On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 09:34:54PM +0000, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > Hello, > > One question to candidates: > > Wil you promote the Foundation's participation on the reviewing > of ODF? > > I'm sure it won't be for lack of a sponsor, but I think it is much more > important to the Free Software world to have a true Open Standard for > office documents, regardless of MS OOXML's outcome, and I hope the > Foundation will help make sure the users of GNOME can use the next > version of ODF with GNOME based Free Software.
I don't see how the foundation can 'make sure' of anything in this instance. It can not force developers towards or away from either spec. That is simply not in it's mandate. We all appear to agree that implementing ODF is good for FLOSS. However, beyond that there's no stick, and a carrot (eg funding) seems inappropriate (why this project vs the dozens of others). Possibly as a Google summer of code entry, but that would require that Gnumeric get accepted. The board has offered to try and facilitate a membership in OASIS for an interested candidate. The will is there, but like so much else we're short on man power. We'd welcome patches to improve the ODF exporter in Gnumeric or abiword. I'd prefer to be spending my time coding to these endless discussions of ISO-tactics. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list