Hi Charles,

Charles-H. Schulz skrev:
Leif,

thank you for this detailed report.
You are welcome. I'll try to keep you up to date. I think the danish discussion could be important for the rest of Europe.
I have several questions for you:
- to me it looks like the situation in France. Do you have a roadmap for
the adoption of this resolution?
The paper that we are dicussing right now is the implementation plan (http://itst.dk/static/nyhed/English%20summary.odt). I quess that each individual institution will make their own detailed roadmap.
- can I forward this mail to the OASIS ODF Adoption Committee?
Sure. Nothing secret here. The text is on my blog (http://lodahl.blogspot.com)
- Is there anyway that OOo, the ODF Alliance and/or the OASIS ODF
Adoption Committee can help you?
I think we have all the details for now. The answering periode is passed now.

What might be heplfull at this point could be some international attention. I don't know if the discussion in Denmark is refered to in the press in other countries. If you see anything, please let me know.


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Med venlig hilsen - best regards,

Leif Lodahl
Native-Language coordinator DA.OpenOffice.org
Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Blog: http://lodahl.blogspot.com/
Best,

Charles.


Leif Lodahl a écrit :
Here is a short summary from your local 'war correspondent'.

Read more on my blog: http://lodahl.blogspot.com/

Last summer the parliament (Folketinget) agreed on a resolution (B
103) proposing that Denmark should use open standard formats in public
governement. This resolution was proposed by the opposition.

In february the The Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation
revealed the implementation plan for B 103. This plan consist of
several implementations including standard formats for documents. The
plan defines open standards quite close to what we normaly do:
...that a standard is open implies that:
- the standard must be fully documented and publicly available,
- the standard must be freely implementable without economic,
political or legal constraints on its implementation and use, now or
in the future, and
- the standard should be managed and maintained in an open forum via
an open process (standardization organization).

But in the implementation plan is given a choice: ODF or Office
OpenXML. It is very important to remember that the resolution was
proposed by the opposition and that the governement actually don't
like it.

The democratical process in Denmark has given everybody the chance to
answer to this implementation plan.

Several answers has been given so far:
From a group of NGOs (including DA.OpenOffice.org), OSL (The Danish
Open Source Business Association) known from the famous Ramboell
report and Danish IT-Political Organisation.

The answers given so far is basicly to two things:
1) Why do we need two standards ? One is enough
2) How can Office OpenXML be classified as 'open' when we know that
there are several dependencies indicating that the format is NOT an
open standard.

The war continues.

References:
Folketinget Resolution B 103 (unofficial english translation)
http://itpol.dk/sager/offpol/b103_eng/
Implementation plan (english summary)
http://itst.dk/static/nyhed/English%20summary.pdf
Answer from several NGOs (danish)
http://www.oooforum.dk/viewtopic.php?t=2622
Answer from OSL (danish) http://www.osl.dk/hoeringssvar_aabne_standarder/

Ramboell report (english) http://www.osl.dk/upload-mappe/Ram_engODF/





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