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Groups in eleven EU member states participate in Document Freedom Day
In at least eleven EU member states, groups promoting the use of open standards and open source software, are preparing for Document Freedom Day, 31 March. With workshops, presentations and demonstrations, they aim to make computer users aware of open formats for electronic documents. Many groups will focus on public administrations and governments.
"Document Freedom Day is about helping citizens to really own their data", says the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), one of the groups involved in organising activities, in a announcement. "Nobody should be tied to particular applications for living their life in the digital world, and no-one should have to use specific software to deal with their government, their school or anything else."
"Documents in proprietary formats are digital toxic waste", says Karsten Gerloff, FSFE's President. "We want to help users, and that includes public administrations, to break free from proprietary document formats that lock users to specific applications. We want to make it easy for them to use open standards like the Open Document Format (ODF). We invite everybody to take part in the campaign."
According to the Document Freedom Day website, activities are planned in EU member states Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia and Spain.
In for instance the Czech Republic, the publisher of OpenMagazine is
planning to organise a workshop on using open and free document tools.
In Germany, demonstrations, workshops and presentations are scheduled to
take place in Offenburg, Berlin, Cologne, Bonn and Dusseldorf.
Not
all activities are planned for 31 March. The Free Software User Group
Italia in the city of Spoleta, is holding its workshops on the 27 March
in a local school. Schools in Italy will be closed on 31 March, the
group explains. And starting well ahead of Document Freedom Day, in
Romania supporters of open standards and free and open source software,
already last weekend began with demonstrations in front of several
government offices, including the parliament, the ministry of Justice
and the ministry of Public Finances and Tax Administration.
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