I am genuinely curious... I thought .docx was an open format (Office Open XML)?
On 11 March 2014 17:52, Ron <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, I forgot to mention that. When the meeting minutes were being sent > out via email is a nice plaintext format, that was great! I didn't think > I'd care about minutes being emailed out till Ben started doing that, > and suddenly it was the greatest thing ever. > > Ron > > On 2014-03-11 11:48, Brian Kulyk wrote: > > I agree the wiki is a probably the best place for our documents. > > Especially if they require collaboration. However, I would like to > see us > > going back to having the agenda and meeting minutes pasted into the > body > > of emails. > > Brian Kulyk > > 204.887.6988 > > > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Ron <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hey folks, > > > > There has been a lot of complaining on the lists lately about > document > > formats and such, so I thought I'd make a new thread for it. > > > > In the past week, me and Nathan updated the various wiki pages > related > > to the election. Me and Mak used to do this, but neither of us are > on > > the board now so I'd appreciate it if the current board could take > over > > responsibility for tracking our history on the wiki. It's our only > real > > historical record. > > > > More importantly, I've noticed Word docs going around lately. I > don't > > know where that came from, but unless we're also installing > Sharepoint > > or something similar, I think this is a bad, bad idea. Word offers > no > > way to collaborate, version, share, and link other than attaching to > > emails and arguing about who has the most recent version. > > > > Plus, using commercial products is very non-hackery. I'd even call > it > > mildly embarrassing. *MY* SkullSpace using .docx? OMGZ!? :) > > > > Anyway, I *highly* recommend using the wiki for this sort of thing. > If > > there's some reason we stopped using the wiki, then let's tackle > that (I > > can install new plugins or whatever if that's the issue) or let's > look > > for a different solution. If we need professional looking > documents, we > > can copy stuff from the wiki into a .docx when needed. > > > > Much to the chagrin of others, I brought up Google Docs in the other > > thread. Yes, it's the company I work for. I think the wiki is a much > > better solution, but Docs has the collaboration/sharing/etc that > Word > > lacks, and is also open to all (with a Google account). We also use > > Google Calendar, so if somebody is willing to take the time to set > > everything up, we can use the full ecosystem. But I still think the > Wiki > > is the way to go. > > > > So yeah, please use this thread to discuss this sorta thing. And if > you > > *do* decide that .docx is the most hackery format, then be prepared > for > > me to complain every time I see it on the list. :P > > Ron > > _______________________________________________ > > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > > Archive: > https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ > > > _______________________________________________ > > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ > > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >
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