Events

MEPs Malika Benarab-Attou, Sandrine Bélier, Christian Engström and Judith Sargentini (political group: The Greens/EFA) will organize a conference in the European Parliament on March, 28 from 16:30 to 19:00, Altiero Spinelli building, room 1G3. Speakers from: the European Commission; FSFE; April; Calibre; Communia [tbc]; Bookeen [tbc]; will take part to the event.

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

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).

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.).

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.

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.
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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 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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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).

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!

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.