[Noooxml] [odf-discuss] URGENT: Support threatened open standards in Europe before Sept 15, 2007

[Damon Anderson]

Pieter,

I would like to be involved in Vietnam. Keep me in the loop as things  
progress.

Regards,

Damon Anderson, Business Director
Corigo Vietnam
damon at corigo.com

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:31:28 +0700, Pieter Hintjens <ph at imatix.com> wrote:

> On 9/19/07, Lars Noodén <lars at umich.edu> wrote:
>> arebenti at web.de wrote:
>> ...
>> > When I wrote it I became aware that there is virtually no "open  
>> standards"
>> > pressure group. And when I did Bundestag Open document formats  
>> recently I was
>> > surprised to find out that this is still true. Shocking.
>>
>> Shall we found one now?  If so, what approach should it used to ensure
>> there is a reasonable pays off in comparison to effort?
>
> It's very nice to see that people are thinking what I've been thinking.
>
> I've actually been working on a plan for this for some months, since
> it's clear we need a global effort to promote open standards.  Current
> working name is digitalstandards.org (since 'open' itself is becoming
> abused and will become more so as time goes on, and anyhow all
> standards should by definition be open, it's a tautology).
>
> Anyone who would like to help me work on the strategy and planning for
> this organisation, drop me a line.  I'll put together a workgroup and
> circulate the planning documents I have.
>
> The idea is to create a new organisation that focuses purely on this
> matter, and which brings together the wide experience of all groups
> working in this domain, and does activism across the world, mainly to
> convince governments to adopt and promote true open standards.
>
> This is not an FFII plan, but it's compatible with the FFII's mission.
>  We'd probably help start it and fund it but we'd look for broad
> support, something we already did for patents with EUPACO.
>
> Next week when I'm back from the EPIP conference I'll set-up the
> digitalstandards.org web site and we can work from there.
>
> -
> Pieter Hintjens
> FFII
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