The Family Guide to Digital Freedom

Marco Fioretti

• Hardware systems engineer
• Freelance author for several U.S. and European IT magazines
• Linux Journal Contributing Editor
• Member and contact for Italy of the OpenDocument Fellowship
• Co-founder and current coordinator of RULE, a project to make modern Free Software easily installable on older computers (Free Software is not free when it needs a new PC to run decently...)

The following is a list of some of my articles which deal with the same themes covered in the Family Guide To Digital Freedom. Most of them explain why OpenDocument and other open file formats are essential for everybody (not just computer professionals) and why they should be used everywhere.

General Information

• Everybody's Guide to OpenDocument (a Non-technical piece that can be printed out and distributed to any audience, regardless of their IT skills)
• Nov. 2005 seminar on "How file formats can be used to favour (or hamper) innovation"
• Format Wars
• Converting proprietary Ebooks to open formats
• Free Software, disabled users must learn to communicate
• Invitation to the Free Software and disabled users communities to communicate more effectively (original version of the same letter)

Open formats for a better education

• INGOTs: free software service certification
• A driver's license for free software?
• Bit Prepared: the missing link between Free Software and Scouting
• Bit Prepared II: Stallman meets the World Scout Bureau

Open formats for governments and businesses

• IDABC: Toward a digitally interoperable Europe
• Economics Researchers meet OpenDocument
• UBL: another opportunity for FOSS in the enterprise