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My favorite FSF campains

Jun 8, 2008
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Here are some of my favorite FSF campains some of which i only discovered today !

BIOS http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html
GNASH (SWF player) http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
Audio File Format http://www.fsf.org/resources/formats/playogg
PDF http://gnupdf.org/
DRM http://defectivebydesign.org/
DRM http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/drm.html
Dot GNU http://www.gnu.org/software/dotgnu/

Advocate dedicated blog for free libre open advocates!

Jun 8, 2008
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Why does Advogato exist?

Advogato is intended to be a community site and social networking site for free software developers. When Raph Levien created Advogato, he said, While "Advogato" is a pun on the word "advocate," the goal of this site is quite different than the usual sense of OS advocacy or free software advocacy. Advogato's advocacy is for developers of free software: to make life more enjoyable, the work more satisfying, and to help balance the tension between the free nature of the enterprise and the human need for tangible compensation. Advogato doesn't care about the market share growth percent of the free software operating systems. What Advogato cares about is how to make the best use of the opportunities, and deal with the challenges, that this growth is creating.

Advogato also serves a testing ground for the use of trust metrics for peer certification.

Who is Advogato for?

Advogato is for, to paraphrase Neal Stephenson, the sort of people who inhabit the intersections of Venn diagrams. Primarily the intersection of people with an interest in free software and open source (FOSS).

The diagram in question was created by Hung Chao-Kuei for the Free Software Foundation and graphically represents the relationship between software distribution and licensing methods.

Maybe I should split my time betwen Advogato and VOX but my time is in short supply !

OpenDocumentFormat (ODF) organisations

Mar 6, 2007

There are quite a few organisations involved in the Open Document Format (ODF):

OpenDocument XML.org
The official community gathering place and information resource for the OpenDocument OASIS Standard (ISO/IEC 26300). OpenDocument provides a format that enables users of varying office suites to freely exchange documents.

The OpenDocument Foundation, Inc.
A 501c(3) non profit chartered to work in the public interest to support, promote and develop the OASIS OpenDocument File Format affectionately known as "ODf".

ODF Alliance
Works globally to educate policymakers, IT administrators and the public on the benefits and opportunities of the OpenDocument Format, to help ensure that government information, records and documents are fully and natively accessible across platforms and applications, even as technologies change.

OASIS
Standards are approved within an OASIS Committee, submitted for public review, implemented by at least three organizations, and finally ratified by the Consortium's membership at-large.