Document Freedom Day is more than a single day
Today marks the first Document Freedom Day. Inspired by Software Freedom Day, which is now is now in its fifth year, DFD is intended as an annual series of grass root events worldwide "to educate the public about the importance of Free Document Formats and Open Standards in general," according to the About page on the DFD Web site. The day is planned not as an end in itself so much as the highlight of year-round efforts, many of which predate DFD itself.
DFD is the inspiration of The ODF Alliance European Action Group, an organization that promotes the use of Open Document Format, a specification first developed for OpenOffice.org that has since become an ISO/IEC standard for office files. The organizers, Ivan Jelic and Marko Milenovic, are Serbian free software activists who are well-known supporters of Free Software Foundation Europe, which is hosting the event site.
Jelic says that DFD is not directly related to the struggle against Microsoft's efforts to have its Office Open XML (OOXML) format become an ISO/IEC standard, although the project's list of open standards makes clear that it does not regard OOXML as an open standard and briefly echoes the major objections to it. Nor, despite DFD's origins, and the emphasis on the site, is the day meant to be entirely about ODF, since the list also includes plain text, Rich Text Format (RTF), and some implementations of Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF).
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