Ask celebraties for Document Freedom Day quotes

[Matthias Kirschner]

Hi there,

as you have seen we got a quote from Stephen Fry for Document Freedom
Day. That's really cool! But we should we stop with that? Why shouldn't
we be able to get more cool quotes. So who of you will be able to get
another cool quote from a celebraty?

Whoever is able to get Arnold Schwarzenegger saying "Your file 'll be
back. So better make sure to use Open Standards!"? will be my personel
hero for the next year!!

So, if you have any ideas, please contact them, explain them briefly
what Open Standards are and ask them for a quote. Believe me, it can be
fun finding a hook to explain Open Standards to different people.

Regards,
Matthias

[Jelle Hermsen]

Given the idea of six degrees of separation this theoretically shouldn't be that hard if we properly utilize our friends (I suggest a combination of chocolate and frightening tales of documents longing for freedom).

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation

Cheers,
Jelle

Post by Matthias Kirschner
Hi there,
as you have seen we got a quote from Stephen Fry for Document Freedom
Day. That's really cool! But we should we stop with that? Why shouldn't
we be able to get more cool quotes. So who of you will be able to get
another cool quote from a celebraty?
Whoever is able to get Arnold Schwarzenegger saying "Your file 'll be
back. So better make sure to use Open Standards!"? will be my personel
hero for the next year!!
So, if you have any ideas, please contact them, explain them briefly
what Open Standards are and ask them for a quote. Believe me, it can be
fun finding a hook to explain Open Standards to different people.
Regards,
Matthias
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[Matthias Kirschner]

Post by Jelle Hermsen
Given the idea of six degrees of separation this theoretically
shouldn't be that hard if we properly utilize our friends (I suggest a
combination of chocolate and frightening tales of documents longing
for freedom).

Methods authorised ;) Please Proceed!

Cheers,
Matthias

[Robert Kehl]

Hi over there,

Post by Matthias Kirschner
Whoever is able to get Arnold Schwarzenegger saying "Your file 'll be
back. So better make sure to use Open Standards!"? will be my personel
hero for the next year!!

I'm not fond of having any of the so-called celebrities comment on
things they actually know little or nothing about. If Conan had any
worthful thing to say about Open Standards or free software, he would
have done so already.

Asking people with no or little relevance to the subject they are wanted
to issue something onto is of no relevance to me. Just because Microsoft
f. e. makes dumb people advertise their products doesn't make those
products better, only more dumb. So it'd go for our "products", as I
believe.

So, the FSFE should refrain from seeking popular persons to comment on
our terms as long as they do not have more to give to the matter despite
their popularity.

Just my 0.02,

Rob

[MJ Ray]

Matthias Kirschner <mk at fsfe.org>

Post by Matthias Kirschner
So, if you have any ideas, please contact them, explain them briefly
what Open Standards are and ask them for a quote. Believe me, it can be
fun finding a hook to explain Open Standards to different people.

I put

As you know, knowledge can be vital for breaking out of poverty, but
poverty can restrict access to knowledge when it needs expensive
software on high-powered computers to read it, so will you be
supporting Document Freedom Day on 28th March 2012, to help users of
free software and low-powered computers get better access to
information?

into http://www.globalpovertyproject.com/form_users/add/52 which starts
"Ask Bill Gates and Hans Rosling a question

Add your details and question below.

We will ask Bill Gates and Hans Rosling the best questions live at the event"

OK, I'm being a bit silly, but the whole event seems a bit silly to me
(because Bill Gates does not have recent experience of poverty and his
hoarding method for avoiding poverty will not work for the masses
and... and...) and you never know... ;-)

Regards,

[Andreas K. Foerster]

Post by Matthias Kirschner
as you have seen we got a quote from Stephen Fry for Document Freedom
Day. That's really cool! But we should we stop with that? Why shouldn't
we be able to get more cool quotes. So who of you will be able to get
another cool quote from a celebraty?
Whoever is able to get Arnold Schwarzenegger saying "Your file 'll be
back. So better make sure to use Open Standards!"? will be my personel
hero for the next year!!

I don't think Schwarzenegger would be very believable, unless he really
uses Free Software, which I doubt.

Maybe it would also be a good idea to collect material, books, films,
music, etc., where Free Software already plays a positive role.

I was fascinated by the book "Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow, where the
GNU/Linux system plays a major part (although it's just called "Linux").

English book as free download:
http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/

German translation:
http://cwoehrl.de/files/lbdt_v1.pdf

German audio book:
http://www.archive.org/details/CoryDoctorowsLittleBrother-Kapitel1


P.S.: Okay, I admit it, I just listened to the audio book. ;-)