Karsten Gerloff

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President of the Free Software Foundation Europe since 2009. Promoting Free Software for a free society. Full-time multitasker and policy wonk.
Prior to that, researcher at the United Nations University's MERIT institute in Maastricht, Netherlands. Investigating the social and economic effects of Free Software. Exploring Free Software as a tool for social and economic development.

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Authored Content

How software patents are delaying the future

This fall, I went to Amsterdam to talk about " How Software Patents Are Delaying The Future ", on a discussion panel organised by the European Patent Office. The other people…

Helping the European Parliament to release its own free software

For the first time, the European Parliament is about to release one of its own programs as Free Software . The program in question is called AT4AM, short for "Automatic Tool…

Is vendor lock-in costing Helsinki 3.4 million Euros per year?

A report on the City of Helsinki's pilot project for the use of OpenOffice in the public administrations leaves the public with more questions than answers. The city trialled…

Document Freedom Day: Passion and politics

The battle for Open Standards in Europe Today, people and groups around the world are celebrating Document Freedom Day . This is an international day to raise awareness of…

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gerloff

31 Mar 2010

Document Freedom Day: Passion and politics

Hi Jason,

Document Freedom Day is decentralised. FSFE coordinates the campaign, but doesn't control it. We're trying to get as many groups as possible to report what they're doing, and are posting the information we have on http://documentfreedom.org.

You may find it worthwhile to follow the <a href="http://blog.documentfreedom.org">DFD blog</a>. But you'll get the broadest view by checking for the #dfd2010 hashtag on identi.ca and Twitter.

If you're doing anything for DFD, we'd love to hear from you!