I thought the same, but the impression I have is that the DFF is struggling to take care of SFD/HFD/EFD/CFD. Best regards, ----- Mensagem original -----
De: "Marcos Marado" <mindboosternoori@gmail.com> Para: "Open discussions about SFD" <sfd-discuss@sf-day.org> Enviadas: Quinta-feira, 19 de novembro de 2015 14:26:33 Assunto: [SFD-discuss] Fwd: [DFD] FSFE is looking for trustworthy organisation to run DFD2016/17
This seems to be a task for DFF...
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Erik Albers < eal@fsfe.org > Date: Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 3:35 PM Subject: [DFD] FSFE is looking for trustworthy organisation to run DFD2016/17 To: < df-coordination@documentfreedom.org >, dfd < dfd@lists.fsfe.org >
Dear Document Freedom organisers, participants and friends,
Since 2008, we have been celebrating Document Freedom Day. What started as a day for document liberation became an annual activity on the last Wednesday of March, with groups celebrating from all over the globe. And after some successful editions, DFD became the international day to celebrate Open Standards. More and more international organisations join DFD every year to celebrate technological environments in which no one will ever be forced to use proprietary formats.
On the other hand, and despite all the international success and attention, we are happy that DFD always remained a grass-roots movement. The core of Document Freedom Day is, and will always be, you, who organise local events throughout the world that spread the message about document freedom.
However,
***in 2016, the Free Software Foundation Europe will not run or organise Document Freedom Day again.***
As you can imagine, this was a hard decision for us to make. But, we decided that in 2016 the FSFE will focus on our core topics because Free Software is facing a lot of challenges. Internationally extended regulations of DRM, decreasing rights and possibilities to tinker with one's own devices, repetitive tries to establish software patents in Europe and other challenges call for the Free Software Foundation Europe to concentrate on our utmost concerns: the promotion, spread and protection of Free Software for everyone, public administrations and education.
Also we really can not anymore stand the fact that public administrations spent most of their money on proprietary software, instead of investing in Free Software. That is why we are planning to run a coordinated campaign in different countries in Europe. And why we decided to shift our focus away from organising DFD again but instead concentrate our power on further fighting for software freedom.
However, we still see the need of further promoting the use of Open Standards. That is why we would be open - under certain conditions [1] - to hand over DFD and let another organisation(s) run Document Freedom Day 2016 / 17.
If your organisation is interested in running DFD2016 (or DFD2017), please contact
eal@fsfe.org
and we can discuss all the details.
We really hope that we can hand over DFD into trustworthy hands and thank you so much for wonderful DFDs in the past,
Erik in the name of the DFD team
PS: If you know any organisation or team that might be interested, please share this message with them
[1] which is obviously to run the DFD-website solely on Free Software and Open Standards and to not promote any form of non-free software or proprietary standard. But even more important is the vision and idea as well as the capability to support grassroot groups around the world with the promotion of Open Standards.
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