about Free software – Internet – Society

I have been involved in a way or another in Document Freedom Day, since the first edition, in 2008. I consider that Open Standards and Open Document Formats are very important for a healthy development of our Digital Society. But, speaking about Open Standards is a tough task. Last year, when planning something for DFD 2009 in Catalonia, I was feeling that all this will never reach the attention of day to day computer users, and unfortunately I was to late to contact the DFD 2009 team and share my opinions with them.

This year, I have been working for 4 months with Free Software Foundation Europe in Berlin, so I shared with them part of my thoughts: we have to move the focus of this campaign from decision-makers to users, extend the vision of what really a document is and make the Open Standards definition understandable.

Below there is a condensed text of my thoughts I wrote to describe better the link of Internet with documents and why we should care about their (open) formats:

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