Events

Open lecture "Open Standards in Information Technologies and Document Formats" for information technologies students and other interested persons.

Conference by prof. Fareh Abdelhak about the open standards and the Creative Commons licenses at Dr. Yahia Fares University of Medea, Algeria.

We will gather on the 3rd of April at 18:00 in Kiberpipa to celebrate the DFD with having talks about:

• the awesome open format that made the web happen — HTML (more specifically its version 5)
• open video formats
• have a conference call (via an open-standard protocol, of course) with Florian Effenberger (head of the Document Foundation)

This year we will give the prize to the urban cultural centre Kino Šiška for making their recordings available in Ogg/Theora.

After that there will be a merry social gathering and debate over snacks and drinks.

So, if you're near Ljubljana on the 3rd of April, you're welcome to drop by Kiberpipa and share the love for document freedom!

At the 31st of March, starting at 8:00, will happen the Document Freedom Day - Puerto La Cruz 2012 at Oriente University, to promote the use of Open Standards on documents, with:

• Talks (What are Open Standards and why it is important to use them for documents)
• Workshops (Use of LibreOffice Writer, Calc and Impress)
• Installations (LibreOffice)

On March 31th, an event will take place in the city of Arezzo, Italy. FSFE will award the City administration of the Tuscan town with the "Italian DFD Prize 2012", to reward the adoption of Open Standards within the administration services and their communications with the citizens. Carlo Piana will give a talk for the occasion. This event will be organised by FSUGItalia in cooperation with FSFE.

We will start with talks about OpenDocument, LibreOffice and LaTeX at 2pm. Afterwards we will have a celebration with specially prepared DFD cake. :-)

At Cairo hackerspace we planned to build a diy book scanner to give it to the Wikipedia Arabic content teams. So we find this a good chance to support the Document Freedom Day too.

We will celebrate DFD 2012 at Cairo Hackerspace by building the diy book scanner and talks explaining document freedom and open source in general. The invitation is open and free for anyone who want to help building the scanner or have other ideas like giving some related talks or workshops.

Michael Kesper (member of german country team of FSFE) will give an introductory talk with following discussion to the workgroup "media and net policies" of Junge Union NRW in Düsseldorf.

Talking about the adoption of PDF in Municipal, State and Federal Government levels.

This is the third of three events organised by Ubuntu-ve.

On the day 28th of March, celebration of DFD will be taking place at the Liceo Francisco Isnardi of Maturin, Venezuela. There will be talks about using Open Standards for:

• Students from different universities
• Staff of the State government agencies
• Community and Free Software enthusiasts

This event will take place from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

We will distribute posters in the public library of Scandiano. See a preview of the poster

Our event is starting 2012-03-28 at 11:00 in Saratov State Technical University

• Day, Date: Wednesday, 28th of March 2012
• Time: 09.00 - 12.00 WIB
• Location: Budi Luhur University

The Program Agenda of Interactive Seminar is as following:

• 09.00 - 09.05: Opening Agenda
• 09.05 - 09.15: Speech from Deputi Rektor III Universitas Budi Luhur, Ir. Hari Soetanto, M. Sc.
• 09.15 - 10.45: Interactive Seminar by Achmad Solichin, S.Kom.M.T.I.
• 10.45 - 12.00: Workshop by Yuliazmi, M.Kom
• 12.00 - 12.10: Closing Agenda

For the participants who would like to make online registration please visit our website: http://ksl-bl.or.id/dfd2012/register.php.

Andrew Lee, a well-known Debian Developer and citizen of Yuli, will give a talk in Our老房子咖啡屋 which is located in Yuli, south of Hualien in eastern Taiwan.

During the Document Freedom Day 2012 in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, there will be:

• Talks
• Workshops
• Demonstration of the potentials of the new version of LibreOffice Suite (3.5)
• Installation of LibreOffice (3.5) for various Operating Systems (Linux preferably)

In addition to the above mentioned, the main focus is on supporting Open Standards for Documents, to show its advantages and easiness to use.

Talk Programme on Document Freedom Day. Participants will be Policy Makers, Politicians, Social Workers, Library Professionals and General Public. The speaker will be Mr. Bhim Dhoj Shrestha, Faculty Member, Central Department of Library and Information Science, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Series of different events promoting open standards and giving Polish DFD Prize 2012.

We are planning 4 lectures about ODF, LibreOffice and other offices.

Members of the European Parliament and the Greens/EFA group Malika Benarab-Attou, Sandrine Bélier, Christian Engström, and Judith Sargentini are hosting a Document Freedom Day event with the title "Open Standards in the eBook market". Speakers include representatives from the European Commission, FSFE, April, Calibre, Communia, and Bookeen. Please register here to attend.

We will be giving some lectures on LibreOffice and ods with additional drinks and cookies :D

several talks, about 20 minutes each with a stage play at the end

• what is DFD?
• Open Standards at work and everyday life
• sound and video, beyond MPx
• Open Standars on the web

There are several organizations behind this event: Escuelas Libres, Libertics and Misol.

The annual Document Freedom Day is again celebrated on March 28, 2012. Its target is to point out the importance and the possibilities of free and open formats. That's why we want to set a 'Document Freedom Day Countdown' in this week, where we are going to introduce a new application every day that is well known for its support of open formats and inter-operability.

28 March 2012 The event will take place on March 28, 2012, in Kastoria. We will have an information booth at a local University with brochures to inform people about Open Standards and Free Software. We will have some computers with Linux and LibreOffice.

On the 28th March 2012 there will be talks given about Document Freedom at the "Universidad Nacional Experimental Politecnica de la Fuerza Armada Nacional" in Salón 01.

We will celebrate the DFD with following activities in Ege University Computer Engineering Department, Izmir:

• Cake :)
• Distributing brochures and telling people about LibreOffice and licences.

Our event will begin at 13:00.

In this event, which will be organised by CIES and Binario Etico, in collaboration with the Equazione cooperative, we will propose a public discussion on the importance of Free Software and Open Standards from the ethical, social, environmental and economical angles.

*An appeal to public institution will be presented*. We hope to raise awareness in the Third Sector and among other actors of the Civil Society about the necessity of adopting Free Software and Open Standards in the public administration.

This matter is important for non profit organisations, which encounters problems adopting Free Software and Open Standards in their internal structures, as the public administration asks them to communicate with them by proprietary technologies. Despite the lack of awareness about this problem in the civil society, this problem has deep repercussions in our daily lives, along with other aspects as fair trade, recycling or responsible tourism.

We have a small salon party celebrating Document Freedom Day 2012, sharing thoughts about the open standard and the current progress of the open document format.

On the occasion of the Document Freedom Day, Konstantin von Notz and Nicole Maisch - both members of the German Parliament - asked a so called "Kleine Anfrage" to the German federal government in promotion of FSFE's PDFreaders campaign: “Werbung für proprietäre Software auf Seiten von Bundesministerien und der öffentlichen Verwaltung”. A "Kleine Anfrage" is a questionnaire, that must be answered and the German federal government now has responded. The questioner are happy for every helping hand to evaluate the given answers. (german-only)

The Grüne parliamentary group in Berlin will award the city of Vienna for using Open Standards in all their publications. Therefore, Dr. Ralph Schneider, Austrian ambassador, will serve as a representative of the Austrian capital.

The event takes place at the embassy of Austria in Berlin, beginning at 10 am. Stefan Gelbhaar, Vice-Chairman of the Grüne parliamentary group in Berlin, will be present, as well as Thomas Birk, member of the Parliaments. After introductive words and talks, together they will hand over a DFD-cake to Mr. Schneider.

The event is open for public, but needs registration beforehand, as it is inside the embassy.

LibreOffice Venezuela will celebrate Document Freedom Day for the first time in the city of Mérida, Venezuela. This is just one event out of many to celebrate Document Freedom Day in the whole country.

Agenda - Document Freedom Day

• 8:00am to 8:30am - Registration
• 8:30am to 9:00am - Inaugural address
• 9:00am to 10:00am - LibreOffice project, Get to know the Comunidad Libre Office Venezuela
• 10:00am to 11:00am - Certification of digital documents based on Open Standards
• 11:00am to 12:00am - ¡Venezuela Libera sus Documentos!, Legal framework that supports the use of ODF
• 2:00am to 3:00am - Sharing the experiences of supporting migration in other institutions
• 3:00pm to 4:00pm - LibreOffice Version 3.5 (Demos)
• 4:00pm to 6:00pm - Installing LibreOffice Fair / Celebration of Document Freedom Day

ANSOL celebrates DFD every year, and 2012 is no exception. This year we'll be busy on the date with communicating with the political powers in an effort to make them understand why it is urgent for them to implement the already existing Portuguese laws regarding Open Formats. But we still want to enable everyone to celebrate, so we're organizing a dinner party on the date, come and join us!

There will be talks about document freedom all day. If you would like to visit this event, please register

• 10:00 to 10:30 - Ceremony
• 10:30 to 11:15 - Lecture: Interoperability and freedom documents
• 11:15 to 12:00 - Lecture: What is ODF?
• 12:00 to 13:00 - Lunch
• 13:15 to 14:15 - Lecture: Migrating to ODF without trauma
• 14:30 to 16:30 - Lecture: Demonstration of LibreOffice

During the afternoon, there will be talks given by various persons about Open Standards, and interoperability.

• 10:00 a.m. - Distributing Flyers
• 12:00 a.m. - Talk: "Que es ODF?"
• 12:30 p.m. - Demonstrating LibreOffice
• 02:00 p.m. - Talk: "Que es ODF?"
• 02:30 p.m. - Demonstrating LibreOffice
• 06:00 p.m. - Conversation about Open Standards for documents

During the day there will be a video presented in the internal channel IPTV of the Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas.

Op woensdag 28 maart 2012 organiseert Document Freedom Day Nederland in de Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) in Den Haag, de vierde Nederlandse editie van Document Freedom Day! Dit in navolging van Document Freedom Day 2011, 2010 en 2009. Met presentaties over open dokumentformaten, open standaarden en toepassingen die daarmee overweg kunnen.

Het thema van dit jaar is "Terug naar de Toekomst" De editie van 2012 zal dan ook, in navolging van 2011, worden gekenmerkt door een sterke inbreng vanuit de erfgoedsector. De openheid van informatie en het gebruik van open formaten is in deze sector van het allergrootste belang – in het zicht van brede beschikbaarstelling, openbaarheid van informatie en duurzame toegang.

We will give a 15min talk and presentation at a local University, give brochures to the two libraries of the city and maybe have a small booth at central square which is unclear yet.

FreieSoftwareOG will have an information booth in the local public library, to inform people about Open Standards and Free Software.

Introduction into the philosophy of Free Software Showcase of Edubuntu GNU/Linux Workshop for LibreOffice 3.5

Lectures and dicussions about open standards and their usefullness. This will take place in the rooms of Chaos Computer Club.

Hackerspace.gr will be hosting an event about Document Freedom to raise awareness on the local foss crowd.

• 19:00 - 20:00 Opening talk by Nikos Rousos and Pierros Papadeas on Document Freedom and the landscape out there.
• 20:00 - 21:00 Q&A and general discussion on licenses and best practices.

HackLab Catanzaro organizes the DFD 2012 at the *Lab (association's headquarters). The event will be divided into three main topics: Document and Multimedia formats (ODF, OGG) and ePub standard; Licenses (GNU FDL, CC, OFL); Free software office suites (LibreOffice, Abiword).

The event will take place on March 28, 2012, in Belém-PA, the Technology Institute of Para. It is organized by the LibreOffice Community. The event will support educational institutions and public and private companies.

Our event will be 2012-03-28 at 15.30 in 207b auditorium 10th block of Computer Science Faculty of Omsk State University located at Groznenskaya st. 11.

Document Freedom Party 2012 @Ceata community-operated hackerspace, bd. Corneliu Coposu 39A, ap. 3. Invited are contributors, collaborators and all other individuals interested in Open Standards and Document Freedom.

We will have free discussion about standards in administration, technical support for Free Software implementing them, past events and future campaigns, evolution of the Romanian digital society and whatever you have in mind on the subject.

Also, come and find your questions about Open Standards answered by community members.

Music and drinks on the house. Starting from 5 PM. No closing time. :-)

Our event is in support of the knowledge about the use of Open Standards in documents and showing its advantages while showing disadvantages in the use of other office suites. We will do installations on the computers of attendees, who wish to do so. We will also deliver a CD / DVD for installation, which does include information material about the application.

The OpenTapajós Software Livre community is promoting Document Freedom Day 2012, in Santarém – PA. The event will happen in the 28th of March 2012, at 18:30, on IFPA – Campus Santarém, which is on Av. Marechal Castelo Branco, 621, Soledade.

Schedule:

• 18:30 – Opening and FASOL 4.0 release.
• 19:00 – Talk 1: Open Standards and documents.
• 19:45 – Talk 2: ODF Law, new prespectives, emancipation and document freedom: a proposal.
• 20:30 – Round Table: Open Standards adoption in Higher Education Institutions.
• 22:00 – Closing

The event is open to everyone, gratis.

This year's Document Freedom Day we will have the following activities:

• Installation of LibreOffice
• Lectures on open formats and standards
• Document management with applications which support open formats and standards
• Case Studies on the use of free office using the format ODF
• Celebration of Document Freedom Day 2012

We celebrate DFD by holding a discussion on Open Standards, their importance, and our ability to support them.

Talks and seminaries about Open Standards will be held in the Tecnologico Comfenalco University

1&1, GMX and WEB.DE receive the German Document Freedom Award for the use of Open Standards. The prize is awarded by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure e.V. (FFII). 1&1 is awarded for automatically adding XMPP for all customers of their mail services. The Document Freedom Award is awarded annually on the occasion of Document Freedom Day - the international day for Open Standards. Last years winners include tagesschau.de, Deutschland Radio, and the German Foreign Office.

This is the second of three events organised by Ubuntu-ve.

On the day 27th of March, we will be celebrating the DFD in the city of Caripito, Venezuela. There will be lectures and workshops given for students and teachers from 8:00 am to 12:00 p.m. at the University of Technology Caripito. We have a lab there with 45 computers.

Samira Khazmou, who is teaching in this institution, is organizing the event.

FSFE will award the Slovak Committee for Standardization of Information Systems of Public Administration, to recognize adoption of Open Standards for entire Slovak public administration. Martin Husovec together with local NGOs and academics will present the prize.

See a report for this event here.

This is the first of three events organised by Ubuntu-ve.

It starts at 23rd of March in the Unidad Educativa Fe y Alegría, city of Maturin, where there will be lectures and workshops given to students and teachers. For LibreOffice workshops, we will have over 50 computers. You can find the agenda of the event here.

This event is being organized by Samuel Persaud together with Mr. Lamb Deivy.

On the 2nd of April 2011 at 15:00, the Hacking Laboratory Catanzaro (HackLabCZ) is organizing talks at the *LAB (association's headquarters) which will cover topics like document formats (ODF), licenses (GNU FDL, CC) and free software office suites (LibreOffice, Abiword, Gnumeric). Read more about this on the official web page.

On the 2nd of April 2011, the Free Software User Group Italia (FSUGItalia) is organising a series of talks on the importance of using ODF, in particular for students and schools in Spoleto (Perugia). Read more about this on the official event page.

Freedom Soldiers, a local Free Software Community, will be organizing talks at the local campus of the University of Panama, which will cover topics like ODF and Social Networking in Open Standards. These will be on April 2nd due to issue with the availability of locations.

On the 31st of March, 2011, there will be a speech about Open Document Format and the value of its use in the public sector and we will have conversations and flames how this can be implemented in Greece, and by afternoon we will organise our LPI Exam Lab. The event takes place in the GNU/Linux Lab in Thessaloniki, Greece, and is organised by the Association of Greek Users and Friends of Free Software.
Read more on their website.

On the On the 30th March, integrated in the activities for the "Superior School of Education in Viseu Day", there will be an hour and a half (11:30-13:00) symposium about Free Culture, Free Software and Free Documents by Nelson Gonçalves and Luis Carvalheiro. Find more at intervir.net.

ANSOL Marcos Marado is organising a meeting, party, dinner and public distribution of flyers and other materials, as well as the coverage of the event on radio and possibly a "radio round table". The event will take place in Lisbon, Portugal on March the 30th, 2011, from 18:30 to 23:30. More information on ANSOL's event page.

On the 30th of March, 2011, at 7:30pm, a public lecture is organised by Marko Dimjašević at the "Culture Club", Mažuranićev trg 1, Križevci, Croatia. More information can be found on the official event page.

Photos by Michael Nagy, Presseamt München.

In Munich on March 30, come and celebrate Document Freedom Day with us at Café Netzwerk, Luisenstr. 11, 80333 München (U-Bahn: Königsplatz). Starting at 18:30, there will music, short talks from FSFE's President Karsten Gerloff, Florian Effenberger of the Document Foundation, and others, and a good time for all!

If you're coming, please drop us a mail at dfd2011-munich@fsfe.org. Registration isn't required, but we'd like to have a rough idea of how many people will be coming. Further information is available here.

Check out the FSFE press release on fsfe.org.

Sirius Corporation will host a barbecue in celebration of DFD 2011 at their Weybridge office in Surrey. The public are welcome to attend, but please notify the organisers of your intention if you're planning to visit.

On March the 30th, from 1 to 6 p.m. there will be a series of talks with speakers from the world of digital heritage and open (document) standards as well as tours through the Royal Library and the National Archive in The Hague, Netherlands. The theme of the event will be "Open Heritage".

In cooperation with the Dutch Digital heritage Foundation and the Club for History and ICT, the following talks will be given:

• Piet-Hein Minnecré from the Dutch Program bureau Netherlands Open in Connection, about the upcoming ODF 1.2 standard, Dutch ODF user group for local governments;
• Cor Nouws from Document Foundation/ Libreoffice about how open is "open"?;
• Jeffrey van der Hoeven from the Royal Library about digital preservation;
• Bram Wiercx from FARO (Flemish cultural heritage foundation) about their collective access project;
• René Stipriaan from DBNL Digital Library for the Dutch Literature about E-reading and E-pubs;
• Geert Wissink from Europeana.

As the organisers say: "The importance of information and open formats is in this branche very well known, because of broad availability, openness of information and durable access." More information on DocumentFreedomDay.nl.

Sam Tuke will speak at the Friends Meeting House in the City of Manchester about the relationship between knowledge, culture and Open-Standards at 19.00.

From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the 30th of March 2011, there will be workshops each hour to help everybody who wants to install LibreOffice with explanations about the importance of Open Document Formats and Open Standards in general.

The event is organised by the Deputación de Lugo, an official statement of local government Lugo CIS Lugo, and will take place there.

• Where: Unidade SESI/SENAI CIVIT - Serra/ES
• When: 30th March from 8 am to 5pm
• Organisation: Iniciativa Espírito Livre e SENAI

Find out more!

An event is being organised that spreads the spirit of the Document Freedom Day to stay in touch with all the different components of Galician Free Software community (businesses, associations, translators, politicians, teachers…). This event takes place at the Escola de Enxeñaría de Telecomunicación da Universidade de Vigo, in Galicia, Spain.

Join all the GUGLs (Grupo de Ususarios de GNU/Linux), translators, politicians, teachers, AGASOL (Galician Free Sofware business association), ASOLIF (spanish free sw business federation) and many more on the 30th march, beginning at 10.00 a.m.

As they say: "We want to show the importance of standars on our documents and data. We want to have an opportunity to show to the midia this problem, this forgotten right, and to have more people joining this cause."
Learn more here or take a look at the agenda.

Open Xarxes Coop. V., Calle Alborgí, 10 - 46980 Paterna (Valencia) organiza un evento con breves relatorios sobre a importancia da liberdade nos documentos no eido dos formatos e estándares abertos xunto a aplicativos e *suites* ofimáticas que soportan ODF (Open Document Format). Repartiranse CDs, participando asociacións como ARPA e VALUX, así como o persoal de Open Xarxes. Haberá unha *install party* o 1 de abril.

The event will take place at 10:30 am in classroom B of the Computer Science Department. The Computer Science department is located at the mezzanine of the Biology School Building, which is at the northwest corner of the campus.

For further information you can contact me at chazisop<at>csd<dot>auth<dot>gr. I am only a member of the chapter, but I am in charge of organising this event.

Invitations to the event are being handled through the official mailing lists of the university, however we will upload our material at our website http://acm.web.auth.gr/ , so please link to it.

The regular Fellowship Meeting in Düsseldorf will be dedicated to Document Freedom Day, and take place in Südstern (Bilker Allee 66, 40219 Düsseldorf), at 19:30 CEST.

Michael Stehmann will hold a talk on "Vorzüge freier und offener Standards" (Advantages of free and open standards). The tenth FSFE birthday as well as the fifth year of the Düsseldorf office are also a good reason to celebrate, and Werner Koch will also tell a bit about the creation phase of these two.

Nice people are expected, wished and welcome!

Bruno Miguel will organise a meeting, party, distribution of flyers and other materials, as well as talks and/or presentations in Coimbra, Portugal on March 30th. ANSOL and NEI support the event, find out more about it here.

On the 30th of March, 2011, FSFE will reward a well-known German website for its use of Open Standards in broadcasting content. Berlin and Hamburg Fellows will come to celebrate this important role in spreading Document Freedom, eat a piece of pie, and have a chat around Freedom of software and documents.
The Berlin event is coorganised by the FFII. For more information, contact berlin<at>lists<dot>fsfe<dot>org.

Press review for the Berlin event:

• 2011-03-30 DE Heise: Tagesschau.de wegen Ogg-Theora-Unterstützung ausgezeichnet
• 2011-03-30 EN The H: Tagesschau.de receives Document Freedom Day award from FSFE and FFII
• 2011-03-30 DE Golem: FSFE ehrt Tagesschau.de für Inhalte im Ogg-Theora-Format
• 2011-03-30 DE Readers Edition: Die Netzversion der Tagesschau ist "offen"
• 2011-03-30 DE Linux Community: Eine Torte für offene Formate FSFE und FFII zeichnen ARD für freie Formate bei Online-Tagesschau aus
• 2011-03-30 DE Linux Magazin: FSFE zeichnet ARD für Einsatz von Ogg aus
• 2011-03-30 DE Netzpolitik.org: Offene Standards: Singapur, München, Tagesschau und der Rest der Welt
• 2011-03-30 DE Prolinux: Auszeichnungen für den Einsatz offener Standards für Tagesschau.de und München

Check out the FSFE release on fsfe.org.

On the 30th of March, 2011, FSFE will reward a well-known German website for its use of Open Standards in broadcasting content. Hamburg and Berlin Fellows will come to celebrate this important role in spreading Document Freedom, eat a piece of pie, and have a chat around Freedom of software and documents.
For more information, contact hamburg<at>lists<dot>fsfe<dot>org.

You might want to check the press review above under the Berlin event.

Check out the FSFE press release on fsfe.org.

No In Lugo CIS Lugo, mapa, preténdese facer unha breve introdución sobre estándares abertos e formatos cada hora, xusto no comezo de cada obradoiro. Tras isto procederase á instalación das *suites* ofimáticas. É dicir, ás 10-11-12-13 / 16-17 darán comezo obradoiros con curtas explicacións sobre os estándares.

On March 30th, at 7p.m. (gmt -3), there will be a talk Open Standards, open document format and Free Software. There might be a flyer distribution as well as splitting to reach audience in different parts of the city. It will take place at the "Escuela Provincial de Educación Técnica N° 1 "UNESCO", Posadas, Misiones/Argentina.

Escuelas Libres: Porque la educación es mucho mejor cuando es libre.
Para entrenar, cualquier programa sirve. Para educar, sólo Software Libre. (Federico Heinz)

In the Paul-Henri Spaak building of the European Parliament (room 4B001), there will be an event on Open Standars to emphasize the opportunities offered by digital technologies to broaden access to culture in Europe and in the world. This will takes place from 1 to 3 p.m. and is organised by MEPs Malika Benarab-Attou, Indrek Tarand and Karima Delli.

The three following speakers are invited:

• Stefan Gradmann is Professor of Library and Information Science at Humboldt-University in Berlin with a focus on knowledge management and semantics based operations. He is also a leader of Europeana's technical work package on semantic interoperability and one of the main contributors to the Europeana Data Model (EDM). Previously, Stefan was director of the German Academic Publishers Project, and a technical co-ordinator of the EC-funded FIGARO project - both were concerned with Open Access. He was also an international advisor for the ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences, contributing to the report Our Cultural Commonwealth. The overall focus of his work is an integrated view of the scholarly information lifecycle. He puts emphasis on interoperability and open methods of modeling the scholarly information continuum - both in technical terms and in an e-scholarship perspective.
• Håkon Wium Lie is Chief Technology Officer of Opera Software. He proposed the concept of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) while working with Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at CERN in 1994, CSS being one of the fundamental web standards, with profound impact on typography, aesthetics, and accessibility on the web. In 2006, Wium Lie started campaigning for browsers to support downloadable web fonts using common font formats. As of 2009, all major browser vendors except Microsoft have implemented web fonts this way.
• Kaido Kikkas is a Ph.D, Associate Professor at the Estonian Information Technology College and Associate Professor of Social and Free Software at Tallinn University, in Estonia. He is a researcher and free/open-source software (FOSS) enthusiast (or "academic hacker") and teaches a number of courses on various IT issues (ethical and legal aspects, FOSS development, security etc.).

Talks and presentations, with the presence of several Portuguese political parties and other interested parties from fields like education, libraries and more… Sounds like a great program! Organised by the ANSOL, HackLaViva and Musas, and coordinated by Ricardo Lafuente, these activities will take place on March 30th. Find out more on their website.

Floss-Pa is organizing some talks at the Technological University of Panama which will cover topics like web standards, social networking in open standards and free video formats. These will be on March 30th.

Volgende week woensdag 30 maart 2011 organiseert Document Freedom Day Nederland i.s.m. de Verenging voor Geschiedenis en Informatica (VGI) en het Digitaal erfgoed Nederland (DEN) in de Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) in Den Haag, de derde Nederlandse editie van deze dag. Document Freedom Day is een wereldwijde viering en promotie van open dokument formaten, open standaarden en aanverwante open technieken. Tijdens de lezingen zullen er ook rondleidingen door de Koninklijke Bibliotheek en het Nationaal Archief plaats vinden.

Het thema van dit jaar is "Open Erfgoed" De editie van 2011 zal dan ook worden gekenmerkt door een sterke inbreng vanuit de erfgoedsector. De openheid van informatie en het gebruik van open formaten is in deze sector van het allergrootste belang - in het zicht van brede beschikbaarstelling, openbaarheid van informatie en duurzame toegang.

Sprekers:

• KB: Digital preservation - Jeffrey van der Hoeven
• NOiV: ODF gebruikersgroep, ODF-roadmap, ODF 1.2-standaard - Piet-Hein Minnecré
• Document Foundation/Libre Office; hoe "open" is open - Cor Nouws
• Vlaams steunpunt voor cultureel erfgoed (FARO): CollectiveAccess - Bram Wiercx
• Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren (DBNL): e-lezen en e-pubs
• René van Stipriaan
• Digitale collectie Nederland in Europeana - Geert Wissink

Toegang is gratis. Aanmelding is verplicht.
Mag ik je als bezoeker voor Document Freedom Day 2011 noteren?
Meer info: DocumentFreedomDay.nl

On the 30th of March 2011, from 2 to 5 p.m. we will have the Free Software project "Projeto de Software Livre dentro do Serpro e do CISL - Comitê Técnico de Implementação de Software Livre no Governo Federal", which will take place in several Serpro audoriums throughout the country:

• Belém - Auditório - Av. Perimetral da Ciência, 2.010 Terra Firme - Belém - PARÁ - CEP: 66077-830
• Belo Horizonte - Auditório - Av. José Cândido da Silveira, 1.200 Cidade Nova - Belo Horizonte - MG - CEP: 31035-536
• Brasilia - Sede Auditório - SGAN Quadra 601 Módulo V - Brasília - DF - CEP: 70836-900
• Brasília - Regional Auditório - SGAN Av.L-2 Norte Quadra 601 – Módulo G - Brasília - DF - CEP: 70830-900
• Curitiba - Auditório - Rua Carlos Pioli, 133 Bom Retiro - Curitiba - PR - CEP: 80520-170
• Fortaleza - Auditório - Av. Pontes Vieira, 832 São João do Tauapé - Fortaleza – CEARÁ - CEP: 60130-240
• Porto Alegre - Auditório - Auditório - Av. Augusto de Carvalho, 1.133 Praia de Belas - Porto Alegre - RS - CEP: 90010-390
• Recife - Auditório - Av. Parnamirim, 295 Parnamirim - Recife - PE - CEP: 52060-901
• Rio de Janeiro - Horto Auditório - Rua Pacheco Leão, 1.235 Fundos - Jardim Botânico - Rio de Janeiro - RJ CEP: 22460-905
• Rio de Janeiro - Lapa Auditório - Rua Teixeira de Freitas, n° 31 - Lapa - Rio de Janeiro - RJ - CEP: 20021-350
• Salvador - Auditório SubsoloAv. Luiz Vianna Filho, 2.355 Paralela - Salvador - BA - CEP: 41130-530
• São Paulo - Luz Sala de Videoconferência - Sala T4 - Rua Plínio Ramos, 99 - Luz - São Paulo - (SP) - CEP: 01027-010
• São Paulo - Socorro Auditório - Rua Olívia Guedes Penteado, 941 - Socorro - São Paulo - (SP) - CEP: 04766-900

Em todas as regionais e por streaming:

• 14h - Abertura: Deivi Kuhn - BSB
• 14h20 - Palestra 1: Fernanda Weinden - "Motivação para o Dia da Liberdade dos Documentos" - POA
• 15h10 - Palestra 2: Jomar Silva - "Padrões Abertos - É hora de participar" - SPO
• 16h00 - Palestra 3: Daniela Silva e Pedro Markun - "Política hacker – dados abertos e participação política na rede" - SPO16h50 - Encerramento

Na regional Belém e por streaming:

• 08:30 - 09:00 - Abertura
• 09:00 - 09:45 - Formatos de arquivos: por que se preocupar? - Fátima Conti - Profª UFPA - GUBrO-PA
• 10:00 - 10:45 - LibreOffice - Mais um nome a se aprender? - Rogênio L. Belém - SERPRO/Regional Belém
• 11:00 - 11:45 - Documentos Abertos para Dados Abertos - Ezyo Lamarca - SERPRO/Regional Belém
• 11:45 - 12:00 - Encerramento

Na regional Porto Alegre:

• 10:00 - 12:00 - Palestra sobre o uso de padrões abertos para documentação - Fernanda Weiden

Hear the streaming live! http://streaming.serpro.gov.br/dfd/

The events will be open to the public; for more information, please contact cisl <at> serpro <dot> gov <dot> br

On the 30th of March 2011, Alexandro Colorado will speak up for document freedom at the "Congreso Mexicano de la Sociedad de la Información y Conocimiento Libre" (CosiT), an event organised by the Comisión de Ciencia y Tecnología del Senado de la República.
Find out more!

ODFA - Open Document Format Alliance Hungary organises a Firefox 4 release party in Budapest, Uránia Mozi, from 6 to 9 p.m.

At the "Centro de Computação da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (CCUEC)", there will be talks on Document Freedom on the 30th of March, from 1 to 5 p.m. The talks will be given by João S. O. Bueno and Rubens Queiroz de Almeida, is proposed by the Associação Python Brasil, and coordinated by João Sebastião de Oliveira Bueno.

A Comunidade galega do Software Libre quere unirse a este día de celebración mundial organizando unha xornada á que convida a achegarse a toda a cidadanía. A xornada galega do Día da liberdade dos documentos será o vindeiro *mércores 30 de marzo* na Escola de Enxeñaría de Telecomunicación da Universidade de Vigo [ver mapa].

Nos vindeiros días irase publicando a hora e o programa desta xornada.

Actos a celebrar no Salón de Graos da Escola de Enxeñaría de Telecomunicacións

• 10:00 a 10:30 - Recepción de asistentes ao DFD 2011
• 10:30 a 11:30 - Mesa técnica «Empresas-Administración»
• 11:40 a 12:00 - Acto de presentación oficial. Participan autoridades políticas xunto á Dtra. da Escola
• 12:00 a 12:50 - Conferencia-Debate «A necesidade do emprego dos estándares» - Dr. Ubaldo García Palomares - 13:00 a 14:00 - Mesa redonda «GUL-OSL-Empresas»

Posteriormente, os membros da comunidade e quen desexe acompañalos desprazaranse para ter unha comida cominitaria

No hall da Escola, Alumnado voluntario instalará a quen o desexe LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org ou NeoOffice en computadores con Windows/MacOS X.

Nota: En equipos de baixos recursos tamén poderán instalar o aplicativo de tratamento de textos «AbiWord» (só Windows ou GNU/Linux).

O mércores 30 de marzo, de 12 a 14 da tarde, na Residencia de estudantes do Monte da Condesa do Campus na Vida da USC (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela), a súa Oficina de Sw Libre e mailo GLUG darán unha charlas sobre estándares e Software Libre. Despois asesorarase en materia de estándares, aplicativos e a comunidade de SwL aos asistentes in situ.