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Please join us for a virtual meeting celebrating Document Freedom Day 2026 today, Saturday March 28 at 10 AM EST:
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#DFD2026

Join us on March 29 for Document Freedom Day 2026 with The Document Foundation and SFLC.in.
📍 Essentiadev, Noida
🕐 1 PM

Register for a talk here- https://lnkd.in/gvnsX2UZ #DocumentFreedomDay #DFD2026 #OpenSource #DigitalRights #LibreOffice

Germany's Sovereign Digital Stack Mandates ODF: a Landmark Validation of Open Document Standards - TDF Community Blog The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice, welcomes the inclusion of the Open Document Format (ODF) as a mandated standard format in Germany’s Deutschland-Stack, the fede...

Article on the use of ODF as a standard: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03... Happy #DFD2026

2/2 Even if you can't make an event this year, I hope you'll join in by sharing your thoughts on Free and Open Document formats on your social media accounts using #DFD2026. Thanks and hope you enjoy celebrating this year.

2/2 Please help by getting the word out about the importance of #FreeDocument formats on your social media accounts.
How will you celebrate #DFD2026?

2/4 #librsvg is a popular #C/C++ SVG library. For years, I searched for a lighter option. #sdl_svg was good but not perfect. #nanosvg makes a great alternative. It's used by #SDL_image & #FLTK projects & others. I would love to combine the best patches from the nanosvg forks. #DFD2026

3/4 #Imagemagick & #graphicsmagick have support for #SVG. Last I tested, imagemagick had better support. Adding better SVG support to graphicsmagick would be a useful project. Programs like #abcm2ps can output to SVG and imagemagick can convert that to a viewable #PNG format. #DFD2026

4/4 I used #nanosvg with my #Tuxmath patches and with a GPL version of mupdf I've experimented with to add lighter & better #SVG support. The #ggwm fork of #jwm used nanosvg to add SVG support to a lightweight, low dependency window manager. Know of any other fun SVG projects? #DFD2026

2/2 If you don't want to learn #HTML and #XML coding, you can use #FreeSoftware like #Scribus to design and generate #EPUB formats for you. #Calibre can organize your #ebook #library. Bard incorporates #FLite #TextToSpeech to read ebooks aloud to you. #DFD2026

1/2 Welcome to today's #DFD2026 countdown. The #Free format for this week is #EPUB, the #OpenStandard for #ebooks. It's very easy to create your own ebooks. All it takes is a text editor to produce #HTML and #XML files and a zip tool to store them. #DFD2026

Archive - Digital Freedom Foundation The Digital Freedom Foundation is the organization behind global events like Software Freedom Day, Hardware Freedom Day and Document Freedom Day

A quick reminder, #DocumentFreedomDay2026 is March 25th. Be sure to add your local event to the official event list: digitalfreedoms.org/en/dfd/archi... You can also check for events in your area to attend or virtual events to join. Please join us in celebrating #DFD2026.

2/3 Projects don't have to reinvent the wheel to provide language support. A msgfmt program converts po files (human readable) to mo format for use with libintl which is part of #GNU gettext. There are other compatible implementations too. #DFD2026

3/3 #BSD offers libcitrus. #musl C library includes support and gettext-tiny makes use of musl to provide a lightweight alternative for embedded systems. There are #C, #Perl and #Python versions of msgfmt. I'm learning more about the format by writing my own msgfmt utility. #DFD2026

1/3 We're officially counting down to #DocumentFreedomDay2026 on March 25th. One Free format I've been investigating is the mo file used by gettext. This format is a great way to provide #internationalization in a standardized manner to programs. #DFD2026

2/2 Seeking attendees & short (~15 minute) talks on favorite #OpenFormats or #FreeSoftware projects that use them. Let me know if you want to present. #DFD2026 #OpenSource #ebook #OER #OpenScience #OpenAccess #OpenData #Libraries

1/2 Virtual #DocumentFreedomDay2026 event: March 28th, 10-11:30 AM EST (2 PM GMT). Discuss #Free formats, #FOSS tools and sharing #CreativeCommons & #PublicDomain #multimedia in #Open formats. We need #volunteers. #DFD2026

Home - Digital Freedom Foundation The Digital Freedom Foundation is the organization behind global events like Software Freedom Day, Hardware Freedom Day and Document Freedom Day

#HappyNewYear to all. After the holidays is a great time to start planning for #SoftwareFreedomDay2026, #DFD2026 & #HFD2026: digitalfreedoms.org/en/ Our next event is #DocumentFreedomDay2026 on March 25th. Feel free to join the #DFF mailing list or Matrix & brainstorm plans to celebrate in 2026.