Document Freedom Day (DFD) promotes the use of open standards and interoperability in documents. OpenOffice has been a core part of DFD since it first started in 2008.
Our community's support of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) file format is broad: in the product of course, but also via our personal use, and via the efforts of our volunteers in OASIS maintaining the standard, and at Plugfests improving interoperability. I'd like to see us celebrate Document Freedom Day. I think we can do something similar do what we did for International Mother Language Day: Using social media and our website. We can reach nearly a million people when we do this, so it is very effective. To make this happen we need a few things to happen before, say March 10th: 1) An adapted logo for the website, something thematic. a) The hi-res version of the current logo is here: http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/AOO-logo-hires.jpg b) For ideas, the official DFD art work is here: http://documentfreedom.org/artwork.en.html c) The final website logo should be 100px high, with width of 200-400px. d) If we can avoid putting the date in the logo we can reuse it in future years as well. 2) A blog post and/or press release. The week prior to DFD is "Sunshine Week" in the US, and is focused on open government (http://www.sunshineweek.org/). So I might try to write up something that connects the two, i.e., how the use of open standards helps promote open government. 3) Use our social media accounts to promote DFD on the day. Anyone interested in helping? Regards, -Rob
