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Celebrating information accessibility and raising awareness of Open Standards. Learn more.

Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for document liberation. It will be a day of grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of Open Document Formats and Open Standards in general.

Complementary to Software Freedom Day, we aim to have local teams all over the world organise events on the last Wednesday of March. This is the forth year that Document Freedom Day is happening, and we are again looking for people around the world who are willing to join the effort.

DFD's main goals are:

  • promotion and adoption of free document formats
  • forming a global network
  • coordination of activities that happen on last Wednesday of March, Document Freedom Day

Once a year, we will celebrate Document Freedom Day as a global community. Between those days, DFD will be focused on facilitating community action and building awareness for issues of Document Freedom and Open Standards. We hope that you will join the DFD community.

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Become a supporting organisation for Document Freedom Day 2012

27 January:

To make these plans a reality, we need your support as a partner of Document Freedom Day 2012! Talk with your friends/regional groups, and think about activities and events that you could organise to promote Open Standards. We would be happy to help you with ideas, prize-giving, and finding sponsors.

Restructuring Website

06 January:

As you might have noticed, we are currently restructuring the website. The design was changed, as well as the front page and we updated our contact information.

Tagesschau.de awarded for the use of Open Standards

30 March:

Today the ARD internet platform Tagesschau.de will receive an award for the use of Open Standards at the "Document Freedom Day". The prize is awarded by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure e.V. (FFII) for offering the broadcasted shows also in the free video format "Ogg Theora".

Document Freedom Day celebrated around the world

30 March:

Today, activists in 37 cities around the world are raising awareness for Open Standards and open document formats. In workshops, talks and other events, they are explaining why Open Standards and Free Software are crucial to a free and competitive information society.

Coordinators wanted : Celebrating Open Standards on 30th March

22 February:

We are looking for coordinators all over the globe to organize local activities! In our website you can find information about types of activities to organize, download artwork to print fliers, t-shirts, flags, and stickers.

Get involved!

There are many ways to get involved on DFD 2011. You can help by:

  • Putting a banner on your website
  • Writing a blog post
  • Organising an event at your city
  • Helping the campaign financially

Are you organising an event?

Subscribe to our coordination mailing list!

Please send us information about your event!
Email us what, when, where, who to contact and link to your activity!

Support Document Freedom Day 2011!

If you like the Document Feedom Day campaign, consider donating to its organiser: the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). You can contribute by all means of payment accepted by PayPal. PayPal does not have setup charges, monthly charges, or gateway fees, it does however take 1.9% + $0.30 USD of each transaction.

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