On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Dan York wrote:
> It occurs to me that we ought to have a "Press" section of our web site
> with a link off the home page. This would be different from a
> "News" section which would have news items about us and news about our
> efforts. This section would *for* members of the news media.
I agree -- only to a point. I would argue that, being an open organization
that we are, the media shouldn't be especially priviledged to any
information that isn't open to anyone.
I like the idea of having the following three sections on the website:
- About LPI (fact sheets, press contacts, info summaries, FAQs, bios)
- LPI in the news
- Recent events and current status
> These documents would be on the web site in several different formats
> that would be available to download in, for example:
>
> - PDF
> - Applixware
> - Rich Text Format
> - plain text
> - HTML
I disagree totally. For the net, there really is only one format -- HTML.
At most we will support one other format for those who insist upon a
print version and don't have their own styles.
I feel *extremely* strongly about this, and oppose the burden of
maintaining a pile of documents in multiple different formats. I am
philosophically against PDF -- as much as Chuck is against GIF -- because
of Adobe's explicit decision not to support the Linux community with
(amongst other things) an Acrobat writer. RTF is generally unused.
ApplixWare is vendor-specific -- if we're doing that I'll put WordPerfect
in there instead, as WP is far more commonly used than Applix, and more
familiar to those outside the Linux world.
I really have no desire to impose formatting on those who would use our
information; if a vendor wants to take our info and re-format it to suit
the style of their existing presentation, fine by me.
If we get Corel as a sponsor (I'm playing phone tag with them; they're it
at this moment), I have no problem making "paper media" versions of our
documents available as WordPerfect files (which may be imported into
Applix or Word or Star). But we're not going to get into the game of a
zillion different formats.
In the meantime, I agree that the resources need to be out there, and
I'll start the wheels in motion to do it.
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