On my message from February the 8th, I said the following:
On 08/02/19 19:42, Ignacio Agulló wrote:
> Concerning the Freedom celebrations, I will update you about them:
> the news aren't bad, but awful. Over these years I have followed six
> Freedom celebrations, two non-ITC (Free Education Day and Free Culture
> Day) and four ITC (I Love Free Software Day, Document Freedom Day,
> Hardware Freedom Day and Software Freedom Day). Well, in the world wide
> web you can only find the announcement for one of these celebrations:
>
> February, 14: I love Free Software Day 2018,
> https://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/index.en.html
> Organizer: Free Software Foundation Europe, https://fsfe.org/
>
> The announcement for this celebration is published recently, and
> that is the reason for this message to be published today in the
> GNU/Linux Trisquel forum. But, what about the rest? The rest of the
> ITC Freedom celebrations are in Limbo - and not for not being announced
> yet for 2019, but because their sites in the world wide web are down
> since at least January the 1st. Save for a brief interlude of some days
> where the websites are up, and where it is possible to check up that the
> only celebration announced for 2019 is Document Freedom Day, the rest of
> the time they are down. What do these three down sites have in common?
> They are run by the Digital Freedom Foundation, same as the two non-ITC
> days (Free Education Day and Free Culture Day). Their website,
> http://www.digitalfreedomfoundation.org/ , is down too. This situation
> also happens in 2016.
>
> To sum it all up, Freedom Celebrations need to be better cared for.
News are still awful. The Digital Freedom Foundation is still in
Limbo. After long downtimes, their sites are back online... in a pig's eye:
-Hardware Freedom Days site isn't available and its domain redirects to
the Software Freedom Days website.
-Software Freedom Days website invites you to register your event for
the 2017 edition.
-Document Freedom Days website is a backup copy with last years date...
and if you try to verify it by checking the map of events, it is even
worse, it shows events scheduled for 2016.
So in spite of Software Freedom Days website proudly proclaiming
at the end of its page that the Document Freedom Day is happening on
2019, march the 27th, when you visited the Document Freedom Days
website, there was nothing at all. Nuts. Proof:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180328180751/http://www.documentfreedom.org/
So I took the only possible decision. I went to the Calendars of
TIC Celebrations that I maintain, and deleted the 2019 edition for this
event. Officialy, the Document Freedom Day for 2019 hasn't been
celebrated. Or at least that is what the Calendar of TIC Celebrations
says, that not only announces the incoming TIC events happening, but
registers all of the editions of the main TIC events celebrated since 1969.
In the previous days, seeing that the date was closing in with no
life signals, I was thinking on sending a warning message to de Digital
Freedom Foundation, but surprised... they don't have an e-mail address.
Their contact page just offers a form. Sorry, but that isn't serious.
When I send an e-mail message, I get to keep a copy. When I introduce a
message in a form, I don't get to keep a copy. You do not offer an
e-mail address? Then you don't deserve to be contacted.
"To sum it all up, Freedom Celebrations need to be better cared for."
--
Ignacio Agulló · [email protected]
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