Hope you have a productive and fruitful Document Freedom Day, today, March 27th, 2024. How are you celebrating Document Freedom Day? Here are some ideas on ways to get involved. Please share some of your own. 1, Check the Document Freedom Day web site for events in your area: https://digitalfreedoms.org/dfd 2, Use a word processor or office application that emphasizes Open Document formats and Free Software. Some examples: a. Libreoffice (ODT format) b. Calligra c. Lyx (LaTex) d. Scribus ( http://justsolve.archiveteam.org/wiki/Scribus ) e. Abiword f. Focuswriter (ODT format) g. FlWriter ( https://sourceforge.net/p/nanolinux/wiki/Home/ ) h. Sigil (EPUB format) i. Calibre (EPUB format) 3. Take a look at some of the Open Document platforms and Open Education Resources available: a. Open science and education platforms - https://lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/29187.html b. OER - https://lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/14440.html 4. Check out and make use of some of the utilities and libraries that support Open Document formats: a. CSV - https://lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/28870.html b. ical - https://github.com/libical/libical c. ical - https://github.com/stephaneagg/iCalendar-ics-filter d. tinyxml2 - https://github.com/leethomason/tinyxml2 e. XMLStarlet - https://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/ 5. Check out plain text options such as: a. https://plaintextaccounting.org/ b. https://furius.ca/beancount/ c. https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt d. https://plaintextproject.online/articles/2021/07/07/todo.html e. https://github.com/mattheyan/time.txt f. https://alistapart.com/article/boom/ g. https://orgmode.org/ h. https://plaintext-productivity.net/ i. https://plaintextworld.com/ k. https://danlucraft.com/blog/2008/04/plain-text-organizer/ l. https://zapier.com/blog/plain-text-files-for-productivity/ m. https://journaltxt.github.io/ n. https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ o. https://johnhenrymuller.com/today 6. Let others know about the Free, Libre, Open Source Software you use that supports Open Document formats. Help out by advocating and informing people you know of the importance of using accessible formats and software with source code you can see. If you have a web site, social media account or some friends in need of useful software, please spread the word about Document Freedom Day, Open and accessible formats and the wonderful FLOSS tools that work with them. Enjoy exploring some of the wonderful Free and Open Document formats out there and the FLOSS applications that work well with them. Have a great Document Freedom Day. Sincerely, Laura