Last August, the United Nations urged countries in Asia-Pacific region to adopt the ODF.
*UN's Call for Asia to adopt ODF* http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,39380446,00.htm Japan was the first to adopt ODF http://www.govtech.com/gt/126612 *then Malaysia formally embraced Open Document Format *http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62030781,00.htm Before that, Malaysian Department of Standards had put their draft for Public Comment at: http://www.sirim.my/std_dev/h4_01.htm Now comes Russia's turn http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/08/29/microsoft_ooxml_sweeden_rigged_vote (buried in the news) Let's start advocating to get Nepal in the list! Cheers, Shankar --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list foss-nepal@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
