Get Involved

From Document Freedom Day

This is how you can help:

• Join and help a Team
• Blog about it, and link to our campaign!
• Donate money to DFD: Support
• Sponsor the campaign: Sponsors
• Put a banner on your website with our Artwork
• Use !dfd group on Identi.ca and #dfd2011 tag on Identi.ca and Twitter

Contents 1 Resources 2 Translate the website 3 Activities 3.1 DFD Activity packages 4 Translations:

Resources

• What are Open Standards and Open Document Formats?
• Open Standards Definition

Translate the website

DFD is a global campaign. To help us make it a worldwide success, please contribute to this message of openness by translating the content of this website to your own native language! (See below each page. Instructions: Translate)

Activities

Those are example activities that you can organize on March 30th and help us spread the word about Open Standards.

• Distribute flyers
• Organize a talk, workshop, etc

Tell people they need to have a group, and link to the Teams website.

Set-up an activity in your country/region/city: Spread the awareness about the importance of Open Document Formats! Free your imagination and show to other people in a funny and exciting way what Open Standards are. Here are some examples:

• Ask Public Administrations to use Open Standards

• Place a booth in your school/university/in the street. Ask people if they know about open document formats!

• Is there a best place to spread the word about open standards than a public library? Go for it! On 3oth of March, go in a public library and advocate open standards and open document formats.

• Make public announcements! Set up a meeting with a local Radio/TV Channel and speak about open document formats and their importance.

Share your activity with us: Tell others what you are planning! Post a video/photo/write a blog post and tag it with #dfd2011. If you need support, drop a line to DFD2011 team.

DFD Activity packages

• Can't read your document poster. The idea here is that people write something on a poster, e.g. "I cannot read your documents". Then take a picture of them with the sign in front of a public institution and publish the picture.
  • Materials:
    • a photo camera
    • DFD2011 artwork
    • paper
    • pen/painting accessories
  • Timeline:
    • 2 weeks before - do some research about public administrations in your city.
    • 1 weeks before - prepare your poster
    • few days before - take the picture
    • March 30th - publish the picture using the tag #dfd2011

• Promote open formats in public library Librarians should be easy to convince about the usefulness of Open Standards. Have leaflets in the library or be there and inform visitor. E.g. use a old book and ask them if they would like to read this book in an electronic format, in 10 years.
  • Materials:
    • DFD artwork
    • DFD leaflets
  • Timeline:
    • 2 weeks before - find a public library, talk with them about the topic and ask them if you can have leaflets there and talk with visitors
    • 1 week before - print leaflets and find friends to help you
    • March 30th - use your creativity and inspiration to explain people why open document formats are important

• Change your email signature Ask people to change their e-mail signature for DFD.
  • Materials:
    •  /\  Document Freedom Day        - Liberate your documents
      _\/` http://documentfreedom.org/ - March 30th 2011
  • Timeline:
    • be sure that before March 30th, you change your email signature

• Give a presentation at a local Free Software user group about Open Standards.
  • Materials:
    • DFD leaflets
    • a presentation about Open Standards
    • DFD Artwork
  • Timeline:
    • 3 weeks before - be sure you have a room/place for your presentation
    • 2 weeks before - start promotion that you will give a presentation
    • March 30th - give your presentation