India votes against ooxml unanimously. the decision of the committee was to disapprove ooxml with comments. The final meeting took place today after 3pm for about an hour and half, and no voting took place.
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Nagarjuna G. wrote:
India votes against ooxml unanimously. the decision of the committee was to disapprove ooxml with comments. The final meeting took place today after 3pm for about an hour and half, and no voting took place.
Good news and great work. So, where does leave OOXML in India in terms of getting a re-entry and what would be the impact of this unanimous vote against OOXML in terms of Government Specifications especially those related to transactions and citizen centric efforts ?
Would the decision of the committee be made public ?
:Sankarshan
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Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay said on Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:08:59PM +0530,:
Nagarjuna G. wrote:
India votes against ooxml unanimously. the decision of the committee was to disapprove ooxml with comments. The final meeting took place today after 3pm for about an hour and half, and no voting took place.
Good news and great work. So, where does leave OOXML in India in terms of getting a re-entry and what would be the impact of this unanimous vote against OOXML in terms of Government Specifications especially those related to transactions and citizen centric efforts ?
While commending the efforts of every body concerned to protect our rights, please remember that this is only one battle, the war is not yet over...
In some other countries, the bodies have done a somersault after the first stage, so do stay alert.
On Thursday 23 August 2007 20:04, Nagarjuna G. wrote:
India votes against ooxml unanimously. the decision of the committee was to disapprove ooxml with comments. The final meeting took place today after 3pm for about an hour and half, and no voting took place.
Whether this be a battle or a war, I believe Dr Nagarjuna deserves a great deal of credit for his tireless and painstaking work in making the facts available to the Government.
Thanks Nagarjuna, beer/coffee's on me next time you're in Delhi :)
Regards,
-- Raju
Whether this be a battle or a war, I believe Dr Nagarjuna deserves a great deal of credit for his tireless and painstaking work in making the facts available to the Government.
round of applause for nagarjuna, who i know has been personally spending days and nights reading through stacks of documents and collaborating with people to ensure india sticks to agreeable open standards. kudos also to a lot of other people who've been working on this for months and months tirelessly. way to go guys!
Thanks Nagarjuna, beer/coffee's on me next time you're in Delhi :)
ah! nagarjuna's that will be at freed.in if not earlier! as discussed a few weeks ago on the phone regarding your availability and talk at freed.in. please register at the freed.in site with your talk asap. today we noticed the slots are filling up rapidly.
thanks.
:-) niyam
On Friday 24 August 2007 00:17, Linux Lingam wrote:
[snip] ah! nagarjuna's that will be at freed.in if not earlier! as discussed a few weeks ago on the phone regarding your availability and talk at freed.in. please register at the freed.in site with your talk asap. today we noticed the slots are filling up rapidly.
Great! Also, would like to invite FSF India to be a supporting organisation for freed.in 2007. If FSFI decides quick enough, you can have your logo on the poster and (if you want it) a stall at the event. What say, folks?
Regards,
-- Raju
On 8/24/07, Linux Lingam linuxlingam@gmail.com wrote:
Whether this be a battle or a war, I believe Dr Nagarjuna deserves a great deal of credit for his tireless and painstaking work in making the facts available to the Government.
round of applause for nagarjuna, who i know has been personally spending days and nights reading through stacks of documents and collaborating with people to ensure india sticks to agreeable open standards. kudos also to a lot of other people who've been working on this for months and months tirelessly. way to go guys!
Thanks a lot. This happened due to welcome support from Sun, IBM, Redhat, Google, to name a few, and academics from IITs and IIMs.
Thanks Nagarjuna, beer/coffee's on me next time you're in Delhi :)
ah! nagarjuna's that will be at freed.in if not earlier! as discussed a few weeks ago on the phone regarding your availability and talk at freed.in. please register at the freed.in site with your talk asap. today we noticed the slots are filling up rapidly.
I have certainly marked the days, please help me what should the topic be. SELF and Gnowsys are the ones that eat most of my time. What do you people say? If you also want me to talk on any other issue such as open document standards advocacy or road ahead for free software movement, I am ready. Give me your proposals.
Nagarjuna
Is there any place where we can read more information about the whole process and discussions that led to this decision?
I was thinking of posting the story on www.fsdaily.com.
This might help other people and places where the standards debate is still on.
Thanks and Regards, Viswanath
On 8/24/07, Nagarjuna G. nagarjun@gnowledge.org wrote:
On 8/24/07, Linux Lingam linuxlingam@gmail.com wrote:
Whether this be a battle or a war, I believe Dr Nagarjuna deserves a great deal of credit for his tireless and painstaking work in making the facts available to the Government.
round of applause for nagarjuna, who i know has been personally spending days and nights reading through stacks of documents and collaborating with people to ensure india sticks to agreeable open standards. kudos also to a lot of other people who've been working on this for months and months tirelessly. way to go guys!
Thanks a lot. This happened due to welcome support from Sun, IBM, Redhat, Google, to name a few, and academics from IITs and IIMs.
Thanks Nagarjuna, beer/coffee's on me next time you're in Delhi :)
ah! nagarjuna's that will be at freed.in if not earlier! as discussed a few weeks ago on the phone regarding your availability and talk at freed.in. please register at the freed.in site with your talk asap. today we noticed the slots are filling up rapidly.
I have certainly marked the days, please help me what should the topic be. SELF and Gnowsys are the ones that eat most of my time. What do you people say? If you also want me to talk on any other issue such as open document standards advocacy or road ahead for free software movement, I am ready. Give me your proposals.
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On 8/24/07, Viswanath Durbha viswanath.durbha@gmail.com wrote:
Is there any place where we can read more information about the whole process and discussions that led to this decision?
http://odfalliance.in will be helpful
-Santhosh Thottingal
I have certainly marked the days, please help me what should the topic be. SELF and Gnowsys are the ones that eat most of my time.
SELF would be interesting for all.
What do you people say? If you also want me to talk on any other issue such as open document standards advocacy
nah! nope no open document stuff please.
or road ahead for free software movement
yup! and how students and academia can get involved with fsf-india
:-) niyam
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