-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 March 2003 13:31, Tathagata Banerjee wrote: > On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 19:02, Indranil Das Gupta wrote: > > The formats should be : OO/SO/PPT2K -- in that order. Aside from that > > HTML slides and image format based slides are acceptable too. However, > > submitters should mention clearly what format their slides are in, and if > > these require any additional s/w for viewing (in case of uncommon > > formats) > > IMHO, cut out SO and PPT and make it OO only. it should be a LUG policy > that files downloadable from our website will be open-format and created > with free software. otherwise it may look like ilug-cal is endorsing the > use of non-free software. people not using linux shouldn't have a > problem, because OO is available for winduhs, too. another > advantage is
But then this is equivilant to saying that only PPT files will be accepted. Even if OO runs under Windows, people will still use Powerpoint - disallowing PPT files forces the user to use a certain other presentation tool (OO in this case). Since OO can handle PPT files, why decrease a persons range of options? In fact, rather than appearing to endorse non open source s/w, allowing PPT files implies that a Linux user (since a LUG represents a Linux user) can handle a range of formats - both open and closed. - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------- Rajarshi Guha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://jijo.cjb.net> GPG Fingerprint: 0CCA 8EE2 2EEB 25E2 AB04 06F7 1BB9 E634 9B87 56EE - ------------------------------------------------------------------- A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention, with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequilla. -- Mitch Ratcliffe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+d3P2G7nmNJuHVu4RAlcPAJwNf6ErQZZOe5AEIAWdy9so4wXWYwCg7pmS um0pXQSy3/ELuSK+UdDWpgw= =dvxE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
