Re: [Libreplanet-us-wa] Document Freedom Day

[Jon Erlichman]

I want to be involved in some capacity. My head keeps circling around ideas of analogy to physical objects that would be ridiculous, because those always shock my mind the most into understanding and believing in the necessity of software liberty.

What is a good analogy for document freedom? Imagine if your book went blank as soon as you donated it to the library because the publisher used ink that knows your fingerprints and only those prints reveal the book's contents?

Honestly, I've never been the best activist and therefore have been supporting movements monetarily. But I would like to get people to reconsider free formats and free software. It's pretty mature. We use quite a bit of free software at work now.

I'd love feedback for analogies to real world problems for these problems. Books that don't open unless you bought it at Barnes and Noble? Languages that can only be learned if you pay someone a million dollars? Cars that can only be fixed at the dealer's repair shop and whose hood won't open for you?

Meeting on the weekend if fine. I thought we were going to brainstorm tomorrow night since it is actually DFD? Or it was Thursday? I like cake but I prefer cream cheese frosting if available. And my wife would probably love to come. Cheers.

On March 24, 2015 4:33:44 PM PDT, Lee Fisher <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Lee, when did you order the care package? Robinson snailmailed them to me last week. I don't think they'll arrive tonight or tomorrow, but probably be a few days late. (Robinson will be speaking at LFNW'15, and was the organizer for the LibrePlanet hackathon in Seattle last year adjacent to SeaGL.) > I've got some stuff printed up right now. I think I sent about a > dozen brochures to Lee, but I can send another packet if you like. > Let me know your address, and if you need it quickly (priority > mail, 2-3 days) or a little slower (media mail, 2-7 days) I presume we probably only need a single package, but ask for another if you want one. Does anyone have an idea of what we should do? Want to try to meet at How was turnout to last weekend's LibrePlanet, anyone besides Alex? What about doing another Elysium-based dinner/meeting next weekend, hoping the DFD care package arrives by then, for both DFD supporters and LP-US-WA supporters? Any interest? I'll get a DFD Seattle cake made, then we can send that photo back to DFD mktg people to make them happy. (Anyone planning on going, please email me cake preferences, especially cake styles/flavors you're allergic to, I'll look for a bakery tomorrow.)