Digital Freedom Foundation (DFF) is a

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established in 2004. The group is the lead organizer of

Software Freedom Day Software Freedom Day (SFD) is an annual worldwide celebration of Free Software organized by the Digital Freedom Foundation (DFF). SFD is a public education effort with the aim of increasing awareness of Free Software and its virtues, and enc ...

, and Hardware Freedom Day, as well as other "freedom days".

History

The organization was founded in 2004 as Software Freedom International, and formally registered as a charity in 2007. In 2011, the group changed its name to the "Digital Freedom Foundation" to reflect the creation of additional "freedom days" celebrating

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, and

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.About Digital Freedom Foundation
/ref> In 2015, the DFF became responsible for organizing the annual Document Freedom Day, which was initially started by the

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. The DFF had received tax-empt status in the

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under its original name in order to make donations

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. Since then, the organization moved to

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before registering in

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following the relocation of several board members.

Events

The Digital Freedom Foundation organizes the following "freedom day" events: *

Education Freedom Day Education Freedom Day (EFD) is an international event launched by the Digital Freedom Foundation in 2013. It's annually observed on March 21. It is similar to other Freedom Days, namely Software, Hardware and Culture Freedom Day. The goal of EDF ...

(third Saturday in January) * Document Freedom Day (last Wednesday of March) * Hardware Freedom Day (third Saturday in April) * Culture Freedom Day (third Saturday in May) *

(third Saturday in September)

Board members

* Frederic Muller (President), founding member and former President of the Beijing GNU/Linux User Group, co-organizer of many international FOSS events in China and Asia such as the Linux Developer Symposium (2008), Gnome.Asia Summits, OOoCon 2008, and of course local SFD events. Fred is as well as co-maintainer of RUR-PLE (a python learning environment for children) and a GNOME Foundation member. * Pockey Lam (VP, Treasurer), Former president of Beijing GNU/Linux User Group, founding member of SFDChina.org, GNOME.Asia Summit, College OSS Society and Beijing GNOME User Group. * Julien Forgeat (Director), Former president of Beijing GNU/Linux User Group * Patrick Sinz (Director)

Past board members

* Matt Oquist * JM C. Bitanga * Quiliro Ordóñez * Silvia Aimasso * Alexjan Carraturo * Pia Waugh (President), of

Linux Australia Linux Australia is the national, Australian Free and Open Source Software Community organisation. It was founded in 1997 and formally incorporated in New South Wales as a non-profit organisation in 1999. Linux Australia aims to represent Australian ...

* Henrik Nilsen Omma of TheOpenCD project * Phil Harper, of TheOpenCD project *

Benjamin Mako Hill Benjamin Mako Hill is a free software activist, hacker, author, and professor. He is a contributor and free software developer as part of the Debian and Ubuntu projects as well as the co-author of three technical manuals on the subject, ''Debia ...

, of the

Free Software Foundation The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on October 4, 1985, to support the free software movement, with the organization's preference for software being distributed under copyleft ("s ...

* Sidsel Jensen, DKUUG *

Frederick Noronha Frederick Noronha (born 23 December 1963) in São Paulo, Brazil is a journalist based in Saligão in the Bardez taluka of Goa. He is active in cyberspace and involved with e-ventures involving Goa, developmental concerns and free software. Noro ...

, Goa SFD Team * Joe Olutuase, o
Knowledge House Africa
* Robert Schumann, of TheOpenCD project * Jan Husar

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