[odf-discuss] Alex Hudson selected to develop HTML to ODF conversion toolkit

[Daniel Carrera]

Yes, but how much control does the Fellowship have on Firefox, Konqueror
and Opera? None. We fight the battles we can win. This is all part of
the Fellowship's efforts to be strategic, to do things that bring the
most benefit for our available resources.

Daniel.


On Thu, 2006-19-10 at 22:30 +1000, David Cartwright wrote:
> Great news ... highly relevant for a FOSS project I'm currently steering.
> 
> However, in my review of the list of projects I am very surprised that 
> one fundamental project is missing:
> 
> Native rendering of ODF by web browsers.
> 
> Native rendering in the sense that the browser 'understands' ODF in the 
> same way it understands HTML. The ODF isn't converted into HTML, it is 
> an alternative format processed by the browser.
> 
> Clearly there is one particular browser vendor that won't have any 
> interest in such an approach. However, wouldn't this be something of 
> relevance for Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc?
> 
> ... david
> Senior Consultant
> Alkira Australia
> 
> Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
> > The Fellowship's Projects Committee has selected Alex Hudson's 
> > proposal for an HTML to ODF converstion toolkit. Alex is a 
> > technologist primarily interested in the web, usability, programming 
> > and parts of operating systems. He is a member of the Open Source 
> > Consortium, the Association For Free Software, and the OpenDocument 
> > Fellowship.
> >
> > The response to the Fellowship's tender was overwhelming. We received 
> > *eleven* good proposals, most of which were top-notch. The choice 
> > between the top two contenders was very difficult. It is really a 
> > shame that we could choose only one.
> >
> > We encourage all the unsuccessful tenderers to submit proposals for 
> > later projects, and in the meantime to join the Fellowship and work on 
> > some of the unfunded projects.
> >
> > More information about the conversion toolkit is on this page:
> > http://opendocumentfellowship.org/development/projects/html2odf
> >
> > --Jean Hollis Weber
> > on behalf of the Projects Committee
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