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Log: Planet run at Thu Nov 19 13:00:50 CET 2009 File Changes: Directory: /native-lang/www/planet/ =================================== File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://native-lang.openoffice.org/source/browse/native-lang/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.2403&r2=1.2404 Delta lines: +28 -68 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2009-11-19 06:03:51+0000 1.2403 +++ atom.xml 2009-11-19 12:04:11+0000 1.2404 @@ -5,9 +5,34 @@ <link rel="self" href="http://native-lang.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml"/> <link href="http://native-lang.openoffice.org/planet/"/> <id>http://native-lang.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml</id> - <updated>2009-11-19T06:00:35+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-11-19T12:00:54+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>2009-11-19T12:00:52+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + <entry> <title type="html">Another municipallity chalenges Microsoft</title> <link href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/11/another-municipallity-chalenges.html"/> @@ -94,7 +119,7 @@ <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>2009-11-19T06:00:32+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-11-19T12:00:52+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -158,72 +183,7 @@ <title type="html">andreasma_at_ooo</title> <link rel="self" href="http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/rss"/> <id>http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/rss</id> - <updated>2009-11-19T06:00:34+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry> - <title type="html">Is Twitter dying?</title> - <link href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/10/is-twitter-dying.html"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-6054299710759062360</id> - <updated>2009-10-18T20:26:18+00:00</updated> - <content type="html">I am using Twitter.As many other active members of the communities, I'm using Twitter. I don't tweet much, but I feel it very useful to be able to follow activities in the communities.But are we getting too dependent on Twitter?YES!Twitter should not be a service but a protocol.When Twitter is ill, we are more and more aware of our dependency.</content> - <author> - <name>Leif Lodahl</name> - <email>[email protected]</email> - <uri>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">Lodahl's blog</title> - <subtitle type="html">OpenOffice.org, open source software and open standards. These are the three things you can read about on my blog. I'll try to keep you updated on news and events in Denmark. -Okay, sometimes you can read about Lotus Notes too</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169</id> - <updated>2009-11-16T18:00:37+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry xml:lang="en"> - <title type="html">9 years of magic</title> - <link href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/10/16/9-years-of-magic/"/> - <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/10/16/9-years-of-magic/</id> - <updated>2009-10-16T16:24:55+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p>We are now well in the middle of October and this means it&#8217;s our usual time of celebration at <a href="http://openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org</a> . OpenOffice.org is now 9 years old, which is no small accomplishment for a Free Software project. We will soon all gather to celebrate this event in Orvieto, where <a href="http://ooocon.org">the OOoCon </a>will take place between the 3 and 6th of November. (Don&#8217;t forget: we have an ODF plugfest at the same place on the 1st and 2nd of November!) Last year has been a good year. Our mirrors saw a significant rise as we released our major release number 3 and its subversions. Our office suite has never been better, never faster, never more versatile than the one we distribute today. Our community has vastly expanded, and is still growing at a healthy rate.</p> -<p>For all this we should be thankful and we should realize we are all contributing to an extraordinary project that helps dozens of million people worldwide, contributes significantly to bridge the digital divide, and is an essential tool of Free Software on potentially any desktop. The future will bring some changes; the nature of these changes is something that is still unknown to us. But regardless of what will happen in the next year (and I believe we should expect the best for OpenOffice.org) we should always remind ourselves the power of the Community. </p> -<p>The power of the Community is not a magical thing, regardless of how I might try to make it sound like it is. The Community itself is quite intangible, but it is only through ourselves and the others with whom we contribute and share that things work, that a project is carried forward and that in some sense, magic happens. Thank you, OpenOffice.org, for these 9 years of magic. I expect to see more next year.</p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=142&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_142" 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>2009-11-19T06:00:32+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry> - <title type="html">More Danish municipalities under way</title> - <link href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/10/more-danish-municipalities-under-way.html"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-695715303893610370</id> - <updated>2009-10-12T21:45:08+00:00</updated> - <content type="html">Just to let you know, we are experiencing a very important breakthrough in the municipalities right now.City of Gribskov has been using OpenOffice for a few years.City of Tønder has been using OpenOffice in schools for about a year.City of Lyngby-Taarbæk has decided to use OpenOffice in schools. According to the local newspaper this is only the first step towards a compete change from MS to</content> - <author> - <name>Leif Lodahl</name> - <email>[email protected]</email> - <uri>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">Lodahl's blog</title> - <subtitle type="html">OpenOffice.org, open source software and open standards. These are the three things you can read about on my blog. I'll try to keep you updated on news and events in Denmark. -Okay, sometimes you can read about Lotus Notes too</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169</id> - <updated>2009-11-16T18:00:37+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-11-19T12:00:53+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://native-lang.openoffice.org/source/browse/native-lang/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.2403&r2=1.2404 Delta lines: +22 -50 --------------------- --- index.html 2009-11-19 06:03:51+0000 1.2403 +++ index.html 2009-11-19 12:04:12+0000 1.2404 @@ -29,8 +29,29 @@ <a href="rss20.xml"><img src="rss2.gif" alt="Link to RSS 2 feed" /></a> </div> -<p><em>Bloggings on native language 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 native language 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 09, 2009</h2> <h3> <a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/"; title="Lodahl's blog"> @@ -152,55 +173,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h2>October 18, 2009</h2> -<h3> -<a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/"; title="Lodahl's blog"> -Leif Lodahl</a> : -<a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/10/is-twitter-dying.html";> -Is Twitter dying?</a> -</h3> -<p> -I am using Twitter.As many other active members of the communities, I'm using Twitter. I don't tweet much, but I feel it very useful to be able to follow activities in the communities.But are we getting too dependent on Twitter?YES!Twitter should not be a service but a protocol.When Twitter is ill, we are more and more aware of our dependency.</p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/10/is-twitter-dying.html";>by Leif Lodahl ([email protected]) at October 18, 2009 08:26 PM CEST</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> -<h2>October 16, 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/2009/10/16/9-years-of-magic/";> -9 years of magic</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p>We are now well in the middle of October and this means it’s our usual time of celebration at <a href="http://openoffice.org";>OpenOffice.org</a> . OpenOffice.org is now 9 years old, which is no small accomplishment for a Free Software project. We will soon all gather to celebrate this event in Orvieto, where <a href="http://ooocon.org";>the OOoCon </a>will take place between the 3 and 6th of November. (Don’t forget: we have an ODF plugfest at the same place on the 1st and 2nd of November!) Last year has been a good year. Our mirrors saw a significant rise as we released our major release number 3 and its subversions. Our office suite has never been better, never faster, never more versatile than the one we distribute today. Our community has vastly expanded, and is still growing at a healthy rate.</p> -<p>For all this we should be thankful and we should realize we are all contributing to an extraordinary project that helps dozens of million people worldwide, contributes significantly to bridge the digital divide, and is an essential tool of Free Software on potentially any desktop. The future will bring some changes; the nature of these changes is something that is still unknown to us. But regardless of what will happen in the next year (and I believe we should expect the best for OpenOffice.org) we should always remind ourselves the power of the Community. </p> -<p>The power of the Community is not a magical thing, regardless of how I might try to make it sound like it is. The Community itself is quite intangible, but it is only through ourselves and the others with whom we contribute and share that things work, that a project is carried forward and that in some sense, magic happens. Thank you, OpenOffice.org, for these 9 years of magic. I expect to see more next year.</p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=142&akst_action=share-this"; title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_142" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/10/16/9-years-of-magic/";>by Charles at October 16, 2009 04:24 PM CET</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> -<h2>October 12, 2009</h2> -<h3> -<a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/"; title="Lodahl's blog"> -Leif Lodahl</a> : -<a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/10/more-danish-municipalities-under-way.html";> -More Danish municipalities under way</a> -</h3> -<p> -Just to let you know, we are experiencing a very important breakthrough in the municipalities right now.City of Gribskov has been using OpenOffice for a few years.City of Tønder has been using OpenOffice in schools for about a year.City of Lyngby-Taarbæk has decided to use OpenOffice in schools. According to the local newspaper this is only the first step towards a compete change from MS to</p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/10/more-danish-municipalities-under-way.html";>by Leif Lodahl ([email protected]) at October 12, 2009 09:45 PM CEST</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://native-lang.openoffice.org/source/browse/native-lang/www/planet/opml.xml?r1=1.2403&r2=1.2404 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2009-11-19 06:03:51+0000 1.2403 +++ opml.xml 2009-11-19 12:04:12+0000 1.2404 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Native Language Confederation Planet</title> - <dateModified>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:00:35 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:00:54 +0000</dateModified> <ownerName>Native Language Confederation</ownerName> <ownerEmail>[email protected]</ownerEmail> </head> File [changed]: rss10.xml Url: http://native-lang.openoffice.org/source/browse/native-lang/www/planet/rss10.xml?r1=1.378&r2=1.379 Delta lines: +13 -27 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2009-11-09 11:03:41+0000 1.378 +++ rss10.xml 2009-11-19 12:04:12+0000 1.379 @@ -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:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-8721462816382645437" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:sophiegautier.com,2009-11-07:/blog/128" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-4785423422529598310" /> @@ -20,13 +21,22 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:sophiegautier.com,2009-10-26:/blog/127" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-5582235102102586981" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/stories/1514115/"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-6054299710759062360" /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/10/16/9-years-of-magic/"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-695715303893610370" /> </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:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-8721462816382645437"> <title>Leif Lodahl: Another municipallity chalenges Microsoft</title> <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/11/another-municipallity-chalenges.html</link> @@ -90,29 +100,5 @@ <content:encoded>In a few days the OpenOffice.org Conference 2009 take place in Orvieto. I'll give there two presentations. On 4. November I speak about OpenOffice.org Portable and a new built enviroment for this special version of OpenOffice.org. This environment will make it very easy to create a new portable version.</content:encoded> <dc:date>2009-10-23T21:11:36+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-6054299710759062360"> - <title>Leif Lodahl: Is Twitter dying?</title> - <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/10/is-twitter-dying.html</link> - <content:encoded>I am using Twitter.As many other active members of the communities, I'm using Twitter. I don't tweet much, but I feel it very useful to be able to follow activities in the communities.But are we getting too dependent on Twitter?YES!Twitter should not be a service but a protocol.When Twitter is ill, we are more and more aware of our dependency.</content:encoded> - <dc:date>2009-10-18T20:26:18+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>Leif Lodahl</dc:creator> -</item> -<item rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/10/16/9-years-of-magic/";> - <title>Charles Schulz: 9 years of magic</title> - <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/10/16/9-years-of-magic/</link> - <content:encoded><p>We are now well in the middle of October and this means it&#8217;s our usual time of celebration at <a href="http://openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org</a> . OpenOffice.org is now 9 years old, which is no small accomplishment for a Free Software project. We will soon all gather to celebrate this event in Orvieto, where <a href="http://ooocon.org">the OOoCon </a>will take place between the 3 and 6th of November. (Don&#8217;t forget: we have an ODF plugfest at the same place on the 1st and 2nd of November!) Last year has been a good year. Our mirrors saw a significant rise as we released our major release number 3 and its subversions. Our office suite has never been better, never faster, never more versatile than the one we distribute today. Our community has vastly expanded, and is still growing at a healthy rate.</p> -<p>For all this we should be thankful and we should realize we are all contributing to an extraordinary project that helps dozens of million people worldwide, contributes significantly to bridge the digital divide, and is an essential tool of Free Software on potentially any desktop. The future will bring some changes; the nature of these changes is something that is still unknown to us. But regardless of what will happen in the next year (and I believe we should expect the best for OpenOffice.org) we should always remind ourselves the power of the Community. </p> -<p>The power of the Community is not a magical thing, regardless of how I might try to make it sound like it is. The Community itself is quite intangible, but it is only through ourselves and the others with whom we contribute and share that things work, that a project is carried forward and that in some sense, magic happens. Thank you, OpenOffice.org, for these 9 years of magic. I expect to see more next year.</p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=142&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_142" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2009-10-16T16:24:55+00:00</dc:date> -</item> -<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-695715303893610370"> - <title>Leif Lodahl: More Danish municipalities under way</title> - <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/10/more-danish-municipalities-under-way.html</link> - <content:encoded>Just to let you know, we are experiencing a very important breakthrough in the municipalities right now.City of Gribskov has been using OpenOffice for a few years.City of Tønder has been using OpenOffice in schools for about a year.City of Lyngby-Taarbæk has decided to use OpenOffice in schools. According to the local newspaper this is only the first step towards a compete change from MS to</content:encoded> - <dc:date>2009-10-12T21:45:08+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>Leif Lodahl</dc:creator> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://native-lang.openoffice.org/source/browse/native-lang/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.379&r2=1.380 Delta lines: +13 -27 --------------------- --- rss20.xml 2009-11-09 11:03:42+0000 1.379 +++ rss20.xml 2009-11-19 12:04:12+0000 1.380 @@ -8,6 +8,19 @@ <description>Native Language Confederation Planet - http://native-lang.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>Leif Lodahl: Another municipallity chalenges Microsoft</title> <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-8721462816382645437</guid> <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/11/another-municipallity-chalenges.html</link> @@ -75,33 +88,6 @@ <description>In a few days the OpenOffice.org Conference 2009 take place in Orvieto. I'll give there two presentations. On 4. November I speak about OpenOffice.org Portable and a new built enviroment for this special version of OpenOffice.org. This environment will make it very easy to create a new portable version.</description> <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:11:36 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>Leif Lodahl: Is Twitter dying?</title> - <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-6054299710759062360</guid> - <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/10/is-twitter-dying.html</link> - <description>I am using Twitter.As many other active members of the communities, I'm using Twitter. I don't tweet much, but I feel it very useful to be able to follow activities in the communities.But are we getting too dependent on Twitter?YES!Twitter should not be a service but a protocol.When Twitter is ill, we are more and more aware of our dependency.</description> - <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:26:18 +0000</pubDate> - <author>[email protected] (Leif Lodahl)</author> -</item> -<item> - <title>Charles Schulz: 9 years of magic</title> - <guid>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/10/16/9-years-of-magic/</guid> - <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/10/16/9-years-of-magic/</link> - <description><p>We are now well in the middle of October and this means it&#8217;s our usual time of celebration at <a href="http://openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org</a> . OpenOffice.org is now 9 years old, which is no small accomplishment for a Free Software project. We will soon all gather to celebrate this event in Orvieto, where <a href="http://ooocon.org">the OOoCon </a>will take place between the 3 and 6th of November. (Don&#8217;t forget: we have an ODF plugfest at the same place on the 1st and 2nd of November!) Last year has been a good year. Our mirrors saw a significant rise as we released our major release number 3 and its subversions. Our office suite has never been better, never faster, never more versatile than the one we distribute today. Our community has vastly expanded, and is still growing at a healthy rate.</p> -<p>For all this we should be thankful and we should realize we are all contributing to an extraordinary project that helps dozens of million people worldwide, contributes significantly to bridge the digital divide, and is an essential tool of Free Software on potentially any desktop. The future will bring some changes; the nature of these changes is something that is still unknown to us. But regardless of what will happen in the next year (and I believe we should expect the best for OpenOffice.org) we should always remind ourselves the power of the Community. </p> -<p>The power of the Community is not a magical thing, regardless of how I might try to make it sound like it is. The Community itself is quite intangible, but it is only through ourselves and the others with whom we contribute and share that things work, that a project is carried forward and that in some sense, magic happens. Thank you, OpenOffice.org, for these 9 years of magic. I expect to see more next year.</p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=142&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_142" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></description> - <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:24:55 +0000</pubDate> -</item> -<item> - <title>Leif Lodahl: More Danish municipalities under way</title> - <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-695715303893610370</guid> - <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/10/more-danish-municipalities-under-way.html</link> - <description>Just to let you know, we are experiencing a very important breakthrough in the municipalities right now.City of Gribskov has been using OpenOffice for a few years.City of Tønder has been using OpenOffice in schools for about a year.City of Lyngby-Taarbæk has decided to use OpenOffice in schools. According to the local newspaper this is only the first step towards a compete change from MS to</description> - <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:45:08 +0000</pubDate> - <author>[email protected] (Leif Lodahl)</author> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
