Wow great! Your write up and photos deserve this page too: http://documentfreedom.org/2008/Nepal
Shankar On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:33 AM, प्रबीण ( ओपन ठिटो ) < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > Today was Document Freedom Day(DFDay). It was for the first time the world > has celebrated this event. Roughly 200 teams from more than 60 countries > worldwide were expected to organise local activities to raise awareness for > Document Freedom and Open Standards. > > In Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya (MPP), we marked this day via organizing an > internal speech/talk program on DocumentFreedom and related topics like Open > Standard. The speakers were: Mr. Laxmi Prasad Khatiwada and Mr. Prabin > Gautam > > The presentations included: > > > - The concept of Document Freedom Day > - Philosophy behind Free Document and Freedom > - Open Standards > - News update on adaptation of ODF > - How Open Document/standards helps in existence of FOSS and > vice-versa. > - News about Document Standardization, ODF Alliance, OOXML > vote-outs, etc. > - Interactive session > > > Some photos has been added to this email as an attachment. More photos to > be uploaded after being collected. > > From Press release of DFDay website http://www.documentfreedom.org : > > *In a world where records are increasingly kept in electronic form, Open > Standards are crucial for valuable information to outlive the application in > which it was initially generated. The question of Document Freedom has > severe repercussions for freedom of choice, competition, markets and the > sovereignty of countries and their governments. > > "We are very happy about the response and activities that teams around the > world have scheduled," says Ivan Jelic, DFD Coordinator. "Activities we have > heard about range from local speeches and information events through to > prizes being given to governmental bodies that adopted good policies in the > field of Document Freedom and Open Standards. It will be a challenge to > document everything that is taking place today."* > > Hope to celebrate/mark this day as grand one as Software Freedom Day(SFD) > in coming years to go. > > Regards, > -- > Prabin Gautam "ओपन ठिटो" > Registered Linux User #443940 > letS makE ouR streeT FOSSible.......... > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
