[odf-discuss] ODF tools and US administration's Open Government

[M. Fioretti]

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 18:20:52 PM +0200, Lars Nooden wrote:

> There's some movement now on the Whitehouse's initiative to publish
> public records and public data:
> 
> http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/12/white-house-orders-agencies-to-open-up/
>
> The tools started by the Fellowship are valuable for meeting the
> administrations goals and of great use in the initiative.  Should we
> write an open letter or try contacting the Open Government
> initiative or the Sunlight Foundation directly?

Sorry Lars, missed this in a mountain of other email I am game for
contacting this but not immediately. Besides the usual things I'm also
teaching through all January (**). If this can wait till February,
let's talk about it in a few weeks. On a related note...

(warning, shameless plug ahead even if not for profit)

...recommending really open standards like ODF is what I've explicitly
recommended in my chapter of this book:
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596804367/

which is targeting also the very people you mention, so let's hope at
least one of them does read the book :-)

      happy 2010 everybody,

      	    Marco

(**) and I also teach, among other things, to use and love ODF! see
http://stop.zona-m.net/node/20 and please let me know off list if you
know of similar courses.
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