{"id":1493,"date":"2013-03-27T13:09:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T13:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2013-03-27T15:15:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T15:15:41","slug":"today-is-document-freedom-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=1493","title":{"rendered":"Today is Document Freedom Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last day of March each year is <a href=\"http:\/\/documentfreedom.org\/\">Document Freedom Day<\/a>, a worldwide celebration of open standards for document and information exchange.<\/p>\n<p>In 30 countries around the world, activists from more than 50 groups are hosting <a href=\"http:\/\/documentfreedom.org\/2012\/events\/events.en.html\">events<\/a> from Brussels to Nicaragua to Taiwan.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1494\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1494\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2013\/03\/dfd-2013-banner.png\" alt=\"DFD2013 banner\" width=\"512\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/03\/dfd-2013-banner.png 512w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/03\/dfd-2013-banner-300x117.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1494\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DFD &#8211; an annual celebration of open standards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Open standards are crucial to ensure that different computer systems can work together and users can access documents irrespective of the computing platform or device they use.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Tuke, Campaign Manager at the <a href=\"https:\/\/fsfe.org\/\">Free Software Foundation Europe<\/a> said: &#8220;Markets for digital products such as audio books and cloud documents have grown dramatically. Open standards let users break free from vendor lock-in and corporate control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s campaign focuses on web-streaming technologies, such as Adobe&#8217;s closed, proprietary and insecure <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adobe_Flash\">Flash<\/a>. &#8220;This time, we are encouraging people to switch to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HTML5\">HTML5<\/a> technologies,&#8221; said FSFE Community Manager Erik Albers.<\/p>\n<p>Do you use open document formats? Examples include <acronym title=\"Hypertext Mark-up Language\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Html\">HTML<\/a><\/acronym> (what the web is built upon), <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Open_document_format\">Open Document Format<\/a> (the native file format used by office suites such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libreoffice.org\/\">LibreOffice<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/\">OpenOffice<\/a>), <acronym title=\"Portable Document Format\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/acronym> and plain text (.txt).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last day of March each year is Document Freedom Day, a worldwide celebration of open standards for document and information exchange. In 30 countries around the world, activists from more than 50 groups are hosting events from Brussels to Nicaragua to Taiwan. 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