[clug] Document Freedom Day - 31st March 2010

[Karun Dambiec]

On 7/03/10 10:10 AM, Jim Croft wrote:
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> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Karun Dambiec<kdambiec at fsfe.org>  wrote:
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>> On 7/03/10 9:24 AM, Mike Carden wrote:
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>>> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Karun Dambiec<kdambiec at fsfe.org>    wrote:
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>>>> Document Freedom Day 2010, is on 31st March 2010.
>>>> http://www.documentfreedom.org/
>>>> Is anyone interested in getting involved in Canberra?
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>>> I can't quite see what getting involved might mean, but as an advocate
>>> of open standards and open data formats this would appear to be up my
>>> alley.
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>> I guess one option could be doing a presentation on open document standards.
>> Ive been haing a look at what various teams have done, and it varies
>> greatly.
>> For instance FSFE FFII Berlin did the following:
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>> "People from the Fellowship<http://www.fsfe.org/>  of the FSFE
>> <http://www.fsfeurope.org/>  and from the FFII<http://www.ffii.org>  in
>> Berlin will celebrate the Document Freedom Day by congratulating the Federal
>> Foreign Office<http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de>  in Germany for their work to
>> use and promote open standards. We will meet with the head of the IT
>> department and hand over a book and a letter to the Federal Minister for
>> Foreign Affairs and Vice-Chancellor Frank-Walter Steinmeiner as well as a
>> cake with the DFD logo. "
>> http://www.documentfreedom.org/FSFE_FFII_Berlin
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> sounds like the sort of thing you could engage @katelundy and
> @senatorludlam for if you wanted a bit of political and media
> presence...
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> jim
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The only issue with that is that the media is likely to be focusing more 
on the Obama visit to Canberra at that time.