On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:42 AM, drew <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 10:20 -0800, Carl Symons wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 7:54 AM, drew <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi Italo, >> > >> > How about this change to the above paragraphs - actually, I would want t >> > change the wording for the SCALE specific show, lots of gov contractors >> > in SoCal. >> > >> > On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 00:31 +0100, Italo Vignoli wrote: >> >> The default document format of LibreOffice is Open Document Format >> >> (ODF), which was approved by ISO on 30/11/2006 as an international >> >> standard (ISO / IEC 26300). >> >> Open Document Format is supported by the European Commission and many >> >> governments worldwide and recommended as the preferred exchange >> >> format >> >> for office documents. >> >> In addition, LibreOffice supports the document formats of many other >> >> office suites for extended interoperability. >> >> >> > >> > so this section would read: >> > >> > The default document format of LibreOffice is Open Document Format >> > (ODF), which was approved by ISO on 30/11/2006 as an international >> > standard (ISO / IEC 26300). >> > >> > Open Document Format is recommended by numerous governments and >> > non-governmental organizations worldwide, the European Commission, >> > Indonesia and NATO to name but a few with policies supporting ODF >> > as the preferred office document exchange format. >> > >> > In addition, LibreOffice supports document formats of many other office >> > suites, from the most current to numerous legacy formats for extended >> > interoperability. >> > >> > > > Howdy Carl, > >> LinuxFest is mostly jes folks, no military. Only Militants for Liberty. B^) > > Actually as much as I'd like to agree it ain't so, it is so IMO, not > just in the US either. Which is not to say the show is about, just that > there are many attendees in the field. I looked for some old articles > that named some in India specifically, didn't find them. If/When I get a > good name I'd be happy to swap out NATO for it. > > If the libo team wants to emphasize government use, then in SOCAL and > Ohio I would keep the NATO reference. Because in the US, the federal > government DOD, particularly in it's VA role and guise of DOE are heavy > into OSS, much of it FOSS. I know that at the OLF I met a good number of > people in govt contracting positions and most dealing with the DOD in > one way or another. I would really be very surprised if that is not also > the case in SoCal. > > But that is why I thought one with NATO and one with some appropriate > philanthropic NGO for the non-show specific version. For WA and SC I'd > lose the NATO reference, that's just how I would do it anyway. _SO_ it > could just go away all together if more people prefer that? > >> >> I don't like the "to name but a few" cliche. How about "...worldwide, >> including European Commission, Indonesia, NATO and others who have >> policies..." or better "...worldwide, such as European Commission, >> Indonesia, NATO, who have policies..." What we're trying to accomplish >> here is to give weighty examples, not a list of all the gov's and NGOs >> involved. > > yes I like that change will incorporate it. > > //drew > >
Here there are plenty of command and control-type people--military, DHS, ICE, as well as civilians with similar mindset. Including NATO is fine. I wouldn't change it. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/us/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
