Document Freedom Day

Document Freedom DayImagine... ● The specifics for ink are change ● We all need to re-print all the documents in the world ● We also need to buy special goggles ● Some versions are not compatibleThis becomes impossible to read or study...Or thisOr even worst ...All this tooWhat is an open standard? ● Has all the standard published and available ● Is not limited by patents or other restrictions ● Is maintained by a community of authors ● There is more than one community that uses it without special arrangementsWhat is an Open Document Format? ● Is a standard ● Is vendor neutral and anyone can implement it ● It has more than 20 pieces of software that already doWhich software uses ODF? ● OpenOffice.org Windows Linux Mac ● Koffice Linux, Windows ● StarOffice Windows Linux ● IBM lotus WinXP, Suse, RedHat ● Google Docs Web ● Mobile Office SymbianHow to get started? ● Use and propose the use of OpenOffice.org ● Use the ODF plugin by Sun for Microsoft Office to read and write documents ● Ask your providers and clients to support information like ODF ● Ask governments to use open standardsOpenDocument Format ...is a reality This is a work originally by Roman Gelbort under the Creative common license with attribution and derivatives 2.5 Argentina. http://creativecommons.org/license/by-sa/2.5/ar It's allowed to copy, distribute and publicly communicate the work provide derivatives and make commercial use of the same. As long as the author is quoted and inherit the license. roman@piensalibre.com.ar