March 2025 - SFD-discuss - lists.mailman3.com

Document Freedom Day 2025

by LM

Hope you had a great Document Freedom Day 2025 wherever you are in the world. Here's a link to a post from The Document Foundation developers of LibreOffice on Celebrating Document Freedom Day: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/03/26/celebrating-document-fr… I'd love to hear how you celebrated Document Freedom Day today. Please share updates on any events you attended and what you thought of them. Next up is Hardware Freedom Day, April 19th. After that, it's time to start gearing up for Software Freedom Day in September. Who's planning an event this year? Thanks to everyone who participated in Document Freedom Day 2025.

March 26, 2025

Re: Firefox's changes and Document Freedom Day

by LM

I'm glad Marcos Marado is highlighting some of the issues with Free, Libre browsers. This is a great topic. Small distribution developers and many who like to build their own software from source have been uneasy about how difficult it is to build a web browser and how few choices there are for web browsers that can render modern web pages. I've been looking for lower dependency alternatives to the more popular browsers for several years. Seems like the situation just continues to get worse. Also, I feel the transfer of standardization from the W3C to the main web browser developers themselves was not a step in a positive direction for simplifying web protocols or making web browser development more accessible. If anything, they've made it harder for new and independent web browser projects to come up with anything that can compete with the major players. I put together some notes on web browser alternatives. If anyone's interested, I can share the link. I do have a list of web browsers that aren't based on the main web browser libraries. If anyone has suggestions to add to the list, feel free to let me know.

March 3, 2025

Re: Hiya!👋

by Marcos Marado

Hi! I collected these, last year, I hope they serve for your purpose: https://tilde.pt/~marado/dfd/ -- ~marado On Sun, Mar 2, 2025, 18:23 Zack Fosdyck <zfosdyck(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All! > > Just writing to inquire if anyone knows of any good printable > documentation to share for Document Freedom Day. > > Do yah? 🤪 > > Thanks & Take Care Now, > Zac > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list -- sfd-discuss(a)mailman3.com > To unsubscribe send an email to sfd-discuss-leave(a)mailman3.com >

March 2, 2025

Hiya!👋

by Zack Fosdyck

Hi All! Just writing to inquire if anyone knows of any good printable documentation to share for Document Freedom Day. Do yah? 🤪 Thanks & Take Care Now, Zac

March 2, 2025

Firefox's changes and Document Freedom Day

by Marcos Marado

It has been interesting to see so many reflecting at the same time about the current state and the possible future of web browsers - even if it was fired up by some bad news from Mozilla. Still, it is important to acknowledge what is and has been going on - how a web browser currently became a lot more than just a piece of software implementing a number of open standards, how they are all basically based over one of two existing browser agents (Gecko and Webkit) with the emergence of two upcoming ones (Servo and LibWeb); the difficulties of creating or maintaining a new web browser, or how dependent are all firefox forks (or older, harder derivatives like SeaMonkey) of Mozilla (both Firefox and Gecko). I'm not trying to get to any point with this text, but rather to highlight that now is the time to have a few conversations around open standards, and in particular web standards. And as it happens, the "annual day" to have discussions of that sort is around the corner: Document Freedom Day 2025 is already in the 26th of this month. So why aren't there more events on the map? How is your community, user group, etc. going to mark and celebrate this day? Organize something, and put it on the events map, right this way: https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/dfd -- Marcos Marado

March 2, 2025