On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 06:23:57PM -0500, Jody Goldberg wrote: > 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.
I may be being obtuse, but what's not in it's mandate for ODF but is for OOXML? Or am I reading your words wrong? > 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). Or one another in particular? For a fake standard, there is funding? > 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. I think I might have missed this, where is it? I can't seem to find it, but it's late here and my googling skills may be already too hampered... Rui -- Kallisti! Today is Pungenday, the 41st day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3173 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
