Hey everybody,
we are currently organising the next Document Freedom Day on March 28th and therefore we wanted to produce a card game, called "Standards Quartet" (a card game that is often played by little children usually not comparing different facts about Open Standards but about cars, dinosaurs, etc.). For this we need your help to collect all the information that we need, maybe you could help us out:
Please have a look at this link: https://dfd.etherpad.fsfe.org/10 and fill in as many facts as you know.
Basically we need:
32 cards, 4 groups (each consisting of 8 different cards) and categories to compare those cards:
Examples for the groups: - Text - Video/Audio - Picture - Network
Examples for the categories: - Amount of words of the current standards - Amount of implementations - Exists since year XY - Freedom level? (Give points from our Open Standard Definition) - Uses XY other open standards - Amount of money to lobby the standards
If you have any other ideas for groups or categories, please add them to the list. (You can also include proprietary standards, depending on how many Open Standards we find we will decide how exactely to structure it.)
We will than design the cards, and print them.
Thanks for your help! Matthias
Hi, may I ask why the Document Freedom Day will be on the 28th of March? It's a Wednesday and for almost everyone it's a business day (at least here in Italy).
Picking a Saturday or a Sunday would be a better choice IMHO. Is there something else I'm not considering?
Sorry for the slightly-off-topic reply.
Hi Edoardo,
* Edoardo Maria Elidoro edoardo.elidoro@gmail.com [2012-01-16 13:52:36 +0100]:
may I ask why the Document Freedom Day will be on the 28th of March? It's a Wednesday and for almost everyone it's a business day (at least here in Italy).
Picking a Saturday or a Sunday would be a better choice IMHO. Is there something else I'm not considering?
That was something which was decided years ago, it is always the last Wednesday in March. For some activities it is very good that they are during the week. At least for this year we will not change anything about that.
Regards, Matthias
Hi all,
this is a reminder for the quartet. We need to finish the information this week. If we are not able to do that, we have to postpone the quartet for next year:
* Matthias Kirschner mk@fsfe.org [2012-01-16 09:17:56 +0100]:
we are currently organising the next Document Freedom Day on March 28th and therefore we wanted to produce a card game, called "Standards Quartet" (a card game that is often played by little children usually not comparing different facts about Open Standards but about cars, dinosaurs, etc.). For this we need your help to collect all the information that we need, maybe you could help us out:
Please have a look at this link: https://dfd.etherpad.fsfe.org/10 and fill in as many facts as you know.
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Best Regards, Matthias
Hi there,
On Monday 13 February 2012 15:31:48 Matthias Kirschner wrote:
Hi all,
this is a reminder for the quartet. We need to finish the information this week. If we are not able to do that, we have to postpone the quartet for next year:
I'm not sure you've noticed that I've worked a bit on it this weekend. As I said in my last note there:
Marcos Marado: if we end up only having three groups (I'm not sure if 4 is the minimum), then we have two categories covered, and only have to deal with "Network" and "Data"
I think this is feasible: we just need someone to look up those 16 standards on wikipedia to see their creation year and the link for the specification, then just: $ wget http://link-to-spec.txt -o /dev/null -O - |wc --words or, if the spec is only available on HTML, $ wget http://link-to-spec.html -o /dev/null -O - |html2text |wc --words
Checking out the Freedom Level is more time-consuming, but answering those five questions/points ( http://fsfe.org/projects/os/def.en.html ) is not that hard...
hi Marcos,
* Marcos Marado mindboosternoori@gmail.com [2012-02-13 16:31:22 +0000]:
I'm not sure you've noticed that I've worked a bit on it this weekend. As I said in my last note there:
No I have not noticed it before.
Marcos Marado: if we end up only having three groups (I'm not sure if 4 is the minimum), then we have two categories covered, and only have to deal with "Network" and "Data"
We need 4 categories for the game. Another idea is also to split it in other groups and also add older standards (not just Open Standards). Than we could add MS OOXML / DOCX, .sxw, ...
I think this is feasible: we just need someone to look up those 16 standards on wikipedia to see their creation year and the link for the specification, then just: $ wget http://link-to-spec.txt -o /dev/null -O - |wc --words or, if the spec is only available on HTML, $ wget http://link-to-spec.html -o /dev/null -O - |html2text |wc --words
Someone here able to do that?
Checking out the Freedom Level is more time-consuming, but answering those five questions/points ( http://fsfe.org/projects/os/def.en.html ) is not that hard...
Can someone answer the questions? And than we should double check.
What about: we just give 1 point if the question is answered with yes, and 0 if answered with no?
Regards, Matthias