What was done is done. For the future the board should really consider not
sponsoring anyone to work on the OOXML format (and withdraw existing
involvement on the behalf of the GNOME Foundation), as many people in the
free software/FOSS community are working hard to try to prevent the OOXML
from becoming a standard.  Technical issues are just that; anyone can
contribute to the specs if it is his/her interests.  It should be fair to
say the majority of the people in the community opposes making OOXML the
"standard" document format.

Novell can sponsor Jody even if he is a former employee.

On 10/31/07, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> <quote who="Andy Tai">
>
> > Maybe Jody's involvement can be just his personal activity and totally
> > separated from, and have nothing to do with, GNOME.
>
> His involvement is facilitated by our membership of ECMA. We were entirely
> willing to do so.
>
> - Jeff
>
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