Weblog

Yesterday I celebrated the Document Freedom Day together with the other Berlin Fellows , people from FFII and Skolelinux. We had a lot of fun bringing a letter and a tart for Germany's Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister Steinmeier in the Foreign Office. We wanted to feature the Foreign Office's work for Open Standards.

Here are some links:

• Heise.de: Auswärtiges Amt zum Document Freedom Day ausgezeichnet.
• Golem.de: Auswärtiges Amt für Einsatz offener Standards geehrt FSFE und FFII übergeben Brief und Torte für Vizekanzler Steinmeier.
• Prolinux.de: Auswärtiges Amt für Einsatz offener Standards ausgezeichnet.
• Linux Magazin: Document Freedom Day: Ehrung für Auswärtiges Amt.
• Webseite des Auswärtigen Amts: AA für Engagement für Offene Dokumentenstandards ausgezeichnet (you can find our picture on the AA's frontpage). And our Letter to the minister (PDF).
• FSFE's website: Our common press release.
• Pictures are on our our website and FFII's website.

What else is to say?? Hm, I heard the tart tasted very good ;) And I hope a lot of other public administration get jealous of it, so they start thinking and working on better Open Standard policies, to get a tart next year ;)

On 13. Dezember we had a local Fellowship meeting in Berlin. Amongst the up to 20 people in the room, Georg Greve (FSFE's President) and Bernhard Reiter (FSFE's German Coordinator). During tea, gingerbread, and other sweeties (plus beer) we talked about the beginning of FSFE, how the participants came to Free Software, and other nice, funny, interesting stories.

The time went by very fast, so I think it was a good meeting ;). Thank you all for comming!

On Thursday, 10. January, we will have the next meeting, again in the newthinking store.