 15:58, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> This would be a wonderful thing for science and for a hackathon. Maybe we
> could get publishers such as BMC and PLoS involved.
>
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> From: Erik Albers <eal at fsfe.org>
> Date: Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:46 PM
> Subject: [okfn-discuss] Document Freedom Day - March 27th 2013
> To: Open Knowledge Foundation discussion list <okfn-discuss at lists.okfn.org
> >
>
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> Dear List of OKFN,
>
> I am Erik and I work for the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) [1]. We
> are a non-profit organisation that is dedicated to the furthering of Free
> Software and working for freedom in the emerging digital society.
>
> Some days ago I had the chance to meet Beatrice Martini [2] and we had some
> exchange of ideas. She was very interested in our Document Freedom campaign
> that comes with an international day to celebrate the use of Open
> Standards.
> As it is a decentralised campaign that has its focus on local activities,
> she told me to send a mail to this list to engage some of you to
> participate
> - - hence, I'll give it a try : )
>
> What is document freedom? Have you ever been stuck with some data that you
> have not been able to open because it was in a format that needs some
> specific kind of software to open it? Can you imagine that the same things
> happen each day tens of thousands of times? Can you imagine how much
> knowledge exchange doesn't happen just because sender and receiver
> (intentionally or not) are using different data formats? Can you imagine
> how
> much knowledge future generations will lose if we keep on using
> proprietary,
> closed data formats that one day no one will ever be able to open because
> the company behind it had business secrets and patents on it but then got
> bankrupt?
> Open Standards on the other hand are data formats that have an open
> documentation and everyone is free to use or implement it in its own
> software. The first characteristic (open documentation) guarantees that now
> and even in a hundred of years everybody interested can understand the data
> format and read it. The second characteristic (free to use) guarantees that
> now and in even in a hundred years everybody is free to write some piece of
> software to give everyone else the ability to read a specific piece of
> data.
> That is why everyone and every public institution - education and
> administration, e.g. - should use Open Standards.
>
> This is exactly the point where our document freedom campaign comes in.
> Every year on the last Wednesday of March, we run a global campaign that is
> called "Document Freedom Day" [3]. The concept of the campaign and its aim
> is to raise awareness of the usefulness of Open Standards. Therefore we
> encourage all kind of local groups to organise an event that highlights the
> importance of the use of Open Standards. Last year there have been more
> than
> 50 events in more than 20 countries [4]. This year, Document Freedom Day
> (DFD) will be on the *27th of March 2013*.
>
> The most important part of the whole campaign is done by guys like you and
> me! In order to celebrate information accessibility and Open Standards, we
> heavily depend on local activity on public places, in universities, in
> hackerspaces or everywhere you can imagine. I am pretty sure that you have
> very good ideas what you can do to raise some attention. You can also
> combine your activity with promotion for the OKFN.
>
> If you are interested now, please have a look at some ideas of what you can
> do [5] and feel free to support your event with our promotion material [6]
> that you can order for no cost. You can order the material on the webpage
> or
> just reply to this email. Finally, if you are planning some activity, don't
> forget to register your event on our events page [7].
>
> Thank you very much for your attention.
> Your participation in DFD can make the difference!
>
> Thank you very much in advance,
>    Erik
>
> PS: If you have any questions - don't hesitate to ask me
>
> [1] http://www.fsfe.org
> [2] http://okfn.org/members/bmartini/
> [3] http://www.documentfreedom.org
> [4] for more information see last year's report:
> http://www.documentfreedom.org/news/2012/news-20120403-01.en.html
> [5] http://www.documentfreedom.org/getinvolved.en.html
> [6] http://www.documentfreedom.org/promotion.en.html
> [7] http://www.documentfreedom.org/events/events.en.html
>
>
> - --
> Erik Albers | https://fsfe.org/about/albers/albers.en.html
> Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) - Campaigns & Community
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>
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