On 26/06/07, Michael Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip>
Perhaps letters to standards institutes in various countries from > interested citizens/subjects would, in fact, have more impact than > signing petitions, if only by letting bureaucrats know that at the > very least, their decisions were being watched by others than > lobbyists. But to my mind, this is less a motivation for not signing > the petition in question here than for sending a letter in addition to > signing the petition.... > > Henri First up i suspect this is more a topic for the discuss list but as it appears here i'll run with it. I've been scratching around on behalf of interested parties to this. Letters should go out and there are a lot of voting countries. To find who to contact in your country see this list: http://www.iso.org/iso/en/aboutiso/isomembers/MemberCountryList.MemberCountryList The right hand column explains the status of the country. More info about this here: http://www.iso.org/iso/en/aboutiso/isomembers/index.html I wonder if someone should open a Wiki page where we can contribute more details about exactly who to contact for each country, email and snailmail. I am going to look more into my home country details to see who to contact there, but to date i haven't even found a number that OOXML is listed under at iso.org. (should i have used whom?) I have found a white paper, in HTML or PDF, that compares OOXML and ODF on for key points of openness. This and other usefull (i didn't say unbiased) information should be invaluable to those willing to write letters: http://fussnotes.typepad.com/plexnex/2007/06/achieving_openn.html Getting well organised up front is the key to a good public pressure campaign and it seems we don't have a lot of time to do this. Another way of bringing this more into the public eye via the media is public protests. Aside: Has anyone else noted that OOXML could be misread as OpenOffice XML thus causing some from either side to back the wrong horse. -- Michael Linux: The OS people choose without $200,000,000 of persuasion.
<snip> Thank you for this. Yes. OOXML is a weird name. Perhaps Sun ought to say something that also includes the word "copyright" ??? -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
