On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote:
> Document Freedom Day (DFD) promotes the use of open standards and
> interoperability in documents.   OpenOffice has been a core part of
> DFD since it first started in 2008.
>
> Our community's support of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) file format
> is broad: in the product of course, but also via our personal use, and
> via the efforts of our volunteers in OASIS maintaining the standard,
> and at Plugfests improving interoperability.
>
> I'd like to see us celebrate Document Freedom Day.  I think we can do
> something similar do what we did for International Mother Language
> Day:   Using social media and our website.  We can reach nearly a
> million people when we do this, so it is very effective.
>
> To make this happen we need a few things to happen before, say March 10th:
>

Time is running out if we want to do something.

> 1) An adapted logo for the website, something thematic.
>
> a) The hi-res version of the current logo is here:
> http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/AOO-logo-hires.jpg
>
> b) For ideas, the official DFD art work is here:
> http://documentfreedom.org/artwork.en.html
>
> c) The final website logo should be 100px high, with width of 200-400px.
>
> d) If we can avoid putting the date in the logo we can reuse it in
> future years as well.
>

Anyone feel inspired to create an AOO/DFD logo for the website?

> 2) A blog post and/or press release.  The week prior to DFD is
> "Sunshine Week" in the US, and is focused on open government
> (http://www.sunshineweek.org/).  So I might try to write up something
> that connects the two, i.e., how the use of open standards helps
> promote open government.
>

I am currently working on a blog post for DFD.

> 3) Use our social media accounts to promote DFD on the day.
>

I've created a placeholder for a landing page that can be shared via
Facebook/Twitter/Google+.  This is based on the work Samer did for the
download page.  It has no content, and I probably introduced some
bugs.   But it is full of potential !


http://www.openoffice.org/social/dfd.html

>
> Anyone interested in helping?
>

Again, time is running short if we want to do something for Document
Freedom Day.

Regards,

-Rob

>
> Regards,
>
> -Rob

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