Here some news from Germany: https://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120328-01.en.html
1&1, GMX and WEB.DE receive the German Document Freedom Award for the use of Open Standards. The prize is awarded by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure e.V. (FFII). 1&1 is awarded for automatically adding XMPP for all customers of their mail services. The Document Freedom Award is awarded annually on the occasion of Document Freedom Day - the international day for Open Standards. Last years winners include tagesschau.de, Deutschland Radio, and the German Foreign Office.
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If next year Facebook's and Microsoft Network's XMPP servers also federate, we have some even bigger one than those: https://wiki.fsfe.org/DFD-2012-Karlsruhe?action=AttachFile&do=get&ta...
Happy DFD and "I'M the World"! Matthias