John McCreesh wrote:

> Agreed. It's also a number that we have hard evidence for, and which we
> can prove significantly understates the true figure -
> http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer_faq.html

John, can that be leveraged to bring to contact either the Sunlight
Foundation or the Open Government Directive?

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/12/white-house-orders-agencies-to-open-up/

The large user base of OOo can be used to speed start the
administrations plans, especially if ODF is the main format for
publishing tables and databases.  From the details

        "h. Each agency shall publish its annual Freedom of Information         
         Act Report in an open format on its Open Government Webpage in
         addition to any other planned dissemination methods...."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ogi-directive.pdf

Adobe's been angling to try to force PDF there across the board, but it
is a format for data only in the terminal stage of the lifecycle of data.


/Lars

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