User: jpmcc Date: 2009-11-19 12:04:07+0000 Modified: marketing/www/planet/atom.xml marketing/www/planet/index.html marketing/www/planet/opml.xml marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml
Log: Planet run at Thu Nov 19 13:00:12 CET 2009 File Changes: Directory: /marketing/www/planet/ ================================= File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.2611&r2=1.2612 Delta lines: +42 -43 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2009-11-19 06:03:41+0000 1.2611 +++ atom.xml 2009-11-19 12:04:02+0000 1.2612 @@ -5,9 +5,34 @@ <link rel="self" href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml"/> <link href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/"/> <id>http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml</id> - <updated>2009-11-19T06:00:25+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-11-19T12:00:44+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> + <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">Politicians, lobbyists and scapegoats: When choosing not to choose should make you vote the next time</title> + <link href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/11/19/politicians-lobbyists-and-scapegoats-when-choosing-not-to-choose-should-make-you-vote-the-next-time/"/> + <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/11/19/politicians-lobbyists-and-scapegoats-when-choosing-not-to-choose-should-make-you-vote-the-next-time/</id> + <updated>2009-11-19T11:40:02+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p align="left">The famous and much awaited <a href="http://www.references.modernisation.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/RGI_Version1%200_0.pdf">RGI (Référentiel Général d&#8217;Interopérabilité)</a> has officially been published and enacted. This announcement was met with mixed reactions and as I have been following the RGI for quite a few years now, I thought I would write some of my thoughts about it.</p> +<p align="left">The RGI is actually old, not just because it was already online as a final draft in May 2009, but because the RGI as a project dates back several years. Its story goes like this: Somewhere in 2006 the decision is made by the French government to draft a public sector-wide policy on IT matters. This policy is to be published in several parts, one on security, another on accessibility and the last one on interoperability. The last one, called the RGI, is published as a draft on the same year and submitted for public comments on a wiki, which was at the time something daring and courageous. The feedback that was received was ominously  good. In fact the first version of the RGI was mandating the use of Open Standards, and most notably ODF throughout the whole administration. At that very moment, Microsoft decided it was time to intervene and through a violent strategy of pressure and influence, managed to repel the RGI and have the process restarted. The process did restart and the same document finally got finalized for official approval in 2007. There the RGI progressively fades away, partly because of the presidential elections taking place in France at that time, partly because of a strongly applied pressure from the outside.</p> +<p align="left">The freshly elected government seems to have not so fresh ideas about I.T. Its track record in the matter is probably one of the worst possible as it is the one who authored and championed the Hadopi law (the french three strikes system) and other network censorship legislation. Any communication system that is not controlled by the <span class="Apple-style-span">Hungarian director of police</span>  glory of our nation, the President, is progressively being put under his control.  In this context one could believe that the RGI would have lost not time being reexamined again. The exact opposite happened, partly because of the neo-conservative bias of the new government who seems to believe in the omnipotence of markets vs State intervention, partly because of a strange proximity with Microsoft (four ministers inaugurated the new Microsoft offices in Paris!) and a common hatred of Google. In this context, the people in charge of drafting the RGI discovered they were deprived of any political support. Moreover, they also realized that the opportunity for a clear policy drafting had gone away. They are public servants, after all, and public servants cannot do a lot without the support of the politicians in power.</p> +<p align="left">This is how we come to the present RGI. The document by itself has been totally rewritten, choosing to leave aside the policy aspect in favor of an exhaustive referencing and classifying of existing technology and standards.  This document itself integrates well with the upper echelons of European interoperability framework and does not attempt to dictate what the public sector stakeholders should do. On the crucial question of the office file formats, it is obvious that the authors spent some time carefully choosing their words. While the use of xml-based file format is clearly recommended, ODF is being put under observation (the reason for this is unclear) and so is OOXML, but at least we know the reason for this: OOXML has no known implementation (and won&#8217;t have any until a long time, they might have added) and therefore cannot be used.</p> +<p align="left">This is what happens when a government is fiddling too much with powerful corporations and forget the interest of its own people: honest, competent, public servants have to compose with whatever they have in order to keep things going. If I were to judge this document from this standpoint only, I would actually give it a big cheer.The problem is that the whole concept of the RGI has become somewhat of a loaded gun in France, and it is I believe useless to use people of the DGME as scapegoats. With what they have, they could not have done better. But what was at stake was an opportunity for France to become a champion of open standards and sustainable digital future. It&#8217;s sad to see this government never gave it a chance. I hope one day we will realize that the ideological bias against any form of openness entertained by the present President and Prime Minister is something akin to the outrageous denial of global warming by the previous U.S. administration.I look forward to the future versions of the RGI, and think they will bring more constructive, innovative and positive elements to the development of a coherent information infrastructure  for our national public sector.</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=145&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_145" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></content> + <author> + <name>Charles Schulz</name> + <uri>http://standardsandfreedom.net</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards » OOo Postings</title> + <subtitle type="html">A weblog by Charles-H. Schulz.</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed"/> + <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed</id> + <updated>2009-11-19T12:00:15+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + <entry> <title type="html">New: OOo-DEV 3.2.0 Developer Snapshot (build OOO320_m5) available</title> <link href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_24"/> @@ -26,7 +51,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-11-19T06:00:20+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-11-19T12:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -49,7 +74,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-11-19T06:00:20+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-11-19T12:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -72,7 +97,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-11-19T06:00:20+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-11-19T12:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -97,7 +122,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-11-19T06:00:20+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-11-19T12:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -123,7 +148,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/</id> - <updated>2009-11-19T06:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-11-19T12:00:14+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -146,7 +171,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-11-19T06:00:20+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-11-19T12:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -191,7 +216,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/</id> - <updated>2009-11-19T06:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-11-19T12:00:14+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -214,7 +239,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/</id> - <updated>2009-11-19T06:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-11-19T12:00:14+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -237,7 +262,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/</id> - <updated>2009-11-19T06:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-11-19T12:00:14+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -260,7 +285,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/</id> - <updated>2009-11-19T06:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-11-19T12:00:14+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -283,7 +308,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/</id> - <updated>2009-11-19T06:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-11-19T12:00:14+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -325,7 +350,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-11-19T06:00:20+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-11-19T12:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -346,7 +371,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-11-19T06:00:20+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-11-19T12:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -390,7 +415,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/</id> - <updated>2009-11-19T06:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-11-19T12:00:14+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -413,7 +438,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/</id> - <updated>2009-11-19T06:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-11-19T12:00:14+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -432,33 +457,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/</id> - <updated>2009-11-19T06:00:18+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry> - <title type="html">OOo QA Reloaded: Internship program - Individual project</title> - <link href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/ooo_qa_reloaded_internship_program1"/> - <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/e39c1402d193e78c</id> - <updated>2009-10-28T16:07:57+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p><i>a follow up to blog: <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/ooo_qa_reloaded_internship_program">OOo QA Internship programm</a></i> </p> - <p>I am proud to introduce the results from the three month individual project of the Hitek school students, which is an important and closing part inside the oo qa internship program: <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/MusicDataBase_Main">Sample Music Database</a></p> - <p>p.s. a lot of further info &amp; stuff you get on the students sites </p> - <p> </p> - <p>screenshots from a students sample database:<br /></p> - <p><img src="http://qa.openoffice.org/ooQAReloaded/DatabaseTeamsite/Docs/HiTek-IP01/MDB_group4_Marina&Natalia/overview2.png" /></p> - <p> </p> - <p>.. at the end i would like to quote Nadejda, a student from the project:<br /><br />&quot;I'd like to say THANK YOU, OOo Openoffice for this project! Thank you for opportunity to learn so many new things! The time of internship was a great time! Sometimes it was very hard but I enjoyed it. I will miss you. Good luck OOo Openoffice!&quot; <br /></p> - <p>bye <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Clu">Chris</a></p></content> - <author> - <name>clu</name> - <uri></uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> - <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> - <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-11-19T06:00:20+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-11-19T12:00:14+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.2618&r2=1.2619 Delta lines: +22 -23 --------------------- --- index.html 2009-11-19 06:03:42+0000 1.2618 +++ index.html 2009-11-19 12:04:03+0000 1.2619 @@ -36,8 +36,29 @@ <a href="rss20.xml"><img src="rss2.gif" alt="Link to RSS 2 feed" /></a> </div> -<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: November 19, 2009 06:00 AM CET</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: November 19, 2009 12:00 PM CET</em></p> +<h2>November 19, 2009</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net"; title="Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards » OOo Postings"> +Charles Schulz</a> : +<a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/11/19/politicians-lobbyists-and-scapegoats-when-choosing-not-to-choose-should-make-you-vote-the-next-time/";> +Politicians, lobbyists and scapegoats: When choosing not to choose should make you vote the next time</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p align="left">The famous and much awaited <a href="http://www.references.modernisation.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/RGI_Version1%200_0.pdf";>RGI (Référentiel Général d’Interopérabilité)</a> has officially been published and enacted. This announcement was met with mixed reactions and as I have been following the RGI for quite a few years now, I thought I would write some of my thoughts about it.</p> +<p align="left">The RGI is actually old, not just because it was already online as a final draft in May 2009, but because the RGI as a project dates back several years. Its story goes like this: Somewhere in 2006 the decision is made by the French government to draft a public sector-wide policy on IT matters. This policy is to be published in several parts, one on security, another on accessibility and the last one on interoperability. The last one, called the RGI, is published as a draft on the same year and submitted for public comments on a wiki, which was at the time something daring and courageous. The feedback that was received was ominously  good. In fact the first version of the RGI was mandating the use of Open Standards, and most notably ODF throughout the whole administration. At that very moment, Microsoft decided it was time to intervene and through a violent strategy of pressure and influence, managed to repel the RGI and have the process restarted. The process did restart and the same document finally got finalized for official approval in 2007. There the RGI progressively fades away, partly because of the presidential elections taking place in France at that time, partly because of a strongly applied pressure from the outside.</p> +<p align="left">The freshly elected government seems to have not so fresh ideas about I.T. Its track record in the matter is probably one of the worst possible as it is the one who authored and championed the Hadopi law (the french three strikes system) and other network censorship legislation. Any communication system that is not controlled by the <span class="Apple-style-span">Hungarian director of police</span>  glory of our nation, the President, is progressively being put under his control.  In this context one could believe that the RGI would have lost not time being reexamined again. The exact opposite happened, partly because of the neo-conservative bias of the new government who seems to believe in the omnipotence of markets vs State intervention, partly because of a strange proximity with Microsoft (four ministers inaugurated the new Microsoft offices in Paris!) and a common hatred of Google. In this context, the people in charge of drafting the RGI discovered they were deprived of any political support. Moreover, they also realized that the opportunity for a clear policy drafting had gone away. They are public servants, after all, and public servants cannot do a lot without the support of the politicians in power.</p> +<p align="left">This is how we come to the present RGI. The document by itself has been totally rewritten, choosing to leave aside the policy aspect in favor of an exhaustive referencing and classifying of existing technology and standards.  This document itself integrates well with the upper echelons of European interoperability framework and does not attempt to dictate what the public sector stakeholders should do. On the crucial question of the office file formats, it is obvious that the authors spent some time carefully choosing their words. While the use of xml-based file format is clearly recommended, ODF is being put under observation (the reason for this is unclear) and so is OOXML, but at least we know the reason for this: OOXML has no known implementation (and won’t have any until a long time, they might have added) and therefore cannot be used.</p> +<p align="left">This is what happens when a government is fiddling too much with powerful corporations and forget the interest of its own people: honest, competent, public servants have to compose with whatever they have in order to keep things going. If I were to judge this document from this standpoint only, I would actually give it a big cheer.The problem is that the whole concept of the RGI has become somewhat of a loaded gun in France, and it is I believe useless to use people of the DGME as scapegoats. With what they have, they could not have done better. But what was at stake was an opportunity for France to become a champion of open standards and sustainable digital future. It’s sad to see this government never gave it a chance. I hope one day we will realize that the ideological bias against any form of openness entertained by the present President and Prime Minister is something akin to the outrageous denial of global warming by the previous U.S. administration.I look forward to the future versions of the RGI, and think they will bring more constructive, innovative and positive elements to the development of a coherent information infrastructure  for our national public sector.</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=145&akst_action=share-this"; title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_145" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/11/19/politicians-lobbyists-and-scapegoats-when-choosing-not-to-choose-should-make-you-vote-the-next-time/";>by Charles at November 19, 2009 11:40 AM CET</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>November 18, 2009</h2> <h3> <a href="" title="jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader"> @@ -383,28 +404,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h3> -<a href="" title="jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader"> -GullFOSS</a> : -<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/ooo_qa_reloaded_internship_program1";> -OOo QA Reloaded: Internship program - Individual project</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p><i>a follow up to blog: <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/ooo_qa_reloaded_internship_program";>OOo QA Internship programm</a></i> </p> - <p>I am proud to introduce the results from the three month individual project of the Hitek school students, which is an important and closing part inside the oo qa internship program: <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/MusicDataBase_Main";>Sample Music Database</a></p> - <p>p.s. a lot of further info & stuff you get on the students sites </p> - <p> </p> - <p>screenshots from a students sample database:<br /></p> - <p><img src="http://qa.openoffice.org/ooQAReloaded/DatabaseTeamsite/Docs/HiTek-IP01/MDB_group4_Marina&Natalia/overview2.png"; /></p> - <p> </p> - <p>.. at the end i would like to quote Nadejda, a student from the project:<br /><br />"I'd like to say THANK YOU, OOo Openoffice for this project! Thank you for opportunity to learn so many new things! The time of internship was a great time! Sometimes it was very hard but I enjoyed it. I will miss you. Good luck OOo Openoffice!" <br /></p> - <p>bye <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Clu";>Chris</a></p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/ooo_qa_reloaded_internship_program1";>by clu at October 28, 2009 04:07 PM CET</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> <a id="disclaimer" name="disclaimer"></a> <p><em>Disclaimer: all views expressed on this page are those of the individual contributors, and may not reflect the views of the File [changed]: opml.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/opml.xml?r1=1.2611&r2=1.2612 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2009-11-19 06:03:42+0000 1.2611 +++ opml.xml 2009-11-19 12:04:03+0000 1.2612 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:00:25 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:00:44 +0000</dateModified> <ownerName>Marketing Project</ownerName> <ownerEmail>[email protected]</ownerEmail> </head> File [changed]: rss10.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml?r1=1.884&r2=1.885 Delta lines: +13 -16 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2009-11-19 00:03:44+0000 1.884 +++ rss10.xml 2009-11-19 12:04:03+0000 1.885 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/11/19/politicians-lobbyists-and-scapegoats-when-choosing-not-to-choose-should-make-you-vote-the-next-time/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/1fe52591e8cf8a5e" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/deab04b7abd0a6a8" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/78a011f0b5e9f8b7" /> @@ -32,11 +33,22 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=775"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=772"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=767"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/e39c1402d193e78c" /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/11/19/politicians-lobbyists-and-scapegoats-when-choosing-not-to-choose-should-make-you-vote-the-next-time/";> + <title>Charles Schulz: Politicians, lobbyists and scapegoats: When choosing not to choose should make you vote the next time</title> + <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/11/19/politicians-lobbyists-and-scapegoats-when-choosing-not-to-choose-should-make-you-vote-the-next-time/</link> + <content:encoded><p align="left">The famous and much awaited <a href="http://www.references.modernisation.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/RGI_Version1%200_0.pdf">RGI (Référentiel Général d&#8217;Interopérabilité)</a> has officially been published and enacted. This announcement was met with mixed reactions and as I have been following the RGI for quite a few years now, I thought I would write some of my thoughts about it.</p> +<p align="left">The RGI is actually old, not just because it was already online as a final draft in May 2009, but because the RGI as a project dates back several years. Its story goes like this: Somewhere in 2006 the decision is made by the French government to draft a public sector-wide policy on IT matters. This policy is to be published in several parts, one on security, another on accessibility and the last one on interoperability. The last one, called the RGI, is published as a draft on the same year and submitted for public comments on a wiki, which was at the time something daring and courageous. The feedback that was received was ominously  good. In fact the first version of the RGI was mandating the use of Open Standards, and most notably ODF throughout the whole administration. At that very moment, Microsoft decided it was time to intervene and through a violent strategy of pressure and influence, managed to repel the RGI and have the process restarted. The process did restart and the same document finally got finalized for official approval in 2007. There the RGI progressively fades away, partly because of the presidential elections taking place in France at that time, partly because of a strongly applied pressure from the outside.</p> +<p align="left">The freshly elected government seems to have not so fresh ideas about I.T. Its track record in the matter is probably one of the worst possible as it is the one who authored and championed the Hadopi law (the french three strikes system) and other network censorship legislation. Any communication system that is not controlled by the <span class="Apple-style-span">Hungarian director of police</span>  glory of our nation, the President, is progressively being put under his control.  In this context one could believe that the RGI would have lost not time being reexamined again. The exact opposite happened, partly because of the neo-conservative bias of the new government who seems to believe in the omnipotence of markets vs State intervention, partly because of a strange proximity with Microsoft (four ministers inaugurated the new Microsoft offices in Paris!) and a common hatred of Google. In this context, the people in charge of drafting the RGI discovered they were deprived of any political support. Moreover, they also realized that the opportunity for a clear policy drafting had gone away. They are public servants, after all, and public servants cannot do a lot without the support of the politicians in power.</p> +<p align="left">This is how we come to the present RGI. The document by itself has been totally rewritten, choosing to leave aside the policy aspect in favor of an exhaustive referencing and classifying of existing technology and standards.  This document itself integrates well with the upper echelons of European interoperability framework and does not attempt to dictate what the public sector stakeholders should do. On the crucial question of the office file formats, it is obvious that the authors spent some time carefully choosing their words. While the use of xml-based file format is clearly recommended, ODF is being put under observation (the reason for this is unclear) and so is OOXML, but at least we know the reason for this: OOXML has no known implementation (and won&#8217;t have any until a long time, they might have added) and therefore cannot be used.</p> +<p align="left">This is what happens when a government is fiddling too much with powerful corporations and forget the interest of its own people: honest, competent, public servants have to compose with whatever they have in order to keep things going. If I were to judge this document from this standpoint only, I would actually give it a big cheer.The problem is that the whole concept of the RGI has become somewhat of a loaded gun in France, and it is I believe useless to use people of the DGME as scapegoats. With what they have, they could not have done better. But what was at stake was an opportunity for France to become a champion of open standards and sustainable digital future. It&#8217;s sad to see this government never gave it a chance. I hope one day we will realize that the ideological bias against any form of openness entertained by the present President and Prime Minister is something akin to the outrageous denial of global warming by the previous U.S. administration.I look forward to the future versions of the RGI, and think they will bring more constructive, innovative and positive elements to the development of a coherent information infrastructure  for our national public sector.</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=145&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_145" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2009-11-19T11:40:02+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/1fe52591e8cf8a5e"> <title>GullFOSS: New: OOo-DEV 3.2.0 Developer Snapshot (build OOO320_m5) available</title> <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_24</link> @@ -230,20 +242,5 @@ <content:encoded><p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-768" title="Cento Milioni logo" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/cento_milioni.png" alt="Cento Milioni logo" width="150" height="75" />Those of you who keep an eye on the download counter on the <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/">OpenOffice.org Marketing Planet</a> will have noticed we have been inexorably moving towards another significant milestone. When the latest figures appear tomorrow, we expect them to show that sometime today, the <em><strong>One Hundred Millionth</strong></em> (100,000,000) person clicked on the <a href="http://download.openoffice.org/">Download OpenOffice.org</a> button since we released version 3 just over a year ago. Expect some pretty heavy celebrations at the <a href="http://conference.services.openoffice.org/index.php/ooocon/2009/">OpenOffice.org Conference</a> in Orvieto, Italy next week &#8211; which has been branded the &#8220;Cento Milioni Conference&#8221; in honour of the occasion!</p></content:encoded> <dc:date>2009-10-28T20:19:01+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/e39c1402d193e78c"> - <title>GullFOSS: OOo QA Reloaded: Internship program - Individual project</title> - <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/ooo_qa_reloaded_internship_program1</link> - <content:encoded><p><i>a follow up to blog: <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/ooo_qa_reloaded_internship_program">OOo QA Internship programm</a></i> </p> - <p>I am proud to introduce the results from the three month individual project of the Hitek school students, which is an important and closing part inside the oo qa internship program: <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/MusicDataBase_Main">Sample Music Database</a></p> - <p>p.s. a lot of further info &amp; stuff you get on the students sites </p> - <p> </p> - <p>screenshots from a students sample database:<br /></p> - <p><img src="http://qa.openoffice.org/ooQAReloaded/DatabaseTeamsite/Docs/HiTek-IP01/MDB_group4_Marina&Natalia/overview2.png" /></p> - <p> </p> - <p>.. at the end i would like to quote Nadejda, a student from the project:<br /><br />&quot;I'd like to say THANK YOU, OOo Openoffice for this project! Thank you for opportunity to learn so many new things! The time of internship was a great time! Sometimes it was very hard but I enjoyed it. I will miss you. Good luck OOo Openoffice!&quot; <br /></p> - <p>bye <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Clu">Chris</a></p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2009-10-28T16:07:57+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>clu</dc:creator> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.884&r2=1.885 Delta lines: +13 -15 --------------------- --- rss20.xml 2009-11-19 00:03:44+0000 1.884 +++ rss20.xml 2009-11-19 12:04:04+0000 1.885 @@ -8,6 +8,19 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Charles Schulz: Politicians, lobbyists and scapegoats: When choosing not to choose should make you vote the next time</title> + <guid>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/11/19/politicians-lobbyists-and-scapegoats-when-choosing-not-to-choose-should-make-you-vote-the-next-time/</guid> + <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/11/19/politicians-lobbyists-and-scapegoats-when-choosing-not-to-choose-should-make-you-vote-the-next-time/</link> + <description><p align="left">The famous and much awaited <a href="http://www.references.modernisation.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/RGI_Version1%200_0.pdf">RGI (Référentiel Général d&#8217;Interopérabilité)</a> has officially been published and enacted. This announcement was met with mixed reactions and as I have been following the RGI for quite a few years now, I thought I would write some of my thoughts about it.</p> +<p align="left">The RGI is actually old, not just because it was already online as a final draft in May 2009, but because the RGI as a project dates back several years. Its story goes like this: Somewhere in 2006 the decision is made by the French government to draft a public sector-wide policy on IT matters. This policy is to be published in several parts, one on security, another on accessibility and the last one on interoperability. The last one, called the RGI, is published as a draft on the same year and submitted for public comments on a wiki, which was at the time something daring and courageous. The feedback that was received was ominously  good. In fact the first version of the RGI was mandating the use of Open Standards, and most notably ODF throughout the whole administration. At that very moment, Microsoft decided it was time to intervene and through a violent strategy of pressure and influence, managed to repel the RGI and have the process restarted. The process did restart and the same document finally got finalized for official approval in 2007. There the RGI progressively fades away, partly because of the presidential elections taking place in France at that time, partly because of a strongly applied pressure from the outside.</p> +<p align="left">The freshly elected government seems to have not so fresh ideas about I.T. Its track record in the matter is probably one of the worst possible as it is the one who authored and championed the Hadopi law (the french three strikes system) and other network censorship legislation. Any communication system that is not controlled by the <span class="Apple-style-span">Hungarian director of police</span>  glory of our nation, the President, is progressively being put under his control.  In this context one could believe that the RGI would have lost not time being reexamined again. The exact opposite happened, partly because of the neo-conservative bias of the new government who seems to believe in the omnipotence of markets vs State intervention, partly because of a strange proximity with Microsoft (four ministers inaugurated the new Microsoft offices in Paris!) and a common hatred of Google. In this context, the people in charge of drafting the RGI discovered they were deprived of any political support. Moreover, they also realized that the opportunity for a clear policy drafting had gone away. They are public servants, after all, and public servants cannot do a lot without the support of the politicians in power.</p> +<p align="left">This is how we come to the present RGI. The document by itself has been totally rewritten, choosing to leave aside the policy aspect in favor of an exhaustive referencing and classifying of existing technology and standards.  This document itself integrates well with the upper echelons of European interoperability framework and does not attempt to dictate what the public sector stakeholders should do. On the crucial question of the office file formats, it is obvious that the authors spent some time carefully choosing their words. While the use of xml-based file format is clearly recommended, ODF is being put under observation (the reason for this is unclear) and so is OOXML, but at least we know the reason for this: OOXML has no known implementation (and won&#8217;t have any until a long time, they might have added) and therefore cannot be used.</p> +<p align="left">This is what happens when a government is fiddling too much with powerful corporations and forget the interest of its own people: honest, competent, public servants have to compose with whatever they have in order to keep things going. If I were to judge this document from this standpoint only, I would actually give it a big cheer.The problem is that the whole concept of the RGI has become somewhat of a loaded gun in France, and it is I believe useless to use people of the DGME as scapegoats. With what they have, they could not have done better. But what was at stake was an opportunity for France to become a champion of open standards and sustainable digital future. It&#8217;s sad to see this government never gave it a chance. I hope one day we will realize that the ideological bias against any form of openness entertained by the present President and Prime Minister is something akin to the outrageous denial of global warming by the previous U.S. administration.I look forward to the future versions of the RGI, and think they will bring more constructive, innovative and positive elements to the development of a coherent information infrastructure  for our national public sector.</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=145&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_145" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></description> + <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:40:02 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>GullFOSS: New: OOo-DEV 3.2.0 Developer Snapshot (build OOO320_m5) available</title> <guid>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/1fe52591e8cf8a5e</guid> <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_24</link> @@ -212,21 +225,6 @@ <description><p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-768" title="Cento Milioni logo" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/cento_milioni.png" alt="Cento Milioni logo" width="150" height="75" />Those of you who keep an eye on the download counter on the <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/">OpenOffice.org Marketing Planet</a> will have noticed we have been inexorably moving towards another significant milestone. When the latest figures appear tomorrow, we expect them to show that sometime today, the <em><strong>One Hundred Millionth</strong></em> (100,000,000) person clicked on the <a href="http://download.openoffice.org/">Download OpenOffice.org</a> button since we released version 3 just over a year ago. Expect some pretty heavy celebrations at the <a href="http://conference.services.openoffice.org/index.php/ooocon/2009/">OpenOffice.org Conference</a> in Orvieto, Italy next week &#8211; which has been branded the &#8220;Cento Milioni Conference&#8221; in honour of the occasion!</p></description> <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:19:01 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>GullFOSS: OOo QA Reloaded: Internship program - Individual project</title> - <guid>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/e39c1402d193e78c</guid> - <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/ooo_qa_reloaded_internship_program1</link> - <description><p><i>a follow up to blog: <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/ooo_qa_reloaded_internship_program">OOo QA Internship programm</a></i> </p> - <p>I am proud to introduce the results from the three month individual project of the Hitek school students, which is an important and closing part inside the oo qa internship program: <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/MusicDataBase_Main">Sample Music Database</a></p> - <p>p.s. a lot of further info &amp; stuff you get on the students sites </p> - <p> </p> - <p>screenshots from a students sample database:<br /></p> - <p><img src="http://qa.openoffice.org/ooQAReloaded/DatabaseTeamsite/Docs/HiTek-IP01/MDB_group4_Marina&Natalia/overview2.png" /></p> - <p> </p> - <p>.. at the end i would like to quote Nadejda, a student from the project:<br /><br />&quot;I'd like to say THANK YOU, OOo Openoffice for this project! Thank you for opportunity to learn so many new things! The time of internship was a great time! Sometimes it was very hard but I enjoyed it. I will miss you. Good luck OOo Openoffice!&quot; <br /></p> - <p>bye <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Clu">Chris</a></p></description> - <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:07:57 +0000</pubDate> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
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