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date: 2013-04-12T00:00:00-05:00
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title: "Document Freedom Day 2013 in Campinas -- São Paulo -- Brazil"
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tags: [en_us, free-software, libreplanet, fedora-planet, report, dfd]
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---
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Hi, there! This is the report of the [Document Freedom
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Day](http://documentfreedom.org) event that took place in
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[Campinas](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campinas), [São Paulo
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state](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/São_Paulo_(state)),
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[Brazil](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil). I will talk a little bit
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about how we (keep reading to know who "we" are!) organized it, and the
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conclusions that can be drawn to help for the next edition.
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Organization
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The DFD (or *D*ocument *F*reedom *D*ay) 2013 in Campinas was organized
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by the [LibrePlanet São
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Paulo](http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:LibrePlanet_São_Paulo) (link in
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pt\_BR) group. If you follow this blog, and if you speak portuguese,
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then you have probably read the [announcement of the group]({filename}/2012-12-15-criacao-libreplanet-sao-paulo.md) that I made last
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year. If you haven't: LibrePlanet São Paulo is part of the
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[LibrePlanet](http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Main_Page) project (sponsored
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by the [Free Software Foundation](http://www.fsf.org/)), and *"... is a
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global network of free software activists and teams working together to
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help further the ideals of software freedom by advocating and
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contributing to free software."*.
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The DFD 2013 was an important event to us because it was the first
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serious event that we organized as a group. Despite some mistakes and
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errors, I believe we did fine and were able to learn some great
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lessons for the next events that we plan to do. By the way, if you
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want to see the official page which we used to promote the event (and
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organize it too), take a
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look
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[here](http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LP-BR-SP/Eventos/DFD_Campinas_2013).
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The page is in pt_br.
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Basically, we should have: *(a)* focused more on defining the venue as
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soon as possible, because that would have made it possible to *(b)*
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start sending announcements about the event earlier. We also should have
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contacted the Document Freedom organization and asked swags and banners
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earlier, because when we did it was too late for the shipment to arrive
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in time. And last but not least, we should really have taken pictures!!
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Unfortunately, I have absolutely no pictures to post here, so you will
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have to believe just in the words I write...
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But well, nothing is perfect, and hey, the event **happened**!. So let's
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talk it :-).
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The Event
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DFD 2013 occurred on Wednesday, March 27th. After some discussion, we
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decided to schedule the event from 13h (1 p.m.) to 17h (5 p.m.), with 4
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presentations of 50 minutes each, approximately. The venue chosen was
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[CCUEC](http://www.ccuec.unicamp.br/ccuec/), the Center of Computing at
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the University of Campinas, [UNICAMP](http://www.unicamp.br/unicamp/).
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This center has some great people working on it who are involved with
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Free Software since the beginning of the movement, particularly [Rubens
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Queiroz de Almeida](http://dicas-l.com.br/), a very nice guy (very
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famous in the Brazilian Free Software scene) who helped us **a lot**
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with the organization of this event.
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We understand that doing the event on a Wednesday afternoon was
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something that made it very hard for most people to attend, and that is
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probably the main reason for the low attendance: only 8 people in the
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audience. I have to say I was a little frustrated in the beginning, but
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hey, what really matters is that we spread the word about Free Software
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to 8 brave souls there, who will hopefully spread the word again to more
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people, and so on :-). So, it was time for the show to begin!
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Our schedule was (presentation titles translated):
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1. "**What is Free Software?**", by me
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2. "**Free Documents or the End of the World**", by Rubens Queiroz de
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Almeida
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3. "**HTML5: all the faces of the new standard**", by Ricardo
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Panaggio
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4. "**EPUB3: The book in the XXI century**", by Raniere Silva
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So my presentation was scheduled to be the first one, and I really liked
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it (surprise!). It was virtually the first time I gave a "philosophical"
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talk, and a very important one: a general presentation about Free
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Software, its history, the present, and a little bit of the future. In
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my opinion, what I liked about my talk is that I focused less on the
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"freedom" part, and more on the "respect" part of the philosophy. This
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is something I did because I wanted to use a different argument that was
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on my head for a long time: that the main thing behing the Free Software
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is the respect towards others, and only with that one can achieve
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freedom.
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I watched Rubens too, who gave an excelent presentation about why we
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need free documents and standards. Rubens is very talkative and warm,
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which makes the audience feel relaxed. People liked his presentation a
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lot, from what I noticed.
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Unfortunately, Ricardo Panaggio had a problem with his computer before
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his presentation, so we decided to switch: Raniere Silva would take his
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place as the third presenter, while Ricardo tried to fix the problem. I
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helped him with his problems, and because of this I was unable to watch
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Raniere's talk. In the end, we could not solve Ricardo's problem and he
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decided to give his presentation without any slides. In my opinion, he
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managed to catch everyone's attention (also because HTML5 is such a hot
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topic today), so I guess the missing slides were not so important after
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all!
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At 17h o'clock, we declared DFD 2013 finished. I still had time to
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distribute some Free Software stickers (from FSF), and talk a little
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with two or three people there, who were satisfied with the
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presentations! It made my day, of course :-). And just because of that I
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now feel motivated to organized another DFD next year!
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Acknowledgements
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I would like to thank Rubens Queiroz for helping with the promotion, the
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location, and the presentation during the event. DFD 2013 would have
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been impossible without his help. Thanks, Rubens!
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The LibrePlanet São Paulo team, specially Ricardo Panaggio, were also
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deeply involved with me in the organization. And I hope we manage to
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make a bigger event next year!
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Finally, I would like to thank everyone who attended the event, even for
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watch only one talk. Your presence there was really, **really**
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important to all of us. See you all next year!
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