Document Freedom Day Today

The world’s first Document Freedom Day is being celebrated today on 26 March 2008 and around 200 teams from more than 60 countries worldwide are organising local activities to raise awareness for Document Freedom and Open Standards. DFD starter packs containing a DFD flag, t-shirts and leaflets have been sent to the first 100 registered teams over the past weeks.

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

Why fight for and support Open Standards?
Open standards will ensure you can choose any operating system or application and still be able to read and edit all your old documents, collaborate with others regardless of which software they are using and use any software of your choice to interact with your government.

They popularize the Open Document Format (ODF), claimed to be the first and only Open Standard standardised in ISO and supported by many applications. Popular office softwares like Google Docs, OpenOffice and StarOffice already support ODF. What are you doing on Document Freedom Day (DFD)?