Digital Freedom Foundation
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Digital Freedom Foundation (DFF) is a non-profit organisation that acts as the official organiser of Software, Hardware, and other Freedom Days, and is the legal body that handles donations, sponsorship contracts, and accounting. DFF has successfully obtained a tax-exempt status in the USA where it was registered as Software Freedom International, in order to make donations tax-deductible. Since it has moved to Hong Kong and is now registering in Cambodia due to board members relocation.
History
The organization was started in 2004 under the name Software Freedom International and formally registered as a charity in 2007. Name change to DFF happened in the beginning of 2011, reflecting its organisation of additional freedom days for culture, hardware, and education.[1] Document Freedom Day, initially organized by the Free Software Foundation Europe, had its organization transferred to DFF in 2015.
Freedom Days
The Digital Freedom Foundation also organizes other Freedom Day events:
- Education Freedom Day (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)
- Software Freedom Day (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
- Henrik Nilsen Omma of TheOpenCD project
- Phil Harper, of TheOpenCD project
- Benjamin Mako Hill, of the Free Software Foundation
- Sidsel Jensen, DKUUG
- Frederick Noronha, Goa SFD Team
- Joe Olutuase, of Knowledge House Africa
- Robert Schumann, of TheOpenCD project
- Jan Husar
References
See also
- Public Domain Day
- International Day Against DRM, organized under the Defective by Design campaign