Hi !
I've had an interesting discussion with Karsten yesterday about the PDFreaders campaign, and between other things we discussed the possibility to extend it outside of the mere PDF document field.
We have indeed received quite a lot of feedback praising the action but regretting that we don'T also tackle the issue of video formats on news sites, or the fact that the institutions also recommend Word and Excel.
On the origianl schedule of the campaign, we has already the idea of an "outlook for DFD". The idea would then precisely be to somehow keep the attention of institutions in *keeping them aware of good practices towards Free Software*.
For example : we contact an institution in the classical procedure of PDFreaders about the advertisement for Adobe. The institution replies and changes its website. Now we know it is inclined to improve its website towards a fairer presentation of software. We could send send kind thanks but join also *targetted material* about Free Software in public institutions (EU recommendations), about *free document formats* in general, and then give concrete examples of what is generally found on websites and *how it could be done better*.
This second contact should not be long after the first one, and we could then lay the emphasis about what has been achieved at DFD 2011.
What we would need for that is : - a *short* text explaining what free documents formats are and why they should be preferred (interoperability, sustainability...) [1] [2] - a list of these formats for common bureaucratic use (e.g. show them what formats of documents they have to offer : in .odt .ods etc formats in addition to .doc ; .xls ...) - this could be integrated as a subpart of the DFD website or just have the list made somewhere on the fsfe.org website
On a general basis, this second subcampaign should not aim at removing the .doc documents since else our arguments that with .doc documents they force people to use windows, we would force people to not use windows if we asked governments to have only .odt documents.
Please tell me what you think about this proposal,
Looking forward to discuss it,
Regards
Maëlle
1. http://documentfreedom.org/odf.en.html (but more explanatory) 2. Something like : from the 3rd paragraph (up from "Vor allem aber übt das Versenden von Word-Anhängen") https://wiki.fsfe.org/ConvinceYourFriends/Documents_de?action=show&redir...