Thanks for sending this out! Do you (or does anyone) want to write up a quick blog post on Document Freedom Day and why/how students should get involved/care? We can put it up on the national blog!
-Adi On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Clark, Nicholas <[email protected]>wrote: > March 30th is Document Freedom Day: > http://documentfreedom.org/2011/odf.en.html > > It's one day out of the year when you should definitely attempt to get away > with being this guy: http://xkcd.com/743/ > > ----------- > > As to the Tumblr discussion, yes we should use Free tools, but we do have > to draw a line somewhere. I think identi.ca vs twitter is pretty > illustrative of where and when and how to draw the line: status.net is > clearly better technology with more features, and I'm willing to say a more > user friendly UI than twitter. Because more people use twitter, twitter is > useful for reaching more people. I know only one person on identi.ca for > whom software freedom was not a consideration in joining, and the fact is > software freedom isn't a consideration for most people. We need to show off > our superior Free tools, but we won't have an opportunity to do so if we > only use those Free tools to do it - we'll be preaching to the choir. If > there is no superior Free alternative to tumblr, we need to develop one (I > hate being the kind of obnoxious non-hacker who keeps demanding that someone > out there in the miasma of free software developers run out and make > whatever I want whenever I want so > mething... I am making an attempt to teach myself CS.). I guess in > summary, use the tools that reach the most people to plug the tools that are > Free. Inasmuch as we refuse to use the tools that offend our principles, we > marginalize our movement and injure our cause by limiting the reach of our > discourse. Then again, I might be saying that as someone who refuses to use > Facebook and twitter as much out of misanthropy as out of adherence to > philosophical principles. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >
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