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 "Previous proprietary document formats have become difficult or impossible to read within little more than a decade.  There is no reason to believe this trend will not continue if allowed so to do.  Without open standards for our documents we are likely to inflict a 'digital dark-age' on our descendants when they discover that they are unable to read any of the sources for their history, such as Government records, acts of Parliament, property title deeds, scientific research papers, and family histories.  They will not forgive us if we fail to
 act to protect them now, but instead allow another generation of poorly specified proprietary standards to become widely adopted." - from [http://www.ukuug.org/ooxml/ UKUUG press release]
+'''Why Document Freedom?'''
+We live in an age in which paper documents increasingly get replaced by electronic records. Document freedom is fundamental for your documents to outlive the application you are currently using and allows you to choose and change applications freely.
+'''Document Freedom and Democracy'''
+Electronic records kept today include records of your government, such as tax and legal records or minutes of parliamentary proceedings. Making sure that such records remain in the control of the government is essential for a functioning democracy. The same is true for all interactions between citizens and their government, which should never depend on monopolies or on the proprietary product of a single company.
+'''How to achieve Document Freedom?'''
+Make a stand by saving your documents in ODF today. If your application does not support ODF, get one of the ODF supported applications like OpenOffice.org,  KOffice, AbiWord, etc
 ==Events==
 ===Candle Light Vigil for Document Freedom===
-The Candle light vigil demands BIS to appeal ISO approval of ooxml based on its comments and no vote.
+The Candle light vigil demands India to appeal ISO approval of ooxml based on its comments and no vote. We also demands the Department of IT to draft a clear national policy for the use of Free standards for data storage.
-More than ooxml , The programme is planned as a starting point for various events & awareness campaigns on  Document freedom.
+This programme is planned as a starting point for various events & awareness campaigns on Document freedom.
 When: 15 April 2008, 6pm
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 Where: Near Corporation Circle, In front of the Townhall, Bengaluru
-Contacts: pravi dot a at gmail dot com 998six34856five
-anivar at movingrepublic dot org 080-234three56zero6 /944nine0099zero8
+We request all user to
-Vikram Vincent vincentvikram at swatantra dot org -- 9448810822
+#do not send attachments in proprietary formats like .doc, .xls, .ppt
+#We request people not to pollute their friends computers and the internet with unethically encoded documents.
+#inform the users that they do not have right to decode the documents they themselves have written, if they use proprietary software
+#distribute open office cds, containing apps with source code for windows.
+#distribute live cds.
+''Contacts: ''
+*pravi dot a at gmail dot com 998six34856five
+*anivar at movingrepublic dot org 080-234three56zero6 /944nine0099zero8
+*Vikram Vincent vincentvikram at swatantra dot org -- 9448810822
 Participate in online discussions at [http://mm.gnu.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fsug-bangalore fsug-bangalore mailing list]
+===On Barcamp Bangalore 6===
+Anivar Aravind announced a session on '''Technopolitrics:The ooxml way , An Observation on ISO's banana standard'''  on Barcamp Bangalore 6
+When:  19th and 20th April
+Where:  BCB6 Summer Edition, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
 ===Open Letter to Wipro, Infosys and TCS===
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