Hi Rob, * On 13-03-18, at 08:03 , Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Rob, or anyone else involved in ODF development and advocacy: >> > > I can help here. Doing this via email is best for me. > Super. Feel free to answer what you want at your leisure but ideally before 27 March. It can also be issued as a series of blog posts. My blog, or the blog to which this would be posted, would be ooo-speak.blogspot. It's not by any means an official Apache blog and this would not be official Apache speak, though for all I care they are welcome to make it such. Idea is just to inform and promote and encourage participation, all of which, of course, fall well within the Apache mandate. > -Rob -louis > >> Would you be interested in a very short interview, conducted via IM or >> email? The questions would be of this sort: >> >> * What is an open standard document and why is it important to users and >> developers? >> >> * What does a standard do and how is a document standard maintained? And by >> which body? >> >> * Is innovation affected? That is, how are innovations, of whatever nature, >> accommodated by the standards process? >> >> * Numerous office suites now support, to a greater or lesser extent, ODF >> 1.2. In very general terms, how interoperable are those implementations? >> Clearly, a definitive answer would depend upon the actual document and its >> properties, so let's stay general. >> >> * The "cloud" is in the press (ad nauseum). Does an open standard for >> documents (e.g., ODF or OOXML) have any bearing here for users and >> developers? (A vague question, to be interpreted as you will.) >> >> * Since the beginning of time, or so it seems, we've been asked about >> OpenOffice on the iPad (or Android or Chrome device). What limits porting >> AOO to iOS or Android (or any other OS for a mobile device). If there are no >> limits, then why would you think we do not see such apps now? >> >> Personal: >> * What is it that you do? >> >> * How long have you been involved in developing ODF? >> >> * Where do you think ODF is going and what are the impellers? >> >> * Where can people contribute? And what sort of knowledge would be required >> or is desired? >> >> >> -more questions than I imagined when I first imagined this…. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
