Document Freedom Day 2012 is on March 28th, and we need a short-list of winners of the UK prize for a UK organisation which has adopted / promoted Open Standards in the last year.
Last year the European prize went to the city of Munich for its switch to Open Standards in its city wide LiMux project. The German prize went to major news website http://tagesschau.de for offering broadcast shows in the free Ogg Theora video format. The awards comprised a certificate and an elaborate cake, presented in person at various locations, generating significant media interest in Free Software and Open Standards.
This year there shall be a UK prize also, and picking the right recipient is important.
One possibility is the Home Office, for their work on promoting Open Standards this year and their their adoption of a comparatively strong definition of Open Standards for use by the British Government (see page 7 of 'All about Open Source' available here: https://update.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/resource-library/open-source-procurement... toolkit). This choice is not ideal however and and other suggestions are needed.
Other ideas might be local authorities or city councils that have switched to using OS, charities which have implemented wide scale support for OS, or UK software companies which have added support for OS in their products.
Preparations for the wider DFD campaign are underway, with letters to last years donors having already been sent, letters to potential donors already having been prepared, and a new website due for launch shortly:
http://test.documentfreedom.org/
Share your ideas for prize winners!
Thanks,
Sam.